I’m one of those sorry suckers who likes to cut Brett Ratner some slack. I thought he did a pretty good job with Rush Hour 2 (I didn’t really care for the first one), and although it was the worst of the 3, I still enjoyed X-Men 3. But even I had to scratch my head a little bit when I heard the news that Ratner was being entrusted with telling the Hugh Hefner and Playboy story. He just doesn’t seem like the right fit to me. Oh well… who knows right?
Anyway, total horror gripped my soul earlier this morning when I read the following from TMZ:
TMZ spotted “Rush Hour” director Ratner outside of Mr. Chow last night, where he revealed his plans to work with the fresh-outta-jail heiress on, um, one of his next projects. The only clues Brett would give were that it’s not “X-Men 4” (please, keep this man away from that franchise!) and that it was “better than that.” With “Rush Hour 3” already in post-production, the only things on his plate right now are an untitled crime caper with Chris Rock and Eddie Murphy, and the just announced biopic of Playboy grandpa Hugh Hefner.
So help me, if Ratner puts Paris Hilton in the Playboy movie in anything but a small cameo as herself… I’m going to petition lawmakers to create a “Justifiable Homicide” law just for Ratner so we can all kick the sweet life out of his rotting corpse. To quote Star Wars: “I’ve got a bad feeling about this”.
