August 11, 2006

A summertime question for David Poland.

Talk about living and breathing movies. Three times a week, David Poland writes The Hot Button, tracking trends in Hollywood and Indiewood and offering rapid-fire first impressions of films most of us won't be seeing for weeks. He regularly draws flurries, sometimes storms of commentary from all over at his Hot Blog and, perhaps most vitally, oversees Movie City News, an essential source of news to be checked not just daily but several times a day and a hub for columnists and bloggers who know their stuff.

The Bourne Ultimatum Anyone who's ever read David Poland wonders what he must be like in person. Watch Lunch With David, slow things down just a tad, and there you go. Fun, relaxed, sharp. David's just posted a list: "The Ten Great Movies of Summer," so how fitting it is that I asked him, "What movie are you most looking forward to in the summer of 2007?"

Anticipating next summer's movies is not for the faint of heart. I mean, it's tough to resist a stupid sequel title Life Free or Die Hard for a film to be directed by the stylish hack who will surely force the Fox marketing department to use the phrase "From the Director of Underworld and Underworld: Evolution" in ads. This could be the biggest laugher in years. Or what about the idea of Amy Adams acting against an animated Underdog? And dear God, what if Transformers does not make us all laugh until we choke on our own vomit? What will we do?

Most importantly, what will Mel Gibson do when he realizes that he didn't have to be so angry at Julia Roberts because her niece Emma is starring in Nancy Drew... DRew.

The movie currently scheduled for Summer 2007 that I most look forward to in a positive way is a sequel, though. The Bourne Ultimatum. Paul Greengrass is back. Tom Stoppard has joined in on the screenplay fun. Bourne is the most adult studio mega-series right now. So, I am excited. Of course, by next April, some great indie film will be scheduled for summer and I will be more excited about that. But for now, assuming that Adam Sandler and Kevin James pretending to be gay is not a sequel to Shortbus, I'll go with Bourne 3.



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Posted by dwhudson at August 11, 2006 3:02 AM

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An animated Underdog is not the problem - after all, that's what he's always been - but a CGI animated Underdog in a live action Scooby Doo-ish movie co-starring Jim Belushi is more the concern.

Says the longtime Underdog fan.

Posted by: Craig P at August 11, 2006 12:07 PM