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Elston Gunn's WEEKLY RECAP
Father Geek here with another week ending report from our man Elston Gunn. Its a lengthty one this week with lots of interesting tidbits coming out of tinseltown during the past work week that you might have missed. Soooo get comfortable and prepare to scroll through the week that was in...
THE WEEKLY RECAP...
TAKEN FROM VARIETY AND HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
CASTING
TAKEN FROM VARIETY AND HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
CASTING
* Shia LaBeouf joins HOLES, starring Sigourney Weaver and Jon Voight, for
director Andrew Davis, Walden Media and Phoenix Pictures.
* Vivica A. Fox, Michael Jai White and LaTanya Richardson are in advanced
talks to take roles in KILL BILL for writer/director Quentin Tarantino. Uma
Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah and Lucy Liu will star.
* Russell Crowe is the leading candidate to star in the historical drama
TRIPOLI for director Ridley Scott and 20th Century Fox. William Monahan is
writing the script about the true story of William Eaton, an American who
helped the heir to the throne of Tripoli lead an overthrow of a corrupt
ruler in the early 1800s.
* David Duchovny will portray crime novelist James Ellroy (L.A.
CONFIDENTIAL) in the upcoming adaptation of Ellroy's memoir MY DARK PLACES,
which chronicles the author's quest to resolve the unsolved murder of his
mother in 1958. Jan Oxenberg has adapted the book with Robert Greenwald
(STEAL THIS MOVIE) set to direct for American Zoetrope and Myriad Pictures.
Production begins in June in L.A. Ellroy is interested in Dana Delany to
portray his mother.
* Andy Garcia joins Edward Burns, Dustin Hoffman, Morris Chestnut, Rachel
Weisz, Paul Giamatti and Brian Van Holt in the drama CONFIDENCE for Lions
Gate and director James Foley.
* Kevin Costner will direct, produce and star in OPEN RANGE, a Western
feature co-starring Robert Duvall, for Disney. Craig Storper wrote the
script about the everyday travails of four men living in the West.
* Sean Penn is attached as star in THE SECRET LIFE OF DALTRY CALHOUN,
written by Katrina Holden Bronson, for Catch 23 Entertainment. Bronson will
also direct. The story is set in the South and centers on a teenage girl
who watches her deliquent father trying desperately to make things right in
his life.
* Eddie Murphy will star in DADDY DAY CARE for director Steve Carr, Davis
Entertainment and Revolution Studios. Production begins Aug. 1. Geoff
Rodkey penned the script about a father who loses his job and, to make ends
meet, turns his house into a day care center.
* Ellen Pompeo and Coolio join the cast of DAREDEVIL for Fox/Regency and
director Mark Steven Johnson.
* Russell Crowe may reteam with director Ron Howard in a small role in THE
ALAMO and possibly in CINDERELLA MAN, the Jim Braddock biopic that Imagine
is eyeing.
* Mark Wahlberg will star in a remake of the 1969 movie THE ITALIAN JOB for
director F. Gary Gray and Paramount. Production begins Aug. 3. Donna and
Wayne Powers wrote the news script about a career thief who heads the crew
that masterminds a massive gold bullion take by creating the largest traffic
jam in L.A. history.
* Nona Gaye (ALI) joins THE MATRIX: RELOADED and THE MATRIX: REVOLUTIONS for
Warner Bros./Village Roadshow in a role that was supposed to be played by
the late Aaliyah. The project is currently filming in Australia.
* Dakota Fanning (I AM SAM) will star opposite Mike Myers in DR. SEUSS' THE
CAT IN THE HAT for Universal, DreamWorks and Imagine Entertainment.
Shooting begins this fall with Bo Welch directing.
* Juliette Binoche will star in a feature, based on Antjie Krog's book
COUNTRY OF MY SKULL for director John Boorman, about the hearings into
apartheid-era atrocities by South Africa's Truth & Reconciliation
Commission.
DIRECTOR/WRITER ATTACHMENTS
* Mike Mitchell will direct Ben Affleck in DreamWorks' SURVIVING CHRISTMAS
for Tall Trees Prods. Production begins in October on the story of a man
who goes back to his childhood home during the holidays and persuades the
family that now lives there to take him in by paying them cash to pretend
they are his family.
* Mike Figgis is in final talks to direct Disney's thriller COLD CREEK MANOR
about an urban couple who move to the country to open a bed-and-breakfast,
where they are terrorized by the former owner of the property.
* Radar Pictures has snapped up Graham Joyce's psychological suspense novel
THE TOOTH FAIRY and has hired Joyce to adapt the screenplay, which will be
titled THE WRAITH. It's about a boy who learns that the tooth fairy is a
menacing presence that both torments and seduces him as he battles his way
through a supernaturally charged youth.
* Visual effects director-turned-helmer Pitof is in talks to take the reins
of Warner Bros.' CATWOMAN for Di Novi Pictures. Ashley Judd is still
attached to the project, rewritten by John Rogers, which follows a
cat-loving gymnast who runs an animal grooming business. Her alter ego,
Catwoman, must battle against the town's evil mayor and his business
associate.
* Clare Kilner (JANICE BEARD: 45 WORDS PER MINUTE) will direct Mandy Moore
in New Line's teen romance pic HOW TO DEAL. It's about a girl who believes
love doesn't exist.
* Will Geiger will adapt the Korean gangster dramedy HI DHARMA for MGM as an
English-language feature. It's about a group of five gangsters who hide out
in a Buddhist monastery.
* Universal Pictures picked up Robert Franke's (MADE MEN) intergalactic
thriller RAZORS for Stephen Sommers and Bob Ducsay to produce. The story is
set 600 years in the future and centers on a group of Earth's 12 worst
criminals to confront a group of genetically altered, evil superhumans.
* Scott Kosar will pen an untitled supernatural thriller for Laurence Mark
Prods. and Columbia Pictures about a doctor and his daughter in a small New
England town.
* Disney has committed to develop an untitled sophisticated family comedy
pitch by TADPOLE co-writer Heather McGowan with that movie's director Gary
Winick attached to helm. Meanwhile, Winick is also looking to set up a
project with TADPOLE co-writer Niels Mueller.
* Jason Richman (BAD COMPANY, upcoming BEVERLY HILLS COP IV) will write an
untitled babysitter project for the Jacobson Co. and Disney. It's described
as a high-concept action comedy about a secret service agent. Richman will
also pen another script for producer Jerry Bruckheimer.
* Milos Forman is writing and will direct an adaptation of Donald Westlake's
novel BAD NEWS for Regency Enterprises and 20th Century Fox, who are in
negotiations to co-finance the feature. Doug Wright (QUILLS) is co-writing
the project. It's about a crook who signs on for an underhanded takeover of
an Indian casino but discovers he's set himself up to be ripped off.
* John Lee Hancock (THE ROOKIE) will write and direct RADS, based on the Tom
Bates book, about Vietnam War-era peace activist turned saboteur Carl
Armstrong. The University of Wisconsin student ended up on the FBI Most
Wanted List when he and three other students blew up an Army-built campus
building, killing a young researcher.
* Writers John Glenn and Travis Wright will update THE WARRIORS for MTV
Films and Paramount Pictures. The original film centers on a small group of
gang members who are falsely accused of killing a peace-seeking gang leader.
They are chased through New York's streets by rival gangs hellbent on
revenge. Glenn and Travis have taken guns out of the story and replaced
them with an urban hybrid of martial arts and street fighting.
* Joe Dante will direct an untitled Looney Tunes feature for Warner Bros.
John Recqua, Glenn Ficarra and Larry Doyle wrote the script which puts the
animated characters in a live action world. Shooting begins in July for a
Thanksgiving 2003 release.
