It’s Sunny and 68

We have word about a new Vince Vaughn vehicle called It’s Sunny and 68 today thanks to the good people over at movieweb:

O’Connor, whose Pride and Glory was released this past weekend by Warner Bros., said he and Tambakis wrote the script, a drama with comedic overtones, with Vaughn in mind for the lead character.

Vaughn will play a superstar on the poker circuit whose alcoholism and recklessness cause him to flame out on national television. Wiped out and owing $500,000 to bookies, he heads home to upstate New York for the first time in 20 years, looking to take back cash he’d been sending his mother. Instead, he finds his mother dying of cancer and raising a 5-year-old girl who is actually his daughter. Mom has been positioning his former high school g.f. to become the girl’s eventual caretaker.

This movie sounds like a dramatic buzzkill. If you like films where a character finds out “who they are” – then please treat yourself. I would much rather see the before or the after story. Personal journeys of introspection and life adjustment is always important, makes for boring entertainment.

This sounds like a “chick flick” for dudes with gambling addictions. If this film legitimately helps people with their gambling problems – I think that’s great. I just think that it might suck for everyone that doesn’t. But who knows, I could be reading way too much into the above information. I am a fan of Vaughn, so who knows, he may pull this one out of his ass and surprise me.

Production of this film is schedules for February 2010.