Jon Katz To Be Played By Jeff Bridges

Robotech_Master writes, "Long-time Slashdot veterans will remember Jon Katz, the editorial writer whose Slashdot articles invariably generated heated controversy. It appears he may have the last laugh; how many of the Slashdot posters who ridiculed him went on to be played by Jeff Bridges in a movie? From the article: 'In his new book, "A Good Dog: The Story of Orson," Katz chronicles the life and death of the lovable but troubled border collie that transformed his life. It continues the story begun in Katz's last book, "A Dog Year," now being made into a movie starring Jeff Bridges as Katz.' Katz critics may get a chuckle out of the plot synopsis for the film: 'A man having a mid-life crisis has his life turned upside down when he takes in a border collie crazier than he is.'" The film should be released in late 2007.

Comments

Good casting

[coolgeek]

A man having a mid-life crisis has his life turned upside down when he takes in a border collie crazier than he is.

Can't think of anyone better than Jeff Bridges to play that role.

Re:Good casting

[s20451]

I hope they get Wilmer Valderrama to play Junis.

CowboyNeal

[Anonymous Coward]

They've also announced that CowboyNeal will be played by a CGI'd Andy Serkis.

Re:CowboyNeal

[Gilmoure]

They're using CGI to make a character that looks like Andy Serkis?

If I wear them elsewhere, they chafe.

This dog has fleas

[Scareduck]

I hadn't remembered Katz's journalistic peregrinations here, but I sort of assumed he had gone the way of the dodo. Is he somehow related to the movie's producers?

Re:This dog has fleas

[PCM2]

Indeed, the way of the dodo -- like the American educational system. In its place, a Satanic hellhole of perfidious opporession. The greater question here is not whether Jon Katz is related to the producers... but whether, in this post-9/11 era, any of us can truly say that we are more than a few degrees of separation from the producers ourselves? And what does that say for our crazy, mixed-up culture, when so many of our voices are forever silenced, gagged by forces every bit as insidious as the MPAA itself? I say here's to the new heroes of this tumultuous age, so powerfully exemplified by the likes of Jon Katz and the heart-wrenching experiences to which he was subjected in this, the cruelest of online forums.

Re:This dog has fleas

[zero1101]

oh, THAT guy.

Re:This dog has fleas

[Bertie]

Say what you like about the tenets of the American educational system, Dude, at least it's an ethos.

Re:This dog has fleas

[Custard]

I signed up for an account just so I could block him. If only I had known earlier. I could have had one of those cool four digit numbers.

Roland

[pete-classic]

In other news, Tom Cruise to play Roland Piquepaille.

-Peter

PS: Dude, you're being very un-dude right now.

Re:Roland

[bunions]

Co-starring an irate Corey Feldman as Zonk.

Jon Katz?

[zerocool^]

I thought he was dead!

I've had him blocked in my preferences since 2000, when the feature was introduced. Voices from the hellmouth, indeed. What really happened at columbine (as told by someone who hasn't been a highschool kid in 30 years, and who was a thousand miles from colorado when it happened).

Now, he wrote a book about a cat. I wonder if it's as preachy as his other dribble? I'd guess so if it's a hollywood movie now.

In conclusion, DIAF. All you new slashdotters that missed him, be glad. He used this website as his personal soapbox.

~Wx

That border collie...

[Angostura]

...really tied the room together, man.

And Junis?

[dedazo]

Who plays Junis? Kevin Federline?

Odd

[TheRealFixer]

I'm just surprised that in a post-Columbine world, this movie would get made.

Really?

[Greyfox]

I always pictured Katz as more of a Keanu Reeves. If Keanu wasn't available they could always have tried that guy who played the hero in "Team America: World Police". His acting was a little more lifelike and less wooden than Keanu's but he'd still have been a good match (IMHO.)

Every time I've just about forgotten about Katz something comes along to remind me of his existence. Usually a "Whatever happened to Jon Katz" posting on this site. Apparently he was not killed by a pack of wild dingoes as per my previous speculation. So I'd suggest looking forward to that 20 part "Columbine Revisited" story any day now. On the plus side I probably won't see it if it's posted on this site -- I got my account here for the sole purpose of disabling posts from him and as far as I know there's still a setting in the database preventing me from seeing a story by him (If not about him)

Ad Hominem

[autocracy]

Just tell me where we found a Border Collie crazier than Jon Katz...

