Willy Nelson plays old surf dude's drunken best friend... I've noticed that lately, so many talented older surfers have a beer-bellied buddy that doesn't surf anymore, but they used to be really good. R&L just posted a good story on that topic. Lord save me from that. Ya, see what a little perspective a few years in age can be John. It's what I ASPIRE to be. The old burned out surfbuddy. -Foon (Got the beer belly covered, got the burned out part working, just gotta work on that gettin good stuff)

Sus, come back.  Maybe we can get roles as extras. LOL! ... Oh my god ... we had better start studying that page of 'Surf Speak'!!! MamaJama Sus <... busy putting hydrogen pyroxide on her hair ...

We've heard this rumor before, I guess the ball is rolling.  Hopefully Jason Scott Leigh can get the part. I think it is possible to make a serious, big budget, no cheese movie that captures the essence of surfing.  No one's done it yet though.  Tom Hanks did some other great films in the last decade, so perhaps he can pull this off. Only if Kris Kristopherson plays the crusty old surf dude,  Willy Nelson plays old surf dude's drunken best friend,  Sally Kellerman plays old surf dude's long suffering surf widow,  real surf sequences are filmed instead of ones substituted from Typhoon Lagoon,  special effects are not computer animations by George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg directs from a pontoon boat out on a 30 foot day at real Mavs.  That's the only possible way this thing can be good. This way Hanks can play the part of Bruce Jenkins, the SF Chron reporter who surfs and is accepted among the Mavs crowd.  This way there can be plenty of cuts to him as big sets pound - that slack jaw empty eyed gape that Hanks does. Brad Pitt plays the part of Kristofferson's illigitimate son(by Dyan Cannon) who's the best surfer in the world but refuses to surf Mavs because it's his dad's home break. This way there can be shots of north shore and Mexico included.   Jeremy Irons is cast as the slimey developer who's just bought the military _base_ at the point and has plans to build a massive resort effectively cutting off all access to view Mavs, he's plans for stadium box seating along the bluff and be able to charge admission. It just so happens that Irons is currently married to Dyan Cannon, making Pitt his stepson. Jeremy Irons character is given a Serbian surname, of course, and is shown in one scene on the phone with Milosivic. Irons has a toadie New York lawyer type played by Danny DeVito who keeps getting hit in the head by guys walking by with their surfboards under their arms, scattering his subpoenas in the gravel.  There are three of Irons top thugs, of course,  played by pro wrestlers The Undertaker and Rick Flair, and hoopster Latrell Spreewell. Given this premise, a two hour _script_ writes itself, Pitt has to come to deal with the conflict between his stepdad who generously gave him everything he needed to be the best surfer in the world but is engaged in what he believes is an immoral act, and his bio-dad who abandoned his mother when he discovered Mavs many years ago. Foo doesn't die by accident, of course, and the locals all know it. More casting: Dopey local lawman:  Randy Quaid. surfer-friendly pro bono lawyer: Anne Heche Mark Foo's surf buddies from Hawaii:  footballers Junior Seau and                                  Jesse Sapolu (rip up thugs!) Missed WSD, no waves at Grand Canyon or Rachel, Nevada. Mike

Did anyone read the Surfer's Journal article on surf flicks? The author made the point that Big Wednesday went down like a lead baloon with surfers at the time, and if I recall the article correctly, it was unsuccessful at the box office (?) Nowadays it's accepted as a credible surf flick by most (?) surfers. Perspectives change over time. Napalm

Leonardo DiCaprio, Brendan Fraser and Casper Van Dien. Some solid surfers there. I heard leonardo sits behind the boil at Todos. Why does every surf-related story picked up off the wire start with Surf's up! Napalm

      Making a movie about Foo's death at mavericks is just wrong. Unreal, and I've heard rumors that Tom Hanks would play the role of Jeff Clark.  Jeez, bad idea.     If they really wanted to make a movie which was _base_d on surfing, they should at least work on a _script_ from Kem Nunn's book The Dogs of Winter. Not only is it surfing related, but there's a plot in it as well.  You could use huge Mavericks footage for the mythical Heart Attacks, and have Jeff Clark play the role of Drew Harmon, along with Flea and Ken Collins as Robbie Jones and Sonny Martin.  Johnny Depp could be Jack Fletcher. Who knows, The Dogs of Winter could actually turn out to be a good movie if someone did it right.  Then again, Hollywood would probably fuck it up as well and it wouldn't be worth watching.  Why?  Because they'd turn it into another North Shore hang ten, dude kind of movie. Nobody listens to Turtle