"Click" Director Sets Course for Pirate Movie
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Adam Sandler movie director Frank Coraci (of "The Wedding Singer," "The Waterboy" and "Click" fame) just got the green light for 20th Century Fox's "Part-Time Pirates."
The "high-concept" plot:
"Working-class guys who break free from their mundane lives and take to the high seas, raiding the yachts of their greedy former bosses. In the process, they find their manhood by becoming modern-day pirates."
Of course, these buccaneers should not be confused with actual modern-day pirates of the coasts of Somalia and Bangladesh.
"Pirates are the original punk rockers," Coraci said. "Politically and socially with everything going on in the world there's never been a better time than now to revive that spirit."
Except that if your idea of the "punk" ethos revolves around pillaging, looting and wenching, that's been around longer than the Visogoths, Thracians and . . . screw it. As long as Iggy Pop's "spirit" is selling everything from Carnival Cruises to Cadillacs, you can keep it. Way to stay one step ahead of the zeitgeist, Mr. Coraci.
What's next, a ninja comedy? Oh, wait.
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