The 1980s were great, werent they? Or rather, they werent, they were terrible. But as Thatcher and Reagan launched their cross-Atlantic campaign to disaffect and divide the proletariat and ingrain a cultural orthodoxy of feckless corporate greed threatened to crush the spirits of the many, the artistic output was simultaneously light, uplifting and, occasionally, uncompromisingly and militantly radical. But of films that fell into the former categories, it was Americas many escapist comedies that now curry the warmest embers of nostalgia, and among its leading lights was
Steve Guttenberg. Handsome- but not excessively so- a little cocky, but yet warm and charming, you couldnt swing a cat around the set of a feel good American comedy without hitting Guttenberg. Obviously, as this sort of film fell into decline, so did demand for the qualities he had to offer, but yet he remained on the periphery of theatrical feature films. Now, however, the man the world came to know as Police Academys Mahoney is back in mainstream comedy having been signed on to appear in
The Science of Cool. The new project that features a host of young female talent including
Mischa Barton (The O.C.),
Kiowa Gordon (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse), and
Eden Sher (The Middle) and according to producers Humanistic Films, contains the following plot in which:
two high school nerds who discover a secret chemical formula when a science experiment goes terribly wrong that transforms them into the coolest kids in school; but with greatness comes great consequences.
This breathtakingly unoriginal narrative has been written by
Eric and
Patricia Goren back in 2008 and has suffered setbacks including the dropouts of the now Oscar nominated Jennifer Lawrence (Winters Bone) and Jeremy Sumpter (Friday Night Lights). But now with a full complement of cast members, including the aforementioned Mr Guttenberg, the film is set to begin shooting in the Summer with
William Zabka (best known as an actor in Hot Tub Time Machine et al) making his directorial debut.