This from the good folk at Dark Horizons:
Full Version: The Darwin Awards
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| Winona Ryder and Joseph Fiennes will star in "The Darwin Awards," a romantic comedy written and to be directed by Finn Taylor according to Variety. David Arquette, Jeffrey Tambor and Tim Blake Nelson will take supporting roles in the pic, with Alessandro Nivola and Emily Mortimer in cameos. Production begins November 29th. Fiennes portrays a forensic detective who pairs with an insurance claims investigator (Ryder) on a road trip to create the profile of a potential Darwin Award winner. The 'Darwins' are Internet awards bestowed upon those who die or maim themselves out of colossal stupidity. The often posthumous honor is designed to recognize catastrophes so egregious that, by the death of those responsible, the gene pool is improved for future generations. |
To quote the BBC "sounds like pap, but at least it keeps Ryder off the streets." Amen, brother.
Phil.
I'd love to see a version of the "career Darwin awards," wherein movie stars do stupid things that torpedo their careers. That's right, Winona, I'm talking to you ... forget the shoplifting debacle, how about "Lost Souls," "Mr. Deeds" and "Autumn in New York"? Hey, I feel a thread coming on .... 
Now *that's* exciting... How about When Geena met Renny? The story of a plucky young Oscar winning acctress well on her way to screen immortality when she crossed paths with a hot headed action director who promised her heroine status? One pirate movie and some dross about being kissed late in the evening later, it ends in divorce. He starts remaking movies which haven't even been relased yet whilst she enters her golden years sharing scenes with a cartoon mouse.
It's a real tear-jerker *sniff*
Phil.
It's a real tear-jerker *sniff*
Phil.
This new proposal on this thread sounds much better than the movie, and certainly much more edifying than the actual Darwin Awards. 
I have to say that while I can enjoy laughing at human stupidity in the context of Dumb Crook News or the like, when actual tragedy is involved I find the humor-to-taste equation too far out of bounds for my tastes (mix metaphors much?), and it just bothers me.
I have to say that while I can enjoy laughing at human stupidity in the context of Dumb Crook News or the like, when actual tragedy is involved I find the humor-to-taste equation too far out of bounds for my tastes (mix metaphors much?), and it just bothers me.
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