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Folks, I don’t always report casting news from the trades, but then, not every trade rundown includes Morgan Freeman, the director of Air Bud, and MARINE BIOLOGIST HARRY CONNICK JR.
Harry Connick Jr., Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman are in negotiations to star in the inspirational 3D drama “A Dolphin’s Tale.” “Dolphin” is inspired by the true story of a dolphin named Winter who was rescued off the Florida coast and taken in by the Clearwater Marine Aquarium. Charles Martin Smith (Air Bud) will be directing the film from a script by Karen Janszen (A Walk to Remember).
The movie version centers on an introverted, 11-year-old boy who befriends an injured dolphin who lost her tail in a crab trap. Through their bond and friendship, the boy motivates everyone around him to help save the dolphin by creating a prosthetic appendage. The mammal’s strong survival instincts become an inspiration to people with special needs.
Connick Jr. plays a marine biologist who rescues the dolphin. Judd plays the boy’s mother, while Freeman is a doctor who creates a prosthetic limb for Winter. [Reuters]
Holy crap holy crap holy crap. Connick a marine biologist, a dolphin that inspires retards, and Morgan Freeman as a kindly doctor who designs prosthetic dolphin tails??? THIS SOUNDS F*CKING INCREDIBLE. After playing God, the president, and Nelson Mandela, I guess “Robot Dolphin Expert” was the only place to go. BATMAN’S SUIT WILL HAVE TO WAIT, FOR I HAVE PROSTHETIC DOLPHIN TAILS TO FINISH! It practically writes itself. I imagine the hardest part was deciding whether to spell it “tail” or “tale” in the title. BOTH ARE TRUE! IT WORKS ON SO MANY LEVELS!
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BOTH ARE TRUE! IT WORKS ON SO MANY LEVELS!
BRAAAAAAAAAAAAMMM
I love movies where an introverted 11-year-old finds his true porpoise.
He unwittingly built the robot dolphin tail to assassinate the president of his career.
“Well, we had great success with ‘Free Willy’, can we make a reboot of that?”
“No, I’ve got it: Make the whale a dolphin, the indian a black, and garnish with some ‘tards.”
“I think people will still make the connection.”
“Make the dolphin half robot.”
“BRILLIANT!”
Nothing like a prosthetic appendage to take you through the blowhole with Morgan’s Free Willy. This idea dicked the porpoise before it failed to jump the shark.
BTK, is it “a dolphin that inspires retards” or “a dolphin that inspires cripples”? I thought they meant special needs as in “fuck me I don’t have a tail, I’m a gimpy dolphin”.
It’s okay for me to say that; I couldn’t walk for awhile as a kid. Also, what are they going to do, chase me?
They better bring Malcolm J. Brenner in as a consultant; he knows about dolphin tail, man.
If instead it said “Morgan Freeman plays doctor who gets tail from cripped dolphins” . . . now THAT’S a movie I would sneak into.
Mmmm, 3D. I lurve 3D!
A dolphin that can’t swim away? DIBS ON F*CKING THE BLOWHOLE!!!
Dolph Lundren starring in this movie or GTFO.
Lundgren, even.
YES! Personally I would’ve had Brendan Frasier play the marine biologist, but you just can’t go wrong with the double punch of Freeman and Judd
I never realized that Air Bud was directed by one of the Untouchables. Of course, he was also one of the American Graffiti teens, which proves my theory: Every FilmDrunk Post is just a cat’s whisker away from relating to George Lucas.
But will these dolphins have the ability to fire lasers from their robotails? Get Michael Bay on the phone, stat!
@Morton
With Lucas in the room, whiskers may be all that’s left of the cat. Whiskers, and bones.
George Lucas eats cats, is where I’m going with this.
A retarded 11 year old boy, that’s the role Snooki was born to play.
How about a movie about a doctor who builds a Lap-Band™ for the (supposed) vegan captain of Whale Wars™?
(*Paul Watson™ proceeds to waddle across gangplank to fish despondent hippies from water, before trolloping himself to media*)
Starring Dolph Lundgren’s chin commandeering an entire Panzer division in battle… and call it Box Office Gold.
I just read the first line of the header and thought morgan freeman was going to play doctor who, and I kinda jizzed my pants.
Yeah, all I saw was ‘Morgan Freeman plays doctor who’