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Sweet Valley High, Highlander, and "Are They High?"

Sep 24, 2009 Comments (0)

MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE
By the Power of Grayskull They’re bound and determined to make He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. After being dropped (wisely) by Warner Bros., it’s now landed at Sony. When something takes too much effort, that might be a clue it’s just a Bad Idea.
THE HOST
More Sucking Stephenie Meyer ~~the luckiest writer in the world~~ of Twilight fame will see her adult sci-fi novel The Host made into a film. Instead of vampires leeching off humans, this one has extra-terrestrial parasites that leech off humans. Or something.
SWEET VALLEY HIGH
Honest to Blog, Freaktard Speaking of hack writers, apparently the world hasn’t had enough of Diablo Cody even after her craptastic Jennifer’s Body went belly-up at the box office. She’s now attached to adapt the popular teen-girl book series about perfect blonde twins. Did someone say Heathers 2?
HIGHLANDER
There Really Should Be Only One For the love of god and all that’s holy, can someone stop with the reboots/remakes/reimaginings/redo-overs? With Fast and Furious director Justin Lin at the helm, the only hope is that Iron Man’s scribes will save this assault on Christopher Lambert territory.
BARBIE

Hot Off the Casting Couch A deal's finally been consummated to put the doll modeled after a German sex toy/cartoon in her own live-action movie. Casting Ken might be complicated....