Adam Savage and the Tested crew recently had the opportunity to visit the sets of Alien: Covenant, and in their latest video they not only get some hands-on time with many of the weapons used in the upcoming prequel, they also learned the secrets of how alien-infected actors are able to vomit so much blood.
If the shot of hundreds of bodies floating to the shore of a small fishing town wasn’t weird and creepy enough, what if they were the bodies of refugees fleeing from a terrible war in the future? That’s the premise behind ABC’s new mystery series, The Crossing, and it looks pretty damn intriguing so far.
We’ve seen pictures from the production, we’ve seen short teasers, and if we’re getting really technical about it, we’ve seen the real life 1980s pro wrestling promotion it’s based on in real life. But Netflix has finally released the first full trailer for GLOW, the series from the creators of Orange is the New Black and starring Alison Brie, a fictionalized account of the real story of Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling.
Here’s Netflix’s description of the show:
Inspired by the real story of the 1980’s female wrestling league, the series — set in Los Angeles and showcasing big hair and body slams — will be the fictionalized story of an out of work actress who finds one last attempt to live her dreams in the form of a weekly series about female wrestlers.
Jenji Kohan (Orange is the New Black) and Tara Herrmann (Orange is the New Black) are executive producers, and the series was co-created by Liz Flahive (Homeland) and Carly Mensch (Orange is the New Black), who will serve as showrunners.
As you all know if you’ve been following Bleeding Cool’s ongoing coverage of professional wrestling, the drama that takes place behind the scenes of the pro wrestling business is even more entertaining than what takes place in the ring. It looks like GLOW will aim to capitalize on that when the entire ten episode first season of the Netflix original becomes available for streaming on June 23.
Check out the trailer below:
Mark Out For The First Full Trailer For Netflix’s GLOW (Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling)
Funko has released many rock star Pops over the years; from rap gods like Run DMC and Jam Master Jay, 2pac, and Flavor Flav to rock stars like The Beatles, Guns N Roses, The Ramones, there are all kinds of musician-related Funko to choose from. They even made a Psy! Remember that guy?!?! But the very first rock Pop was one called “Purple Haze” of guitar god Jimi Hendrix.
Now, he is getting an updated Pop, and it is way, way cool. The new Pop has Jimi in all of his Woodstock glory, guitar in hand and ready to melt your face off with amazing riffs. It is also really interesting to look at how far Funko has come with their ability to sculpt these things, especially in their faces. Colors pop more, and even the guitar has a cool amount of detail. But, that is also not the awesome Pop I alluded to in the headline. That would be the exclusive version coming only to FYE stores. This version is from the iconic moment Jimi lit his guitar on-fire right there on stage at the Monterey International Pop Music Festival in 1967. It was not the first time he had done it, but this one is the iconic one.
This is one of the cooler Pops ever done, and an iconic moment in rock music. This one is not going to last long at all on store shelves, so make sure you go to your local FYE and preorder, or do that online right here. The regular Jimi from Woodstock and FYE exclusive hit stores in June.
The Voodoo Child Himself Jimi Hendrix Gets A Sweet Looking New Funko Pop
When it came to round two, it became clear to Hunnam that something about his physique was bothering Ritchie. In a clever actor’s shortcut for grief, he had lost 20 pounds for his curtain call playing Jax Teller, the gangland boss who is the anchor of Sons of Anarchy. At the demise of season six, Jax’s wife Tara is bumped off with sensationally bloody, Freudian gore by his mother, Gemma. “I thought one of the interesting ways to tell that story was to come in just looking gaunt, so you know straight away that’s been a brutal fucking month,” says Hunnam. “He hasn’t eaten. He’s been on benders. He’s fucked up. And I sustained it through the season. So I came to meet Guy and I was incredibly skinny.”
This was not the vision for King Arthur in the eyes of a director who has a specially preserved authorial hold on masculinity. “He brought it up about four times. ‘So, how heavy have you been?’ The fourth time he brought it up was in the audition.” Hunnam was getting restless. By now, the role was in his sight. “I said, ‘Look, dude, you keep bringing this thing up, the physicality. It’s obviously your primary concern so if you want to do away with all of this auditioning bollocks, I’ll fucking fight those other two dudes who are out there shooting. I know who they are. You can bring them both in here. I’ll fight them both. The one who walks out the door gets the job.’” Ritchie was temporarily silenced. “Then he said, ‘Look, get back in there and read the scene, you cunt.’”
