Ask FlickChick An earlier Mr Mrs Smith Plus A family trapped by green goo in their house Rendezvous with Rama and more movie questions answeredQuestion I just saw the Angelina JolieBrad Pitt movie Mr Mrs Smith and I could have sworn Ive seen the same story before Am I misremembering I know Im not thinking of the Alfred Hitchcock movie of the same title that has a totally different plot FrankFlickChick Ill bet youre thinking of a short-lived 1996 television series called wait for it Mr Mrs Smith starring Maria Bello and Scott Bakula as spies recruited by a mysterious intelligence agency and required to pose as a married couple to carry out their assignments Neither trusts the other in part because theyve both worked for other covert agencies in the past and know that they may well have been on opposite sides then but theres a sexual tension that would presumably have led to them becoming Mr and Mrs Smith for re
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On director David Fincher's wish list? A Broadway adaptation of Fight Club come 2009. "One of the things I want at the 10-year anniversary is to do Fight Club as a musical," he tells MTV.com. "I love the idea of that".... Morgan Spurlock (30 Days, Super Size Me) has inked a two-year deal with Fox Television Studios to develop scripted and unscripted programming — once the strike is over, that is.... James Gandolfini and girlfriend Deborah Lin got engaged over the holidays, says People.... MTV's Making the Band 4 Season 2 premieres Jan. 28 at 10 pm/ET.
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X man James Marsden is in talks to be Cameron Diaz's hubby in The Box, a horror pic about a box that dispenses a hefty sum of cash — while someone you know dies.... Also per the Reporter, with Night at the Museum's Shawn Levy stymied by scheduling conflicts, David Dobkin (Fred Claus) will direct and Craig Wright (Dirty Sexy Money) will write the big-screen adaptation of The Flash.... Until his port of the vidgame Halo is a go, Peter Jackson is moving ahead with District 9, a live-action sci-fier, says Variety.... Producer Brad Pitt has acquired the graphic novel The Killer (shop Amazon), to be made into a film directed by David Fincher.
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David Finchers Zodiac 2007 strikes me as a fascinating companion piece to last weeks DVD Tuesday pick Manhunter 1986 While both are about the hunt for a serial killer and the toll it takes on the investigators Manhunter is pure fiction inspired by the work of the FBIs behavioral science unit while Zodiac unlike 1971s Dirty Harry or the 2006 Zodiac which also took their inspiration from the case hews closely to the facts of a nearly 40-year-old unsolved caseThe killer dubbed Zodiac after a cryptic symbol with which he signed a series of taunting letters to the media and the police is credited with seven murderous attacks committed between December 1968 and October 1969 in and around the San Francisco Bay Area two victims survived and five died Zodiac andor one or more copycats played ruthless games with the police claiming dozens of victims who died or vanished both before and after the acknowledged 1968-69 spree He or they sent ciphers postca
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