Brokedown Palace (previously Two Girls)

Genre: Drama.

Studio: Fox 2000.
Production Company: Adam Fields Productions.

Project Phase: In The Can.

Who's In It: Claire Danes (Alice); Kate Beckinsale (Darlene); Bill Pullman, Lou Diamond Phillips; Daniel Lapaine; Jacqueline Kim; Paul Walker IV; Chad Todhunter; Maya Elise Goodwin.
Who's Making It: Jonathan Kaplan (Director); David Arata (Screenwriter); Adam Fields (Producer); A. Kitman Ho (Executive Producer); Jim Newport (Production Designer).

Premise: Two best friends -- brash, needy, angry, goal-less Alice and parent-pleasing, college-bound Darlene go to Bangkok on a last-blast vacation just after high school graduation. In the gilded, spice-scented Thai capital, a polished Australian hunk proposes a quick, luxurious side trip to Hong Kong. In fact, he's using Alice and Darlene in an insidious heroin-smuggling scheme.

Planted with the Aussie's heroin, the girls are arrested at the Bangkok airport -- on a tip from the Aussie. He'd banked -- rightly -- on the noisy diversion of their arrest to allow his other couriers through customs unnoticed. Well-meant but limited help comes from the U.S. Embassy and none from a cynical DEA agent until he's coerced into giving some.

Alice and Darlene are unsuccessfully defended by a Thai lawyer at a trial conducted in inadequately translated Thai. After a year in prison -- hellacious overcrowding, bugs, swill diet, sadistic, bribe-taking guards -- their relationship deteriorates as mutual suspicion sets in. Each has reason to believe the other was in cahoots with the Australian. Their only ray of hope is an American expatriate lawyer, and they're not even sure about him.

Release Date: Fall 1998.

Comments:

YES! IT'S TIME TO PLAY ANOTHER ROUND OF...Movie Jeopardy!

'DeadPool': "I'll take 'Movie Titles' for $500".

Alex Trebek: "The Title of this Grateful Dead song is also the title for this 1998 movie starring Claire Danes and Bill Pullman."

BZZT!

Alex Trebek: "Yes, 'Deadpool' -- what is the correct response?"

'DeadPool': "What is Brokedown Palace?"

Alex Trebek: "You are correct and get to select again."

'DeadPool': "Hmm. How about 'Funny Sounds of the Human Body' for $800, Alex?"

Alex Trekeb: "Listen closely to this noise..."

Rumors: Unknown.

Scoop Feedback:

[Page draft submitted by Thai Prison guard 'Deadpool', technical consultant for the scene where Claire Danes is strip searched.]

July 1, 1998... The picture was shot in Manila at a cost of $20 million instead of Thailand due to some disputes with Thai authorities. Daniel Lapaine, the swimmer groom in Muriel's Wedding, plays the Aussie hunk who double-crosses the girls. Lou Diamond Phillips is the cynical DEA agent, while Bill Pullman play the expatriate lawyer, married to a Thai (played by Jacqueline Kim.) [Scoop provided by 'Deadpool'.]

July 26, 1998... "You get the gist of the story: Two girls in Thialand set up for drug smuggling. The inside scoop is that Claire Danes is trying to drop her 'good-girl' My-So-Called-Life image and plays a pot-smoking, rebelious teen. It's a little hard to bite, but you have to give her credit for trying to break from type casting. Bill Pullman does the same by portraying the sleazing in-it-for-the-money lawyer. You have previously stated Lou Phillips as a DEA agent, in fact he plays a cabinet member of some kind.

"I can also tell C.D. fans that there is a scene that not only has Miss Danes in a two-piece swimsuit, but that she also gets sexy-drippy wet.

"At this moment in time, it is rumored that serious edits might occur when studios execs got very upset by the way the ending played out. Apparently it's quite a downer (I won't give it a way here), but that a reshoot may occur for a more upbeat offering. I'm close to the post-production project I'll keep you up to date with more info as it comes up.

"Also, if the current soundtrack stay intact, buzz behind doors is that it'll probably hit billboard charts. I didn't recognize the songs/singers but the music is still great none-the-less."

[Smuggled out of Hollywood by anonymous.]



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