I like Jon Heder as much as the next guy… I enjoyed Napoleon Dynamite… and the guy has some charm. But let’s face it folks, he’s not going to have a long career. Yes, he has 7 movies in production right now, but this is a classic case of studios wanting to strike while the iron is hot and pump films with him in them out as fast as possible to capitalize in the Dynamite success.
He really wasn’t very good in Just Like Heaven, and I haven’t liked what I’ve seen of him so far in The Benchwarmers (but then again I haven’t liked anything I’ve seen from that yet). His movie with Will Ferrell about competing figureskaters (Blades of Glory) sounds funny, but I fear Heder will just be horrible out matched on screen with a guy like Ferrell.
So now come more schtick news for Heder. He’s going to star in a movie about the worlds lightest Sumo Wrestler. Yeah… that sounds funny for a 8 minutes Saturday Night Live skit… but 2 hours? I think it’ll wear thin pretty fast. The good folks over at Cinema Confidential give us this:
The film will be penned by Steve Faber and Bob Fisher (“The Wedding Crashers”) and will loosely be baesd on a true story. The true story is based on the experiences of Joshua Davis, who wrote the book “The Underdog: How I Survived the World’s Most Outlandish Competitions.” Davis was the lightest man ever to compete at the US Sumo Open two years ago.
Well like I said, I like Heder… but after this initial rush of fast production movies I don’t really see him being around for long. Hopefully I’m wrong.
