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Elston Gunn's WEEKLY RECAP
Father Geek here because its the weekend and time for me to post Elston's rehash of all the Tinseltown production news you may well have missed during the past work week.
Of course the really big news of the week is the sad report of the death of animation legend CHUCK JONES, Here's what the AP wire had on it...
Academy Award-winning animator Chuck Jones, who drew such beloved cartoon characters as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd and Porky Pig, died at his home Friday. He was 89.
Jones worked on more than 300 animated films in a career that spanned more than 60 years. Three of his films won Academy Awards and he was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1996 for lifetime achievement. He also received an honorary life membership from the Directors Guild of America.
Jones died of congestive heart failure at his home in the coastal community of Corona del Mar, according to a statement released by his daughter's company, Linda Jones Enterprises.
Working at Warner Bros., Jones helped bring to life some of the studio's most recognizable characters. In addition to Bugs and Daffy, he worked on the fast-moving, beep-beeping Road Runner and his hapless pursuer, Wile E. Coyote. He also drew Pepe le Pew, the romantic-minded skunk with a French accent.
Jones also produced, directed and wrote the screenplay for the animated television classic ``Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas.''
The animator's work won him admirers throughout the entertainment business.
``Chuck Jones' originality, his humor and his pacing still have no peer today,'' director Steven Spielberg once said.
Three of Jones' films won Academy Awards: ``Frigid Hare,'' ``So Much, So Little'' and ``The Dot and the Line,'' for which Jones also received a directing Oscar.
One of Jones' most popular films, ``What's Opera, Doc?'' was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1992 for being ``among the most culturally, historically and aesthetically significant films of our time.''
Born in 1912 in Spokane, Wash., Jones moved to Hollywood with his family, finding work there as a child extra in Mac Sennett comedies.
After graduating from Chouinard Art Institute (now the California Institute of Arts), he began making a living drawing pencil portraits on Olvera Street, a historic Los Angeles marketplace.
He landed his first job washing animation cels in 1932, working for legendary Disney animator Ub Iwerks.
A few years later, he became an animator at the Leon Schlesinger Studio, which was later sold to Warner Bros. He headed up his own unit at the Warner Bros. Animation Dept. until it closed in 1962.
He also worked for MGM Studios, creating episodes for the ``Tom and Jerry'' cartoon series.
Jones opened his own company, Chuck Jones Enterprises, in 1962, producing nine 30-minute animated films.
His autobiography, ``Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist,'' was published in 1989, followed two years later by a second book, ``Chuck Reducks.''
This is not how I wanted to start the day. Call me Falcon-1.
Sad, Sad news... Now here's the regular...
WEEKLY RECAP...
TAKEN FROM VARIETY AND HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
Hey. Interesting news this week: LaBute, Jordan, Stone, Murray -- some
stuff to look forward to.
CASTING
TAKEN FROM VARIETY AND HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
Hey. Interesting news this week: LaBute, Jordan, Stone, Murray -- some
stuff to look forward to.
CASTING
stuff to look forward to.
CASTING
* Josh Lucas (A BEAUTIFUL MIND) joins Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Sam
Elliott and Nick Nolte in THE HULK for director Ang Lee and Universal
Pictures.
* Elijah Wood, Franka Potente and Mandy Moore will star in the romantic
comedy TRY SEVENTEEN about a young man who heads for college and learns
about life and love from the people in his apartment building. Shooting on
the Millenium Films project begins in March. Jeffrey Porter will direct
from a script by Charles Kephart.
* Jon Favreau is in talks to play Foggy Nelson in DAREDEVIL for
writer/director Mark Steven Johnson and 20th Century Fox. Ben Affleck,
Jennifer Garner and Michael Clarke Duncan will star in the adaptation of the
Marvel Comics franchise.
* Sigourney Weaver will star in HOLES, based on the Newbery Award-winning
book by Louis Sachar, for director Andrew Davis (COLLATERAL DAMAGE) and
Walden Media/Phoenix Pictures. Production starts in April. Weaver will
play the warden of a juvenile detention facility where a young boy is sent
after being falsely accused of stealing a pair of sneakers. Forced to dig
holes to improve his character, he finds out he's being used in a plot to
uncover a buried treasure.
