Latest Entertainment News Headlines Bob Odenkirk to lead AMC's miniseries adaptation of The Night of the Gun AMC and Sony Pictures TV have announced that they are joining forces to develop The Night of the Gun, a miniseries based on David Carr's memoir memoir of the same name. Bob Odenkirk has been tapped to play the famed New York Times journalist, who passed away last year at the age of 58, while Shawn Ryan (The Shield, The Get Down) and Eileen Myers (Big Love, Masters of Sex) will write the six-part series. Odenkirk is also executive producing the project, and in a statement said, "I read David’s story, The Night Of The Gun, when it came out and was wildly entertained by his saga. It’s a story of survival filled with pain, crack, journalistic righteousness, abandoned cars, crooks, lies, and then there’s the two little girls who saved his life; it’s overstuffed with humanity. Shawn Ryan is the man to explore this real anti-hero story. I hope to do justice to David’s intellect and his scrappy nature.

It’s gonna be crazy… if we do it right.” Book synopsis from Amazon: Do we remember only the stories we can live with? The ones that make us look good in the rearview mirror? In The Night of the Gun, David Carr redefines memoir with the revelatory story of his years as an addict and chronicles his journey from crack-house regular to regular columnist for The New York Times. Built on sixty videotaped interviews, legal and medical records, and three years of reporting, The Night of the Gun is a ferocious tale that uses the tools of journalism to fact-check the past. Carr’s investigation of his own history reveals that his odyssey through addiction, recovery, cancer, and life as a single parent was far more harrowing—and, in the end, more miraculous—than he allowed himself to remember. There's no indication on when production may start, but who would you like to see behind the camera for The Night of the Gun? MORE FUN FROM AROUND THE WEB Latest Entertainment News Headlines

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‘Oh There You Are, Peter’: A Lost Boys’ Oral History Of ‘Hook’ The Birth, Death, And Possible Rebirth Of Hunter S. Thompson’s ‘Freak Power’ MovementThe first image we get of Bob Odenkirk and David Cross in their new Netflix show W/ Bob and David is of them emerging from a ”real-time travel machine” that looks like a tricked out Porta Potty. It’s their on-the-nose way of saying that a lot has happened in the 17 years since HBO’s Mr. Show with Bob and David went off the air: 9/11, two wars, iPhones, Tom Cruise jumping on Oprah’s couch. In other words, a wealth of material for Odenkirk and Cross to filter through their absurdist blend of Monty Python-esque sketch comedy. But it’s a couple minutes into the third episode when they really start to find their groove. The setting is “TechCon 15,” and Odenkirk, dressed in a denim shirt, paces the stage while extolling the virtues of new products like the Me Hat (“the world’s first 3D digital hat”), the Digi Spoon (shrug), and Googly Ears that “hear information for you,” all while words like “synergy” and “the future” dance across the screen behind him.

From the back of the room comes David Cross as “Shangy, the digital soothsayer,” sporting Skrillex glasses and an outrageous black wig while singing the word “digital” in a mock Australian accent. It perfectly satirizes the navel-gazing of the tech industry that other sketch shows like SNL, or even HBO’s Silicon Valley, fail to capture. Casual viewers may not know that Shangy is based on a real person: AOL “digital prophet” Shingy, whose glammed-out look and obsession with “brands” made him briefly a subject of fascination and ridicule last year. While the time machine sketch addressed the passage of time since Mr. Show explicitly, the Shangy sketch illustrated it in a more satisfying way, because they were satirizing an industry that basically didn’t exist the last time around. They're making up for lost time, while continuing to stay true to their commitment to the bizarre that served them well in the '90s. Despite Odenkirk and Cross’ statements to the contrary, W/ Bob and David is very much a sequel to Mr. Show.

It has many of the same actors and writers, the same absurdist attitude, the same ability to end a sketch just when it stops being funny, and the same love for bad wigs and transcendent character names. (Scooter Tyson, Amore Pendragon, and Duke Pylon are some standouts, and that’s just from one sketch.) Bit of background: Mr. Show and I go way back. In college, it perfectly complemented the type of non-sequitur humor that appealed to my friend group. In an era before YouTube and animated GIFs, we watched it first on pirated VHS and later on DVD. And oh, so many quotable lines! What a collection of assholes." "Damn, his science is just too tight!" Watching the first four episodes of W/ Bob and David with some of those same college pals, we were taken aback by some of the show’s more subversive bits. I won't spoil any of it, but the duo seems intent on proving they haven't lost their edge with the passage of time. No sacred cow is spared. There’s a difference between mirthful laughter and shocked laughter.

More often than not, I found myself gasping with my hand over my mouth. In one sketch, Cross wears blackface to trick police officers into pepper spraying him, and it works, but only because they find his blackface offensive. But the joke is less about the taboo of blackface and more about subverting the issue of police brutality and smartphone vigilantism. It’s heady stuff, and it doesn’t always make you LOL. A couple of quibbles: Sometimes the subject of their satire is confusing, which can serve to muddle the effect. Is "Better Roots" a dig at Hollywood liberals, historical revisionists, or both? (Also, it’s weird to make fun of Roots, which aired in 1977, rather than a more recent film like 12 Years a Slave.) Likewise with the ISIS script reviewers sketch — who is being lampooned here? Bob and David cast such a wide net with their ridicule; they could certainly stand to improve their aim. Also, I don’t think W/ Bob and David made good enough use of its excellent female cast members, especially Mr. Show veterans like Jill Talley and Brett Paesel.