David Gordon Green Update: More Freaks and Dudes
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Since reporting on David Gordon Green’s upcoming foray into animated sitcoms, we’ve kept our Google radar up for any further details on his “Good Vibes” project. This morning brings us cast developments and a plot synopsis:
The project, from 20th Century Fox TV and Good Humor TV, will feature the voices of thesps Josh Gad (”Back to You”), Adam Brody (”The O.C.”), Debi Mazar (”Entourage”), Olivia Thirlby (”New York I Love You”), Alan Tudyk (”3:10 to Yuma”) and Jake Busey (”Broken”).
“Pineapple Express” helmer David Gordon Green wrote the laffer, which centers on two high school surfer dudes who live near the beach in California. On “Good Vibes,” Gad will play Mondo, an out-of-shape, shaggy-haired teen looking to master surfing and win over Jeena (voiced by Thirlby)—who thinks of Mondo more like a brother. Brody is onboard as Woodie, Mondo’s best friend, while Busey will play Turk, Mondo’s chief rival. Mazar plays Babs, Mondo’s mother. Tudyk will voice Lonnie, an old surf bum who doubles as the show’s narrator.
Total ripoff of North Shore, but whatever, that movie is amazing and we are prepping the tobacco waterpipe for the spring debut. For fans of Green’s darker side, he also just signed up to direct the film version of Freaks of the Heartland, based on the horror comic written by Steve Niles (30 Days of Night) and illustrated by Greg Ruth (The Matrix comics). We have no idea how that will turn out, but good luck to everyone.
(via Variety)
David Gordon Green Realizes His Dream of Ridiculousness
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Over the years, we have shown generous support for filmmaker David Gordon Green. In FADER Number 6, we put him in the Gen F section based on his debut film George Washington and later expanded and expounded on his oeuvre with a full-length feature in FADER Number 25. The first sentence in the first story was Green saying, “I want to make epic comedy westerns and ridiculous things I have no business making.” Jump eight years later and he’s given the world Pineapple Express and, finally, an acceptable reason to fawn over James Franco, and now Green is setting his sights on animation with “Good Vibes” a new half-hour series for Fox co-produced with the guys who just debuted “The Life and Times of Tim” on HBO (view a scene from it above). Does Green’s foray into weed comedy (marijuamedy) and the realm of “Family Guy” and “The Simpsons” mean the end of the kind of work evident in his early, more serious films? Not exactly. He’s also currently writing a screenplay called Goat, which is not about LL Cool J but a brutal fraternity hazing. Here’s to mixing it up!
