Apparently, The Soup host Joel McHale wasn’t joking last month when he told us he was gonna be getting himself a movie career. According to The Hollywood Reporter, McHale’s in final talks to join Matt Damon in Steven Soderbergh "darkly comic thriller" The Informant.
The word is McHale and Scott Bakula (!) will play FBI agents "working with agri-business insider Mark Whitacre (Damon) to stop a price-fixing scam." A source told the trade that Soderbergh was casting funny folk in the serious supporting roles because he wants the humor to seep though the script, based on Kurt Eichenwald’s 2000 best-seller The Informant: A True Story, naturally. Also, because the terms "agri-business" and "price-fixing scam" already kinda bored me.
In case you couldn’t tell by my Shania Twain-level use of exclamation points, I think I’m looking forward to the Bakula/McHale pairing a little more than I’m supposed to be. You?
Huzzah! The return of Scott Bakula! I own Quantum Leap on DVD..I would pay obsense amounts of money to see this movie!
Love, love, love Scott Bakula! He’s a perpetual presence on my five-celebrities-I-would-### list.
MANDI: If by “Bakula/McHale pairing” you mean hot and hairy Bakula topping tall yet lithe McHale in a sweaty follow-up to Soderbergh’s magnificent sex scene in Out of Sight, then… yes.
Let the scenery chewing commence!
Mchale is freaking awesome on “The Soup”. And that role in “Spider-Man 2″ was only showing the surface of his acting abilities . haha! But really, hope he gets it
mmmmm, sweet, sweet heaven
Have always LOVED Bakula and LOVE The Soup — would LOVE to see a Bakula/McHale pairing! McHale was also great in the episode he did of Pushing Daisies — hilarious death! And YES, I love using ! marks too!!
Holy crap…they’re filming this movie in Decatur, IL, kind of near where I live. I think I may have to do some Joel-stalking while he’s there…
I knew it was only a matter of time before he left us…..i am so happy for him, can he at least find us another soupboy/girl with his talent….
I…am….THERE!!!
It could only be better of Joel wore his Rainbow Brite costume…
I remember Joel up here in Seattle from his early days in the ’90′s on “Almost Live”, probably one of the funniest and most original locally produced television programs of all time. I’m glad his career is doing so well.
I’ve always enjoyed the casts that Steven Soderbergh puts together; this will be fun.
What? He’s not going to do The Soup anymore? I love that show.
Years ago, I met Joel McHale up here in Seattle when he was co-hosting a big to-do Channel 9 put on with a couple of the stars of Red Dwarf. He seemed a little surprised I asked for his autograph too in the middle of all that, and so what he wrote above his name was, “BURN THIS.”
The longer I go, the more glad I am I can’t follow instructions.
Hallelujah! I cannot wait to see Joel McHale on the big screen. I hope that there is some sort of scene requiring him to take off his shirt . . . that man is ripped! (You know what I’m talking about if you’ve seen that one Soup promo)