Sorry folks. It seems the original Wino fooled us all into thinking there was a chance. Unfortunately, word from the man behind the camera, director Michael Lehmann, is that no sequel for Heathers is in the works at all!
Though Winona Ryder swore to God that the sequel was happening, Michael reveals he has spoken to writer Dan Waters, who admitted he knew nothing about a sequel.
Michael explains: "I know there’s no script and no plans to do the sequel."
"It’s funny to me. I love Heathers and I loved doing that movie. I’m very proud of it, so if it gets brought up, I’m happy. Generally, though, I don’t like sequels at all. If the movie’s good the first time, why bother? With something like The Matrix, for example, it feels like a trilogy, or with a comic-book movie, those movies were based on something that was created in a serial format. So a movie as specific as Heathers, which took place in a specific time and specific place and in which many of the characters got killed off, I never thought it made sense to see a sequel."
Or maybe you're just too damn lazy to use that seemingly creative brain of yours to think up a way to do a sequel. If Winona can whip up some ideas, it shouldn't be too hard!
The situation has to be pretty bad to shut down a film starring Brad Pitt, directed by Steven Soderberg, and $10 million already sunk into pre-production costs.
According to Sony Pictures co-chair Amy Pascal, Moneyball, a film about legendary Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane, was shut down days before filming due to unauthorized script changes.
That must have been one bad script!!!!
"I've wanted to work with Steven forever, because he's simply a great filmmaker. But the draft he turned in wasn't at all what we'd signed up for," said Pascal of the reworked screenplay originally written by Steve Zaillian. "He wanted to make a dramatic reenactment of events with real people playing themselves. I'd still work with Steven in a minute, but in terms of this project, he wanted to do the film in a different way than we did."
Soderbergh had changed the script so dramatically that every scene which did not occur in real life were removed or entirely rewritten!
"Steven wanted to tell the story through these interviews with the real people, as they commented on Beane," Pascal explains. "But there are lots of ways to tell a true story."
We've noticed that studios like it when true stories are told through blatant fabrication!
Sony had no other choice but to shelve the film until they found a new director, which means that Pitt would likely bow out.
"We love this movie, we always have and we still want to make it," said the Sony honcho. "It's a completely innovative way to tell a baseball story. It's about wanting to believe in magic, which is what baseball is all about."
Word is, Justin Timberlake might be crapping on his friendship with Madonna even further by accepting acting roles in Guy Ritchie's new film projects.
While pAArtying together at Guy's pub in Mayfair on Monday night, Guy proposed some leading roles for JT in his remake of Guys and Dolls and his remake of the classic war film Wild Geese.
Aw, bugger!
Look, we think you could swoon the panties off of any girl in a 50 mile radius, as long as you shave and wear contacts, but JT, you have to stay away from movies, especially the war flicks. You have some charm in comedy, so the Guys and Dolls might be OK, but we're going to vomit if we have to endure you trying to be a serious actor.
Must we remind you of the CATACLYSMIC failure that was Alpha Dog?
Learn from your mistakes. Stick to the music biz. But above all, don't piss off Madge.
Kristen Stewart acts like she is one tough cookie, but no one is more badass than Joan Jett. Which is why when Joan started giving K-Stew a hard time during filming recently, she ran away from the set of The Runaways and cried like a little bitch!
A source says: “Joan just wants Kristen to play an authentic version of herself, so she needled her a little bit too much. But she apologized when she realized how upset Kristen got.”
Someone should be "needling" her more often. Maybe then we'd see some real acting out of this chick!
For some reason we're not surprised Hayden Panettiere is ok with getting naked for the whole world to see. In fact, she bares her body in her new flick, I love You, Beth Cooper.
Panettiere plays Cooper, a high school cheerleader. Can we say typecasting?
Cooper is the object of affection for a nerdy character played by Denis Cooverman. During a steamy locker room scene in the film, she drops her towel.
Shocker!
But, according to Hayden, she's fine with the decision. She reveals, "If I can't flaunt it at 20, come on! I mean I might as well show it now."
Yea, might as well. Hoochie!
She adds, "It didn't bother me much. I think when the person who's doing it gets all uncomfortable and shy, then it's other people around who get more uncomfortable because they're uncomfortable. I mean I was fine – everyone was really professional."
But she's not all conceited.
Hayden admits that "The older I get, the more comfortable I get with it, but I still have my days where I don't feel great … and I'm having my fat day where I have to put something baggy on and sweatpants. Or just with the way people perceive me. I have plenty of insecurities."
We're betting the only reason there's a nude scene of Hayden in the flick is to sell tickets.
Barbra Streisand is heading back to the silver screen!
Judd Apatow prodigy Seth Rogen is currently in the development stages of a film starring himself and Babs called Mother's Curse!!
Little has been said about the Rogen/Streisand flick, with even Rogen himself stating Mother's Curse is "one of the many projects I may or may not do in the next fifteen years," but Dreamworks exec turned Paramound big wig Adam Goldman has reportedly taken the comedy on as a "pet project."
