Vick to be released this year?
After everything seemed to be going against Michael Vick, the former NFL star received some good news last week.
According to a Yahoo! Sports report, a drug rehabilitation program Vick enrolled in may allow him to be released from prison by the end of the year. An official from the Federal Bureau of Prisons was quoted in the report saying Vick had been transferred to a minimum security prison.
As a result of entering the program, Vick may only have to serve 12 months of his 23 month sentence on federal dog fighting charges. However, it’s unclear if that time will include the time served when Vick voluntarily began serving his sentence last Nov. or the day he entered Leavenworth—the minimum security prison Vick will call home for the remainder of his sentence.
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Vick’s enrollment may also allow him to return to NFL action sooner than expected. If Vick is released this year or during the first part of 2009, he could return to the field for the 2009-2010 NFL season.
Yo Joe!
With the popularity of comic books turned movies and America’s war on terror, it was only a matter of time before a “Real American Hero” found space on the big screen. Reports have surfaced that Marlon Wayans has signed on for the live action version of GI Joe.
Details about the film as of press time are sketchy, but it will be set ten years in the future and Wayans—who has played both comedic (White Chicks) and serious (Requiem for a Dream) roles during his career—will play Ripcord, a unit team leader.
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Ripcord first made his debut in the GI Joe comics in 1985
GI Joe will begin shooting (no pun intended) next month in Los Angeles and hits the big screen in August 2009.
