At the recent press day for Stardust, in addition to
asking him about runaway producer credits and Beverly Hills Cop IV,
I asked former Warner Bros. executive turned independent producer Lorenzo di
Bonaventura (Transformers) about his forthcoming NowhereLand, pegged for a September 10
start date with star Eddie Murphy and director Karey Kirkpatrick, (Over the Hedge,
Charlotte’s Web).
have great ambition to make a movie in the vein of Big or Jerry Maguire,
where it’s comedic but very, very heartfelt. It’s about a man who’s having some
issues, can’t connect with his daughter, doesn’t really understand her, and also
doesn’t really understand what’s happening to himself at work. And she has an
imaginary world that begins to intercede in his work, so he begins to value her
imaginary world not for her [before] he then comes to his senses.”
So basically it’s another in the vein of moralizing family movies that Murphy used to mock, except with the lack of a space between the title’s two words, to further irritate me. But isn’t this also basically just like the episode of The Simpsons where Homer takes
an interest in Lisa because she suddenly can do no wrong in picking weekly
football winners? Maybe Murphy’s taking these sorts of movies so that he can get paid and then just give bundled DVD sets of this, Daddy Day Care and The Haunted Mansion to all the kids that he fathers out of wedlock.