You may not have heard of Wayne McClammy, but if you’ve been anywhere near YouTube in the past six months, you’ve probably seen his work. He’s the guy behind the Jimmy Kimmel video “I’m Fucking Matt Damon” and its inevitable follow-up, “I’m Fucking Ben Affleck.” Now he’s got a movie deal, which is making me rethink my plan to shelve my proposed short, “I’m Blowing Ernest Borgnine.” In any case, McClammy will co-write and direct Le Car, which the Hollywood Reporter says “is designed to unspool as a ‘found film’ made in the 1980s about a group of CIA agents who try to foil a plot by an evil car aiming to detonate an H-bomb at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y.” Oh please, not that old story again.
Time travel is all the rage in Hollywood. Just the other day we told you about Spike Lee’s The Time Traveler, and now Variety reports that James Mangold (Walk the Line) is on board to direct The Archive, scripted by Proof playwright David Auburn. More time-bending comedy, albeit in the Groundhog Day mode, comes from Universal, which has picked up Repeat After Me. Per the Hollywood Reporter, it “revolves around a couple who realize that they are reliving their disastrous wedding day again and again and start to question getting married in the first place.”
Can Back to the Future IV be far behind? Or ahead? Whatever?