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Elston Gunn's WEEKLY RECAP; plus the weekend's Guild Awards
One more post before ol' Father Geek here has to leave Geek Headquarters for today's lineup of panels, parties; and film at the SXSW Film Festival... For those interested our own Headgeek, Harry will be sharing a panel's stage with TROMA Film's Lloyd Kaufman from 3:30 till 5 and then will be celebrating the offical North American Premiere of his book AINT IT COOL at an Austin Convention Center party and signing as a part of the SXSW festival's lineup immediately there after. It will go on for a couple of hours... at least.
The big news out of last week is Ron Howard nabbing the Director's Guild award for A BEAUTIFUL MIND at the guild's ceremony Saturday, and the Screen Actor's Guild awards on Sunday which went to Russell Crowe for best actor in A BEAUTIFUL MIND; Halle Berry as best actress in MONSTER'S BALL; Helen Mirren got best supporting actress in GOSFORD PARK; annnnnd Sir Ian McKellen took home the best supporting actor award for LOTR: FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
Now here's Elston with...
The WEEKLY RECAP...
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Hey guys. Hope all is well. I was gone all weekend, or this would've been
sent sooner.
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Now here's Elston with...
The WEEKLY RECAP...
TAKEN FROM VARIETY AND HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
Hey guys. Hope all is well. I was gone all weekend, or this would've been
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* Jason Isaacs, Miriam Margolyes and Mark Williams have joined the cast of
HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS for Warner Bros. and director Chris
Columbus.
* Jason Biggs and Christina Ricci will star in Woody Allen's next film,
which begins shooting late spring for DreamWorks.
* John C. McGinley joins the whodunit pic I.D. James Mangold directs.
* Shawn Hatosy (JOHN Q) joins William H. Macy and Alec Baldwin in Content
Film's THE COOLER for writer/director Wayne Kramer.
* Ethan Embry is in final talks to join Gerard Butler, Paul Walker and
Frances O'Connor in the action pic TIMELINE for Paramount and director
Richard Donner.
* Kerry Washington (SAVE THE LAST DANCE) joins Meg Ryan and Omar Epps in
AGAINST THE ROPES for Franchise Films and Paramount.
* Keanu Reeves is in negotiations with Jersey Films/3 Arts to star in a
remake of Tom Laughlin's 1971 hit BILLY JACK. The original was about a
half-Native American Vietnam vet who challenged the establishment and
championed a group of runaway teens as well as the environment in an Arizona
town.
* Jamie Foxx is set to star in the golf comedy INGLE WOODS for New Line
Cinema. Duane Martin (ANY GIVEN SUNDAY) will also star in the project which
is based on his original idea. The story follows Ingle Woods, a man who
haphazardly lands a spot on golf's PGA tour. There, he not only shows a
talent for the sport but also finally tries to prove that Tiger Woods is his
long-lost cousin.
* Edward Burns is in talks to star in A SOUND OF THUNDER, based on the Ray
Bradbury short story of the same name, for director Peter Hyams (END OF
DAYS) and Franchise Pictures. It's set in a future where people jump back in
time to hunt prehistoric wildlife. However, all participants make sure only
to kill that which is meant to die, thus preserving the integrity of the
timeline. When a tourist unknowingly squashes a prehistoric butterfly, he
sets in motion a series of "time waves" that will erase humanity from
existence.
* Jack Palance, Kelli Garner and Brad Renfro are in final talks to join
Santiago Segura in RV (aka THE VACATION) for writer/director Kevin Allen.
The pic is about the eccentric lives of people in a trailer park in Alabama.
Production begins in April.
* Kristen Wilson (DR. DOLITTLE) joins CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND for
director George Clooney.
* Mike Myers will star as the cat in DR. SEUSS' THE CAT IN THE HAT with Bo
Welch directing for Imagine Entertainment, Universal Pictures and DreamWorks
Pictures. Shooting begins this fall.
* Tom Arnold joins the cast of CRADLE TO THE GRAVE for director Andrzej
Bartkowiak and producer Joel Silver. Shooting begins this month.
