Screen: Whispers

By John Hill on November 20, 2008 3:30 PM |

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If there's one thing worse than being on the edge of a financial black hole, it's watching a Michael Moore documentary about it.

Since his interesting breakthrough with auto industry doc Roger and Me, Moore has steadily morphed into the sort of blowhard that even irritates people that agree with him.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, his follow-up to Fahrenheit 9/11 will focus on the global financial crisis, and could be out as early as spring.

People start feeling queasy when the words "literary classic" are mentioned in the same conversation as "teen comedy".

So I'd imagine some will be waking up sweating at the prospect of 19th century novel The Scarlet Letter getting a killer makeover for the high school crowd.

Easy A will take Nathaniel Hawthorne's tale of a woman who gives birth after being isolated for committing adultery, and tell it from the perspective of an 18-year-old girl.

Will it be another Clueless, or another horror show like O?

The mobile phone is one of history's most irritating technological inventions.

But can they be funny as well?

Joel Zwick had better hope so, or he's going to get some angry calls about his new project, Did You Get My Text, a rom-com about a man who unwittingly starts a relationship with a girl on his friend's phone.

It's written by Jaleel White, who's better known as squeaky hate figure Urkel on US sitcom Family Matters.