Today in news that doesn’t relate to Comic-Con: Deadline reports that Steve Carell, Jack Black and Nicolas Cage are in various stages of negotiations to star in Frank Or Francis for director and writer Charlie Kaufman. Details on the film are slim, but when it was first announced back in March, Frank Or Francis reportedly dealt with a filmmaker and the blogger “who takes delight in berating his cinematic talent.” (It sorta sounds like that movie Pitchfork that Jonah Hill was rumored for; bloggers, they’re not just for blogs anymore!) Assuming Carell, Black and Cage sign on for Frank Or Francis — and assuming at least two of them are in talks for the lead roles — this news raises a fairly legitimate question: who among them is believable as a blogger?
The obvious answer is probably Jack Black — he’s got the ability to grow a pretty legitimate blogger beard, has a bit of a paunch to him, and just seems to have the look you’d expect a film blogger to possess. Yet, I can’t help but draw back to Nicolas Cage — and not just because he played a writer so adeptly in Kaufman’s Adaptation. Cage has that necessary bit of crazy-cum-cowardice that a filmmaker-antagonizing blogger would need in this scenario — you can just imagine him having a wicked case of Keyboard Muscles.
Or maybe it’s Carell, doing that smug Michael Scott know-it-all thing he does so well? Who knows! Rank these three on their blogger believability in the comments section below.
· Charlie Kaufman Attaches Steve Carell, Jack Black and Nicolas Cage to ‘Frank Or Francis’ [Deadline]
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