Lampoon Just won’t Quit

National Lampoon, you know, those guys that brought us some of the funniest films ever including ‘Animal House’ and ‘Christmas Vacation’ have really been digging a whole for themselves.  I’m not sure if they’ve become too big for their britches, cough Lionsgate cough, but they’ve been distributing some real crap with their name attached.  I’m looking at you ‘Cattle Call’.  Here comes news, from the Hollywood Reporter of course, that there’s another film coming out for us to skip over entitled, ‘National Lampoon’s The Legend of Awesomest Maximus’.  Now, I don’t know if it makes a difference that this is a “National Lampoon’s” title and not a “National Lampoon presents” film, but either way, I’d say their hey-days are gone.  Read on for info on the upcoming comedy adventure.

Never in a million years would I have thought the once mighty National Lampoon monicker would sink to the level of C-grade satire (I know the old films were too, but damn they were great).  This time they’re treading into competition territory taking on the guys that brought us ‘Epic Movie’ and ‘Disaster Movie’ by spoofing sword and sandals epics.  Hopefully they won’t be as desperate as to just put down such greats as ‘Gladiator’ and to a lesser extent ‘300′.  Come on guys I’m pulling for you.

And, they didn’t do too bad on casting.  Will Sasso, of ‘Mad TV’ fame, will be heading the cast.  Kristanna Loken, who if you don’t know is the hottest Terminator ever from T3 and she had a really nice “romantic” scene in Uwe Boll’s highly entertaining crapfest, ‘BloodRayne’.  And, of course, a man that needs no reminders, Rip Torn.  

Jason Burinescu wrote the script, and Jeff Kanew (Revenge of the Nerds) will helm the filmThe script was written by Jason Burinescu, and “Revenge of the Nerds” helmer Jeff Kanew will direct.