The Weinstein Company makes best decision of their early history, pick up Ernie Cline's FAN BOYS!!!

Hey folks, Harry here... This has been a long god damn time in coming. I've been singing the praises of the FAN BOYS script for about 8 years now. But in all the time, I've never seen the plot synopsis rendered so flaccidly limp as Variety's announcement that the "Pic Follows a group of young, hardcore "Star Wars" fans from the Midwest determined to take their dying friend to Skywalker Ranch so that he can see the seminal sci-fi pic in its perfect setting before he dies." What the fuck is that?

That would be like describing STAR WARS as a story about a farmboy that hooks up with a hot rod buddy and an old man to rescue some snobby girl from the bad guys. I mean, do these Variety people do any sort of research? This isn't some goddamn MAKE A WISH foundation film. This is a story about 4 friends, I'm not talking about gay huggy bastards with touchy feely moments. These are 4 of us. Absolutely perfectly written characters that embody every group of friends that grew up on Star Wars in the theater originally, that saw Empire Strikes Back and thought that the world had just grown 20,000 times cooler than they ever dared dream. But were still young enough to kinda dig RETURN OF THE JEDI, but kinda thought the Ewoks were lame, but the speederbikes were the coolest thing ever. BUT more than that... this is that group of friends that while those were the high water marks of a youth spent in myth and cinemas... the discovered Spielberg and Walter Hill and John Landis and John Carpenter and Sam Raimi and George Romero and Joe Dante and Brian DePalma and the birth of Oliver Stone and then the decay of all of them. These are those friends. The ones you saw all those films with. You went to drive-ins and mall theaters with. You played Vector Games, then hom Pong, then Atari 2600. You sang Dirty Laundry with them and went to the roller rink with after watching Xanadu looking for your own Olivia Newton John. You went camping and pretended the Cubans were invading and you were the last generation of the Cold War. Nuclear Armageddon was constantly discussed and ROAD WARRIOR was our fucking future. And then there was that announcement. A new STAR WARS film. College had separated you from your friends. Pussy distracted the weak minded. As did mortgages and the other vestiges of growing up. This isn't some after School special... this is a Geek Odyssey. An Epic tale of a road that will not beat them. They won't ask to see the film, they will venture forth into the Lucas' empire and they will watch that film. And they will conquer all to do it. There are twists and turns - triumphs and deception. I can understand folks thinking that from Variety's lameness that it would suck, like the folks at CHUD thought - but folks this is the best written script about geeks ever written, but you know what? Variety couldn't even get the name of the director right, his name is KYLE NEWMAN and he had better fucking knock this one out of the park, because this is one of my personal favorite small scripts I've read in the history of AICN. The film is set to start shooting on February 1st. Hopefully they'll get an amazing cast for this - could be one of the great geek films off all time.