* Natascha McElhone will star alongside George Clooney in SOLARIS, the
Steven Soderbergh-helmed sci-fi thriller for 20th Century Fox.
* Glenn Close, Matthew Modine and Stephen Fry have joined the cast of the
comedy LE DIVORCE for director James Ivory. Naomi Watts, Kate Hudson,
Stockard Channing, James Waterston, Leslie Caron, Thierry Lhermitte and
Melvil Poupaud also star. The feature is about two American sisters
confronted with the complexities of French bourgeois society.
* Benicio Del Toro will star in a remake of the 1974 Sam Peckinpah film
BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA for MGM and music video/commerical
director Samuel Bayer. The screenplay will be written by Harvard English
professor Mateo Silva.
* Ewan McGregor and Tilda Swinton are starring in the sensual thriller YOUNG
ADAM, based on the 1954 novel by Alexander Trocci, for director David
McKenzie. Peter Mullan and Emily Mortimer also star.
* Marisa Tomei is in talks to star opposite Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson
in Revolution Studios' comedy ANGER MANAGEMENT for director Peter Segal.
Shooting begins April 1.
* Will Smith and Martin Lawrence will reteam with producer Jerry Bruckheimer
and director Michael Bay for BAD BOYS 2.
DIRECTOR/WRITER ATTACHMENTS
* Michael Lehmann (40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS) will direct the romantic comedy
THE RAIN IN SPAIN for Industry Entertainment and Miramax Films. Frank
Cappello wrote the screenplay about a bomber that crashed off the coast of
Spain during the 1960s, leaving four undetonated hydrogen bombs in a nearby
village. A young U.S. armed forces lawyer is sent to appease the villagers,
while the Army and Navy clean up the mess. As the lawyer's stay is
prolonged, he becomes enchanted by the village's charms.
* Alan Rudolph will direct the indie pic THE SECRET LIVES OF DENTISTS,
starring Campbell Scott and Hope Davis, for Holedigger Films. Production
starts in Westchester County, N.Y., on March 13. Craig Lucas adapted the
screenplay based on Jane Smiley's novella THE AGE OF GRIEF and focuses on a
dentist who is married with kids. The line between dream and reality becomes
blurred when he falls ill and has a fever dream.
* Ridley Scott and 20th Century Fox are developing a feature about the
Crusades, when Christians were sent by the church to forcefully spread their
faith across Europe and Jerusalem, and have hired William Monahan to write
the script. Scott hopes to direct the project in 2003, possibly starting
this winter.
* John Scott Shepherd's (LIFE OR SOMETHING LIKE IT) novel HENRY'S LIST OF
WRONGS will be published in April, and David O. Russell is polishing
Shepherd's own adaptation for New Line, with Stephen Herek eying it as a
possible directing vehicle. Shepherd's script PRINCE OF POOLS has been set
up with producer John Wells and Warner Bros. It's about a married couple
with a house and kids who are tempted by a Hollywood producer friend who
visits them and convinces the two they should want more. Shepherd is also
writing TONIC for Revolution Studios as a possible Julia Roberts/Adam
Sandler pic about a female con artist who claims to have discovered female
Viagra.
* Beth Rigazio and Patrick Clifton's script STICK IT, about a female figure
skater forced to become a hockey player to get a scholarship, is being
produced by John Scott Shepherd's Warp & Weft.
* Filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky (PARADISE LOST: THE CHILD
MURDERS AT ROBIN HOOD HILLS) will document the making of Metallica's new
album as well as the personal lives of its members. The two have shot
hundreds of hours of footage since last April during a period when the
band's bassist quit and its singer entered rehab.
* Universal snatched up the script PENNY DREADFUL: GHOST DETECTIVE from
writer Darin Scott for Jersey Films to produce. It's a family-oriented pic
about a spooky psychic girl who saves her town from an evil witch.
* Mike Newell will develop and direct the period romance MRS. DARWIN about
the battle Charles Darwin wages with the world, through the eyes of his
wife, Emma. Tim Rose Price (THE SERPENT'S KISS) will write the script for
Catch 23 Entertainment.
