By David Poland poland@moviecitynews.com
Macy's Day Parade: One For Them, Two For Him
Coming Soon’s Ed Douglas is hitting the William H. Macy beat kind of hard today, ostensibly touching base about Edmond, the actor’s aggro plunge into the New York underworld and his latest collaboration with David Mamet. I will eventually bring you my own impressions of that, but Douglas also features a few pre-IMDB scoops about Macy’s intriguing hyphenate future:
“This coming fall, I’m going to direct a film called ‘Keep Coming Back,'” he told us to our amazement when asked if there’s anything he hadn’t done that he’d like to do. “It stars Salma Hayek, but she’s the only name I can name. I’ve got more probably cast, but I can’t say it. So that’s my directorial feature debut. I directed a little film for HBO about 100 years ago, but that was shorter with about a million-dollar budget. This is a real movie, it’s an indie.” …
He also was just as excited about the fact that he is producing his first movie. “It’s not a done deal yet, but we’ve raised a whole bunch of money,” he told us. “It’s the first one I’ve ever produced myself, along with [director] Steven Schachter, he and I wrote it, it’s called ‘The Deal,’ and it’s a romantic comedy with me and Lisa Kudrow, based on Peter Lefcourt’s book, a very funny book, it’s just hysterical. I produced that and that’s a big new step in my career.”
I know what you are thinking: What deal did Macy and Satan consummate that his new babies might thrive? It is a Disney movie called Wild Hogs, co-starring John Travolta, Tim Allen and Martin Lawrence as midlife-crisis-afflicted Harley riders entangled with an insidious biker gang. “Hilarity ensues,” Macy actually tells Douglas, all but wincing a hole through the telephone diaphragm. Taking one for the team clearly has never been more painful.