Slow News Day: The Award for Best Girlfriend Goes to Detective Robot

ITEM: The MTV Movie Awards have snagged Sarah Silverman to host the June 3rd event, which will surely give Stomp the Yard the Best Booty-Shakin' Award it so richly deserves. Meanwhile, the ceremony has jumped on the viral video scene (who hasn't?) by letting viewers contribute their own short comedy films for the Best Movie Spoof category.

ITEM: Rainn Wilson will star in The Girlfriend Experience, based on his own idea about a lovelorn nerd who hires a hooker to play his girlfriend, an idea hundreds of respectable comedy writers have surely thought up and rejected. Nevertheless, there's some very small hope in the fact that Ivan Reitman is producing the film, and screenwriters Mark and Brian Gunn created the moderately amusing boy band spoof 2gether and were deemed worthy enough to write the upcoming juvey comedy Juvenile for Steve Carell (as well as the less promising Mighty Mouse revamp). In case you were wondering, they're cousins of James "Mrs. Jenna Fischer" Gunn.

ITEM: Broken Lizard's Paul Soter recently branched off to make Watching the Detectives, a noirish anti-rom-com starring Cillian Murphy and Lucy Liu, and also featuring Jason Sudeikis, Human Giant's Paul Scheer, and Josh "the only good part of Year of the Dog not named Reilly" Pais. The movie premieres next week at the Tribeca Film Festival, and ComingSoon.net grabbed an interview and a trio of awkwardly funny clips.

ITEM: Seth Green and his Stoopid Monkey pals have managed to coerce Lucasfilm into letting them to a half-hour Star Wars special, which will still feature an array of short, hit-and-miss clips, only all under the umbrella of the sci-fi universe. They've even got George Lucas on board to drop some nasal voiceover action, as well as the less surprising Mark Hamill, who already works on Metalocalypse and has always been quick to mock himself. Plus you've got some Conan O'Brien, Robert Smigel, Seth Macfarlane, Malcolm McDowell, and even Hulk Hogan. Robot Chicken: Star Wars airs June 17.

Rainn Wilson Is Unkillable

Rainn Wilson, from the Americanized version of The Office, has signed on to star as the titular character in Kanan Rhodes: Unkillable Servant of Justice, from a screenplay by B.J. Porter, Scott Aukerman, and Bob Odenkirk, who will direct. Odenkirk says the script, about a ruthless subpoena server, has been sitting on the shelf for years, waiting for the right actor to come along. Which could easily be showbiz speak for "We decided we love money enough that we'll pull any old rejected script out of the recycling bin to jam it into theaters as quickly as possible." Regardless, Odenkirk thinks Wilson has just the right demeanor to make the character as despicable as necessary without "coming off as a dick."

The film will go into production through MTV Films this May, during Wilson's hiatus from The Office.

This will be the fourth feature directorial effort from Odenkirk, who claims to have mostly retired from acting. His Brothers Solomon will be in theaters next year, and acts as executive producer and frequent co-writer on Adult Swim's Tom Goes to the Mayor, as well as its upcoming semi-spinoff Tim and Eric, Awesome Show, Great Job!

Wilson was also recently announced as the writer and star of Bonzai Shadowhands, the story of a "once-great ninja now living in mediocrity," which will be directed by Thank You For Smoking's Jason Reitman.

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