Dillon Has 300 Spoof's Number, More Movie News

Kevin Dillon by Claudette Barius/HBO Victory! Entourage's Kevin Dillon has been tapped to play the title character in the 300-spoofing National Lampoon's 301: The Legend of Awesomest Maximus Wallace Leonidas.... Also per Variety, Natalie Portman joins Brothers' Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal in a love-triangle drama based on a 2004 Danish film.... Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen) will direct Twilight, an adaptation of the best-selling young-adult fantasy series.... Both Vin Diesel and Paul Walker are in talks to just suck it up and reunite for the fourth installment of the Fast and the Furious franchise.... Also per the Reporter, Wallace and Gromit will appear in a new half-hour short set at a bakery and titled Trouble at the Mill.... Music-video vet Sam Bayer will helm a remake of the 1987 vampire flick Near Dark. Leave a Comment
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Posted by Matt Webb Mitovich Oct 3, 2007 10:06 AM Report Abuse

I hope Fast and Furious 4 happens with those 2. I liked the first two films a lot! I just saw them for the first time this summer (and the original on the big screen at a film revival). But I refuse to watch number 3 because even his dopey cameo at the end (which is on youtube) is not enough.
Posted by obriensg1 Oct 3, 2007 10:47 AM Report Abuse

Wow, times are tough, eh? Vin Diesel and Paul Walker coming back to TF&TF? Sad that their careers have stalled out... And wait... Near Dark without Adrian Pasdar? Say it ain't so! He WAS the movie.
Posted by Daesey Oct 3, 2007 11:08 AM Report Abuse

"Entourage's Kevin Dillon has been tapped to play the title character in the 300-spoofing National Lampoon's 301: The Legend of Awesomest Maximus Wallace Leonidas"

That has to be the most moronic name for a movie that I have heard in a long time.

This sounds like it's going to be so bad, Dane Cook should be in it.

That title alone makes me think that this movie will be on the same comedic level as the appallingly wretched "parody" Silence of the Hams, which was filmed in 1994 but not released in the U.S. until 1997, and featured characters named Animal Cannibal Pizza (played by Dom DeLuise!) and Inspector Pete Putrid.

To call that third-grade-level humor would be an insult to third graders everywhere.

On a semi-related topic, when was the last time that anyone with a brain actually wanted to see anything with National Lampoon in the title?

Posted by Chappy Quiddick

Oct 3, 2007 11:38 AM

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Chappy - The last Lampoon movie I loved was "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" I'd watch it every day if I could... "Play Ball!"
Posted by Daesey Oct 3, 2007 12:15 PM Report Abuse

I finally saw Christmas Vacation a few years ago (long after it came out), and it was pretty good -- almost as good as the first Vacation. I never did see all of European Vacation or Vegas Vacation, but the few scenes that I have seen look bad.

I guess the Vacation movies follow an "odd-numbered are better" pattern -- as opposed to the Star Trek movies' "even-numbered are better" tendency.

Posted by Chappy Quiddick

Oct 3, 2007 12:41 PM

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