We heard whispers about a Jennifer Garner/Jessica Biel Laverne & Shirley movie; now details have surfaced. It’ll be directed by Garry Marshall — creator of the 1976 TV show — and written by that noted girl-power authority, Jamie Foxx. UPDATE:
A new report claims that Jamie Foxx will NOT be writing the script. You can go back to your regularly scheduled “Hollywood Has Run Out Of Ideas” outrage, though.
Yes. Jamie Foxx. (Hints were dropped when they were promoting Marshall’s latest flick, Valentine’s Day — which featured Foxx, Garner, and Biel — as you can see in this clip.)
Now when Garry Marshall created L&S in 1976 — with his sister, Penny Marshall, as Laverne De Fazio — the show was basically a modern buddy comedy, with women. While it was set in the ’50s, the characters reflected the women’s lib zeitgeist of the ’70s. They were single ladies, living together as roommates and working at the same beer factory. Even the theme song had a pseudo-feminist message:
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