First order of business. Cameron Crowe’s upcoming new comedy centered around super natural Hawaiian mysticism and a army satellite politics has a title. It’s now called “Deep Tiki.”
Secondly, the film has been postponed according to a Reese Witherspoon interview at Collider (they don’t have quotes). Instead she’s shooting an James L. Brooks film in the spring (“Deep Tiki” was supposed to start shooting in January, 2009).
We wrote an entire script review of the film a few months ago, but the synopsis is basically this: Set in Hawaii surrounding an illegal satellite launch in the skies above the pacific island, the dramedy/rom-com centers on the Defensecon military contractor Brian Gilgrest (Ben Stiller) who has to navigate and juggle the politics of the bosses, the supernatural myths of Hawaii’s spiritual leaders, the emotions for his almost-ex-wife and the tricky feelings he develops for his new difficult female military liaison (Witherspoon, we think).
Does a reschedule mean the cast will have to change? Lord knows actors skeds are massively tight. Might we suggest recasting Ben Stiller? 🙂 This one may now be more than a year off.
This postponement is probably why Stiller took over that project Mark Ruffalo dropped out of early this week.
Yay! Another Manic Pixie Dream Girl from Cameron Crowe!
It’s so refreshing to find someone else who feels such disdain for Ben Stiller as I do. Thank you.
I completely agree on the Ben Stiller point of view. I find him a one note actor and frankly I’m tired of that note.