{"id":28459,"date":"2013-05-30T21:28:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T01:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=28459"},"modified":"2018-12-09T00:50:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T05:50:08","slug":"entourage-creator-doug-ellin-rewriting-bad-santa-2-may-direct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/30\/entourage-creator-doug-ellin-rewriting-bad-santa-2-may-direct\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Entourage&#8217; Creator Doug Ellin Rewriting BAD SANTA 2, May Direct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/DougEllin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-28460\" alt=\"DougEllin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/DougEllin-204x300.jpg\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Doug Ellin, creator of the HBO series <em>Entourage<\/em>, has signed to give a rewrite to the screenplay for <strong>Bad Santa 2<\/strong> with a possible eye towards directing the Billy Bob Thornton-starring sequel. Ellin will be revising a draft already turned in by Johnny Rosenthal.<\/p>\n<p>Thornton is reportedly anxious to get the project ready to shoot by the late fall, after he wraps production on the Mathew Cullen-directed <strong>London Fields<\/strong> which goes before cameras on September 9.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Ellin has turned in his screenplay for an <em>Entourage<\/em> movie to HBO but has not received a go-ahead from the studio on the project.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2013\/05\/entourages-doug-ellin-steps-into-bad-santa-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Shooting is hoped for late this year.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/30\/entourage-creator-doug-ellin-rewriting-bad-santa-2-may-direct\/\" title=\"&#8216;Entourage&#8217; Creator Doug Ellin Rewriting BAD SANTA 2, May Direct\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[3931,4072],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-bad-santa-2","8":"tag-doug-ellin"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28459","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=28459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28459"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=28459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}