* Mariah Carey will star in the indie drama SWEET SCIENCE about a determined
boxing manager who drafts an unknown female boxer to make a name for them
both. Gary Goldman, Stan Seidel and Rick Angres wrote the script.
* Sean Connery is in final talks to star in THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY
GENTLEMEN for 20th Century Fox, based on the comic book by Alan Moore and
Kevin O'Neill. Connery will play Allan Quatermain, who along with Mina
Harker, the Invisible Man, Dr. Henry Jekyll, Captain Nemo, Dorian Gray and
their American liaison, police detective Thomas Sawyer, have been assembled
by Queen Victoria and the British Secret Service to stop a villain intent on
turning the nations of the world against each other. Production begins this
summer in the Czech Republic and Morocco.
* Billy Bob Thornton is attached to star in an adaptation of David Ambrose's
novel COINCIDENCE for Artisan Pictures and his Stone Village Prods. The
psychological thriller centers on an author who researches the phenomenon of
coincidence and begins to experience a series of coincidences that lead to
dramatic and potentially fatal results. This includes the discovery of an
identical twin brother he was unaware of who happens to be a theif on the
run and wants to kill the author and assume his identity.
* Mark Ruffalo is in talk to star opposite Meg Ryan in the erotic thriller
IN THE CUT for director Jane Campion, based on the novel by Susanna Moore.
* Kristanna Loken (PANIC) will play the terminatrix who goes up against
Arnold Schwarzenegger in TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES. Jonathan
Mostow directs the pic which shoots this spring entirely in Los Angeles for
a summer 2003 release.
* Bill Murray is in early talks to star in BAD SANTA for director Terry
Zwigoff, producers Joel and Ethan Coen and Dimension Films. It's about a
couple of con men who dress up like Santa and an elf, traveling to different
malls each Christmas to rob the establishment. However, they meet a troubled
8-year-old who unintentionally reminds them of the true meaning of
Christmas.
* Ben Kingsley will star in the indie crime drama ALL FOR NOTHIN' for
director Predrag "Gaga" Antonijevic. Production begins in April on the
project, based on the true story of telecommunications pioneer Walter L.
Shaw and his son Walter T. Shaw, the "Dinner Time Burglar." As a young man,
Walter T. Shaw witnessed his father go uncredited for his work and sought
fame through a career in crime.
DIRECTOR/WRITER ATTACHMENTS
* U.K. commercial and music video helmer Vaughan Arnell will direct the
action/thriller ROOFWORLD, adapted from the novel by Christopher Fowler, for
Fine Line Features and Granada Film. It's about war among alternative
communities that inhabit the rooftops of London and loathe the world below
them. Ollie Blackburn penned the screenplay.
* Fox 2000 has grabbed J. Barton Mitchell's supernatural thriller script
SILVER STRIKE for producers Mark Gordon and Trevor Albert. The project,
which focuses on a group of werewolf hunters, is described as BLACK HAWK
DOWN with werewolves.
* Don Cheadle will make his directorial debut on TISHOMINGO BLUES, based on
the new Elmore Leonard novel, for Britain's Film Four. Cheadle may also
play the villain. It's about a con artist from Detroit, who is trying to
take over the Dixie mob's Gulf Coast drug business, and finds a way in
thanks to a circus high diver who witnesses a murder. The story culminates
in the reenactment of a famous Civil War battle.
* Indian filmmaker Ujjal Chattopadhyay is making ESCAPE FROM THE TALIBAN, a
film based on the real-life story of a woman tortured and forcibly converted
to Islam by the Taliban in Afghanistan. The project is being shot in
English and Hindi at Mumbai studios and will be released in May.
* Neil Jordan will direct the historical drama BORGIA about the infamously
corrupt Spanish Borgia family. The project will focus on the greed,
ruthlessness and nepotism of the family under Pope Alexander VI and their
running the 16th century Vatican as a crime syndicate. Eventuall, it tears
them apart. Robert Zemeckis, Jack Rapke and Steve Starkey will produce
through their Imagemovers shingle along with Stephen Woolley. Production
may begin by late summer.
* Neil LaBute will write and direct VAPOR, based on the novel by Amanda
Filipacchi, as a possible vehicle for Renee Zellweger. It's about an artist
who makes clouds in buildings and the aspiring actress whom he trains.
Shooting is slated to begin this fall in New York.
