Hollywood is suddenly fascinated by interns, so long as they are fictional
While Hollywood filmmakers can barely be bothered to throw lukewarm coffee in the face of actual interns, fictional interns are suddenly all the rage, as the studios regard those many recent complaints they’ve received about the humiliating indignities of unpaid labor and realize, hey, that would make a pretty funny movie. The burgeoning trend recently kicked off with the news that Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson could once again bro down on some sociopolitical bro-mmentary in Shawn Levy’s The Internship (formerly The Interns), playing two fortysomething dudes forced to take unpaid lower-rung jobs at a tech company, and face all of their many personal failings for approximately 10 minutes. Most likely that will be resolved as soon as they devise a plan to prank one of those know-it-all business school grads and really show them the business, if you know what we mean.