(Welcome to The Best Movies You’ve Never Seen, a series that takes a look at slightly more obscure, under-the-radar, or simply under-appreciated movies. In this edition: some of the best movie monsters you may have missed!)
Ridley Scott has a new movie hitting theaters this week, and for those of us who love his 1979 sci-fi/horror classic Alien, that news is improved further by the knowledge that his latest is a new entry in the franchise. Of course, 2012’s Prometheus fit that very same bill, and we all know how that turned out. (Not terribly if you ask me, but let’s stay focused here.) Alien: Covenant may end up featuring equally stupid human characters, but judging by the trailers, it’s made at least one important improvement. It’s bringing back the fast-moving, wickedly dangerous, and endlessly terrifying xenomorphs (in some form or another) to wreak bloody havoc.
Through the franchise’s ups and downs the aliens themselves have remained some of the most beautifully nightmarish monsters to ever grace the screen, and if we’re being honest, few others come even close to comparing in the area of horrifyingly effective design. Still though, there’s no shortage of memorable movie monsters from the Graboids in Tremors and the river monster in The Host to the creepy subterranean killers in The Descent and the alien monstrosities of John Carpenter’s The Thing. These and others made the cut earlier this year right here on this very site.
But what of the frightening creatures in movies that maybe didn’t find a spot on that list or any other? The seven movies below aren’t nearly as well known, and they’re not all great necessarily (although I’d go to the mat for half of them), but the common thread between them is in the design and presentation of their monsters. Some are terrifying, some are fun, and others are darkly beautiful, but all of them deserve to be seen by more eyeballs.
Unwitting Irish farmers accidentally release a leather-clad pagan deity from the ground where its been imprisoned for decades, and soon the creature begins tearing a new one through the small village nearby.
Yes, I am starting with the one guaranteed to get me the most flack as common knowledge states that the film’s biggest weakness is its creature design, but how else could I share that I had the poster on my wall for a couple years as a teenager? George Pavlou’s mid ’80s creature feature can’t hold a bloody candle to Clive Barker‘s source novella (even if Barker himself did write the script), but the film works on a visual level if nowhere else. Part of that comes in the solid gore effects, daylight action, and a blasphemous golden shower (this may just be the ex-Catholic in me speaking though), but the big draw here is in the deceptively goofy Mr. Rawhead Rex.
Barker himself describes Rex’s look as basically a 9-foot phallus with teeth, but there’s still something uniquely menacing about the film’s monster. He’s in some ways a collective of masculinity’s worst traits shaped into a walking, growling, killing machine, and that comes across in his leather and metal outfit that looks like he belongs in a GWAR cover band celebrating their recent renaissance fair gig. He’s also rocking his male pattern baldness while hoping to distract you with his his glassy eyes, bloodstained teeth, and Michael Bolton locks. It sounds like I’m making fun of him, I know, but even with flaws exacerbated by the film’s low budget he retains an original look that has no real comparison in other films. He’s a beast, but the brutality comes in a ripped, monstrous yet human-like package. He resembles a cenobite on steroids, and while that would still only rank him in the top forty monsters to spill from Barker’s wickedly fertile mind, Rex remains a memorable yet underseen movie monster.
[Rawhead Rex is currently unavailable outside of import DVDs, but Kino Lorber recently announced a new 4K restoration with limited theatrical release and Blu-ray to follow.]
A group of strangers take refuge from a storm in a creepy country estate, but what should have been a peaceful night’s rest turns to terror when the house’s other occupants make their presence known.
Director Stuart Gordon will always be best known for Re-Animator (and not well-known enough for From Beyond), but movie monster fans owe it to themselves to check out this darkly comic, grue-filled romp sooner rather than later. Fans of the recent Krampus should seek this one out too, as it does the monstrous doll action better, grimmer, and with more gruesome results. Gordon fills his film and this house with all manner of deadly toy figures, from marching soldiers who fire real projectiles to more traditional dolls that come to life via stop-motion animation to do terrifically terrible things to people. One of their creepier endeavors sees an unsuspecting young woman begin a transformation into one of them, and it’s not a pretty process, especially when it comes to replacing her eyes.
