I never thought I'd see the day... Okay/which one of you guys wrote the script for this?: Phone Booth From the blurbs at CA/I'm definitely intrigued. Supposedly/Will Smith was up for the lead/but wanted too much $$. So who are you guys hoping will be cast as the protagonist?

I'm not a payphone freak, but Tim Roth maybe?

Naaaahhh -- Tim's been the baddie too many times. I'd be rooting for the sniper to shoot Tim. It needs to not be an A-list star. Or not yr usual A-list star (i.e. Cruise/Travolta/Cage). Someone very Everyman. Kind of avg. looking. But smarter than the avg. bear/so we'll believe he actually manages to match wits w/this guy & keep himself from getting shot. How abt Tim Robbins? Or wait -- Paul Newman/if he'd work for scale? He hardly ever works anymore. But he's supposed to have a terrific-sounding movie coming out this year w/Linda Fiorentino (one of my favorite bad girls): Where the Money Is

Anthony Edwards? Forrest Whitakker? Bill Paxton!!

Anyone not named Kevin Costner

i'd do it for free.

Yes Nate -- but wd the public pay to see you? Bill Paxton wd be good. Bill Macy wd be better. But I still think Tim Robbins is my 1st choice.

the public paid nearly $2 billion world wide to see leonardo dicaprio fuck kate winslet on a sinking ship.

No, they paid all that money to see the monkey faced gimp freeze to death. Well I did anyway.

rc, pretty harsh response for someone who expresses such nate-lust and NEVER DO IT FOR FREE

Well I'm sure if Nate had a publicity machine, we would all want to pay to see Nate in the flick. I mean, if he could act at all. Even a little. But... Well... I think we ARE his publicity machine. And we suckn at generating the Nate frenzy, apparently.

i don't want a frenzy. i want to act a script written by a cohen. produced by a zucker.

How about the actor who plays Oswald on the Drew Carey show?

and R.C.??? where did you find that???

that guy IS yummy. but way too cute to be everyguy.

See -- I KNEW Nate was holding' out for the ART! (Can I pick 'em/or can I pick 'em?) Nate: A Coen bros. piece wd be very good. But the next Aronofsky project wd be even better! "Pi" just scratched the surface of what this guy can do. "Requiem for a Dream" has already been cast/but his remake of Proteus is still in Pre-pro. Have yr people call my people. I'll be in NY from the 5/26 til 6/2. (212-802-9975 -- yes/that's my real NY #.) [And PJ -- I know stuff like this becuz I have No Life & I love good movies -- which are few & far btwn. And you can find abt abt damn near anything that interests you on the Web.]

It's strange to find such articulate messages on an internet message board... I'm a Coen Bros. fan myself -- Miller's Crossing and Barton Fink are my personal favorites. You can find the script for Barton at my site (http://pages.zoomnet.net/~lidowski/), but I would be appreciative to anyone who could direct me to a copy of the the Miller's Crossing script...