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Is Danny McBride The Future Of Science Fiction Movies?

Meredith Woerner — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:00:00 PDT

Comedic character actor Danny McBride has big dreams for three new scifi films. Hopefully we'll be seeing him dabble in moon theivery, building an evil 80s robot, and bringing out the DC villains for the movie adaption of comic Hench.

CHUD spoke with McBride (currently stuck in another dimension in Will Ferrell's Land Of The Lost), and he revealed that his dreams to bring on some DC villains for his adaptation of the comic Hench, about an ex-football player who gets work as a henchman for local villains.

While this is a noble idea, I doubt he'll get the DC big-dog bad boys. But wouldn't it be kind of brilliant if McBride was only allowed to bring the truly crap DC villains to life? Think of the randoms like Toy Man, Orca or Calendar Man. It could be pretty hilarious just to see Orca in the flesh (or blubber, if you will.)

The other two science fiction films McBride is working on include an animated picture called Despicable Me. He works with Steve Carell (who plays a villain who acquires three orphans). And then there's a 1980s-set feature called Mr. Machine. McBride describes the flick (which he collaborated on with David Gordon Green):

"It takes place in the '80s," McBride said in a group interview on Friday in Hollywood, where he was promoting Land of the Lost. "It's kind of like a Gremlins kind of feel, about these kids who make this robot for their science project. It ends up taking over their town."

Sounds pretty engaging, and we're pretty desperate for ORIGINAL material in science-fiction films, so we're grateful to McBride and company, merely for coming up with something on their own.

[via Scifi Wire]

Foot Fist Star Gets Into Henching

Graeme McMillan — Sat, 30 May 2009 07:00:52 PDT

No sooner did mention the graphic novel Hench than the movie rights get bought up as a vehicle for Danny McBride. I demand my 10%, but I'll take it in the form of a funny movie.

According to Variety, Warner Bros has picked up the rights to Adam Beechen and Manny Bello's 2004 graphic novel. The script will be adapted by McBride and his Eastbound And Down co-writer Shawn Harwell. No word yet on who will direct.

Hench centers around a former football player who, when injury ends his career, goes into the freelance henchman business with predictably unpredictable results.

WB nabs 'Hench' for McBride [Variety]

Will Ferrell's Male Bonding Among The Lizard People

charliejane — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:20:07 PST

Will Ferrell will star in a remake of 1970s dinosaurs-and-campy-lizards show Land of the Lost. Marilyn Manson's favorite TV show is about a family that gets caught up in a mega-earthquake during an expedition and falls into a prehistoric little enclave full of ape-kids, dinos and lizard guys called the Sleestaks. How will Ferrell's slapsticky style mesh with Land's Sid-and-Marty-Krofft campiness? Here are some hints.

Instead of a family getting trapped in the dinosaur wasteland, it'll be a "disgraced paleontologist" (Ferrell), his assistant, and his macho sidekick (Danny McBride). In other words, it'll be more of the homoerotic two-guys comedy that Ferrell has excelled at lately. Brad Silberling (Casper) will direct. And the film will still have monkey people, dinosaurs and Sleestaks, but it'll be a spoof of the TV series rather than a remake. McBride says "massive sets" have been constructed for the film. [IGN]