Fire Fears. Trade Roughage 06/05/08
Worries mount as to the severity of the fire damage to Universal's print vault. Plus: Diablo Cody, Ryan Gosling, and a web video hitmaker gets a movie deal.
Though Universal says they’re still assessing the damage of Sunday’s fire, which destroyed a tape and film print vault/shipping and receiving center, there’s speculation that some of the prints lost may be irreplaceable. “So-called EK prints, struck from the original negatives when the negatives were new and thus irreplaceable, would be among the most valuable prints on Earth.”- Director Craig Gillespie is trying to cast his Lars and the Real Girl star Ryan gosling in The Dallas Buyers Club. Gosling would play a real-life AIDS patient circa 1986 who, “frustrated with the lack of available medical options and unwilling to accept a death sentence, found a lifeline using alternative drugs and created a lucrative smuggling business that made those drugs available.”
- The guy who made “I’m Fucking Matt Damon” for The Jimmy Kimmel Show has been given a movie deal. He’ll direct the comedy Cool School for Fox.
- The United States of Tara––a TV pilot starring Toni Collette, produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Diablo Cody––has been picked up by Showtime. Cody is expected to write about half of the 12-episode season.
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