The one I’m all about here though is the biggest doll of them all… a giant ten-foot tall teddy bear. He comes stumbling through the trees looking every bit like a big, huggable lug of a stuffed bear, but that child-friendly facade soon rips away to reveal the snarling beast within. The creature bites off a woman’s arm and kills her husband with a back-breaking bear hug before feasting on his flesh. Most films involving killer dolls, from Child’s Play to Puppet Master vs Demonic Toys, find thrills in small toys turning bad, but Gordon’s teddy bear breaks that mold just as it breaks through its initially plush exterior from the inside out.
[Buy Dolls on Blu-ray/DVD from Amazon.]
Bank robbers flying to safety are forced to make a middle-of-the-night detour into a rural field, but while they’re looking for stolen cash, something unnatural is looking for them.
Clowns get most of the press when it comes to creepy character types, but scarecrows are every bit as unsettling, even in silence. Those wanting proof need look no further than films like the well-known Dark Night of the Scarecrow and the relatively recent Husk, but for my money, the best of the bunch is this late ’80s horror flick. It’s a low budget affair, but it features some suspenseful sequences and grisly demises on its bloody road towards dawn. It’s a slow burn, but honestly my only real complaint is that 29 years later, we still haven’t gotten the promised sequel, Scarecrows II: The Final Straw. (I’m not kidding.)
The film’s title characters are legion, and while much of their power comes through even when they’re standing still, we’re also treated to these straw-filled killers in action. They stalk their prey, look on from the shadows, and deal them grievous bodily harm. Burlap sack masks are scary enough (see The Orphanage, Friday the 13th Part 2, The Strangers), but they take on an even spookier weight when you know it’s essentially acting as skin and holding in nothing more than straw and pure evil. This also means that the sack has the depth and shadowed contours of a human face, and that just magnifies their creepiness even further.
[Buy Scarecrows on Blu-ray/DVD from Amazon.]
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Summary: The 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs became the most watched televised sports event of all time. Trapped in the media glare, King and Riggs were on opposites sides of a binary argument, but off-court each was fighting more personal and complex battles. With her husband urging her to fight for equal pay, the private King was also struggling to come to terms with her own sexuality, while Riggs gambled his legacy and reputation in a bid to relive the glories of his past.
Battle of the Sexes will be released on September 22, 2017.
Trailer For The Emma Stone And Steve Carell Sports Comedy ‘Battle Of The Sexes’
Go boating or lounge around in a hot tub? Why choose when you can do both in the Amstel Hot Tub Tug. Designed to look like a tug boat, this wood and fiberglass boat does double-duty as a wood-burning hot tub that seats up to [...]
We previously had the short version of the Trailer for Marvel’s Gifted TV show on Fox. We get a lot of new information in the Official Extended Trailer:
CoreyI watched the original two seasons and it is dated, but I will check this out for the cameo appearances listed alone.
More than 25 years after it was unceremoniously cancelled by ABC, David Lynch and Mark Frost’s absurd, comical, horrific, and totally mesmerizing series Twin Peaks is set to return as a limited event series on Showtime. The network has been doling out teaser trailers with a frustrating lack of new footage, but as I learned catching up with the whole original run of the series recently, frustration seems to be part of the whole Twin Peaks experience.
Thankfully, this latest teaser trailer actually shows off some actual footage of some familiar cast members, and includes a single word of new dialogue. Yep, a whole word! Check it out below.
In order, that’s a new look at forlorn mechanic Big Ed Hurley (Everett McGill), trailer park owner Carl Rodd (Harry Dean Stanton), the understandably frazzled Sarah Palmer (Grace Zabriskie), the curious Deputy Andy Brennan (Harry Goaz), the A+ badass Deputy Tommy “Hawk” Hill (Michael Horse), and the best special agent the FBI has ever seen, Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan).
The one audible word in here – Hawk’s “really” – is said in hushed tones in an almost reverent way. But since we have no clue what the hell he’s talking about because of the opaque nature of this marketing campaign, it’s tough to gather any more from his statement. It’s almost more entertaining to read the word as an answer to exasperated fans asking if Showtime is serious with releasing all of these teasers and not giving us any real hint at what’s to come. But if you’re exasperated at a lack of answers, you’re probably not a hardcore Twin Peaks fan to begin with.
