Doug Ellin says he's almost done with the Entourage movie script that we went ahead and wrote for him
When HBO's Entourage ended a year ago, theoretical fans were left theoretically wondering about what the future might hold for the show's poorly realized characters, only able to imagine all the briefly dramatic rich-and-famous-people's-definitions-of-"problems" they might face for whole minutes at a time before things immediately work out, and then they can finally return to partying and buying things, and planning more partying and buying things.
But executive producer Mark Wahlberg and creator Doug Ellin repeatedly promised that you wouldn't have to imagine for very long, and now it seems the celebratory beer-clink that signals it's time for your brain to just chill on a private jet is here: Deadline's Nikki Finke reports that Ellin has nearly completed his screenplay for the Entourage movie, and she, for one, is very excited about it. (An excitement which certainly has nothing to do with, as she mentions in the article, her being "grateful to Ellin for replacing Variety with Deadline Hollywood as the showbiz must-read" and telling her that he's already put her in the movie, saying, "The world wants you on camera!" That's just one of those crazy showbiz world coincidences that are always happening in the showbiz world of showbiz!)
Anyway, while both Finke and the show's packaging agent—and Ari Gold model—Ari Emanuel are enthusiastic about seeing the film get picked up by HBO, for satisfying storytelling and not-at-all self-serving reasons, it's the network who will obviously make the final call once they see the finished script, and decide whether it's even worth revisiting these characters six months after the series left them. But by way of enticing them, Ellin promises that the movie will deal with Jeremy Piven shouting at a whole new team of people as a studio mogul, "but foremost is the friendship between the guys who are still hanging out and going to fun parties."
Of course, obviously a tease like that only makes this waiting even more interminable. Fortunately for you, we've got an exclusive excerpt of the screenplay:
INT. HIP L.A. NIGHT CLUB
Vinnie and his boys are sitting on what appears to be a living room set the size of most people's apartments, just adjacent to the dance floor. All of the waitresses resemble lingerie models whose agents told them doing extra work on Entourage would get them noticed; off screen they are all horrible to each other. Jerry Ferrara is visibly starving.
VINCENT: Guys, I just want to say that the past six months of hanging out and going to fun parties have been some of the best six months of hanging out and going to fun parties of my life. I love you guys.
DRAMA: We love you too, baby bro—especially since you're paying.
Everyone laughs, even though this barely resembles a joke and is, in fact, the bluntly stated subtext of both their relationships and the entire show.