While the rest of the film community is up in arms over Shawn Levy signing on to direct The Flash, he's fucking up the Comedyblog's week for a different reason. The humorless, family-friendly cut-and-paster behind Steve Martin's Pink Panther and the unfortunate blockbuster Night at the Museum is in serious talks to hold the clipboards on The Hardy Men, the second of Ben Stiller's long-time dream projects to be resurrected this year.
Stiller is hoping to star with Tom Cruise (?!) as the grown-up versions of popular paperback heroes the Hardy Boys. It's the sort of story that writes itself, and perfectly matches Stiller's frequently squandered gifts. Who doesn't want to see these kids still living in their police chief father's house and leeching off his cases? And although Cruise seems like a strange choice at first, since he's such a giant tool and all, remember that the two did some pretty amusing work together at the MTV Movie Awards a few years back, and besides, it could be a hell of a good time watching Cruise play up his persona as an overzealous, naive goofbox. Throw in any standard alt-goddess (say, Amy Poehler, Sarah Silverman, Jenna Fischer, or Kristen Wiig) as Nancy Drew, and you've got yourself an amusing little movie.
So why is FOX predestinating it to suck by considering throwing the worst director in Hollywood on board?
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