The show features a flat-out ridiculous cast that features a ton of returning players and new names alike, including Jim Belushi, Miguel Ferrer, Kimmy Robertson, Dana Ashbrook, Amy Shiels, James Marshall, Robert Knepper, Chrysta Bell, Naomi Watts, Michael Cera, Monica Bellucci, Tim Roth, Laura Dern, Ashley Judd, Amanda Seyfried, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jeremy Davies, Ernie Hudson, David Koechner, Derek Mears, Matthew Lillard, Tom Sizemore, Ethan Suplee, Caleb Landry Jones, Jane Levy, Sara Paxton, Charlene Yi, Trent Reznor, Eddie Vedder, Richard Chamberlain, and Robert Forster. Yeah, I have no idea what half those people are going to be doing in here either, but I’m definitely looking forward to finding out.
New episodes of Twin Peaks will begin airing at 9pm on Showtime on May 21, 2017.
Widely considered one of the most groundbreaking and influential broadcast series of all time, TWIN PEAKS followed the inhabitants of a quaint northwestern town who were stunned after their homecoming queen Laura Palmer was shockingly murdered. The town’s sheriff welcomed the help of FBI agent Dale Cooper, who came to town to investigate the case. As Cooper conducted his search for Laura’s killer, the town’s secrets were gradually exposed. The mystery that ensued set off an eerie chain of events that plunged the inhabitants of Twin Peaks into a darker examination of their very existence. Twenty-five years later, the story continues…
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CoreyYEEEEEEES
Iron Sky, which followed two American astronauts who land on the moon only to find it occupied by the descendants of Nazis who escaped in 1945, was a movie that existed. And now, a sequel to the 2012 cult hit is going to be released. With more space Nazis. Oh, and dinosaurs this time.
Nuclear war! A heavily scarred Hitler on a dinosaur! Reptile people! Yeah, I have no idea what’s going on in this trailer either. To be fair, I never saw the first film, I only vaguely knew that a movie about “Nazis in space” existed.
But apparently, the first film was popular enough that a crowdfunding campaign hosted in Indiegogo, helped spawn the the sequel to the Finnish-German-Australian film. The campaign raised nearly four times more than the original goal of $150,000, allowing director Timo Vuorensola to return to the world that he helped create in Iron Sky, with the help of screenwriter Dalan Musson.
In March 2016, fans who donated to the campaign got a rough cut of the film, and an earlier version of the script was also sent out to thousands of fans of the first film so they could give feedback.
The film stars Lara Rossi in the lead role of Obi Washington, Vladimir Burlakov and Kit Dale, with Julia Dietze and Udo Kier, both from first Iron Sky, as they return to the Nazi moonbase to escape from Earth’s nuclear devastation.
Here’s the official synopsis, courtesy of IronSky.net, below:
Twenty years after the events of Iron Sky, the former Nazi Moonbase has become the last refuge of mankind. Earth was devastated by a nuclear war, but buried deep under the wasteland lies a power that could save humanity – or destroy it once and for all.
Iron Sky The Coming Race leads our heroes on an adventure into the Hollow Earth, where they must fight the Vril, an ancient shapeshifting reptilian race and their army of dinosaurs.
Iron Sky: The Coming Race is set to hit theaters in 2018.
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The original 1982 Blade Runner isn’t just one of the best science fiction movies ever made – it’s one of the most influential, with its overcrowded, rainy, beautiful, bleak, and neon-lit vision of a future Los Angeles continuing to inform how the genre looks to this very day. A sequel is a risky proposition. How do you follow-up a movie whose very aesthetic has become commonplace to the point of cliche?
Well, you can start by hiring director Denis Villeneuve and cinematographer Roger Deakins, who look to have taken Ridley Scott’s original vision and fine-tuned it for 2017 audiences in a big, bold away. At the very least, the new Blade Runner 2049 trailer makes it pretty clear that this long-gestating sequel will look stunning.
But will its story be equally stunning? While the first film is often remembered more for its visuals than its plot points, it remains a noteworthy slice of hardboiled genre noir, a dense, complex, and intentionally obtuse film that offers no easy answers to its many questions. It’s maddening in the best possible ways. It’s maddening in ways that have kept audiences debating its true meaning for decades. In other words, it’s hard to imagine the original Blade Runner getting made today, in a climate where movies tend to be written by following an easily digestible template.
