Morning Deal Report: Actually More Like Star Trek Deal Report These Days

Posted by Peter Smith
Karl Urban is Dr. McCoy (uh, that's him on the right.)

Nicolas Cage plays a father searching for his Muslim-American son in The Vanished. Here's the question: is Cage's character Arab-American? Cause if so, I really hate that shit. Like there aren't any actual Arab-American actors who could use an interesting role. But they don't just cast a white actor — oh, no — they cast the most ridiculous white actor available. Talk about a slap in the face.

Tony Scott, that lovable scamp, will direct a biopic of Don Aronow, who invented the cigarette boat. That doesn't really sound like Tony Scott material, until you realize that Aronow was killed in 1987 by Columbian drug smugglers. Now we're talking.

Steve Pink, the cowriter of High Fidelity and Grosse Pointe Blank, just signed on to the Kevin James comedy Mall Cop. Mall Cop just got slightly more interesting. But then, the guy also wrote Accepted.

— Peter Smith
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Posted Oct 17 2007, 11:00 AM
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