The Dude abides.

[Onan]

Ah, JonKatz. The sole reason that I finally relented and created a user account, just so I could filter out his inane babbling. Good times, good times.

Re:The Dude abides.

[daveb]

yeah - he was the first, and I think ONLY, person I ever filtered out.

It wasn't just that he talked crap about stuff he doesn't know about (hell this IS slashdot after all). It was the volume of crap which seemed to get a high profile that drove me to figure out what my profile was for.

He was an idiot. I doubt much has changed.

Re:The Dude abides.

[Profane MuthaFucka]

That is *precisely* why he started writing about dogs instead of geeks. He found out that geeks are smart, and we don't accept bullshit, lies, or false sentimentality.

Now, imagine a morbidly obese divorced woman confined to her La-Z-Boy for months because her hip replacement is still healing. She has a bag of knitting on the floor, and Oprah Winfrey on the television, playing just a little too loud. In her lap is a little yap of a dog, maybe it's a Yorkie. It could be a Cocker Spaniel too.

When she gets on the Internet, the first thing she does is log into Yahoo Groups and finds the discussion area for Yorkies. Maybe the group moderator named the fucking thing sweet_yorkie_lovers or something. The moderator and everybody in the Yahoo Group is a similarly divorced obese 40-ish woman, and they write stupid shit like "litle Buster just LUVS it when i scrtahc his tumy." (SIC) Someone else replies "LOL".

That's who Katz is writing for now.

Basically Katz is an amazing and cynical opportunist. He THOUGHT he could do his shit over here, because hey, we're socially inept geeks, right? Well that didn't work out too well, so he found a much more, ummmm, less critical audience who eats that shit right up.

Jon Katz is my fucking hero.

First the Simpsons Live Animated, now Dr Katz?

[BubbleSparkxx]

wow - i didn't know that the Dr Katz cartoon had such a big fanbase to warrant a live action movie. My head always hurt after watching it, with all the squiggly lines and all. So will Jeff Bridges be shaving his head or just going to wear a wig?

fear and loathing

[spoonyfork]

Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain.

We have suffered much for Jon's art. Must we suffer more?

The backdrop

[Anonymous Coward]

I hear it all takes place in the Shadowrun universe. It's probably still based on Katz's life as I doubt he ever lived in this universe.

Re:I can understand why Katz liked his dog.

[Anonymous Coward]

It's so amusing to see a comment mentioning the "rear end" moderated as insightful.

aaaagh!

[minus_273]

Taco! there is something wrong with slashcode. I blocked these jon katz stories ages ago. Heck i never even read the Junis story on slashdot until someone told me. WTF is this doing on the front page. Where should i submit the bug?

Re:This dog was stolen

[abigor]

No, Junis dug it up out of the sand along with his Commodore 64, and sent the dog to Katz after using his trusty Commodore to purchase food from Pets.com.

Good karma from Jon

[El_Smack]

I went from 0 to +50 Karma just pointing out the most obvious flaws in his "articles". Good times.

Re:Good karma from Jon

[Moofie]

Come on, that's like kicking puppies that don't have any legs.

Jon Kat'z Style Tangent

[Oriumpor]

Well, there was this one time my sister's 14mo old labrador ran smack into my case, which had the sidepanel off and knocked it's head right into the motherboard. It didn't unseat it, or undo any screws, it bent a couple capacitors but hell it didn't even reboot. I got some bad sectors from the rattling around and eventually had to replace the power supply, HD and blow some dog hair out of the case. The mobo worked for years after that running my SMB shares and print server...

Though I guess, as the parent said, if his dog actually picked the motherboard up, number one he should be taken to jail for animal mistreatment for being so damned negligent, but more importantly he should have called The Guinness Book because he must have the only dog that can operate a screwdriver in the world. Not to mention no reputable shop would ship a mobo detached from the case. The thing would be DOA every time the way they get chucked around in transit. Ugh, which goes back to the first thing I said in this thread: ...I haven't thought of him unless to make reference to a wordy, logically unsound, obnoxious shill.

Re:Cowboy Neal?

[Korin43]

Slashdot: The Movie
-Has almost no plot, everything good about the movie is dependent on the random conversations of the people next to you in the theater.

Re:Cowboy Neal?

[eln]

Also, the movie is only 5 minutes long, but it's repeated 25 times.