* Linda Bloodworth ("Designing Women" creator) has sold the romantic comedy
script BOBBY EWING to Columbia Pictures. It's about an immigrant, who has
learned English from watching episodes of "Dallas," desperately attempting
to sneak into the country because he loves America so much. After countless
attempts, he starts to fall for an Immigration and Naturalization Service
agent who has trouble resisting his obsession with the American way of life.
* Stuart Beattie will rewrite the Jay Wolpert script of PIRATES OF THE
CARIBBEAN for Disney and producer Jerry Bruckheimer. The studio hopes to
begin production this summer.
* Jean-Pierre Jeunet (AMELIE) is in talks to direct a French-language
feature adaptation of Sebastien Japrisot's novel UN LONG DIMANCHE DE
FIANCAILLES (A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT) for Warner Bros. Jeunet will co-write
the pic with Guillaume Laurant. It's about five French conscripts who are
forced into the snowy wastes between the French and German lines and
possibly executed as a brutal punishment for having tried to escape the war.
Two years later, the wheelchair-bound lover of the youngest soldier ventures
to find out if her fiance is still alive.
* Gary Fleder (DON'T SAY A WORD) will direct RUNAWAY JURY, based on the John
Grisham novel, for Regency Enterprises.
* John Moore (BEHIND ENEMY LINES) will direct a remake of the 1965
action/adventure pic THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX for 20th Century Fox and TCF.
The original focused on a group of men stranded in the Sahara desert
following a plane crash. With no way out, they try to build a plane using
pieces from the wreckage. Scott Frank penned the most recent draft, setting
the story in the Mongolian desert.
* Paul W.S. Anderson will write and produce a sequel to RESIDENT EVIL for
Constantin Film and Sony's Screen Gems.
* Revolution Studios has grabbed an untitled pitch from filmmaker Ron
Shelton, who will write, direct and co-produce the project with Lou Pitt.
The project is about a young cop and older cop, both of whom moonlight in
other jobs and get themselves involved in a crime within the music business.
Shelton will write the project with retired police
officer-turned-screenwriter Robert Souza.
* Nick Cassavetes (JOHN Q) is in final talks to direct THE NOTEBOOK for New
Line Cinema, based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks. It's about a retired
salesman who continually visits an old woman in a nursing home. On each
visit, he reads from a notebook a story about two men vying for the same
woman in 1940s North Carolina. It soon becomes clear the patient is the
woman in the notebook and the narrator one of her two suitors.
* Producer Laura Bickford has acquired Tatiana Blackington's script MATA
HARI about the life of the notorious spy and courtesan. The screenwriter has
also penned THE WINTER DANCE, an as-yet-unproduced French Revolution drama.
* Stan Zimmerman and Jim Berg have sold their action-comedy pitch COPS &
ROBBERS to Disney, with Mike Mitchell (DEUCE BIGALOW) attached to direct for
Immortal Entertainment. Zimmerman and Berg will write the screenplay, a
spoof of action buddy pics with kids playing adults in all the roles.
* April Blair's action comedy script OPERATION: SPY GIRL was picked up by
Jersey Films. It's about a young secretary who rises to international field
operative despite being unqualified for the job.
* MGM purchased John Patrick Nelson's script BOUNTY to be produced by
Zide/Perry Entertainment. It's about a supernatural killer in the Old West
and the bounty hunter tracking him down.
* Landscape Pictures has set up the comedy pitch LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR,
based on an idea by Chuck Weinstock (JOE GOULD'S SECRET), at New Line
Cinema. It's the story of an ad exec who's approaching 40 and fears he's
losing his touch. He looks for the lowest common denominator: the
15-year-old boy who wears cool clothes, spots hot trends and is usually
ahead of the curve. When he finds this creature, however, it turns out to be
a 30-year-old who lives in his mom's basement.
* Peter Berg will revamp his directing gig TRUCK 44 as part of a producing
and directing deal at Radar Pictures. He is rewriting the pic about
firefighters who inadvertently start a blaze while robbing a ritzy apartment
building. He'll also direct the drama NAUTICA, which the late Ted Demme was
slated to direct for Columbia Pictures. It's about three friends whose
yachting trip to the Bahamas goes awry.
