A couple weeks ago on Entourage, Vincent Chase's (Adrian Grenier) movie Aquaman had the best opening of all time, beating Spiderman in the show's fictional universe. The movie was convincingly staged -- it was directed by James Cameron, who played himself, and the show offered up some scenes from the imaginary picture, which looked rather promising. Fully blurring the line between reality and the show, the series' PR team did what actual studios do to mark a fantastic opening and took out a celebratory ad in Variety. The move got a lot of press: art imitates life, how cheeky, etc.
This week on the show, Chase is trying to do a biopic on The Ramones. Assumedly, it'll open to rave reviews and audience acclaim. At least, on the show. But here's the question: Why shouldn't Adrian Grenier (Vincent Chase) make the storyline manifest and do a biopic on The Ramones? After all, he not only plays an actor, he actually is an actor. And he's a successful one. Assumedly, all the elements that make him a good choice to play Joey Ramone on the show (his looks, his fame) are present in his life. Moreover, all the circumstances that make a Ramones pic an obviously good idea (Joey's recent death, for one) translate to reality as well. So why not actually get some talented screenwriter to draw up a script and have Grenier play the lead?
The free media for the experiment would be enormous, helping both Entourage and the hypothetical flick, not to mention Grenier himself. And it's the logical extension of a show that's already fuzzed the line between art and life by having scores of celebrities playing themselves in fictional, but basically realistic, scenarios. If Jessica Alba can become a "fictional" Jessica Alba doing the things Jessica Alba does, why can't Vincent Chase, whose alter ego is already a successful Hollywood actor, actually make the movie he's pursuing on the show?