* Music video director Bille Woodruff will direct the feature HONEY for
Universal and Marc Platt Prods. It's about a tough, but sexy inner-city
woman who finds success as a video choreographer, a dream that's threatened
when her mentor blackballs her for not sleeping with him. The script was
originally written by Alonzo Brown and Kim Watson with a rewrite by Kate
Lanier (GLITTER).
* David Fickas will write and direct the comedy LOVE ME WEIRD for Matador
Pictures and Magic Hour Pictures, based on an original screenplay by Andy
Smith. It's about a group of actors who base a bizarre stage show on the
real-life exploits of an imprisoned serial killer with disastrous results.
* Intermedia and Outlaw Prods. are developing THE 11th HOUR, a feature film
based on the true story of how confessed Russian spy Robert Hanssen's
espionage was discovered and exposed. Adam Mazer and Bill Rotko will write
the project detailing how Hanssen was caught thanks to the help of a
27-year-old surveillance operative named Eric O'Neill.
* Jim Fall (TRICK) will direct the teen music drama HEART OF SUMMER, written
by Sam Shriver, for New Line and ChickFlicks. It's about a small-town girl
in New York, where she spends the summer going to a music school and
learning to believe in her talent and dreams.
* New Line grabbed Kevin Taft's script ALONE for David S. Goyer's Phantom
Four Films about an agoraphobic high school student who finds out her home
is haunted and must overcome her fear or die.
* John Davis (JIMMY NEUTRON: BOY GENIUS) will write and direct the CGI pic
ANT BULLY, based on the children's book by John Nickle, for Universal and
Playtone. The story centers on a boy who, after destroying an anthill with
his water gun, is shrunk to insect size and sentenced to hard labor in the
colony. Before returning to his normal size, he learns to appreciate the
selfless nature of the ants, and helps them combat wasps.
* Jenny Bicks ("Leap of Faith" creator) will adapt Meg Cabot's (PRINCESS
DIARIES) novel ALL AMERICAN GIRL for Disney. It's about a 15-year-old
Washington, D.C., teen who unintentionally saves the president's life and
tries her best to handle her sudden fame.
* Stephen Norrington (BLADE) will write and direct an adaptation for Warner
Bros. of the classic Japanese animated sci-fi adventure AKIRA. Jon Peters
will produce. The original was based on a Japanese comic book novel about a
group of motorcycle-riding teens who must stop one of their members from
wreaking havoc after he acquires telekinetic powers in a government
experiment.
* Pandemonium grabbed the romantic comedy pitch AS YOU WISH from writers
Robert Kuhn, his wife, Sheila Barnes, and his wife's sister, Mary Ann
Barnes. It's about a couple in the middle of a bitter divorce. Through a
series of comedic incidents, the two unexpectedly find themselves falling in
love again.
MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCTION TIDBITS
* Producer Scott Rudin has acquired the rights to Charles Frazier's (COLD
MOUNTAIN) next novel, an untitled novel which will fictionalize the life of
Will Thomas. Thomas, who spoke only in Cherokee, was discovered in an
insane asylum in 1905. He was born in 1805 in North Carolina and, at 13,
was sent out West to live with distant cousins and was adopted by a Cherokee
chief. Thomas later became a frontier lawyer representing Cherokee
interests in Washington, and upon the chief's death, became the only white
Cherokee chief; during the Civil War, he led a band of Cherokees fighting on
the Confederate side.
* Martin Scorsese and Miramax have agreed that GANGS OF NEW YORK will now
open Christmas week.
* Mike Barker's CROMWELL AND FAIRFAX is back on track now that the project
is fully refinanced. Dougray Scott, Tim Roth, Rupert Everett and Olivia
Williams star.
* Producer Steven Jay Rubin has purchased the rights to Jack Engelhard's
(INDECENT PROPOSAL) thriller DEADLY DECEPTION about a sharp dice player who
becomes entangled with an treacherous casino pit boss during a weekend in
Atlantic City.
* DreamWorks has won an auction for remake rights to BILLY JACK, as a
vehicle for Keanu Reeves, who will play the title character. Danny DeVito
and Jersey Films will produce.