* DreamWorks has optioned Mickey Birnbaum's script USED GUYS for Red Hour
Films. It's a buddy sci-fi comedy set in a near-future L.A. in which women
buy and trade men like used cars.
* Christopher Wilkinson and Stephen J. Rivele (ALI and NIXON) are in talks
to rewrite the naval action thriller DREADNOUGHT for Columbia Pictures.
It's about the accidental downing of a civilian jetliner in the Atlantic by
the Navy's most sophisticated ship.
* Sidney Lumet will write THE SET UP for RKO Pictures and is in discussions
to direct. Production is scheduled to begin Oct. 1. The project is a
boxing tale that addresses issues of integrity and courage.
* Dean Parisot will develop and direct SPRING BREAK IN BOSNIA for Grand Via
Prods. Based on true events, it's about a trio of tourists who, through a
misunderstanding, become embroiled in a CIA effort to capture a notorious
Bosnian war criminal.
* DreamWorks Pictures grabbed Vic Levin's romantic comedy spec WIN A DATE
WITH TAD HAMILTON with Red Wagon Prods. on board to produce. It's about
what happens when the hottest movie star in Hollywood does battle with a
West Virginia grocery store employee over a sweet small-town girl who has
won a date with the celeb in a contest.
* Ridley Scott will next direct the historical drama TRIPOLI from a script
by William Monahan for 20th Century Fox. It's about the true story of
William Eaton, an American who helped the rightful heir to the throne of
Tripoli lead an overthrow of a corrupt ruler who was oppressing the
population in the early 1800s.
* Marc Forster will shoot the AIDS drama DALLAS BUYERS CLUB, possibly
starring Brad Pitt. Craig Borten and Melissa Wallack wrote the script.
It's about the true story of Ron Woodroof, who founded one of the most risky
and effective AIDS-related disease management efforts in the early to
mid-80s. He tested illegal drugs on himself to prolong his life six years
and help thousands of people with AIDS. However, his initial main motive
was profit, not to help people whose lifestyles he found somewhere between
ridiculous and repugnant. Though after losing his family and friends after
he was identified HIV positive, Woodroof began his experimentation -- and
eventually befriended many in the gay community.
MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCTION TIDBITS
* Produer Scott Rudin has optioned the film rights to author Michael
Chabon's next novel HATZEPLATZ from a a 1-1/2-page proposal. The story is a
thriller set in an imaginary world inspired by FDR's short-lived plan to
create a Jewish homeland in Alaska, rather than in the Middle East. The
protagonist is a Jewish detective, married to an Eskimo, who tries to solve
a murder in the community.
* Columbia Pictures and John Baldecchi Prods. have optioned Robert Frank's
novel THE RISING about an unusual Detroit boy who is discovered to have the
ability to revive the dead with a single touch.
* Although Tom Cruise has officially passed on COLD MOUNTAIN, based on the
prize-winning Civil War epic adapted by Anthony Minghella, the project will
begin productio in July.
* Columbia Pictures has grabbed the film rights to the classic property THE
LONE RANGER for Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher to produce through their Red
Wagon Entertainment. The project will chronicle the adventures of a masked
man known as the Lone Ranger, his horse Silver and trusty companion Tonto,
staying within the classic Western genre but will incorporate a new
interpretation.
* Tom Cruise and producing partner Paula Wagner are developing the third
installment of MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE at Paramount. They may be hoping to reel
in David Fincher to helm the project.
* Columbia Pictures and Tall Trees are developing a movie of India Knight's
novel DON'T YOU WANT ME, while Universal and Tribeca optioned the screen
rights to the Claire Berlinski novel LOOSE LIPS. Knight's story focuses on a
single mother in her late 30s who reenters the dating market and tries to
find love and sex. LOOSE LIPS is a comedy about a young woman who browses
the Internet, comes across a CIA recruitment ad, and soon becomes part of
the training program while falling for a fellow trainee.
