Due to the fact that I am a stumbling drunk, my scoop about the new X-Men director got posted on AICN as an exclusive to them 12 hours after we posted it. It ran several other places, including our friends over at Defamer, (who were good enough to at least try to give old Lazlo the credit his booze-addled mind deserves.) The fine print would have told us that it was an exclusive for non-drinking sites, but whatever. I’m not pissed and I’m not going to go Tony Montana on those guys. They are part of the reason this site exists and they get the shaft all the time from the print media so I guess I should be flattered. Truth be told, AICN probably got the story from some of the same people I did… just 12 hours later. So I raise my middle finger to them with a Lazlo Salute, and hope we have the good fortune to reach the point where they now sit.
This is Lazlo saying…THE DRUNKS WILL RISE AGAIN

My studios spies, (AKA the drunks on the lot I pay off with boozy treats) have let me know who is in the front running to direct the next X-Man installment. Now that Fox has SWEPT AWAY (get it) Guy Ritchie’s chip of off the old Kabbalah Block, Matthew Vaughn, they are in need of a new dude at the helm. You may ask yourself what this has with being a Sorry Drunk… two words, BRETT RATNER. Now I am not saying that he is a drunk (that would be slander) I am saying that he is a no talent hack (that would be truth) who has one hell of a party boy image. Also of note, my peeps tell me that John Moore is also in the running, but having never lived on the same property as Robert Evens, no one really cares. Stay tuned for the announcement of new black wise-cracking characters that Brett will infuse into the franchise.
Lazlo saying, Hit it and quit it.