* Warner Bros. has grabbed the action/drama pitch RACE CAR KID from scribed
Brent Bell and Matthew Peterman for Cosmic Entertainment to produce. The
project is set in the intense junior leagues of NASCAR. Cosmic
Entertainment is headed by Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Kate Hudson and Oliver
Hudson, each of whom has his or her own company underneath the Cosmic
banner. RACE CAR KID will be a Cosmic production in conjunction with Oliver
Hudson's Workshed Entertainment. The other companies under Cosmic include
Hawn's Clearlight Prods., Russell's Go Mav Prods. and Kate Hudson's Birdie
Prods. Cosmic also is developing the comedy LAST CALL at Disney with Barry
Sonnenfeld attached to direct and Kate Hudson attached to star.
* Bille August will direct the noir thriller WITHOUT APPARENT MOTIVE, penned
by Eric Blakeny (GUN SHY), for Splendid Pictures and YSA Prods. It's about
a sheriff's detective and his search for the murderer of three high-profile
L.A. businessmen. His ability to get inside the head of a serial killer
takes him through a string of suspects that extends into the city's high
society. Production will begin in the spring in Los Angeles.
* Nigel Cole (SAVING GRACE) will direct CALENDAR GIRLS, based on the true
story of 12 middle-aged Yorkshire women who posed naked for a calendar to
raise money for charity. The women were trying to raise funds for medical
research, following the terminal illness of one of their husbands. Juliette
Towhidi wrote the script.
* Oliver Stone is shooting LOOKING FOR FIDEL, a documentary on Fidel Castro
with the president's reported cooperation, for Spain's MediaPro, Morena
Films and Pentagrama Films. The project will include extensive interviews
with Castro, including his views on Cuba, the world and his own life. The
movie is set to get a theatrical release this fall in Spain.
* Oliver Stone is also set to direct Heath Ledger in ALEXANDER, a big-budget
epic about Macedonian conqueror Alexander the Great, for executive producer
Moritz Borman of Pacifica Film Development and Intermedia Films. Stone is
working with Christopher Kyle (K-19: THE WIDOWMAKER) on a screenplay.
Shooting begins Oct. 16 in India for a Christmas 2003 release.
* Robert Zemeckis will develop and produce with an eye to direct POLAR
EXPRESS, based on the children's book by Chris Van Allsburg, for Castle Rock
and Warner Bros. William Broyles (CAST AWAY) has written a treatment. Tom
Hanks is attached to star and produce.
* Joe Camp will write and direct BENJI RETURNS: THE PROMISE OF CHRISTMAS for
Myriad Pictures. The project is the latest in the Benji franchise and will
center on the mutt challenging a misguided dogcatcher while struggling to
provide Christmas to a couple of poverty-stricken children. . Shooting is
expected to begin in April in Canada.
* Mike Newell will develop and direct THE UNTITLED JOHN MILIUS WESTERN
PROJECT for Catch 23 Entertainment and producer Adam Fields. It's an epic
about a half-Apache bounty hunter who sets out to capture the last great
renegade Apache Indian. Newell is working with writer-director Milius on a
rewrite.
* Brazilian director Walter Salles (CENTRAL STATION, BEHIND THE SUN) will
next direct THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES, the Che Guevara biopic. The film will
recount the journey of Guevara, who was then a medical student but would
become a charismatic and controversial political revolutionary. With his
friend Alberto Granado, Guevara traveled the South American continent on a
personal odyssey in the early 1950s. Playwright Jose Rivera wrote the
script, adapted from journals by Guevara and Granado. The Spanish-language
project is expected to begin production in the fall.
* Christian De Sica and Graziano Diana have written the screenplay LA PORTA
DEL CIELO (THE DOOR TO HEAVEN) which Miramax will finance and produce. It's
the true story of the unorthodox shooting of Vittorio De Sica's --
Christian's father -- religious-themed film of the same name during World
War II. The younger De Sica will also play his father in the project.
Shooting is expected to start next year in Rome.
* Damian Shannon and Mark Swift will develop a script based on the video
game STATE OF EMERGENCY for New Line Cinema. The game is set in a future in
which social and economic chaos has left a city in the hands of a monolithic
corporation that only a few resistance fighters attempt to confront.