* New Line Cinema is buying North American and Italian rights to a
"toned-down, modern refiguring" of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE to be
produced by Michael Bay. Shooting begins this summer.
* Southpaw Media has optioned feature film rights to the historical novel
ONE THOUSAND WHITE WOMEN: THE JOURNALS OF MAY DODD by Jim Fergus, as well as
WE ARE CHILDREN JUST THE SAME, the latter in partnership with Fearless
Films. SAME is a compilation of short stories, poems and artwork created by
a group of 13- to 15-year old Jewish boys in the Terezin concentration camp
during World War II.
* Paramount Pictures is developing an updated version of John
Frankenheimer's 1962 classic THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE. Tina Sinatra will
produce with Scott Rudin.
GUNN SHOTS
(NOT from the trades)
* Go to This Site of Coolness for the next installment of
THE TRUE STORY INVESTIGATION. "This new session is a secret ... and will
disappear forever very soon."
* Visit Right Here for a weekly comic in the vein of
DILBERT and THE FAR SIDE for writers.
* Cinema Next, Inc. has created a multi-path live-action short flick
entitled DUAL, a spoof of Spielberg's made-for-TV movie DUEL. Users may
interact with the story line at specific "choice points" and affect the
final outcome for the main character. Available exclusively at
This Cool Location. Also visit http://www.cinemanext.com for more
info.
* Submissions deadline to the Los Angeles Film Festival is March 22, 2002.
Go to Their Site for details.
* ScreenwritersUtopia.com announces: The 8th Annual $10,000 Screenwriting
Showcase Awards. For more information, visit
http://www.screenwritingawards.com.
* Jurassic Punk has the new Spider-Man TV spot up on their site. See it at
This Spot
* MPS Digital Studios has changed their domain to http://www.mpsdigital.com.
Visit their site for info on their various projects.
Until next week... Happy St. Patrick's Day.
Elston Gunn
elstongunn@hotmail.com
elstongunn@hotmail.com
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God, I can't wait.
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Keanu Reeves as Billy Jack. No no no no no goddammit no hell no fuck no.
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This sounds like an old Simpsons episode. Stupid bug! You go squish now! Also, to David Fincher - please stay away from Mission Impossible 3. It's just not worth it. sk
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This s ounds like an interesting concept for an historical drama. I hope they don't pander to the dumbshit fundies.
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Artribiance- The Talisman miniseries is no more. They're trying to get interest going again (now that LOTR is so huge) but there's no real movement.
Rev-Skarekroe- that Simpsons is based directly on the Bradbury story. You should check it out some time. Bradbury can be sort of purple with his prose, but his short stories are mostly gold, as anyone who has ever read "A rainy season" (think that's what its called) will tell you. -
Update: in THE NOTEBOOK ... "It soon becomes clear the patient is
the woman in the notebook and the narrator one of her two suitors." The other suitor
is apparently a foley artist, when the retired salesman starts "farting" when getting
up from his chair and his footsteps sound like a horse "clip clopping".
Update: The setting in HATZEPLATZ has changed from Alaska to Miami. The wife has
changed from Eskimo to a Cuban.
Hot Item: Buy stock in SAFE-FX, the Special Effects company that cgi-ically replaces guns
and assorted weaponry with walkie-talkies. They have been recently hired to do work for
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE and THE LONE RANGER remakes.
