{"id":16530,"date":"2011-10-05T19:26:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T00:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=16530"},"modified":"2011-10-05T19:26:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T00:26:34","slug":"martin-and-baldwin-might-team-for-shankman-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/05\/martin-and-baldwin-might-team-for-shankman-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin And Baldwin Might Team For Shankman Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/BaldwinMartin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16531\" title=\"BaldwinMartin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/BaldwinMartin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/BaldwinMartin.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/BaldwinMartin-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin may be heading to the big screen to star in a comedy from director Adam Shankman.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2011\/10\/oscarcast-team-of-steve-martin-alec-baldwin-adam-shankman-plot-pic\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a> is reporting that New Line Cinema is looking to purchase a pitch being described as &#8220;<strong>Trading Places<\/strong> meets <strong>Grumpy Old Men<\/strong>.&#8221; The idea came to Shankman just a few weeks ago while watching Baldwin host the season premier of <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>. Martin crashed Baldwin\u2019s opening monologue to give Baldwin some good-natured grief for breaking his (Martin\u2019s) record for most times hosting the show.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"NBC Video Widget\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/assets\/video\/widget\/widget.html?vid=1358179\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"512\" height=\"347\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The project is in such early days it doesn\u2019t even have a writer assigned to it yet.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time that the two have comedically sparred. They were the co-hosts for the 2010 Academy Awards broadcast, which Shankman directed, and they fought for the affections of Meryl Streep in the comedy <strong>It\u2019s Complicated<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say that it has been fun watching Baldwin change his career trajectory from that of being a dramatic actor in films like<strong> Glengary Glenn Ross<\/strong> to consistently generating laughs on <em>SNL<\/em> and <em>30 Rock<\/em>. The two were a lot of fun on the Oscars and on the <em>SNL<\/em> season opener. Here\u2019s hoping they hit it out of the park with this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin may be heading to the big screen to star in a comedy from director Adam Shankman. Deadline is reporting that New Line Cinema is looking to purchase a pitch being <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/05\/martin-and-baldwin-might-team-for-shankman-comedy\/\" title=\"Martin And Baldwin Might Team For Shankman Comedy\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[1162,619,453],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-adam-shankman","9":"tag-alec-baldwin","10":"tag-steve-martin"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16530"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=16530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}