I'm back! After weeks of sitting in my bed feeling ill, taking pills and just basically feeling crap I've decided to get back on the blogging horse so to speak.
Anyhew...getting back to the matter at hand, yesterday I saw on Empire Magazine's website that Baywatch was going to be getting it's very own movie with Zac Efron.
According to The Hollywood Reporter Seth Gordon who directed "Horrible Bosses" will be directing this for Paramount Picture's with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's Seven Bucks Productions producing in some capacity, along with Beau Flynn (who is according to IMDb.com most noted for producing "The Number 23" which starred Jim Carey, executive producer on "Requiem For A Dream" which starred Jared Leto and Jennifer Connelly among other films), and Ivan Reitman who will also be producing this film.
Also according to The Hollywood Reporter production for this could kick off in early February 2016 with a 2017 release date all being well.
Also according to The Hollywood Reporter Zac Efron will be a busy boy this year as not only has he been in negotiations to be in this movie, but he will be doing the movie press rounds to promote other movies that will be released in 2016 such as "Bad Neighbours 2" where he'll be reteaming up with Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne where filming will be in Atlanta, also to be released in 2016 for Lionsgate Entertainment is "Dirty Grandpa" a road trip comedy which he will star alongside Robert De Niro, also according to The Hollywood Reporter Efron has just wrapped on production of 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment's comedy "Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates" which will see him alongside Adam Devine, Anna Kendrick and Aubrey Plaza.
So get ready to have your cinemas filled with Zac Efron in 2016.
The most recent draft of this script that was written by Damien Shannon and Mark Swift centres on Dwayne Johnson playing a by-the-book very serious lifeguard who is forced to team up with rule flouting hot head played by Zac Efron in order to save their beach from environmental destruction at the hands of an oil tycoon.
But judging by some of the reruns of Baywatch I've seen you can't have a proper Baywatch film without comedy, the slow motion running along the beach or a little bit of action from every now and again big storylines such as this storyline would suggest ...and from reading this most recent draft there could be a lot of laughs in this and it does sound like it could have the potential to be a dare I say it a new stereotypical buddy comedy...and now that I think about it, these types of films are not just proving to be popular with cinema goers like "Ted", the "Fast and Furious" films, "The Other Guys" etc etc and this popularity of cinema goers did translate into lots and lots of money earned at the box office as well as lots and lots of money for the studios that put up the money to make these kinds of films.
So I'm thinking that Paramount Picture's is hoping that this film will make them lots and lots of money...but now that I also think about it "Ted" and the "Fast and Furious" films although the Fast and Furious films were more about the cars and the going undercover in the underground street racing scene to steal things but everybody that's seen it and is a fan of these films including me knows that it's really about the bond between all of Vin Diesel's character's crew Toretto including the late Paul Walker and how these characters are more than just the stealing things from trucks more the black and white criminals that they're made out to be, they could be seen as a kind of buddy film these films did spawn sequels and in the case of "Fast and Furious" a film franchise so I'm thinking that Paramount are going to be keeping their fingers crossed hoping that this film either gets a sequel or it spawns a new film franchise.
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