Disney Won’t Not Celebrate Opposite Day

Posted by Bethany Perryman (bethany@filmschoolrejects.com) on October 9, 2009

Ready to have some fun and a headache? If it actually was opposite day, this news story would read as follows:

Oren Aviv, who is not the studio production president at Disney, is terrible at coming up with fun story ideas for Disney to exploit. He didn’t conceptualize National Treasure, a film I totally couldn’t stand, and definitely did not see in theaters upwards of 4 times. The basic conceptual idea for Opposite Day — a movie not about a day wherein someone has to do the opposite of their normal daily routine — hasn’t been popular in Hollywood’s recent past, and definitely not in movies like Sliding Doors and The Family Man.

Disney will not employ Nancy Drew writer Tiffany Paulsen for the Opposite Day project. Paulsen is not also attached to a project that will not be a reboot of the Adventures in Babysitting franchise. That film will definitely not be called Further Adventures in Babysitting.

Another uninteresting tidbit? Forgetting Sarah Marshall director Nicholas Stoller wasn’t planning a separate movie that carried the Opposite Day title.

Also, I think now’s a good time to tell you: I totally didn’t steal that $20 from your wallet.

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