{"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":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/cruisestiller.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3122\" title=\"cruisestiller\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/cruisestiller-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"cruisestiller\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a>One film currently in development that has caught my interest is <strong>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&#8217;s <strong>Night At The Museum<\/strong> director Shawn Levy sitting in the director&#8217;s chair.<\/p>\n<p>The film has gone through numerous writers in its decade-plus development, and now another name has been added to that list- <strong>Men In Black<\/strong> screenwriter Ed Solomon. Solomon takes over\u00a0 scripting duties from <strong>Mr. &amp; Mrs. Smith<\/strong> scribe Simon Kinberg. Kinberg&#8217;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&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s <strong>Tropic Thunder<\/strong>. Stilller used to poke fun at Cruise on his short-lived, but excellent, <em>The Ben Stiller Show<\/em> back on Fox in 199 in several sketches including &#8220;A Few Good Scouts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Via <em>Hollywood Reporter<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">One film currently in development that has caught my interest is The Hardy Men, a comedy with Ben Stiller and Tom Cruise attached. The concept sounds like a fun one- the Hardy Boys of the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/14\/the-hardy-men-gets-another-writer\/\" title=\"THE HARDY MEN Gets (Another) Writer\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\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":[7868,242,60,57,1428,22,1427,1426,257,94],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-actors","8":"tag-ben-stiller","9":"tag-book-to-film","10":"tag-directors","11":"tag-ed-solomon","12":"tag-in-development","13":"tag-shawn-levy","14":"tag-the-hardy-men","15":"tag-tom-cruise","16":"tag-writers"},"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\/3121","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=3121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3121"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=3121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}