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Post number 9690

Sapphireblue — Tue, 28 Aug 2001 09:23:23 -0800

Ed Norton and Cameron Diaz in Boo.com: The Movie. Why, god, why? Can any good come of such a thing?

By: jpoulos

jpoulos — Tue, 28 Aug 2001 09:34:14 -0800

It's going to come off like those SUN commercials. You know, the ones made to look like real movies: Norton: Debbie, we've got to get the server ONLINE! Diaz: But Jim, what about the FIREWALL???

By: woodge

woodge — Tue, 28 Aug 2001 09:40:07 -0800

I have to admit, I'm intrigued. I'd like to see this movie. (But then again I also made the mistake of seeing Ghost of Mars recently too).

By: tallman

tallman — Tue, 28 Aug 2001 09:45:13 -0800

I think it could possibly be a decent movie. But being that they have yet to actually even sell the rights to the story, I won't be holding my breath (and just because someone approached ed norton and cameron diaz doesn't mean either of them expressed interest...) Bah. There are worse things in development...

By: Skot

Skot — Tue, 28 Aug 2001 09:48:03 -0800

I can't wait for the scene where the investors beat Diaz and Norton to death with shovels.

By: jacknose

jacknose — Tue, 28 Aug 2001 09:51:39 -0800

They could call it "Dumb and Dumber" -- oh wait, that's already a movie.

By: briank

briank — Tue, 28 Aug 2001 09:57:23 -0800

Ed Norton just hasn't been as good since he split up with Ralph Kramden.

By: holgate

holgate — Tue, 28 Aug 2001 10:00:37 -0800

"Charlie's Angels", given the amount of gak those two subsisted on. I'll only watch it if James Cronin gets to play himself. ;)

By: rdr

rdr — Tue, 28 Aug 2001 10:07:47 -0800

Norton: Debbie, we've got to get the server ONLINE! Diaz: But Jim, what about the FIREWALL??? I suspect that the founders talked more about cocaine and idiot investors than about tech.

By: kpett

kpett — Tue, 28 Aug 2001 10:14:14 -0800

Sounds like Startup.com (part II).

By: Jako

Jako — Tue, 28 Aug 2001 10:16:48 -0800

The article and the movie idea are both as ridiculous as the actual company was....

By: LeiaS

LeiaS — Tue, 28 Aug 2001 10:39:36 -0800

Sounds just as ridiculous as Pardon My Zinger.

By: dydecker

dydecker — Tue, 28 Aug 2001 10:46:49 -0800

It doesn't matter how much money they lose through their bad ideas, fuckers like this always come out on top. I hope it's a flop.

By: brittney

brittney — Tue, 28 Aug 2001 12:19:42 -0800

I could watch Edward Norton brush his teeth for two hours and come away content that my $7.50 was well spent.

By: skallas

skallas — Tue, 28 Aug 2001 13:22:58 -0800

brittney, Ed pays people to watch him brush for two hours, he doesn't need you. Boo.com is largely an English phenomenon, I don't see American audiences (or any really) giving two turds, let alone 8.50.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Tue, 28 Aug 2001 13:31:18 -0800

The story about the story about the founders of Boo.com sounds as overhyped as its ostensible subject matter. It's like they still believe their PR even in ignominy: "Well, at least we're famous for losing that much money." I'd never heard of half the stuff in this story, the behind-the-scenes elements like 40 Gurkha bodyguards who, even unpaid, were still loyal enough to bar the doors to the foreclosure auditors. In a sense it could make an interesting movie, except that the story is now so common and rife with 20/20 hindsight conventional wisdom as to be banal.

By: Sapphireblue

Sapphireblue — Tue, 28 Aug 2001 13:36:30 -0800

Not Startup.com-like at all, really--- That movie was a documentary, made by the roommate of the founder of the company whose flameout the movie detailed, complete with cruddy production values and real people from the companies involved. Also, the documentary started filming long before the flameout happened; I believe the filmmaker originally thought she was going to make a movie about The Next Big Thing. Lastly, no one snorted coke in Startup.com. Not onscreen, anyway. If this movie gets made, it'll be "Hollywood gets pretty people to play dot-commers for the amusement of middlebrow America, which adores cute movie stars and resents moneyed Gen-Xers and secretly thought that Internet thing was just a bunch of hooey all along."

By: solistrato

solistrato — Tue, 28 Aug 2001 13:47:46 -0800

Seriously, though, they can talk all they want, but this'll die in development. No one's gonna see a movie about a failed dot-com.

By: Down10

Down10 — Tue, 28 Aug 2001 13:59:51 -0800

Solistrato stands corrected. It was actually going to be a documentary of a successful dotcom startup. Heh.

By: jcterminal

jcterminal — Tue, 28 Aug 2001 14:15:56 -0800

britney stole my comment.

By: kevspace

kevspace — Tue, 28 Aug 2001 14:20:05 -0800

I like snarky black comedies. Don't care what they're about. Even if this project makes it all the way through development and remains a serious movie, it still won't play that way... this could be the Reefer Madness of 2002.

By: solistrato

solistrato — Tue, 28 Aug 2001 14:22:41 -0800

Startup.com didn't exactly give American Pie 2 anything to worry about. I am not corrected. :P

By: sugarfish

sugarfish — Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:06:59 -0800

is this that onion movie we were talking about the other day? heh.

By: krisjohn

krisjohn — Tue, 28 Aug 2001 16:17:44 -0800

Sounds like it's got more chance of being a good movie than Tomb Raider, PotA and Dinosaurs R us III put together. Diaz and Norton are actually quite good actors -- catch her in Being John Malkovich and you'll see what I mean.

By: TNLNYC

TNLNYC — Wed, 29 Aug 2001 05:50:34 -0800

I'll second Holgate that James has to play himself in this movie. Considering how good Ernst and Kajsa are at PR, I expect the noise to get only stronger. Let's admit it right here and now, those guys could sell snow to eskimos... TNL PS: I'm a former Boo employee but strangely enough, not a disgruntled one. I think we built some really cool stuff there and I had a lot of fun being associated with the project, even if it failed.