Justin Timberlake to star in drama that sounds like 5 different heartwarming Oscar winners in one
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Although he’s spent the last few years mostly just hanging out in Trolls Town (with a brief stopover on, uh, Woody Allen Island), Justin Timberlake is apparently ready to get back into the acting-people-might-someday-give-him-a-non-Nickelodeon-branded-award-for game. Variety reports that the former Boo-Boo has signed on for the starring role in Cheryl Guerriero’s script Palmer, which Fisher Stevens is set to direct.
Palmer was an entry on the 2016 Black List, i.e., the annual list of unproduced Hollywood scripts that inevitably sound more interesting than the movies that sometimes bother to get made from them. (With a few rare exceptions, like the borderline I, Tonya.) But really, the main takeaway here is just how many “inspirational” elements have been shoved into the plot of Palmer, which is about a former prisoner who returns to his hometown. Just in the very brief synopsis released today, we’ve got an underdog sports hero who’s also a criminal made good who’s also forming a found family with a “unique” young boy that he’s suddenly forced to take care of. That’s, like, five Best Picture winners in one! (It doesn’t help that the film is being produced by the same folks who made Green Book, who unfortunately seem to know exactly what the Academy voters want.)
Anyway, Timberlake is working on the project with Guerriero and Stevens, who—while still best known as an actor/cautionary tale for which sci-fi comedy roles/accents you probably shouldn’t let yourself get talked into—has also been directing movies for years, including the Leonardo DiCaprio-backed climate change doc Before The Flood.
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Has he apologized for his awful cover of The Killers in Southland Tales?
Can’t we just get someone to issue a blanket apology for Southland Tales?
Um, excuse you? That was incredible in the bestworst way.
This popped up in my YouTube recommendations a week ago after not seeing it for years. Definitely seems like an apt comparison.
Came here to post exactly this, am both disappointed that I didn’t get to and happy that I don’t have to go to the effort.CATCHPHRASE
That’s Oscar winner and former Pfeiffer f*er Fisher Stevens.
JT, stop trying to make acting happen! It’s never gonna happen!
Bring it on down to Oscarville!
Timberlake was pretty good in The Social Network, but I’m not sure if that’s because he got carried by the fantastic actors surrounding him or if Fincher coaxed out some natural talent from him while filming.
He’s great in a bunch of movies. Like Black Snake Moan and Alpha Dog for instance.
This is going to be as awful as his music.
It’s directed by the guy who played this guy: