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Justin Timberlake is looking to be Bourne again as Ashton Kutcher.
The singer-actor-dancer is upgrading himself from triple to quadruple threat as producer of an MTV reality show.
The star turned up to the cable net's upfront presentation in New York today to announce production on The Phone, a series set to debut this fall that is being touted (by those involved, natch) as a "real-life Bourne Identity," albeit a completely Matt-Damon-less one.
And, from the sound of things, a completely Justin-Timberlake-less version as well, at least as far as onscreen eye candy is concerned.
Based on a Dutch reality series, the MTV version will hide two cell phones at opposite ends of a major U.S. metropolis. The phones will ring at exactly the same time, and whoever picks up will be given five seconds to agree to the terms of the game and then be sent on a series of city-traversing missions guided by a mysterious voice and followed by a helicopter.
Should they succeed, per the network, a "huge cash prize" awaits them.
But really, the announcement of an MTV show that Speidi can't infiltrate may be prize enough.
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2ndguesser Fri, May 9, 2008 11:04 AM
thats strange considering he was sooo against reality shows on mtv! hmmm
ReportLA Fri, May 9, 2008 11:37 AM
Wow. Hypocrite much? I thought JT wanted more videos and less reality tv on MTV.
ReportShonathan Hilton Fri, May 9, 2008 11:37 AM
Hmm... i thought it was gonna have to do with something about music. Since he asked MTV to play more music instead of those reality shows last year at the MTV Awards. www.myspace.com/itsjonabitch
ReportHeather Fri, May 9, 2008 11:47 AM
i agree, isn't he always the one saying that MTV needs more videos and less TV?
ReportShelby Fri, May 9, 2008 12:20 PM
That is exactly what I thought. How annoying.
Reporttwade Fri, May 9, 2008 12:39 PM
No, you guys don't get. It's not a reality show, it's a tv series based on the Dutch reality show. They're turning the people into fictional characters for the series. Understand now?
ReportMattC3 Fri, May 9, 2008 12:56 PM
...but you see a year ago he didn't have a way to make money off of reality tv....Justin is, after all, just another businessman.
ReportIts all about the money Fri, May 9, 2008 1:13 PM
ok, he makes music videos, therefore he wants more music on the station that pays him for his music videos. more play more pay. well, mtv created another station for music videos and has plenty of time for more reality shows now, so, if hes pulling money from a show on mtv and then mtv 2 is playing 4 minutes, thats double the paycheck. theres nothing hypocritical about makin money, run your life like a business like he does, and you'll become rich too.
ReportVanessa Fri, May 9, 2008 7:48 PM
JT is a hypocrite and a pussy...whatever makes a buck, right? dancing monkey?
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