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Mar 11, 2002 3:49:32 PM CST
It is SO fucking creepy that they just decided to make "A Sound
by silenceoffreedom
I read two different comic book versions of it a long time ago. I think one of them was in an "X-Files Comics Digest". I can't even believe it, it's a really great story though, I'm glad they've decided to make the movie. And by the way, the story was out LONG before the (hilarious) simpsons episode, so there you go
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I'd never read the Bradbury story in question, but I'm aware that it surely predates the Simpsons episode. I just wanted to use the "stupid bug" line. sk
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Mar 11, 2002 4:41:24 PM CST
BLAME THE WRITERS - A non-affiliated rant about the incompetence
by cash bailey
Think about it - any half-wit producer or executive can come up with an idea as brilliant as that 'rapping alien midget' thing from last week and splash it all over the trades as a done deal. But believe me when I say that no movie has EVER been green-lit without a script, or at the very least a detailed treatment. Sure, many, MANY movies are green-lit with very bad scripts, but there is always SOMETHING down on paper. And do you honestly think that Mr Rapping Alien Midget knows his own social security number, let alone be able to write a 110 page script or a 40 page treatment? Hell no! Now imagine you are some imaginary, hypothetical screenwriter (named, for argument's sake, say... Drew), and the aforementioned half-wit calls you (Drew) up and says: "Hey, Drew. Got a great idea baby - it's BLACK HAWK DOWN... but with WEREWOLVES! The kids'll think it's da bomb, yo! And I think you're my man." In my opinion, in this situation Drew has the responsibility... nay, DUTY, to tell this fool that it sickens him to be so much as talking to such a dick-head and he has to go take a shower to clean his ineptitude off his skin. Crap like what we read in this column every week CAN and MUST stop with the writer because, as they are so fond of reminding us time and time again (even threatening to strike over it), without them THERE IS NO MOVIE. Honestly, the 'plight of the noble, put-upon screenwriter' is complete horse-shit, especially in today's film climate. As large a percentage of screenwriters are star-fucking whores as are directors or producers. No, scratch that - make that a LARGER percentage, and if they really gave a shit about doing great work and telling meaningful, significant stories, then they should quit bitching and write novels or plays.
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Bringing in David Fincher is probably the only way I'd go see Mission Impossible 3. . .
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the original didnt even get a chance to tank at the box office yet! Hollywood is truly dead. Excuse me while I have a good weeping session
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Mar 11, 2002 6:40:02 PM CST
Manchurian Candidate, or: Bush is due for a shooting
by hoichitheearless
The original had some bad timing when JFK was killed... could history repeat itself? Or did Reagan completely break the twenty year curse? He WAS shot, though. For those who don't know, prior to Reagan every president elected in a year ending in "0" (every twenty years) died while in office, AT LEAST since Lincoln. Not sure if it extends beyond him.
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And also, can't we leave JUST ONE FUCKING CLASSIC FILM ALONE?
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SOUND OF THUNDER has been made for TV once or twice, and done up as a comic. It also served as the basis of TIME COP. It is probably the single best time travel story (as opposed to a novel) ever written. It could make a cool movie, if they don't turn the end into a CGI-infused shoot-em-up in the style of the dreadful PLANET OF THE APES remake. Actually, the real ending of that movie (Abraham Lincoln as a simian, and monkey people everywhere) is exactly the same kind of sickly feeling note that SOUND OF THUNDER ends on. If you know what happens midway through TIME COP, when Van Damme returns to the present, you will know what I mean.
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Mar 11, 2002 11:27:13 PM CST
Harry Knowles starring in the LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR
by bari umenema
It's perfect casting, a 30 year old guy who lives in the basement or up in the attic, spends all his time on the net and sets the trends for all the teens to follow. That's Harry Knowles! Mind of a 15 year old in the body of a 30 year old or in the bodies of five 30 year olds to be more precise.
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Mar 11, 2002 11:59:28 PM CST
INGLE WOODS? OPERATION: SPY GIRL? David Fincher doing M:I3
by kingkrypton
Yet another bizarre recap. Doesn't Fincher have other projects that he'd be better suited to doing? And can't Hollywood find decent scripts?
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Mar 12, 2002 12:04:15 AM CST
I know it's futile to complain about remakes of old classics
by brother putney
... but c'mon: Peckinpah's "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia" is a bloody, filthy, sweaty, lice-ridden, stinky, drunken, hungover, difficult MASTERPIECE. A remake of that film is beyond redundant even if Benecio is gonna star. All you gots to do to understand that is watch both versions of "The Getaway" (if you can even suffer through the remake). Peckinpah movies are like the first orgasm. You can't do it over and it's pathetic to even try. Are you taking me to David?
