Brother vs. brother: Zucker fight.

Published Fri, Nov 13 2009 11:24 AM
Greenpeace is a good organization that's kind of itchily annoying, the same way a college activist getting you to sign a worthy petition is -- a point driven home quite literally when Bruce Willis was whacking activists with golf balls from his oil rig in "Armageddon." That image might be a good one to keep in mind when reading the news that arch-hack Jon Turteltaub ("National Treasure," "Phenomenon," "Cool Runnings," "3 Ninjas" -- a résumé to set your heart a-flutter) is all set to go on a biopic of the nascent Greenpeace movement of the '70s and early '80s: get ready for heart-pounding hilarity and adventure as seal and whale hunters meet their match in a scrappy, ragtag team of "pacifists, ecologists, musicians, teachers, sailors, and scientists." Wacky! More notable, though, is who's producing: Jerry Zucker and wife Janet. Zucker is, of course, part of the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker team that was...

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