* Gary Scott Thompson (THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS) will write for Universal
Pictures a script featuring skateboarder Tony Hawk. Thompson and Hawk will
use facets of the skateboarder's life to create a tough, fictional look at
the counterculture world Hawk grew up in, long before he became a
skateboarding superstar. It's being described as BOOGIE NIGHTS meets THE
FAST AND THE FURIOUS.
* Paramount has nabbed the comedy THE NEW FOON, scripted by Chris Ord and
Matt Corman, about a magician who goes into rehab and is replaced by a
look-alike. Jack Black may star in and produce the project.
* Hossein Amini (THE WINGS OF THE DOVE) has rewritten the World War II pic
THE GREAT RAID, based on the book by William B. Breuer, for Miramax.
Production is slated for April. It's about an Army lieutenant in the
Phillippines who sets out to liberate 500 American prisoners from a Japanese
POW camp. Benjamin Bratt is attached to star. Amini will also adapt the
Leon Uris novel MILA 18 about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
* Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio (SHREK) will develop the thriller SHADOWPLAY
for Digital Domain. It's about the relationship between a young man and his
shadow. Shawn Riopelle is writing the script.
MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCTION TIDBITS
* Disney is developing THE JUNGLE BOOK II and PIGLET'S BIG MOVIE through
it's Walt Disney Television Animation, though a theatrical or
straight-to-video release is yet to be determined. Many Disney projects are
being developed as direct-to-video releases, but some may see a theatrical
premiere a la RETURN TO NEVERLAND.
* Crystal Sky has purchased the rights to make a feature film version of the
successful video game franchise TEKKEN, in association with Japan's Gaga
Communications and the game's maker, Namco.
* DreamWorks is in final talks to purchase the English-language remake
rights to I.M. Pictures' Korean romantic comedy MY SASSY GIRL for Maverick
Films to produce. It's about a guy and girl who date and break up without
having had any sexual contact together. As a condition of their breakup,
they agree to write love letters to each other expressing how passionately
they feel for each other and seal them up in a time capsule agreeing to meet
and read each other's letters in two years. If they both feel the same way,
they will get back together. Two years later, he arrives, but she never
shows. He opens both letters and finds an unexpected surprise.
Until next week...
Elston Gunn
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I mena yeah I know the show now sucks......but hey....bright side he is returning for the 2 hour series finale.....perhaps that may be worth watching. I also read that the last four eps before the finale....aare supposed to all be devoted to tying up loose ends. Perhaps Chri$ Carter looked up the word Closure and will try to bring some of us some of it.
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... 'Black Hawk Down with werewolves' anybody? Oh dear.
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Just what the world needs.
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Feb 23, 2002 2:02:12 PM CST
How the fuck can something be "Black Hawk Down with werewolves?"
by regis travolta
If that's not the dumbest idea I've ever heard I don't know what is.
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On the negative side: I absolutely love the Jungle Book and can't imagine how any follow up can hold a candle to the first, which is pure joy. I mean who's going to voice King Louie? David Lee Roth? "Like Black Hawk Down with werewolves..." Well if that ain't the dumbest, most crass pitch I ever heard. And I love werewolf movies. **** The good: Yay! LaBute and Renee! Nurse Betty was one of the few enjoyable films of 2000 and Renee is just wonderful. Even her name is fun to say "Zellweger" Bill Murray in Bad Santa? Score! Why do I think the Coens and Zwigoff explaining "the true meaning of Christmas" will be nuts?
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At least i'll look forward to that film.
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Feb 23, 2002 4:06:45 PM CST
Zwigoff and the Coen Brothers collaborating on a "true meaning o
by hoichitheearless
Hmmm....
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Feb 23, 2002 4:39:01 PM CST
"like Black Hawk Down, but with WEREWOLVES" the next bomb-in-rib
by darth tj mackey
I feel bad for Buzz Maverik in a way. How can even the most clever or imaginative post he creates come close to some real life shit like that? Reality is trumping parody for ridiculousness in a big way these days.
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SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - 'NSYNC will sing the American national anthem during Sunday's closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics. This performance is intended to deal further humilation to opponents defeated by the US Olympic teams. Earlier this year, 'NYSNC was to be as used retribution against hyper-critical Star Wars fans who were dissatisfied with George Lucas and his treatment of The Phantom Menace. Their cameo was pulled however, due too a public outcry that deemed their use as "too excessive".
