Salon.com > Western http://www.salon.com Wed, 22 May 2013 00:22:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Sarah Silverman considering Christian prostitute role in upcoming Seth MacFarlane western http://www.salon.com/2013/03/18/sarah_silverman_considering_christian_prostitute_role_in_upcoming_seth_macfarlane_western/ http://www.salon.com/2013/03/18/sarah_silverman_considering_christian_prostitute_role_in_upcoming_seth_macfarlane_western/#comments Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:30:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13244966 Seth MacFarlane, king of offensiveness satire, is currently casting his undoubtedly irreverent western, "A Million Ways to Die," which already has big names like Amanda Seyfried, Charlize Theron and Liam Neeson attached to it. And the Hollywood Reporter has the scoop that the bawdy Sarah Silverman might join the cast -- playing a Christian prostitute.

From THR:

" 'A Million Ways to Die' follows a cowardly sheep farmer (MacFarlane) who chickens out of a gunfight and sees his girlfriend (Seyfried) leave him for another man. When a mysterious woman (Theron) rides into town, she helps him find his courage. But when her outlaw husband (Neeson) arrives seeking revenge, the farmer must put his newfound courage to the test.

Sources say Silverman would play the town’s well-worn prostitute, who engages in all sorts of lewd activities but refuses to have sex with her fiancé (Ribisi), believing that as Christians the couple should wait until marriage before lying down together."

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/03/18/sarah_silverman_considering_christian_prostitute_role_in_upcoming_seth_macfarlane_western/feed/ 3 Has the price of Silver gone up? http://www.salon.com/2011/10/12/has_the_price_of_silver_gone_up/ http://www.salon.com/2011/10/12/has_the_price_of_silver_gone_up/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:39:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10109119 Apparently Disney has given "Rango" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" director Gore Verbinski and his star, Johnny Depp, a greenlight to shoot a new feature film version of "The Lone Ranger," budgeted at $215 million. That might seem an exorbitant price tag for a concept that ran for years on TV in the 1950s, despite Ed Wood-level production values. But it's a reduced price compared to what Verbinski originally envisioned; Disney pulled the plug on the project a couple of months ago because its initial price tag, $250 million, was deemed too high.

Where is the money going, you ask? Well, originally it was going to pay for all the werewolves.

Yes, werewolves.  The Lone Ranger and Tonto were going to fight werewolves.

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