Emeril Lagasse: Next Great Hollywood Film Writer - Director - Star

[Gio]

Chef Lagassse has written, directed and is starring in a movie to be released next year called A House Divided. Billed as a "romantic dramady" it's already rated R for "crude language, graphic sex and violence". How much fun is this going to be....

http://eater.com/archives/2011/09/09/...

[Gio]

Initially I thought, "what a really silly way to get some publicity" but then any publicity is supposed to be good publicity...yes? Are his ratings going down or something? I don't watch his show anymore, too repetitive for my liking.

[coney with everything]

The show on Ion? Is that still on? I thought all his cooking shows were over.

[Manassas64]

He's getting a new show on Hallmark Channel now that Martha owns him. I think it starts in October around the release of his new cookbook.

[bear]

It mentions in the lead-up to the press release that it's just a hoax. Pretty funny, and they had me for a while!

[chris2269]

If it is a hoax that's pretty funny. I was Like WTF this came out of left field. Then I broke out my whole talent rant ....ooops:)

[bear]

I think they had us all for a while! It's actually kind of a relief that it's a hoax...it would probably be pretty painful to watch! I've only seen a couple of snippets but all I could think was that Emeril should stick with his day (or night) job.

[chris2269]

The funny thing is art (or talent) gets mistaken with Money a lot of times. Think how many "Starlets" Have Albums. Not because they were discovered as great singers and signed to a record deal, but because they bank rolled it.
I mean Scarlett Johansen (SP) is a horrible singer and a good actress but keeps releasing songs. I mean the house wives of what ever the F*&^ city have albums out.

I have never been blown away by Emeril's food. I now have to go watch the TV show he was in mentioned just for kicks.

I know a lot of Writers and Directors and It's something that takes years and a lot of pain to perfect or even get good at. Someone waltzing into it with a bank roll is pretty much going to fail......unless its so bad its good.

Funny thing if he wrote a movie about life in the kitchen or being a celeb chef it would be something I might actually check out.

[inaplasticcup]

If he had any hand in writing/directing/starring that (thankfully) shortlived sitcom he was on (oh wait - he did), I would probably only watch this movie if it came with a meal at El Bulli.

[acgold7]

It's unlikely he was more than a meat puppet for that show. Even though he got a Co-EP credit, that was probably done as an excuse to pay him more and for his ego. Given the reputations of the Thomasons, who were the show-runners, it's probable he didn't have much to say about the creative direction of that train wreck. He certainly didn't write or direct any of the episodes, according to imdb.

[inaplasticcup]

Meat puppet. THat's a new one on me. Now I'm gonna have to find all kinds of ways to use *meat puppet*.

And as to the rest, well, then, at least we're left with his stellar acting chops. Kekeke... :P