Jack Black

A spooky reunion? Jack Black is in negotiations to star in the feature film adaptation of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps series. This would reunite him with Gulliver’s Travels and Shark Tale director Rob Letterman.

Bernie: A True Life Tale of a Most Unlikely Killer

No one ever believed town treasure Bernie could have killed his companion, the insufferable snake woman Marjorie Nugent. Oh, well! The eponymous Richard Linklater-directed dark comedy is based on a 1998 Texas Monthly article about unbelievable-but-true events that transpired in the small oil-rich Texas town of Carthage. After Marjorie becomes needier and meaner, Bernie can…

Shallow Hal Jordan? Read the screenplay for Green Lantern starring Jack Black, and be glad it never happened

You may or may not remember that Jack Black was in line to star in a comedic version of Green Lantern at one point. It turns out the unproduced screenplay is available online, and… it’s not very funny. There are a couple funny bits, like where Jud, the loser who becomes Green Lantern by accident,…

Gulliver’s Travels will make you seasick in the cineplex

Gulliver’s Travels is neither a movie nor an adaptation of Jonathan Swift’s fantasy yarn. Rather, it’s a cultural artifact of American pop circa 2010, an immediately dated voyage through the seas of our own cinematic feculence. Jack Black plays Lemuel Gulliver, a career mailroom clerk at a major newspaper. He’s supposed to be an endearing…

Sorry Jack Black, not even Star Wars jokes can save Gulliver’s Travels

The latest TV spot for Jack Black’s Gulliver’s Travels comedy is out. This time it has even more insane Star Wars jokes, but we’re still not digging it. https://gizmodo.com/gullivers-travesty-new-trailer-reveals-more-wrongness-5679986

Gulliver’s Travesty! New trailer reveals more wrongness, including a Transformer giving Jack Black a wedgie

If you thought Jack Black’s reimagined Gulliver’s Travels would be the worst film of the year, it’s time to lower your expectations. A new trailer includes a robot-induced wedgie, a flab-vs.-cannons sea fight, and a tiny Liliputian Kiss cover band.

A robot uprising comedy from Jack Black and the director of Hot Tub Time Machine?

Now that Steven Spielberg is adapting Daniel H. Wilson’s Robopocalypse, another Wilson book is becoming a movie. Jack Black and Hot Tub Time Machine director Steve Pink have scooped up the rights to How To Survive A Robot Uprising. Inside sources tell io9 that Wilson’s first book, a humorous look at a robot uprising, was…

The Johnny Depp Doctor Who movie couldn’t be worse than this…

The rumored Johnny Depp Doctor Who movie sounds horrendous enough, but just remember: It could always get worse. Just check out this new spoof that imagines what it would be like if Jack Black took the role. My favorite bit is where they say “You ain’t got Farscape to push around any more.”

Gulliver’s Travels trailer sets Jonathan Swift’s coffin on fire

Jack Black is Lemuel Gulliver in the new retelling of Jonathan’s Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. The first ever trailer has been released and it’s just as discouraging for the future of humanity as you’d expect. Hmmm, needs more Ted Danson. Sure Swift’s story is funny, but once Jack Black made a Lilliputian foosball table, we brushed…

Heavy Metal Movie’s Directors May Rock Your World

What kind of movie could bring together the directors of Pirates Of The Carribean, Fight Club, Terminator and Watchmen? According to producer Kevin Eastman, the answer is the upcoming Heavy Metal. Eastman spilled the beans to Film School Rejects over the weekend that James Cameron, Zack Snyder, Gore Verbinski and David Fincher have signed on…

Five Superhero Movies We’re Glad Didn’t Get Made

Click to viewWith The Dark Knight set to follow Hancock, Wanted, The Incredible Hulk and Iron Man into the theaters and hearts of cinemagoers worldwide, it seems that this really is the summer of movie superheroes. But what about Will Smith’s earlier attempt to be a superhero and all the other superhero also-rans that didn’t…

Jack Black, Wacky White Supremacist

The sequel to Be Kind, Rewind would include a socialist revolution in New Jersey, followed by a brain tumor that causes a race war, according to director Michel Gondry. Gondry, who’s already working on a film about a galactic dictator based on his own son, wanted to shoot the Be Kind sequel in one hour…

Be Kind, Rewind Is Slipstream Slapstick

Be Kind Rewind, Michel Gondry’s new movie, is a thematic sequel to his best film, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. In Eternal Sunshine, a mysterious brain-editing machine can erase your memories of a shitty relationship, leaving you free to reinvent yourself. In Be Kind Rewind, Jack Black gets magnetized and then erases a whole…

Be Kind Rewind Opens A Hole In The Space-Time Continuum

By now you’ve probably seen a few commercials for Michel Gondry’s Be Kind Rewind, where Jack Black accidentally magnetizes the movies in buddy Mos Def’s store. They decide to create fanfilm versions of movies like Ghostbusters, Robocop, and 2001: A Space Odyssey and pass them off to unsuspecting customers. However, now the director himself has…

Five Fan Films (Almost) Better Than the Real Thing

The upcoming Michael Gondry comedy starring Jack Back and Mos Def Be Kind Rewind features no-budget recreations of films like Back to the Future, 2001: A Space Odyssey, RoboCop, and Ghostbusters. In fact, their RoboCop looks better than the original film did. Jack Black really nails Peter Weller’s robo-monotone. That got us thinking about all…

Speed Racer Will Be All Fake Except The Monkey

The Wachowskis’ Speed Racer movie backgrounds will be all greenscreen like 300, says star Emile Hirsch. All except for Chim Chim the monkey, which is real. And presumably flung its poop at the pristine green walls. [Empire] Dave “Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius” Eggers collaborated with director Spike Jonze on the script to Where The…