Ashton Kutcher to Play an American Terrorist in Tokyo
Looks like Ashton Kutcher's using his own production shingle to set up some mildly interesting projects. The next one will be a romantic comedy about a florist, but after that is a project that was inspired by watching "Run Lola Run" and "North By Northwest." We shall see.
From Variety: "Twentieth Century Fox has landed "The Engineer," a pitch to be developed as a star vehicle for Ashton Kutcher. Mike Finch will write and Jason Goldberg, Kutcher's partner in Katalyst Prods., will produce.
Script by Finch, who most recently wrote "Adrenaline" for Intermedia, covers 24 frantic hours in the life of an American engineer in Tokyo after he's labeled a terrorist.
Led by just-promoted veep Autumn Wilner-Herd, Katalyst developed the pitch with Finch over the past 10 months, using thrillers like "North by Northwest" and "Run Lola Run" as inspiration."
From Variety: "Twentieth Century Fox has landed "The Engineer," a pitch to be developed as a star vehicle for Ashton Kutcher. Mike Finch will write and Jason Goldberg, Kutcher's partner in Katalyst Prods., will produce.
Script by Finch, who most recently wrote "Adrenaline" for Intermedia, covers 24 frantic hours in the life of an American engineer in Tokyo after he's labeled a terrorist.
Led by just-promoted veep Autumn Wilner-Herd, Katalyst developed the pitch with Finch over the past 10 months, using thrillers like "North by Northwest" and "Run Lola Run" as inspiration."
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on Aug 29 2006 09:25 AM It'd more interesting if the American was actually a terrorist... (Reply to this) |
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on Aug 29 2006 10:12 AM hahahaha oh man this is awesome (Reply to this) |
on Aug 29 2006 11:52 AM oh, he's only labeled a terrorist. i was hoping to see kutcher die a bloody death as a terrorist. guess i'll have to keep waiting for that one. (Reply to this) |
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on Aug 29 2006 04:42 PM I don't know what's funnier - Ashton posing as an engineer or as a terrorist? Both are pushing the limits of plausibility. Kutcher should just disappear and keep being Mr. Demi Moore. (Reply to this) |
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on Aug 29 2006 09:07 PM Ashton Kutcher can act??? Well, I'll be dipped in sh*t and rolled in oats! (Reply to this) |
on Aug 30 2006 07:02 AM Shouldn't he be working at a gas station with Skreetch by now? (Reply to this) |
on Aug 31 2006 03:37 AM I bet he was labeled as a terrorist after people in Tokyo saw Just Married. (Reply to this) |
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on Aug 31 2006 06:55 AM and what happened in Just Married (Reply to this) |
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