I won’t argue: “‘[T]he stars aligned’ may be the only explanation for 1995 being the greatest year in the history of movies. How else do we make sense out of the bounty that included no less than three Christina Ricci vehicles, career-bests for Ron Howard, Michael Mann, Mel Gibson, Richard Linklater, Amy Heckerling, Todd Haynes, and Clint Eastwood, the speedy ascension of Sandra Bullock’s star, a talking pig, AND Showgirls?” [The Hairpin]
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Twilight idol Taylor Lautner may be new to the action hero game — well, at least as a young adult, now that his Shark Boy days are long gone — but he had a seasoned vet by his side on the set of John Singleton’s Abduction: Ellen Ripley herself, Sigourney Weaver. As a therapist to Lautner’s thrill-seeking teenager, who stumbles into the spy game after discovering the truth about his own childhood, she shows her young co-star how it’s done, effortlessly and with grace. But it wasn’t Lautner who studied Weaver’s body of work for pointers; instead, Weaver admitted, it was she who studied Lautner’s work — his work in the Twilight movies.
“I play a vampire in Amy Heckerling’s Vamps, so I tried to watch the whole oeuvre — the vampire world,” Weaver told Movieline. “And I enjoyed them very much.” Her verdict on Lautner, the actor? “He didn’t need any pointers from anybody.” Read on for more with Sigourney Weaver as she talks choice character roles, working with Taylor Lautner, the latest on Ghostbusters 3, and more.
The Abduction premiere was a little nuts, wasn’t it?
Yeah! You know, it’s like an old-time premiere.
The masses of Twilight fans there to see Taylor Lautner probably made it feel even more surreal than usual.
It was great! It’s part of the Hollywood tradition, screaming fans. [Pauses] And Justin Bieber was there, too. There was a lot of screeching and screaming. I was a Beatles fan, I understand!
Do you get the whole Twilight phenomenon and the recent obsession with vampires?
I play a vampire in Amy Heckerling’s Vamps so I tried to watch the whole oeuvre, the…
Also in this Wednesday edition of The Broadsheet: The Terrorist Search Engine finds a writer… Ben Stiller loves fake trailers… Dakota Johnson capitalizes on her Social Network mini-fame… and more ahead.
· Paramount is pretty serious about making G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation a summer event next June. The studio is reportedly in talks with Bruce Willis to star in the Jon M. Chu-directed sequel, alongside Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Adrianne Palicki and a likely returning Channing Tatum. Starpower! If signed, Willis would play Gen. Joe Colton, the original G.I. Joe who put the team together initially; his possible involvement in the project was first reported back in July, but it appears negotiations are now in full swing. [THR/Heat Vision]
· Oren Moverman has signed up to write The Terrorist Search Engine, an adaptation of a New York magazine article that Scott Rudin is producing. Engine follows a 23-year-old counter-terrorism expert named Evan Kohlmann (“the Doogie Howser of terrorism”), who was seen as controversial because of the ease with which he testified for the government. Jesse Eisenberg is attached to play Kohlmann should this one ever get fully off the ground. [Deadline]
· If you loved the fake trailers at the beginning of Tropic Thunder, Ben Stiller has some good news: through his Red Hour Films production company, Stiller is starting The Fake Trailer Project, a digital media undertaking that will feature some of your favorite comedy talents producing weekly fake trailers. Justin Theroux, Tom Lennon & Ben Garant, and Amy Heckerling are reportedly among the names already involved in Fake Trailer Project, which will likely rollout in the fall. Who left the fridge open? [Deadline]…
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