After the first Transformers reviews started advent in, some speculated that it would be a poor weekend for Paramount. But Revenge of the Fallen did amazing business, and now, according to THR, new Film Group president Adam Goodman has started to buy. First up is an untitled pitch by Shane Salerno, around “super repo men who reclaim high-end jets and boats from rich but delinquent (and often hostile) clientele.â€
Salerno’s enacting/comedy idea sounds like a tolerably quiet mark as being a studio flush and ready to think about future tentpoles. Appropriately, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are producing, which isn’t s surprise after this weekend’s insane Transformers success. Look for this duo to be in possession of their hands in every big movie Paramount does for the next small while. “We’re thrilled to be acting with Shane, who’s a wildly inventive and talented creator,†they said in a statement that manages to say very little. “His passion was clear the circumstantial he started telling his story. He has crafted a smart, lighthearted action movie that’s fun and topical, with a ton of unexpected plot twists. It’s a Butch-and-Sundance two-hander set in a world that’ll feel warmly familiar to the masses, yet it’s one they’ve never really seen in advance of.â€
I don’privately know about the world of repo men who entrap back big-ticket items cognate boats feeling ‘warmly familiar’, but hey, I like the basic idea. Not even because Repo Man (to which this is not even vaguely related, and speaking of, am I foolish for the sake of looking forward to Alex Cox’s follow-up Repo Chick?) is one of my darling films; I think I precisely like the idea of a rich, angry guy shaking his fist as a ’super repo man’ makes waves with his boat.
Salerno had a hand in the script because of Armageddon (along with Tony Gilroy and JJ Abrams, lest we forget) and wrote Shaft and the second Aliens Versus Predator thin skin. He’s got Reckless and Doomsday Protocol potentially starting up any minute now.
