Joss Whedon Designed a Secret Movie, and 5 Other Tales You Will Be Speaking About Today

Happy Monday! Also in today’s edition from the Broadsheet: The Actor-brad Pitt’s Rum Diary boycott… Scientology’s stealth war versus. the South Park boys… Metallica seeks film moguldom… Michael Pitt didn’t quit, he was fired… and much more. · Literally overnight, the producers of great importance and Ado About Nothing — a brand new Joss Whedon film “based on the play” and shot in apparent utter secrecy — released an internet site having a broad, Whedon-veteran ensemble cast (including Nathan Fillion, Sean Maher, Clark Gregg, Amy Acker and much more) and very little else. It’s apparently confirmed actually was, though very little else is famous about this — from the roots in (or fidelity to) the Shakespeare comedy of the identical title to the way the hell Whedon shot anything at the time from the Avengers. Guesses are welcome! [Much Ado About Nothing through the Wrap] · ABC affiliate marketers are forbidden from speaking to The Actor-brad Pitt about his debauched, Hunter Thomspon-inflected The Rum Diary, lest it compromise the showing with this week’s DVD discharge of his family-friendly Pirates from the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Indeed! Because Jack Sparrow is really straight and narrow. [KHOU via THR] · Amusing, frightening or both? An old high-ranking Scientology leader a few days ago “released what he stated was an interior Scientology document which indicates the chapel specific Trey Parker and Matt Stone for any classic OSA analysis in retaliation for that infamous South Park episode that uncovered the religion’s bizarre upper-level teachings.” You’ll never believe where it goes. I am talking about, you may? However I doubt it. [Marty Rathbun via Village Voice] · Metallica is apparently underwriting a 3-D feature film, employing Charlotte now Huggins — the co-producer on such Metallica-esque 3-D features like Journey to the middle of our planet and Journey 2: The Mysterious Island — to assist them to get began. [Deadline] · Michael Pitt a week ago left UTA for WME, although not before UTA could swing in the Boardwalk Empire actor on his way out of the door: “[P]lease observe that UTA fired him like a client yesterday while he’s very hard on set and otherwise.” Mm-hmm. [THR, Deadline] · Joe Biden hasn’t yet made the decision if he’d consume a effective Obama reelection campaign having a presidential bid of their own. Fair enough! It might be awfully presumptuous at this time, to express nothing of completely batshit delusional. [NYT] Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.