'The Big Bang': Snoop Dogg, James Van Der Beek, Antonio Banderas In Bizarre New Film (VIDEO)

Give James Van Der Beek credit: he's definitely branching out artistically to reinvent himself.

The former "Dawson's Creek" star has launched a comeback that has turned him into perhaps the most meta actor of the day. He played a warped version of himself in a Ke$ha music video, and is set to star in an ABC pilot called "Don't Trust the Bitch in Apartment 23," playing another strange rendition of himself as conceited actor. But both those roles pale in comparison to this one.

Van Der Beek plays a key part in a new film called "The Big Bang," an oddly well cast movie in which he plays -- wait for it -- a Hollywood actor with a very strange sexual fetish. Joining him in the film are Antonio Banderas and Snoop Dogg (who plays a porn director), among others, and in a number of newly released clips (which come via Movieline), viewers can get a true sense of how fun/bizarre the movie could play.

Here's the official synopsis; the clips are below.

Late one night, Los Angeles private investigator, Ned Cruz (Antonio Banderas) gets a visit from a recently paroled Russian boxer with an intriguing job offer: find Lexie, his missing girlfriend--and the 30-million dollar stash of diamonds she's hiding. As Detective Cruz sets out to find her, the clues send him into the city's seediest corners, from a Hollywood action star with a dirty little secret (James Van Der Beek), to an enterprising porn producer who takes a personal interest in his own work (Snoop Dogg), and a kinky waitress with an unusual fetish for particle physics (Autumn Reeser). Lexie proves to be as elusive as she is beautiful and Cruz becomes obsessed with finding her. With time running out, Cruz discovers the trail leads to reclusive billionaire (Sam Elliott), and his physicist (Jimmi Simpson), intent on recreating The Big Bang underneath the New Mexico desert. Tailed by a trio of cops also looking to find the missing diamonds, and with the body count piling up, Cruz soon realizes that what appeared to be a standard missing person's case is anything but, and could quite possibly bring about the end of the world as we know it

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Comments

[madashellvoter]

03:20 PM on 05/05/2011

Cool, I hope it's interesting.

[fredvh]

10:11 AM on 05/05/2011

I never really cared for Van Der Beek as an actor. But I never really saw him in anything serious.
Then I saw him guesting in Criminal Minds.
Thought he did a fantastic job.
I will have to rethink my opinions on his acting skills.

[buddaman71]

09:39 AM on 05/05/2011

Could actually be interesting. I'd MUCH rather see: Three's Company- The MOVIE!

Starring:

Sean Hayes as Jack
Blake Lively as Chrissy
Jennifer Goodwin as Janet
Brody Jenner as Larry
Roger from American Dad as Mr. Furley

That was a joke people: Hollywood. PLEASE stop making horrible movie versions of horrible old TV shows!

[Puzzlr]

08:04 AM on 05/05/2011

The guy has a HUGE head!

[Ivytwine97]

06:53 AM on 05/05/2011

At least it is different from all the remakes and copies that Hollywood is pumping out these days..

[okami]

06:45 AM on 05/05/2011

well. . .what else could we expect after "Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back"?

[jjgg5]

05:03 AM on 05/05/2011

He looks like Frankenstein, but manages, somehow, to still be attractive. That's amazing.

[AllyCat7]

03:49 AM on 05/05/2011

I like him. He seems down to earth and doesn't take himself too seriously. Oh and he's still cute!

[JaiS]

04:34 AM on 05/05/2011

He's queer.

[WiltonDiary]

05:22 AM on 05/05/2011

SO are you!

[mikeyaz17]

11:39 AM on 05/05/2011

yea, but i bet he's hung

[ElBruce]

02:15 AM on 05/05/2011

Cool, weird is back. Though I don't know if I want to buy Banderas as a noir private eye, the rest of it I'm in for.

[TruthToPower20]

01:32 AM on 05/05/2011

....so does he do the midget or not?

[Zackaria Hemingway]

01:03 AM on 05/05/2011

A comeback for those 3 stars?

[Natoya Ebony]

11:48 PM on 05/04/2011

i still have a thing for Dawson
http://www.natoyaebony.com/

[shantiquax]

10:37 PM on 05/04/2011

love jimmi simpson

[Crim]

09:07 PM on 05/04/2011

Now he just reminds me of The Goods. "James Van Der Beek, my ni**a"

[Alva Mahaffey-Johnson]

10:38 PM on 05/04/2011

Me too. That part was hilarious

[Stacey Jones]

01:37 AM on 05/05/2011

That's so true. Also he was on Criminal Minds as a spilt personality killer who kidnaps Spencer Reid. Those two,lol.

[littlebrowngirl]

08:29 PM on 05/04/2011

I dont want to see that beek.