So, what does this new trailer tell us about the actual plot of Blade Runner 2049, which has been mostly kept under lock and key throughout development and production? Let’s give it a watch.
The film stars Harrison Ford, reprising his role as Rick Deckard, and Ryan Gosling, playing a new character named Officer K. While the presence of Ford lends this entire project a certain sense of legitimacy (this is a proper sequel with him involved!) and will trigger the right nostalgic notes, it’s Gosling who really has my attention. In recent years, Gosling has made a habit of working with top-notch directors in brave, daring, and often weird movies. The fact that he’s headlining Blade Runner 2049 can’t help but whisper volumes – he doesn’t step into franchise movies lightly.
Blade Runner 2049 is director Denis Villneuve’s follow-up to last year’s Arrival, which was /Film’s favorite movie of 2016. While he got his start with more grounded thrillers like Sicario and Prisoners, he’s quickly become one of the most reliable filmmakers working in the genre realm – it’s rare to find a filmmaker making science fiction that respects an adult audience, especially at this budget.
Blade Runner 2049 opens on October 6, 2017.
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CoreyReally want this movie to happen!
CoreyYessssssssssssss
The pain of having a favorite show canceled before the full story is told is crushing. Fans of epic series like Rome, Carnivale, and Deadwood know EXACTLY what I’m talking about.
Way ahead of it’s time, the HBO series was set in a mining town that was not part of any U.S. state or territory in the post-Civil War years, and thus was literally lawless. Larger than life Americana characters like Wild Bill Hickok (Keith Carradine), Calamity Jane (Robin Weigert), Wyatt Earp (Gale Harold) and newspaper magnate George Hearst (Gerald McRaney) populate the three season plot, tying the history of the existing place to the fabulous script work by David Milch and co. Deadwood won much critical acclaim, winning no less than 8 Emmys, unheard of at the time for a premium cable series.
A big giant part of what made the series so special was the interplay between series leads Al Swearengen (Ian McShane) and Sheriff Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant). Swearengen runs the lower-end but no less respected Gem Saloon; gambling den, watering hole, and whore house as well as a far reaching iron hand influence on the rest of the town. Bullock is a good guy, maybe he doesn’t make the best decisions in the world, but he really does mean well. When these two swaggering guys finally physically clash after half a season of taunting each other, it’s both a relief and catalyst.
A Deadwood movie has long been rumored (and largely dismissed by HBO proper), Milch has danced around the subject for years. Each time it gets brought up, there are no set answers from the network or from the series creator, but the rumors persist.
Last year, HBO’s president of programming Michael Lombardo said Milch had the network’s “commitment” to make a movie, FINALLY confirming that yes, there was an actual script in development, but nothing more concrete than that. But during the press junkets for STARZ’s American Gods McShane claimed to have read a finished script for the film, and that HBO was moving forward with them.
With dialog bordering on Shakespearean, (really, it’ll take an episode at least to get into the flow of the words) the colorful cursing and casual use of the word “cocksucker”, the script for such a film is arguably the most important part of this proposed film. That, and the return of the cast (largely rumored to be all in for picking up their dusty coats and hats).
Another cast member tweeted last night that he had READ this finished script, W. Earl Brown who played Swearengin’s right hand man Dan Dority posted the following:
I've read the DEADWOOD film script.
It's stunning.
— W. Earl Brown (@WEarlBrown) May 2, 2017
The hour and half it took me to read was fucking thrilling and fucking heartbreaking…
— W. Earl Brown (@WEarlBrown) May 2, 2017
This is EXTREMELY promising, and hopefully this public declaration will prove fruitful for fans (including the cast) of the series. As much as revisits and revivals are a cliche in the current tv/film climate, a return of such a prolific and special series could be just what Doc Cochran ordered.
Whisky All Around, Deadwood Movie Script IS Finished, “Thrilling And Heartbreaking”
As the high fantasy cable drama of Game Of Thrones nears it’s series conclusion, it’s apparent HBO doesn’t want to leave Westeros just yet.
Variety just broke the news that yes, HBO has indeed closed deals with four different writers to explore the various spinoff options possible after the end of the show. That’s four writers for FOUR DIFFERENT PROJECTS.
