Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze Pitch Untitled Satire Project

EXCLUSIVE: Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures is negotiating to acquire an untitled satire that will re-team screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and director Spike Jonze, the tandem behind the mind-benders Adaptation and Being John Malkovich. The project was pitched recently to financiers, and I'm told it's a satire about how world leaders gather to figure out all the seismic events that will take place in the worlds, from oil prices to wars that will be waged. Ellison, the daughter of Oracle founder Larry Ellison and sister of Paramount-based financier-producer David Ellison, has become an active buyer of tastemaker film projects that include The Wettest County in the World and Cogan's Trade, as well as one of the projects mobilizing on Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. She bought the Wong Kar-Wai-directed martial arts pic Grandmasters, and was an executive producer on the Joel and Ethan Coen-directed True Grit, which became a Best Picture Oscar nominee.

It's not the only Kaufman project in the mix. I'm told he's looking to direct his script Frank Or Francis. The film chronicles a volatile back and forth between a film director (Frank) and an online blogger (Francis), who takes delight in berating his cinematic talent. The project's at Sony Pictures for the moment, and names like Adaptation's Meryl Streep being talked about for roles.

Jonze and Ellison are repped by CAA, Kaufman by WME.

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Charlie Sheen Gives A Wild Pitch…

Posted by Darrenon 21. 02. 2011in News Chat Charlie Sheen’s personal troubles are affecting his hit sitcom. In the meantime, Sheen wants another ‘Major League’ lined up for him just so there is something to do. Or was it in jest? Well, hard to say. In any case, The Hollywood Reporter steps up to the plate:

Sheen said he’d do a new version of the 1989 movie if a script were greenlighted. He insists it will be Major League 3, even though Major League: Back to the Minors is technically the third film in the franchise.

Okay, he thinks the third film stunk and should not be counted as part of the franchise- as if the second film was stellar (news to me) and how can it be a “remake” if it would have Sheen and be called “Major League 3?? I’m baffled, myself. But I wonder if he was talking off the cuff. He was screening the first film with some ballplayers last weekend, so it may have been nothing more than a soundbyte. I could see a remake (for what reason, I haven’t the foggiest…) and someone could put out a sequel (Number 4, not number 3) but in both cases I don’t see Charlie Sheen – or any of the original cast members, for that matter- in them. Not Wesley Snipes. Not even Margret Whitton.

But I could be wrong. And I’m rooting that Sheen gets his shit together once and for all. Maybe a new ‘Major League’ is what he needs. What the masses need? That’s something else.

What say you, Int’l friends?

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