Posted by fuckin_shit at 24-205-66-11.gln-dyn.charterpipeline.net on June 04, 2002 at 20:35:10:
no shit. heres the article
J Lo to play superhero "Shrink"
Reuters
Jun 4 2002 3:56PM
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Trouble in the Bat Cave? Feeling uptight over kryptonite? Going through a secret-identify crisis? Worried that you are an exhibitionist because you enjoy stripping off your street clothes in a public phone booth?
No problem. Dr. J Lo is in.
Singer-actress Jennifer Lopez plans to star as a psychologist for superheroes in an upcoming film comedy titled "Shrink," which she will also help produce for Columbia Pictures, the studio said on Tuesday.
Based on an Internet character created by former Marvel Comics illustrator Rob Liefeld, "Shrink" marks the first film project under Lopez's new production deal with Columbia, a unit of Japanese electronics giant Sony Corp.a studio spokesman said.
The material was optioned as Columbia basks in the record-shattering box-office success of a more traditional superhero adventure, "Spider-Man," the latest in a new wave of crime fighters in tights leaping off the pages of comic books and onto the screen.
"Shrink" takes a more tongue-in-cheek approach to the genre, with Lopez playing a former superhero who hangs up her cape for a new career as a counselor catering to the psychologically troubled Supermen and Wonder Women of the world. But things get complicated when she finds herself caught in a love triangle.
Columbia also plans to include a supporting cast of readily familiar superheroes from the pages of real comic books, in the way that last year's computer-animated storybook satire "Shrek" borrowed recognizable characters from popular fairy tales.
A studio spokesman described the project as in its infancy, with no script and with no director or other talent yet attached.
"Spider-Man" has grossed more than $353 million so far domestically, proving again the muscular box-office potential of films based on comic crime fighters. But the last superhero spoof from a major studio, Universal Pictures' 1999 ensemble comedy "Mystery Men," was a commercial dud. Universal is a unit of Vivendi Universal SA
Still, David Guillod, who is producing "Shrink" with Lopez, Liefeld and others, told Daily Variety they see "gigantic franchise" potential in the project.
Lopez, 32, is currently starring in the Columbia Pictures thriller "Enough," about a young mother fighting back against her abusive husband.