The following item from today’s Hollywood Reporter seems like something I’d actually have a weird dream about, then a week later tell my friend “How about that new Rainn Wilson movie about the Renaissance Fair?” and receive a blank stare, then instantly realize what happened and feel really bad, not out of embrrassment, but because I’d really wanted the movie to exist.
The story follows two down-and-out community theater actors who think they’ve accidentally killed a co-star. In a panic, they go on the lam and hide out in a Renaissance fair.
“It’s a bit like ‘We’re No Angels,’ only funny, and in a Renaissance fair,” Wilson said.
Wilson has long been fascinated by “Ren fairs,” attending them with his family during his teenage years, when he also played “Dungeons and Dragons” and fought with broomsticks and garbage-can lids in his backyard.
Hmm… Community Theatre, Renaissance Fairs, plus having played D&D in real life?? Sounds like two-thirds of my autobiography (I’ll let you guess which two)! How has this film not been made already, with seven sequels?
Let’s just hope the studios don’t manage to squeeze the life out of it — a year ago, I was definitely gushing, “Wow, Bob Odenkirk is directing a movie starring Will Arnett?? How could that not be awesome??”
