Jason Reitman updates, restages Reservoir Dogs

Los Angeles has no shortage of amenities-- gorgeous year-round weather, In-N-Out Burger-- and the newest addition to that covetable list is tickets to director Jason Reitman's live staged reading of Reservoir Dogs, which updates the 1992 heist-gone-wrong classic with an all-star, all-black cast that includes Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Terrence Howard.

Reitman revealed to Entertainment Weekly that he chose to radically update the violent tale, which put a then-unknown Quentin Tarantino on the map, because the color-blind script could potentially reshape the story. Howard, who displayed a steely fury in Hustle and Flow, is on board as the viciously sadistic Mr. Blonde (originally played by Michael Madsen), while Gooding turns his good-guy image inside out as the mysterious gangster Mr. Orange (portrayed by Tim Roth). Comic actor Anthony Anderson (as the late Chris Penn's Nice Guy Eddie) and The Hurt Locker's Anthony Mackie (filling in for Steve Buscemi's iconic Mr. Pink) round out the cast so far.

Reitman has a gift for casting his wildly popular readings; he chose soft-spoken Jennifer Garner as high school princess Claire in a read-through of The Breakfast Club, and selected diminutive wisecracker Patton Oswalt as the apoplectic Vizzini in a performance of The Princess Bride. We'll be scouring Youtube for clips of this sure-to-be-explosive production.