Samuel L. Jackson Joins Saget's "Penguins" Mockumentary
Sam Jackson is moving from snakes to penguins as he lends his voice to "Farce of the Penguins," a R-rated, Bob Saget-directed spoof on last year's Oscar-winning doc "March of the Penguins."
Saget is writing and directing "Farce of the Penguins," which lampoons the survival story of "March" and will follow that film's structure, lending character voices to real footage of penguins in the wild. Per Variety, "Farce" tells the story "of one bird's search for love while on a 70-mile trek with hedonistic buddies obsessed with getting laid."
Jackson will act as narrator in the vein of his "March" counterpart Morgan Freeman, but will lend his "signature" style to the pic to earn its R-rating. Jackson joins a cast that includes Saget (voicing the protagonist penguin), Dave Coulier and John Stamos (rounding out the "Full House" trifecta), Whoopi Goldberg, Harvey Fierstein, Jon Lovitz, Norm MacDonald, Mo'Nique, Carlos Mencia, Tracy Morgan, Lewis Black, Jason Alexander, Dane Cook, Gilbert Gottfried, Jason Biggs, Jamie Kennedy, Alyson Hannigan, James Belushi and Adam Duritz.
"Farce of the Penguins" is a ThinkFilm release and is set to hit theaters this summer.
Saget is writing and directing "Farce of the Penguins," which lampoons the survival story of "March" and will follow that film's structure, lending character voices to real footage of penguins in the wild. Per Variety, "Farce" tells the story "of one bird's search for love while on a 70-mile trek with hedonistic buddies obsessed with getting laid."
Jackson will act as narrator in the vein of his "March" counterpart Morgan Freeman, but will lend his "signature" style to the pic to earn its R-rating. Jackson joins a cast that includes Saget (voicing the protagonist penguin), Dave Coulier and John Stamos (rounding out the "Full House" trifecta), Whoopi Goldberg, Harvey Fierstein, Jon Lovitz, Norm MacDonald, Mo'Nique, Carlos Mencia, Tracy Morgan, Lewis Black, Jason Alexander, Dane Cook, Gilbert Gottfried, Jason Biggs, Jamie Kennedy, Alyson Hannigan, James Belushi and Adam Duritz.
"Farce of the Penguins" is a ThinkFilm release and is set to hit theaters this summer.
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on Mar 27 2006 03:01 PM hahah sounds... interesting (Reply to this) |
on Mar 27 2006 03:21 PM Bob Saget+Samuel L. Jackson+Mocking family friendly documentaries with inappropriate satire=cinematic gold (Reply to this) |
on Mar 27 2006 08:27 PM awesome, even dane cook is on board (Reply to this) |
on Mar 27 2006 11:05 PM this will rock! (Reply to this) |
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on Mar 28 2006 08:14 AM [b]full house[/b] who thought the people from full house would ever be invovled in project that sounds funny? Great cast though! (Reply to this) |
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on Mar 28 2006 08:27 AM [b]Get Real[/b] Sounds Stupid and probably will be. Count me out. (Reply to this) |
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on Mar 28 2006 08:30 AM I think this will be funny, Bob Saget cracks me up when he is being dirty. Did any of you see his rendition of the Aristrocrates joke, wow, that guy has a dirty mind. (Reply to this) |
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on Mar 28 2006 11:52 AM an off-narration full of curses by sam jackson might be brilliant (Reply to this) |
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on Mar 28 2006 01:01 PM When I first heard this news early last year, i was interested. Now im excited. I think they might be able to pull it off. (Reply to this) |
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on Mar 31 2006 09:03 AM sounds great (Reply to this) |
on Mar 31 2006 05:53 PM Ughh... Bob Saget. All I can think of is Full House and horrible voice over work on America's lamest home videos. The rest of the cast sounds promising. (Reply to this) |
on Apr 01 2006 08:16 AM I heart you, Bob Saget. Oh so much, I do. (Reply to this) |
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