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Feb 23, 2002 6:00:30 PM CST
Since Buzz isn't here yet, I might as well stand in for him
by kingkrypton
TAKEN FROM THE PAGES OF OVERACTIVE LUNATIC FANTASIES: Director Roger Christian (BATTLEFIELD EARTH) and LeAnn Rimes will team together to make the comedy/murder mystery TEATS, about a epynomous stripper (Rimes) who, with her overly horny fellow dancer/best buddy (Christina Aguilera), ineptly tries to solve the murder of one of their colleagues. Unfortunately, they're both too stupid to realize that the clues lead directly to another fellow stripper (Sally Struthers), who hates them and wants to be the sole pole dancer at their club. Keith Richards appears as Rimes' love interest. Jon Peters will produce from a screenplay by Carrot Top, Corey Mandell (BATTLEFIELD EARTH), the Amazing Jonathan, and Joe Eszterhas. Warner Bros. will distribute.----Freddie Prinze Jr., Matthew Lillard, Tom Welling, and Keanu Reeves will star in the hip-hop farce WISE CRACKERS, about a gaggle of dopey white boys who train under a sucky rap outfit (the Cash Money Millionaires) to become a mega-successful hip-hop boy band that runs afoul a crazed, reggae-singing Hare Krishna boy band (the Backstreet Boys, 98 Degrees) wielding lethal Super Soakers filled with Snapple. DJ Pooh (THE WASH) will write and direct. Warner Bros. will distribute.----Speaking of WB, the studio has decided to green-light Kevin Costner's epic thriller SEAMAN RAMPAGE, in which Captain Nemo, Captain Ahab, Sinbad the Sailor, the Gorton's fisherman, Tommy the Tuna, Aquaman, and Namor all get PO'd because their respective bosses won't pay them proper royalties. So they all bad together as a terrorist group that destroys seafood restaurants and grocery store displays. Akiva Goldsman will script, Costner will direct and play the Gorton's fisherman. Music will be by Yoko Ono.----From WB's TV division, the stalled sitcom ARNIE has been re-energized and is on the fast track for Fall 2003. Arnold Schwarzengger will play a retired circus strongman who's forced to room with a wacky she-male (Crispin Glover) and a narcoleptic dominatrix who spends all her time traipsing about in the nude (Chyna). As a result, Ah-nuld has a really hard time explaining to his ex-wife and his kids about his lifestyle, and he can't get a date to save his life. Originally developed by Ain't It Cool News satirist Buzz Maverick, the sitcom will now be overseen by Eugenie Ross-Leming and Brad Buckner (LOIS & CLARK), who believe that the show "needs some frog-eating clones in order to connect with Middle America." More on this as it develops.----Stay tuned to WKK1978 for more Hollywood news!
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Hmmm...I don't recall any of the NSYNC/SW's posts ever using the phrase "too excessive." Most of the complaints were rude, crude and physiologically impossible, but I don't remember seeing "too excessive." *sigh* Just goes to prove you can't believe everything you read.____Black Hawk Down with werewolves? In which circle of hell would that be located? That I've obviously died and gone to movie hell is the only logical explanation for this bit of nonsense. Oh well, must go...satan is showing Rollerball followed by Glitter for our viewing pleasure. I don't wanna be late for that one!____Bee
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Feb 23, 2002 9:11:02 PM CST
Re: ebonic plague & KingKrypton (and Buzz Maverick in advance)
by drak_tanner
That's some funny shit, but when hackass studio execs pick up these ideas and start workshopping them, the world will know who to hunt down and punish (after the film execs, of course). I can see it now: ****AICN Talkbackers Brutally Assaulted By Angry Film Mobs, Film Project Based On Their Story In Works, Described as "Black Hawk Down In A Movie Theater".****
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Tale Spin... damn. I haven't thought of that show in years. I remember my best friend getting really indignant about the show's liberal disregard for aerodynamics. I guess he was an Internet geek years before his time. ***** I don't remember King Louie very much from that show but Shere Khan looked great in that suit didn't he? Shere Khan: best Disney villain ever! Does anyone want to challenge this?