This has been a long rumored possibility, never fully dismissed by current Game Of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss, who are on board for these prospective series as well as “A Song of Ice and Fire” creator/author George R. R. Martin. Early reports say that Martin will NOT be writing any of these new projects, but we all know how Grandpa George feels about sharing his toys and sandbox.
Currently the named writers for these projects are Max Borenstein (Kong: Skull Island), Jane Goldman (Kingsman: The Golden Circle), Brian Helgeland (A Knight’s Tale), and Carly Wray (Mad Men, The Leftovers). Variety goes on to say that Goldman and Wray will each be “working individually with Martin” on their individual titles.
There is such a rich history included in the Game of Thrones universe, so much material in the novels not touched by the series. Here’s hoping we get an entire spinoff based in Dorne, guys.
What House would you want to know more about? What secret stories? Let us know in the comments!
CoreyGood! Worst service ever.
CoreyOof.
CoreyI don't know how to feel about this... I want to like Mike Myers, but it is creepy.
In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a remake of the classic 1970s amateur talent contest TV series The Gong Show coming to ABC in June. The show featured contestants displaying odd, questionable talents in front of a panel of celebrity judges who had the power to hit a gong that would end the performance before it was even over, indicating that they had seen enough.
Will Arnett and his Electric Avenue production banner are behind the show, but it’s the recently announced host that is turning some heads, because even though the name is not a recognizable one, the person who is actually doing the hosting is someone you’re definitely familiar with. It’s former Saturday Night Live star Mike Myers playing a fictional British comedian named Tommy Maitland, complete with prosthetic make-up enhancements, a fake background and everything.
Get a look at how we’ll see Mike Myers hosting The Gong Show after the jump.
Here’s an image of Mike Myers as Tommy Maitland from the official announcement by ABC:
As you can see, despite the thick make-up and prosthetic pieces on his face, those eyes unmistakably belong to Mike Myers, even though he has some kind of eye contacts in to change the colors of his eyes. He almost looks like what an older, human version of Shrek would look like in the real world.
ABC is really playing up this fictional character to its full potential, giving him a bio that starts like this:
Born on July 7, 1944, Thomas Winston Maitland (his middle name is a tribute to Winston Churchill) grew up in Neasden, GLC, Borough of Brent, where his father was an actuary and in the Merchant Marine and his mother was in the RAF. After a failed stint as a pipe fitter’s apprentice, Tommy joined the British Army at the tender age of 15. He later joined the Entertainment National Service Association (ENSA), where he got to know some of the UK’s biggest comedians. He played the ukulele, told jokes and drummed (though he drummed badly), and he ended up hosting the show – a talent he would later be known for. He was voted ENSA Entertainer of the Year, for which he was given a guarantee to appear on British radio. He later worked as an announcer for the British radio show, “The Whosey Whats,” and got small roles in the “Carry On” films – either as the over anxious compart at a men’s club or the strict union pipe fitter. He also appeared in the TV series, “The Lord Mayor,” as the cheeky mayor of a mythical town in East Anglia, who struck it rich because they sat atop an oil field.
You can head over the the ABC announcement if you want to read the whole thing, but it’s clear that Mike Myers has crafted an entire persona for Tommy Maitland, and he likely won’t ever admit to being the character. Presumably, ABC will have Maitland make some television appearances to help build this fake persona, because right now a quick search on Google and YouTube doesn’t come up with any clips or other credits for the comedian, other than today’s news that he’s hosting The Gong Show.
Will Arnett is even in on the gag having a statement in the press release that says:
“I’ve been a huge fan of Tommy since I first saw his stand-up in the U.K. while traveling as a teenager. He was so funny and original. I had the good fortune to cross paths with Tommy a few years ago and ever since we’ve talked about working together. I tried for years to come up with a vehicle that was suitable to expose his immense talent on a bigger stage, and ‘The Gong Show’ is the perfect fit.”
Surely anyone who doubts that this is Mike Myers will have them disappear whenever we hear the comedian open his mouth. Myers’ has frequently done British accents before, including his famous role as Austin Powers, international man of mystery, so even if there are people who can’t recognize him through the make-up, the voice should do it. If you need any more evidence, there’s an interview The Hollywood Reporter did where some signature Mike Myers riffs are in play, such as the answer “Tommy Maitland” gives when asked if he has a catchphrase:
“I say, ‘Who’s a cheeky monkey?’ Then the audience goes, ‘You are.’ And I go, ‘No, you’re a cheeky monkey, and that’s why I love you.’ The other catchphrase of mine is, ‘You’ve got no proof.’ So, when I say something slightly cheeky, I’ll say, ‘Well, you’ve got no proof.’ My second memoir was titled, ‘You’ve Still Got No Proof.’
