I must have missed this nice piece of work by Jeremy back in September, because I really thought the former Ben Affleck vehicle Ghosts of Girlfriends Past was long dead and gone; thus the bevy of casting news this week caught me off guard. For other, the film is now being handled by Mark Waters (Mean Girls) with Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner starring.
Between the Hollywood Reporter and Variety, we’ve got a total of seven names to add to the film. HR listed these on Monday: Breckin Meyer, Lacey Chabert, Emma Stone, Amanda Walsh and Anne Archer. Last night, Variety added Michael Douglas, Robert Forster and Anne Archer again.
For those who aren’t fans of the synopsis Jeremy quoted, here’s a new one: “McConaughey plays Connor, a womanizer who attends the wedding of his younger brother (Meyer) and bride (Chabert). There, he’s haunted by several old flames, including the bride’s best friend (Garner).”
There seems to be some debate about whether or not the ghosts in question are of dead girls, or if the girls are alive a la A Christmas Carol (for the record, HR calls the film a “takeoff on Dickens’ A Christmas Carol“) My bet is that the girls are still alive and Connor is simply having flashbacks. In that case, I would guess Forster and Douglas would be playing humorless fathers. The movie would also probably be very lame, which means I’m probably right.
I can feel my already tiny amount of interest in this project fading. Look for me to forget I wrote this the next time we have news about this project.
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Owen, no one cares about your interest levels in anything. You were tasked, unfortunately for the readership, with being 'update boy' and you should stick with that sense of purpose and not try to pose like your sitting at the CHUD adult table.
Jesus Christ, LD, you're a son of a bitch.
That was uncalled for LD.
Personally, I want the film's third act twist to be that Connor is actually seeing his past flames because he has an inoperable brain tumor causing him to hallucinate.
That would be awesome.
so we're in full aicn mode now? you let the unwashed comment directly and this is what you get. chud doesn't need this talkbacker bs.
i agree. The talkbacks are the reason why i don't check aicn every day, but have steadily checked chud every day for years now. I know I can just not read it, but its still annoying as hell having it there.
rip him on the message boards if you have to, but this kind of talkback is why I hate talkbacks on most sites. If you criticize someone, be constructive – don't be an asshole.
… says that man who writes a sub-par DVD column.
Yeah…leave the illiterate yabbo alone! How dare you criticize his jumbled mess of a completely-forgettable and half-retarded column? So what if he does write like a 5th-grader? Don't you know the market share they get of the internet tubes?
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Actually, this talkback stuff has added a whole new dimension to the site. I actually look for this poor guy's name on the articles and then just skip directly down to the comments because it's guaranteed there's going to be some hilarious shit flinging going on. God bless.
No, no, no. They actually are dead because he killed them and is wearing their body parts about his person. This is McConaughey's first step into darker territory as his hairline recedes and he needs to take character roles. Or summink.
The way to aviod this becoming like the fucking cesspool that is the AICN Talkbacks is not to allow people to post anonymously. Set it up so that you must log in to talkback – that way there's none of this cowardly 'unknown user' crap. I'm looking at you, unknown user. You whinnying little priss.
Phil, AICN makes you log in to post to a talkback, and people still act like jackasses over there. You can always just make up a meaningless username. Unless CHUD starts requiring you to use your actual name (which isn't really feasible/possible), there's probably nothing to be done about anonymous posters.
I, for one, love the idea of a CHUD talkback (being that this site is much smarter than AICN) and invite any hater to fuck right off. Better content breeds better comments. I'll happily trade insults with a moron on occasion if the comment section actually contains cool news.
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