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WB and Paramount to Duel Between Sexes

Written by Arya Ponto

Tuesday, 05 August 2008

A movie about the different perspectives between man and woman is not something new. In fact, it's old hat. Many movies have successfully and disastrously tried to contrast the male and female supposed reaction to certain events. What I believe we haven't seen, though, is two movies developed by two different studios telling the same story from two different perspectives. If the timing's right, these two movies might even come out around the same time.

What happened is that Elizabeth Gilbert's popular New York Times best-seller memoir Eat, Pray, Love is being developed into a movie by Paramount, with Julia Roberts to star. Gilbert's book tells her own story of dealing with her painful divorce by undertaking a comfort trip: good food in Italy, spiritual awakening in India and romance in Indonesia.

Retorting the book's popularity with women, comedy writer Andrew Gottlieb wrote a counter-book for men called Drink, Play, F@#k. This one tells the (fictional) story of a man whose wife left him and finds solace in going on a comfort trip: benders in Ireland, gambling in Vegas and whoring in Thailand. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros had already snagged the rights to turn it into a comedy, even though the book is not going to be released until next year.

I'll admit, neither of these projects sound appealing to me, but I get a kick out of gimmicks. If they get Dane Cook to star in Drink, Play, F@#k... You'd have the ultimate Julia Roberts chick flick against the ultimate "bromedy" (as asinine of a term that is).

I can't be the only one who wants to see these two movies released on the same weekend? Think of the all the feminists and pseudo-movie analysts on CNN that would try to make a big deal out of it when one trumps the other (and I think we all know which one would win). It'd be fun.