The sequel to the insanely popular YouTube video

May 26, 2010 13:48 GMT  ·  By
Adrien Brody and Jimmy Kimmel in faux trailer for “Charlie Bit My Finger,” the movie
   Adrien Brody and Jimmy Kimmel in faux trailer for “Charlie Bit My Finger,” the movie

“Charlie Bit My Finger” is a classic now, though few can actually explain how it came to have over 194 million views on YouTube, since it’s a 56-second video of two boys, one of whom bites the other’s finger. For those who’ve seen it, Adrien Brody and Jimmy Kimmel have imagined what happens after that video was made, in “Charlie Bit My Finger,” the movie.

As the video below will also show, Brody was on Kimmel the other night and together they cooked up something that could be described as a parody to the insanely popular YouTube clip, while also a horror project behind which many fans of the genre could probably get by. We’re talking of a sketch showing what happens to Charlie, played by Adrien Brody in a very creepy yet completely believable way, after he bit his brother’s finger.

The scene starts as an attractive woman, a secretary perhaps, hands over some papers to Charlie, yet the only thing he can focus on is her manicured finger. The viewer is to believe he resists temptation, but not the same can be said for a poor man who dared to want to share the same elevator with the finger-biting Charlie, who goes on a finger biting spree afterwards. It culminates with Charlie taking his brother, played by a frightened looking Kimmel, prisoner, strapping him to an armchair, finger elevated in biting position – and, of course, a lot of screaming.

Brody will be seen next in Robert Rodriguez’s “Predators,” which aims to reboot the “Predator” franchise and will arrive in theaters around the world this summer. When he was first cast in it, word on the web had it that the Oscar-winning actor was jeopardizing his entire career by accepting to star in a movie in which Arnold Schwarzenegger once had a role in – that is to say, an action movie that had very little to do with serious acting, to paraphrase what was being said at the time.

Still, “Predators” seems to have shaped up just nicely, with fans getting a first peak at it during the SXSW film festival. “Here’s what I know: Predators is going to be [awesome]. The trailers are atmospheric, creepy and clearly geared towards marketing the film as horror, not thriller/action as the most recent Alien vs. Predator movies have been. It introduces all the primary characters while revealing little of their intentions. It’s suspenseful and dark. More than a Predator movie, it reminded me of the original Alien movie in tone. The score they use is haunting and there’s little doubt that this is a very rated-R film,” Cinema Blend wrote at the time, as we also informed you.

Below is the skit Adrien Brody did for his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel. Underneath it is the original that led to “The Movie,” the video that took YouTube by storm for yet unknown reasons.

Adrien Brody on Jimmy Kimmel

Charlie Bit My Finger, the original