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Mel Brooks Gets Serious About Political High Anxiety and Endorses Joe Biden

“When you’re dead, you can’t do much,” Mel Brooks says in his first overt political statement without a punchline. It is a big turnaround from the position he took while making the 1995 vampire comedy, Dracula: Dead and Loving It. But Brooks has enough limits in his life right now. He can only see his son and grandson through protective glass. His closest friend, the late and wonderful Carl Reiner, no longer picks up morning coffee. Brooks is endorsing former Vice President Joe Biden for president because President Trump is “not doing a damn thing” about the coronavirus pandemic. “My…
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Max Brooks’ Big Foot Novel to Be Adapted by Legendary Pictures

The last time Max Brooks’ “grounded” and hard-nosed fiction about a fantastic idea was turned into a movie, we got Brad Pitt versus a swarm of millions of CGI zombies in World War Z. One can only imagine what bringing Brooks’ next book, Devolution, to the big screen will mean. But Legendary Pictures is ready to find out. The news, which was announced via The Hollywood Reporter, revealed that despite being on bookshelves (or at least Amazon) for less than 24 hours, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainer Sasquatch Massacre has already inked a deal to get the big…
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