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8 May 2012 1:32 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

DreamWorks is pushing forward quickly on its effort to remake French-Canadian comedy hit Starbuck. Vince Vaughn is now in negotiations to take the lead. And no, it's nothing to do with Battlestar Galactica. Or coffee.If he signs, he’ll handle the role of a lazy, middle-aged man whose life is thrown into turmoil when he learns that his youthful sperm donations have resulted in 533 children. And now 142 of them (at least, that’s the number in the original) have filed a class action lawsuit demanding to know the identity of their biological pop, referred to in fertility treatment documents as Starbuck.With the pressure mounting, our hero will have to decide whether he’ll stay anonymous or face up to the responsibility of his multiple children.Ken Scott, who co-wrote and directed the award-winning original, is on board to repeat the duty for the American version.Vaughn has a few films on the way, »

25 April 2012 8:45 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »

You know what's awesome? Hollywood remakes of foreign language films! Not only are they entirely necessary, but they are also always better than the original film -- so it’s with great delight that we are able to report on another one of said Hollywood remakes.

Okay, that’s the sarcastic bit out of the way. DreamWorks has acquired the rights to Ken Scott’s French-Canadian comedy “Starbuck,” which will be written and directed by Scott, again. When we think about the word Starbuck, we immediately think of either Moby Dick, “Battlestar Galactica,” or cups filled with steaming hot coffee…but in this film the cups are filled with something entirely different. The original film followed a middle-aged man whose life changes when he finds out that he has fathered 533 children through sperm donation, and that a few hundred of those children have expressed the wish to meet their biological father. »

- Joe Cunningham

2 items from 2012