The phrase “cheeky monkey” was occasionally used by a British child character named Simon that Mike Myers played on Saturday Night Live, who hosted a show from his bathtub, where he created drawings with a guest who hopped in the tub with him:
In addition to Mike Myers hosting the show in disguise, the rotating panel of celebrity judges already includes Zach Galifianakis, Alison Brie, Andy Samberg, Elizabeth Banks, Joel McHale, Dana Carvey, Will Forte, Jack Black, Anthony Anderson and more.
The Gong Show premieres on ABC on June 22 this summer.
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CoreyI would be 100% in.
If you’ve been paying attention to the internet over the past couple days, you’ve likely noticed the trending topic “Fyre Festival” come up more than once. That’s because the music festival on the island of Fyre Cay in the Bahamas (which doesn’t really exist) created by Ja Rule and Billy McFarland featuring performances by Blink 182, Migos and Major Lazar, marketed towards the super rich party people of the Instagram generation, turned into a complete nightmare.
Attendees described it as a Lord of the Flies scenario that looked much like a refugee camp. There was a shortage of food, incomplete lodging areas, looting of booze, even more booze given away for free when attendees were extremely unhappy at the total lack of infrastructure, some parts of the festival were overrun with rats and their droppings, and eventually a serious lack of flights for people to abandon the festival when it was completely canceled after the first day.
Funnily enough, it turns out Seth Rogen is working with The Lonely Island on a music festival comedy where the festivities go horribly wrong. Find out more after the jump.
Here’s what Seth Rogen tweeted at the beginning of the weekend when the bad buzz about the festival started:
This seems like a good time to mention the movie we are making with @thelonelyisland about a music festival that goes HORRIBLY WRONG.
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) April 28, 2017
The Lonely Island followed up with this reaction to the nightmare of the Fyre Festival:
For real, thinking about suing #FyreFestival for stealing our idea. https://t.co/uiLxhzLg85
— The Lonely Island (@thelonelyisland) April 28, 2017
It sounds like the comedy masterminds were working on The Lonely Island music festival comedy before the Fyre Festival became a disaster, though plenty of people will still think the idea came from this real life situation. But now they can probably take some cues from this insane screw-up and poke fun at this the Fyre Festival.
Considering the outstanding quality comedy that came from The Lonely Island in the form of the criminally underseen Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, a music festival comedy gone wrong has the potential for plenty of hilarity. There could even be a cameo from Conner 4 Real and the Style Boyz..
The biggest question I have is whether this music festival goes wrong in an exaggerated version of the Fyre Festival where attendees are forced to form tribes and go to war with each other for food, water and supplies, or will there be a more insane reason for the festival going wrong. One fun angle might be if there was some kind of zombie outbreak and we get a genre mash-up along the lines of This Is The End. We’ll just have to patiently wait and see what path this movie will take.
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Another Sunday has passed, which means a new couch gag from The Simpsons has come and gone. The animated series will be coming into its 29th and 30th seasons with a renewal already in place that will solidify the show’s place in TV history with the highest episode count ever. That means there are plenty more couch gags to come, but for now, the most recent one gives us an abridged history of the show that has spanned nearly three decades. The only downside is that it’s in the style of the opening credits for the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory.
Watch The Simpsons Big Bang Theory couch gag after the jump.
If you’ve never had the displeasure of watching The Big Bang Theory, here’s their opening credits sequence:
Despite the questionable inspiration, this is a neat way of running through the extensive history of The Simpsons. This is just another in a great run of awesome, unique couch gags taking inspiration from other popular TV shows. Just last year there was an opening credits sequence that took cues from Adventure Time, and later in the year there was a VR couch gag for the show’s milestone 600th episode.
If you’re interested in checking out the long list of couch gags on The Simpsons, you can check out this section on the show’s Wikia over here. There aren’t as many couch gags as there are episodes, because some of them have been repeated over the years, especially in the early seasons.
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