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TAKEN FROM THE (LAST WORDS,REPORT CARD, DENTAL RECORD) OF (DUTCH SCHULTZ, GIOVONNI RIBISI'S CAREER, YOUR VIRGINITY)... Adam Resnick just sold his spec script (DOUBLE BAGGER, DO IT FOR GLORY,BEER BOTTLE EYES) to Jersey films. The story involves a (salad bar manager, quantum phyicist, cop on the edge) who has started dating an ugly woman with a great body and his efforts to psyche himself into having sex with her...Jerry Bruckheimer has signed (Michael Bay, Tony Scott, Simon West) to direct (REINHOLD, PISCOPO & HAYES; TRA-LA-DE-BOOM-DE-AY; BALL OF FIRE) about three out of work actors who form a detective agency. (Ben Affleck, Nicolas Cage, Wil Smith) is interested in the lead role...Walt Disney is getting back to good, old fashioned family fare with Brian Robbins' (NEVER MIND THE IGUANAS; SANCHO, THE LONESOME POLE CAT; THE MYSTERY OF GILA MONSTER GULTCH) starring (Chevy Chase, Bill Paxton, Mickey Rourke)...The latest comic book to film adaptation is (Alan Moore's, Neil Gaiman's, Rob Liefeld's) (ENGLISH-MAN; ROSEMARY SAYGE; DEATHBLUD) to be directed by fan fave (Joel Schumacher, Barry Sonnenfeld, Chris Columbus. The casting is controversial because (Leonardo Di Caprio, Seth Green, Ryan Phillipe) has been signed to play the guy in tights and his arch-enemy, the heretofore African American Top Brotha will be played by (Brendan Fraser, Angelina Jolie, Michael Caine). See you at the (commitment hearing, root canal, bar mitzvah)...
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LUIZ GUZMAN AS "SPANKY". He was last seen in Count of Monte Cristo and Traffic. Zhang Ziyi as Libra. Michael Clark Duncan as Bull. Robert Patrick as MacNeil. I know that this cast would absolutely rock in the chaotic city State of Emergency is set in. I hope the powers that be in charge of bringing this fantastic videogame to the big screen see this. BTW Dean Winters who plays O'Reilly on OZ would be perfect for the role of MAX PAYNE.
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...you assholes how they are going to do "Blackhawk Down with werewolves" but you will just have to pay your 8 bucks like everybody else. My friend sold that script to the producer of Speed amidst a furious bidding war among some of the biggest studios and producers in town. And by the way, it's not like he just hopped on some trend. He's been working on the script for years. That "pitch" was from Joel fucking Silver after he liked the script. It's what he wrote after being disappointed that Vampires wasn't exactly the supernatural Wild Bunch he expected. He's a fellow film geek like the rest of us who busted his ass to break into the film business. And by the way, if you think his idea sucks, then you should just see all the horrific pieces of shit they are sending him to rewrite. By glad none of THOSE are getting made and his will be soon. He's gonna be huge. Until then I'll just wait for all these great movies you guys wrote.
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That's right! McG (the jackass hack who directed that abortion Charlie's Angels, compelete with 20,000 script changes and Michael "somebody slam a chair on his head Bay -like direction) gets to direct and F-up the Superman frachise....Great Ceasar's ghost! Somebody please NAPALM Hollywood !!! Where's Jay and Silent Bob when you need them...Ted Demme dies and McG can't score some blow at a basketball game?
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Yeah, I can't wait for that- an absurd hip-hop Superman to pumped techno music...McG should stick to dumb candy-coated crap like Charlie's Angels 2 and saty the hell away from the great American icon that is Superman...jeezus, don't those clowns over at Warners understand the importance of not screwing up one of their most valuable properties by assigning some jack-ass trendy director who knows nothing about a great character and who cares even less? Have they learned nothing from the Joel Shitmacher debacle with Batman? That character was put into the shitter for the last part of the 90s because of their shitty decisions, and they have yet to find a way to clean the crap off the character and return it to the big screen with any sort of dignity and with any potential to redeem the original character and make money off of it. Learn a lesson from Batman (the best work done with the character was Dini and Timm's animated stuff on TV). For God's sake, treat your characters with some dignity and respect- THEY ARE VALUABLE PROPERTIES AND YOU ARE THROWING THEM INTO THE TOILET WITH CRAP DIRECTORS LIKE SCHUMACHER AND McG...WAKE UP, WARNER'S!!! Rant over...
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