The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Okay, bear with me as I bring up one more lightweight pop culture news item: The Man from UNCLE movie is back on track! The Hollywood Reporter is saying that Max Borenstein, who you haven’t heard of, has signed on to write the script, and David Dobkin (Wedding Crashers) is set to direct.

Now if you’re a little nervous that the Wedding Crashers dude is in charge well, who can blame you? No one wants Vince Vaughn to play Napoleon Solo. But the good news is that there were only three and a half seasons of the original show, so these guys shouldn’t have too much trouble catching up and getting a sense of the tone of the series. And maybe we will get a cool, hip, action packed big screen re-telling that is true to the old show -- instead of a travesty like the Tom Cruise Mission Impossible movies. (Love ya, Tom, but it’s the Mission Impossible Team, there’s supposed to be a bunch of multi-talented people working together, not just you, on a motorcycle, shooting at stuff.) This news is so new that there is no way to tell when this movie might come out. It just seems more likely that it will.  Open Channel D!