Goddess Behaving Badly
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 10:36AM She's ba-aaaack!!! Look, it's Sharon Stone on the set of Gods Behaving Badly (via Zimbio).
Goddess on the mountain top
Burning like a silver flame
The summit of beauty and love
And Venus was her name-Bananarama "Venus"
She also goes by Aphrodite.
Gods Behaving Badly is producer turned director Marc Turteltaub's first feature so we have no idea whether to salivate or run for cover but the high-concept plot "Greek Gods living in NYC intervene in the lives of a young couple" sounds like the kind of thing that could go either way. It might be immense popcorn fun with lively star turns or the more common typical modern comedy which tends to rely on concept and stars (they've got both here) and forgets that you actually need ideas beyond them if you want more than a three or four laughs over two hours.
Beyond Sharon -- hugely watchable whether great or terrible -- John Turturro and Rosie Perez as Hades and his trapped wife Persephone sound like potential comedy gold, right? Other cast members include: Phyllica Rashad as Demeter, Edie Falco as Artemis, Christopher Walken as Zeus (top billed), and Nelson Ellis as Dionysus. The weirdest casting has to be Oliver Platt as Apollo.... uh, okay. I hope there's a more clever joke there than merely the casting of a rolypoly comic actor as the blindingly beautiful sun god.
Reader Comments (8)
This could be awesome. I don't think it'll be that awesome, though.
Wasn't this the subject of two Olivia Newton John vehicles?
Alejandro -LOL. haha. i hadn't even thought of that but the Greek Gods were very big deals in the early 80s for some reason. See also: Clash of the Titans.
PLEASE tell me Julianne Moore is playing Hera...or Patricia Clarkson. I'll take either.
fyi: i believe this is based on the novel by marie phillips! it is quite a fun (beach) read.
Come back Sharon Stone come back.
Stone was my 90's girl crush. I went to see every crap she was in. I even delayed my vacations to go see Sliver (Can you believe it? My brother, whom I made acompany me, still hates me).
Sharon is still a beauty (that godlike bone structure, my god) and crazyness aside, she's a really good actor when the ocasion arises. Why isn't she offered good roles? I'm thinking Rodrigo Garcia, here. Please, write something meaty for her, please!
This is going to be horrible, but in a really, really awesome way.