March
13
ShoWest: Stiller and Downey Star in Tropic Thunder
Actor-director-writer-producer Ben Stiller and star Robert Downey, Jr. hit the Vegas strip's Planet Hollywood to promote their new summer comedy Tropic Thunder. Downey is about to enjoy the summer of his life, with two films book-ending the summer, Iron Man, his first major starring role in a summer action hero tentpole, and Tropic Thunder, in which he plays an actor who ingests some chemicals to help him become a black man.
In Tropic Thunder, a group of actors, under the direction of wild and crazy Steve Coogan, is in the jungle shooting a war movie when they are attacked, for real. The footage from the R-rated comedy was profane and hilarious. Jack Black plays a star who is coming down from heroin and asks to be tied to a tree as he withdraws. Black also could have enjoyed a good ShoWest, having voiced the title role in Kung Fu Panda, if he had showed up, pointed out Stiller and Downey during some affectionate competitive banter. "Fuck him."
Word is the DreamWorks movie, which looks expensive with its mega-watt cast, action mayhem and jungle locations, may have cost over $100 million. (Paramount claims far less.) It opens August 15. The first trailer will be out next week, Paramount said.




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sounds like money in the bank. great concept
Posted by: Alan | March 13, 2008 at 11:27 AM