WHY CHARLIE H. PUNKED OUT, AS CHRISTIAN GREY!

SCHMUCK ANCHORMEN REUNITE FOR DINNER.

BRYAN FULLER QUITS HEROES!
-Can't focus on dying show and his development deal, at once.
From EW.com

Just as Heroes was gaining some creative momentum comes word of
another setback: Bryan Fuller has vacated his post as consulting
producer.


The acclaimed Pushing Daisies auteur tells me that he left to focus on
developing new projects for NBC, and not (as some have speculated) due
to creative differences with series creator Tim Kring.


"I'm crafting two pilots right now and it's a lot of work," admits
Fuller, who has an overall deal with NBC. "It was just too hard to
[juggle] Heroes and my development; something had to give."


Fuller's exit was first reported by Herc at Ain't It Cool News.


Fuller returned to Heroes last December, shortly after ABC dropped the
ax on Daisies. Many (yours truly included) credited him with the
show's end-of-season creative rebirth.

ZAC EFRON MANS UP-"SICK" OF MUSICALS.

Zac Efron is out of Kevin Bacon's lead role of top
heartthrob, in the upcoming Footloose remake. Efron kissed off a seven figure payday, in order to be taken "more seriously" as a actor. He apparently is relenting for all teen titans parts and "tired" of all musicals

An unnamed Paramount source said- the boy risks the ire of the studio, in a Cruise style manner. The person stated “People had been working on this project since last July — we were all shocked.” The source also claimed there's NO chance in hell in cameoing High School Musical 4 for Disney neither.

JOSS WHEDON SCREWED OFF WONDER WOMAN PROJECT!!!
-Buying of spec script destroys his vision of comic icon.

Last week's buying of the spec script by Matthew Jennison and Brent Strickland, was now purchased for being a new and "complete" idea. The intial reason, that the buy was an a pre-emptive strike to stave off law suit- was just mostly a smoke screen.

Inside sources at Warner Bros told Whedon to use the script and alter any ideas that he saw fit. Still, the creator of Angel was apparently, too heartbroken to rewrite or direct- the long gestating project.

Also, the studio battled with Whedon over casting- as Whedon wanted a newcomer to grow into the role (As Lynda Carter did for the TV series or as Brandon Routh is pathetically doing now in awful and badly rushed Superman Returns.) The Bros. wanted either a star or a character actress of some note.

Whedon's dismissal may have also been because Warner feared, he was taking the script into a "Ang Lee direction" as movie-goers remember, the famous Hulk mega bomb of a few years ago (too MUCH angst and backstory with few & too long action sequences.)

Still, if the spec script is the new blueprint, Super producer Joel Silver has long stated, he wants a modern wonder woman...story and no plans to take the character back to her genesis days, back in WWII.

Some feminist directors and writers may see this as a break. A chance to Oprahized the role- in their own actual image. In fact, a lady director could make the film hotter for men, without exploiting Diana Price's image (too much) for the women.