* The highest-grossing film in Japanese history is headed to the United
States as a Walt Disney Co. release. Disney has acquired the domestic
theatrical, home entertainment and TV rights to the highest-grossing film in
Japanese history, the animated film SPIRITED AWAY from legendary Japanese
filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki. The film will be released in the fall after TOY
STORY director John Lasseter serves as creative consultant for a newly
dubbed version. Lasseter will not make any new cuts, but oversee the
translation of the script and the voice casting.
* New Line Cinema and MGM have reached an agreement that allows New Line to
use the title AUSTIN POWERS IN GOLDMEMBER for the next installment which
will be released July 26.
* Paramount Pictures has purchased the film rights to Edgar Rice Burroughs'
sci-fi book series JOHN CARTER OF MARS for Alphaville to produce. It's
about a Civil War officer from Virginia who is transported to Mars and finds
himself a captive of the savage green men from Thark. Eventually, he rises
to become the greatest warrior of all time, marries the beautiful Dejah
Thoris, raises a family and heads out on many adventures. The studio is
excited about the first three books in the series -- A PRINCESS OF MARS, THE
WARLOAD OF MARS and THE GODS OF MARS -- to form a trilogy with hopes to be
in production on the first installment next year.
* Scott Steindorff and his Stone Village Prods. have optioned Paul Sussman's
archaeological adventure book THE LOST ARMY OF CAMBYSES for Luis Mandoki to
direct as well as produce with Danny Davids. It's about a series of murders
in Egypt but are somehow linked to the death of an eminent British
archaeologist. An investigator finds himself teamed with the archaeologist's
daughter in a desperate race for survival. Drawn into a web of violence,
intrigue and betrayal, they end up in the heart of the Western desert and an
answer to one of the greatest mysteries of the ancient world.GUNN SHOTS
(NOT from the trades)
* Don't forget to visit TyRuben Ellingson's site at This Spot for cool designs and more.
* Chad Waters's new film WHEN ZOMBIES ATTACK can be see by Just Clicking Here . Think NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD meets
"Cops."
* See the trailer for THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS at This Location . An artist slips into madness when he
becomes obsessed with a painting based on his horrific visions received from
a mysterious old mirror.
* Interested in Star Wars Lego Animations? Go to These Guys for more.
* Info on screenings for Ivan Rogers's film FORGIVE ME FATHER can be found
at This Site.
Until next week...
Elston Gunn
elstongunn@hotmail.com
elstongunn@hotmail.com
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The words "uh" and "oh" spring to mind.
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This takes the cake for worst news of the week. I'm sorry, but Norrington has done NOTHING do deserve a film like AKIRA. Does anyone really believe that a live action (and I'm just guessing here that Hollywood wouldn't be producing an animated remake) AKIRA could do ANY justice to the story? AKIRA is such a huge story to tell, there is no way to condense it or limit its size to accomodate for live-action. I pray to the elder gods that neither this nor NINJA SCROLL 90210 ever see the light of day. In an unrelated note, Jedi Outcast for the PC is the best game ever made...
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Captain, the Skepticism Meter is off the charts! She's gonna blow!
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Apr 15, 2002 2:58:35 AM CDT
Pitof, Kaos and Tarsem to tri-direct my new script titled KILL T
by bari umenema
Oh it's great what we do is we strap Quentin to a chair and then we slice his ears off with a straight razor in slow motion! Then the camera does circular dolly shots around and around and around QT until he bleeds to death! And it's going to require the combined talents of all three music video directors! Pitof! Kaos! Tarsem! You're going to wish you had written and produced this script let me tell you! Also is Jason Richman Jewish? Just wondering.
