Hey folks, Harry here with our buddy... yours and mine... that's right, It's Smilin' Jack Ruby and this time he's found the script to Jon Favreau's penned MADE... which he is gonna be directing. He's got all the details for ya below, including some spoilers... but Favreau is the man, he wears the second coolest Hawaiian shirts... next to Father Geek that is... hehe... This script sounds so... (no way I'm saying it) This script sounds so fricking good. Jack's a lucky guy...
Gotta tell you, I hunt down a lot of scripts, but this one just took the cake. Jon Favreau wrote this and will be directing it with Vince Vaughn and himself playing the leads. Famke Janssen, Peter Falk, and Sean "Puffy" Combs will also be in it and it's going to be hysterical.
"Made" is the story of two guys (Bobby - the Favreau character and Ricky - the Vaughn character) out in L.A., both of them amateur boxers and both of them full-time construction workers who bumble into something of a caper. The guy who runs the construction site, Max (which I assume is the Peter Falk role) is also a mobster who hires out strippers, including Bobby's girlfriend, Jess, with whom he has a daughter. Bobby is Jess's driver and really, really gets agitated when he watches bachelors think they can have their way with his girl.
Anyway, Ricky is something of a moron and his character is one of the reasons this movie is just going to be hysterical. When Max needs to send a couple of guys to provide back-up on a small-time job in NYC, he sends Bobby and Ricky. Of course, he has reservations about Ricky who can't even sweep up right at the construction site and also probably stole a cleaning van, but Bobby vouches for him. They set off.
I don't really want to give anything away past the first act. Needless to say, Ricky has always wanted to be more involved in Max's "business," moreso than just on the construction side of things. Once he gets his chance to play gangster, everything goes nuts. Bobby's pretty relaxed about doing a job for Max and doesn't think he's suddenly a play-ah. Well, Ricky goes the opposite way and suddenly thinks that everything he ever heard in any movie, tv-show, or rap song is the way he should act.
Okay, before all the fanboys in talkback land say that the last thing they want to see is Vince Vaughn going around mugging like Don Corleone, you've got it all wrong. You remember that moment in "Swingers" where the guys' stupid punk friend pulls the gun on the skins? He thinks he's all big and bad, but his friends think he's just an idiot and doesn't know the score. "Made" is that kind of hilarious moment but on a much wider scale. I liked "Swingers" and all the attitudes of the movie made me laugh. I think "Made" is just as good if not funnier, especially because after "Swingers," Liman did "Go" which I really wasn't fond of and it made me think the best part of "Swingers" was the script. As Favreau is directing this as well as writing it, I guess we'll get the chance to see, huh?
Yes, I agree that I sound like I'm Favreau's PR agent rattling on and on about this script like the second coming. I'm just telling you that this will be funny as hell - end of story. The adventure Bobby and Ricky go on in NYC is insanely funny and just keeps upping the ante. Believe me, you feel Bobby's pain as the trip wears on and all he wants is a nap. It's a great and solid script with only one major problem that anyone who has read the script will understand -
*SPOILERS*
Jess is too sympathetic in this draft and needs to be more of a bitch at the beginning or the ending will deflate the pic a bit. After all that Bobby goes through, I was hoping he'd get what he really wanted.
But, that's just my opinion and opinions are like assholes - everybody's got one.
-Smilin' Jack Ruby
