David O Russell to Direct Linda Ronstadt Bio w/ Selena Gomez

Ew, who summoned David O. Russell from the swamps?

This is going to be the lamest Oscar bait that most critics will pretend to like because they're afraid of Gomez's stans.

That was a cameo. I have a feeling this is going to be a big "push" to get Gomez an Oscar and turn her into an A list actress.

I think it's just as if not more likely that DOR's history starts trending on Twitter once a trailer drops and Gomez becomes a public villain.

Amsterdam despite its names wasn't really well known. I don't think it got beyond Film Twitter as far as social media reach. Selena Gomez is way more popular and active on social media than Christian Bale or pre-Barbie Margot Robbie.

As someone that actually likes Russel’s output up to American Hustle, this feels like a disaster waiting to happen.

What's weird about DOR is his early style was very much a Woody Allen writing style - in his first 3 movies (all solo original scripts) - he used to do a sort of great trick that Allen is a master of - where his characters had little quirks that other characters knew already and it was funny to them before we knew what  exactly it meant to us - in the hilarious Flirting With Disaster you see this in the "the Grateful Dead" line (among many others) applying to Alan Alda and Lily Tomlin and their son's reaction to it ("one band was at the center of it all!......the Grateful Dead blah blah blah"   )........in Woody Allen it's in things like Tony Roberts calling Alvy "Max" in Annie Hall etc - It defines your characters in an odd or unusual / memorable way to an audience.......... 

That really helped make his early movies - Three Kings and Flirting With Disaster (Spanking the Monkey is more minor) stand up or get even better on rewatches because he didn't write jokes he wrote characters who were funny..........he's made good movies he didn't write at all (The Fighter) but when he writes post-Three Kings it was never really solo, original until Amsterdam -  I Heart Huckabees has a co-writer, SLP is based on a book, American Hustle was a rewrite of an existing script, Joy is based on a real life persoon / events)............. that's an over 20 year gap 

I think Amsterdam really hurt him personally on some level - because that's an original script, solo - from his head and pen, his ideas.........no real life person / book precedent.......no co-writer.................Really odd career he's had ..........