Pair skating toward deal for 'Blades'
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Will Ferrell and Jon Heder might be lacing up their skates alongside Will Arnett and Amy Poehler for "Blades of Glory."
Red Hour Films' Ben Stiller and Stuart Cornfeld are producing the DreamWorks comedy with John Jacobs of First Entertainment. Tackling the competitive world of ice skating will be the commercial directing duo Josh Gordon and Will Speck.
"Blades" revolves around a pair of world-class men's figure skaters who are banned from the sport after their disgraceful brawl during the Winter Games in Salt Lake City. After three years of toiling in obscurity, they attempt to put aside their feud and exploit a loophole in the terms of their suspension, partnering to compete in the only category open to them -- pairs figure skating.
Serious talks are under way to have Ferrell and Heder star as the disgraced pair, with Arnett and Poehler playing their rivals. Sources cautioned, however, that salary and scheduling concerns could sideline the prospective deal.
The pairing of Arnett and Poehler would mark the first time the real-life husband-and-wife team will act together onscreen.
Quote from: MacGuffin on November 17, 2005, 12:37:07 AM
The pairing of Arnett and Poehler would mark the first time the real-life husband-and-wife team will act together onscreen.
in a movie. they were together on arrested development
What the hell is Jon Heder doing with those people?
Trying so hard to fit in.
or just joining them because he's funny
Pics: Will Ferrell in Blades of Glory
The Blades of Glory brief: Two rival Olympic figure skaters are stripped of their medals and banned from the sport after a nasty brawl at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. After years of obscurity, the two men put aside their differences and exploit a loophole that allows them to compete in the pairs figure skating category.
Ferrell stars opposite Napoleon Dynamite's Jon Heder. The Red Hour production, directed by commercial duo Josh Gordon and Will Speck, is scheduled for release through DreamWorks/Paramount in late March.
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Trailer here. (http://media.movies.ign.com/media/783/783114/vid_1783875.html)
That is the strangest poster EVER. :shock:
It's like someone failed at tetris.
Maximize your browser window if possible. The poster's cut up into pieces.
Well, I can't make it any bigger than the screen.
Why would someone make a poster bigger than that??!
I guess it's not terribly important, as I probably won't see this movie when it comes out, based on the trailer.
International Trailer here. (http://downloads.cinemas-online.co.uk/trailers/blades_of_glory_trailer_1500k.mov)
I just came back from seeing it. It had some decent laughs, and I generally liked it, but compared to Anchorman (which sets the standard for all Ferrel films as far as most people are concerned), it wasn't anything great. I probably didn't like it as much as Talladega Nights, either, but I appreciate the fact that it at least didn't try to make the characters go through profound life changes and learn important life lessons, like Ricky Bobby went through. I don't care for John Heder too much, but he was creepy in a funny kind of way in this one...he has that person-of-indeterminate-gender kind of appeal.
I would reccomend this, for video at least, for the following reasons:
1. I don't care what you say: Will Ferrel topless and/or bottomless is and always will be funny.
2. Craig T. Nelson as the coach. Brilliant casting. It would never have occurred to me to have Coach play the coach.
3. Incest is funny.
4. Some pretty cool skating sequences (only rarely ruined by obvious green screen effects)
5. The video from Korea that they watch for research. I won't say any more. But it was hilarious.
A pretty good comedy.
I thought this was fucking terrible.
I chuckled only once througout the entire movie. Ferrell has become boring and Heder is just playing the nerd again. But their performances are annoying instead of entertaining.
It's just such a lame and unfunny movie. This and "300" are on my list of the worst films of the decade.