There is no casting process involved here.

Castro district record store owner/Death Merchant Minty Fresh is the role that Samuel L. Next comes the easiest part of staging this whole multi-billion dollar bonanza. So the question is fairly simple: who in Hollywood is a 30 year-old Kevin Spacey? Whoever he is, cast him. Were he 15-20 years younger, Kevin Spacey would be a lock, but at this point he’s simply too old to portray a young, widowed Beta Male father. The Asher role is obviously critical, and I’m a little stumped on who to hire. It’s hard to imagine that Moore didn’t have Pulp Fiction firmly in mind when he wrote that scene, and if you bring that sort of ethos to A Dirty Job, you’re going to have the coolest, hippest blockbuster of the year on your hands. Either a) you never saw Pulp Fiction, or b) you need to get out of the movie business. If you still don’t understand, after reading that, why QT must be the director, then it means one of two things. If you don’t understand why, then go back and reread the passage where the Morrigan meet the 1957 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham. Here’s how the flick needs to happen.įirst, your director absolutely, positively must be Quentin Tarantino. No, you just raise cash and stay out of the way. But – and it’s time for some unsolicited advice – you’re not the guy who needs to direct. While he’s had some missteps along the way – who in Hollywood hasn’t? – he’s clearly a man who knows a thing or two about the aforementioned box office magic, right?Ĭhris, if you aren’t already putting this project together, drop whatever you’re doing (especially if it’s a sequel to Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief) and get the hell on it right now. CC is the guy who brought us the first two films in the Harry Potter series and Home Alone, as well as Reckless, Gremlins, The Goonies, Mrs.

So I hit the Internets and discovered that the rights were indeed picked up, in 2006, by Chris Columbus and 1492 Productions. To wit, why the hell is this not yet a movie?! Seriously, A Dirty Job is box office magic waiting to happen.

If you haven’t run across these books yet, consider them recommended.Īnyway, last night, as we got deeper into protagonist Charlie Asher’s investigation of the doings at the mysterious Buddhist center in San Francisco’s Mission district, my pique finally got the better of me. I picked it up because I thought Lamb, the story of Jesus Christ’s life as told by his best friend Levi, who is called Biff, was one of the funniest things I’d ever read. I’m currently reading Christopher Moore’s 2006 novel, A Dirty Job, and am nearing what I expect to be a slam-bang, fun-filled, rollicking climax.

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