Um, shouldn't that read "Dubai acquires Paramount"?
Ha-ha.
Imagine if Dubai bought media conglomerate Viacom, though. Lots more exposure in mainstream media. That might be fun. I wonder what would happen ...
Doodle-oo! Doodle-oo! Doodle-oo! (That's like the dream-sequence noise from 'Wayne's World', okay?)
Mission: Impossible 4 takes place in Dubai. Ethan Hunt gets stuck in construction traffic on Sheikh Zayed Road and can't save the world in time, and the bad guy wins and blows up the world. The end.
Indiana Jones IV (Indiana Jones and the City Of Gods? Indiana Jones and the Monkey King? Indiana Jones and the Bad Back and Incontinent Bowels?) has Harrison Ford (now pushing 70 years old) running around the desert complaining to Sallah (John Rhys-Davies) about the heat, the Nazis, the young people with their lack of manners and Fedoras ...
The next Star Trek will finally have an Arabic spaceship captain. Maybe the can get that guy from Syriana ...
And lastly this summer's blockbuster-to-be Transformers now opens with the Decepticons lounging on the Palm Jumeriah instead of attacking an army base in Qatar.
Variety Paramount acquires 'Dubai' Eric Bana to exec produce drama By Michael Fleming June 25, 2007
Paramount Pictures has acquired "Dubai," a geopolitical drama spec script by tyro scribe Adam Cozad. Lorenzo di Bonaventura will produce, and Eric Bana will be executive producer.
Story centers on a young economist who is set up by Iranian operatives in Dubai. They use him in a plot to instigate the collapse of the U.S. economy; he's forced to go on the run to prove his innocence.
Script made the rounds last week, helped by the godfathering efforts of Bana. At this point, Bana is only committed to be involved as producer. Thesp just finished playing King Henry VIII opposite Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson in Sony's Justin Chadwick-directed film "The Other Boleyn Girl," and he's next starring opposite Rachel McAdams in Robert Schwentke's "The Time Traveler's Wife" for New Line.