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Edward Norton would be SO much better. Burns has dead eyes which makes for bad acting all-around! They'll never learn. I'm not surprised to learn that Jason the pie-humper Biggs will do a Woody Allen film. One is a passive-aggressive sexual retard while the other has a career in playing one! I wish Ricci had better taste. Allen was a great filmmaker back in the day (annie hall, crimes and misdemeanors, Hannah and her sisters). Now his movies suck. Jade Scorpion, Deconstructing Harry, Celebrity, etc. End of story.
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I hope that's a mistake up there, because I don't remember anything from Bradbury's short about "erasing humanity from existence". Sounds like another excuse for a messy on-screen CGI apocalypse. Also, it would mean sending a Bruce Willis-a-like into the past to save the day (hooray!), which would erase the whole point of the story. The actual story ending would make a much better, less cheeezy film.
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FUnny as hell. Homer steps on prehistoric lizard and mutters, "Oh, this is gonna cost me."
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Mar 12, 2002 5:35:28 PM CST
"toned-down, modern refiguring" of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE t
by openheimer
WHAT THE MOTHER FUCKING SHIT??!! FUCK THAT!!! ARGGHHHH!!!
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TAKEN WITH A BEER CHASER...Quentin Tarantino has bought the rights to the upcoming Elmore Leonard novel FLORIDA LOWLIFES. He will write a screenplay for Bruce Willis and Ving Rhames to star in, Tarantino said in a couple of thousand words...Romantic comedy fans, look for George Clooney and Sandra Bullock to star in Amy Heckerling's ADOPT A HIGHWAY about two D.U.I. offenders who fall in love while picking up trash along I-10 during their community service...Joel Silver will produce, Richard Donner will direct Scott Rosenberg's screenplay GRUDGE MATCH, with Meg Ryan starring as a kickboxer out to avenge her brother's kickboxing related murder...Steven Spielberg just cannot stay away from WWII. He will direct Randall Wallace's screenplay, based on real life events, entitled WHO?ME? about psychological warfare against Japanese soliders in occupied cities. Brad Pitt will star as a scientist who developes a compound that smells like diahreah and leaves a brown stain. Urchins would sneak up and spray it on the pants of Japanese soldiers and scamper away before they could be bayoneted. Pitt's character, Dr. Seymour Glick, developed the compound after learning that the Japanese were especially shamed by the smell of their own excretion (like who isn't?). Gedde Wantanabe will co-star as a hapless solider...Nick Cassavetes will direct Henry Shield's screenplay GARY BUSEY'S SKULL. The film will depict Gary Busey's bizzare behavior, following a head injury, on the set of the movie CADENCE. He staggered around incoherently, driving director Martin Sheen (Christopher Walken) insane, leading him to fire his ass and take his role. One powerful scene involves Busey screaming that actress Kelly Preston (Amy Locane), then the fiancee of the film's star Charlie Sheen (Joshua Jackson) was putting a curse on him and trying to kill him. Omar Epps costars as Lawrence Fishburne...See you at the deposition.
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Word, bitch. Buzz Maverick like a muh-fucker!
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I'm usually content to read and keep my opinion to myself BUT remaking this movie is just ludicrous. Michael Bay 's presence, however, has me so perplexed and just plain angered that I'm almost over the fact that it's being remade in the first place. Does that make sense??
Just imagine if Tobe Hooper had two dozen accountants over his shoulder when shooting the original ("No Tobe, the girl can't go on the meathook because you risk isolating the 18-24 year old white female demographic..."). Great horror, or even good horror, usually comes from little money and lot's of enthusiasm/imagination from the cast/crew. Don't believe me? Compare Thirteen Ghosts to Last HOuse on the Left.
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Mar 13, 2002 2:18:30 AM CST
I Would Agree With You About Blaming The Writers, Cash, Except..
by buzz maverik
...some producer is paying me one million dollars, having a Purdy shotgun made for me, buying me a Chevy Suburban and having it packed with Cuban cigars, and babysitting my pitbull next weekend if I write something like BLACKHAWK DOWN with werewolves, only instead of werewolves, it's serial killers.
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