I blame it all on the Men In Black Films. After all those whiz-bang Will Smithisms and lines about making the MIB uniform "look good", everyone's out there trying to create the perfect "Will Smith" roles. We saw it happen in I, Robot where writers revamped the script to "tailor" it for the actor's famous Fresh Prince style. Now Hollywood's "at it again" (I'm out of control with my quotation marks. Somebody stop me!).

Variety reported this morning that Columbia Pictures is hard at work on an odd-ball super-hero flick entitled Tonight, He Comes. Producer Michael Mann (now feverishly working on the pointless Miami Vice flick), director Jonathan Mostow (now peevishly preparing to start work on a fourth Terminator film) and writer Vince Gilligan (known only to X-Files fans as "the guy who wrote Home Fries"), who has already rewritten the script once, are all spending their free time revamping the script to Will Smith, who they have apparently slated to play the lead.

Still confusing to me is, how the script will be "tailored". Was it originially written with Jackie Chan in mind? Were there not enough "Aw, hellllll nooooo!" lines in the original script? Is Will Smith such a terrible actor that he can't adapt to scripts anymore? OK, don't answer that last one. Don't get me wrong, I love Will Smith, and I enjoy his movies (excepting Wild Wild West, but we don't talk about that). I just start to lose interest when moviemakers have so little faith in their movies that they adapt for the actor and not the story.

But that may be the least of this movie's problems. The plot sounds a bit thin as well. I'd like to create my own description for what sounds like a bad combo of Superman: The Movie and Hitch, but I don't think I could top the description from the good folks at Cinescape: The story is about a superhero who crash-lands in Sheepshead Bay, N.Y., and causes chaos as he romances a local housewife in an attempt to revitalize himself. I can hardly wait.