{"id":3121,"date":"2009-02-14T12:17:08","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T17:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=3121"},"modified":"2018-12-09T01:03:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T06:03:50","slug":"the-hardy-men-gets-another-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/14\/the-hardy-men-gets-another-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"THE HARDY MEN Gets (Another) Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"cruisestiller\"<\/a>One film currently in development that has caught my interest is The Hardy Men<\/strong>, a comedy with Ben Stiller and Tom Cruise attached. The concept sounds like a fun one- the Hardy Boys of the long-running young reader mystery series reunite as grown-ups after years of estrangement to solve some new mystery. Currently, Tom Cruise and Ben Stiller are attached to star in the titular roles, with Stiller’s Night At The Museum<\/strong> director Shawn Levy sitting in the director’s chair.<\/p>\n

The film has gone through numerous writers in its decade-plus development, and now another name has been added to that list- Men In Black<\/strong> screenwriter Ed Solomon. Solomon takes over\u00a0 scripting duties from Mr. & Mrs. Smith<\/strong> scribe Simon Kinberg. Kinberg’s draft was a page one rewrite, going in a different direction than what was previously written. Solomon is expected to also be starting over, charting his own story instead of polishing Kinberg’s work.<\/p>\n

The team-up of Cruise and Stiller holds some promise. This past summer Cruise surprised a lot of people with his comic turn as a maniacal movie studio chied in Stiller’s Tropic Thunder<\/strong>. Stilller used to poke fun at Cruise on his short-lived, but excellent, The Ben Stiller Show<\/em> back on Fox in 199 in several sketches including “A Few Good Scouts.”<\/p>\n

Via Hollywood Reporter<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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