Good news for “Entourage” fans, who won’t be seeing the last of the series, with the end of its eighth season. Soon after news of the eighth season being the last in the series was announced, HBO declared that it, along with creator Doug Ellin as director and Warner Bros. as distributor, shall be making a movie on the same, too.
The delay to the movie however can be contributed to the stars, all of whom have not yet signed an affirmation to their contracts. According to a source, “Jeremy [Piven] finally signed his contract two weeks ago. His deal closed August 29, but there are other members of the cast, including Adrian Grenier and Jerry Ferrara, who are still holding out.”
TheWrap also claimed that while Piven and Kevin Connolly (Ari Gold and Eric Murphy respectively) are locked in, same cannot be said for Kevin Dhillon (Johnny Chase), Grenier (Chase) and Ferrara (Turtle). This might prove to be a problem since, Ellin’s script begins six months after the series finale which sees Ari as a producer of a $250 million adaptation of “Dracula”, starring Chase. With Grenier stalling the entire process, one cannot be sure of what Ellin might try to do in order to revert the crisis.
Shifting shoot from May to this October, producer Wahlberg told the Moviefone last month, “We’re getting close to closing the guys’ deals. We’re hoping to shoot in October, so we’d better hurry up! The main guys are coming back, but we also have some other great parts written in there for some…people. That’s about as far as I’m gonna go.”
Opposed to the producer’s optimism comes Ellin who, as a response to a fan’s curiosity tweeted on the 5th of September confessing that he was not optimistic but hopeful, nevertheless.