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Mr. Norrington, I hope you read this. You are an idiot. The only way to do a live action Akira movie is to do it in Japanese, with Japanese actors and have it set...in JAPAN. You'd also need a phenomenal budget. You'll probably set it in NY, cast Matt Damon as "Ken" and Ben Affleck as "Ted" and the movie practically writes itself! Ah well. It'll either be truly great or utter shit. I have no confidence in the director of BLADE, so my money's on "utter shit." Personally, I'd wait until all digital sets got to a point where they looked real (unlike Episode 1). Then I'd adapt Akira into an hour long cable series for Showtime or HBO. Still set in Japan of course.
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Catwoman is up against an evil mayor? Remake of the Warriors for MTV? Akira remake produced by JON PETERS?!!! Who the hell is letting this happen?!! Catwoman could've been written better by a retarded monkey with a plotline so horrible! MTV will most likely screw up a cult classic! Akira is perfect as it is. Why are you people fucking with stuff that doesn't need to be fucked with!!!
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Apr 15, 2002 6:54:06 AM CDT
So, Duchovny is playing James Ellroy and the Hairdresser is doin
by cash bailey
Makes you almost long for the days of classics like 'rapping alien midgets' and 'BLACKHAWK DOWN with werewolves'. And Julianne Moore should play Ellroy's mother.
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must be because Scorcese followed my advice and put Harvey Scissorhands in a room with Joe Pesci (recap: "Does Marty's pain fuckin' AMUSE you? Release the fuckin' film, Wine-Stine! No Macauly Culkins gonna save you from me!). Duchovny as Ellroy is, of all the casting decisions I've ever heard, the one that most deserves the phrase 'It's crazy, but it might just work!
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* Writers Neil Armstrong and Travis Fickle will update HAROLD AND MAUDE for MTV Films and Paramount Pictures. The age difference in the original will be removed. Starring Freddie Prinze Jr. and Tara Reid. * Look for a Warner Bros. adaptation of LA BLUE GIRL coming next spring, also starring Tara Reid.
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Like Antz and A Bug's Life left so many unanswered questions...
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who the fuck is michael jay white? never heard of him before although i know what he did and when and so on...... but i haven't heard of that person before. anyway KILL BILL will rock!!!
c ya, sebastian (www.tarantino.info) -
Apr 15, 2002 12:18:14 PM CDT
It's like Sid from Toy Story meets Antz, but with WEREWOLVES
by darth tj mackey
Keanu-as-Billy-Jack has a beer and cheets on the hippie commune school owner chick. Josh Hartnet IS "Tetsuooooooooooo!!!". And who wants a pussed-out, gun free remake of The Warriors? Does the baseball gang use Wiffle bats now?
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Always good for a few larfs on a Monday morning. Dark Horizons seemed to imply that the Akira remake was going to be a Western, but I think I might have misinterpreted what I read. Still, I'd go to see all cowboy version of Akira. Tetsuoooooo!! Yeeeehaaaaa!!! sk
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TAKEN FROM THE COURT ORDER SENTENCING ME TO REHAB AT PROMISES IN MALIBU WHERE I AM FORCED TO ROOM WITH EDWARD FURLONG AND LISTEN TO HIM WHINE ABOUT HOW WHIPPED HE WAS BY HIS EX-GIRLFRIEND JACKIE...Donny Most and Ryan Fleshwounder's Reimagine Films will produce a new version of BULLITT starring Matthew Broderik as the Mustang driving Frisco cop on the edge who was the loneliest man to ever sleep with Jacqueline Bisset. In this version, he'll be the loneliest man to ever sleep with Catherine Zeta-Jones. Reimagine also has Tim Burton's DIRTY HARRY starring Jason Biggs in production...William Goldman has just turned in the adaptation of Stephen King's bestseller THE SPINNING, which Rob Reiner will direct for Castle Rock. The story concerns a laundromat that has become possessed after Satan washed a load of his red tights in their machines... Tom Hanks will skipper THE SS BARBARA as George Herbert Walker Bush Sr. in Robert Zemeckis upcoming Bay of Pigs comedy. Jesse (CLOCKSTOPPERS) Bradford will play young George-Dubya. Michael Madsen has nabbed the role of E. Howard Hunt and Emilio Estevez will play G. Gordon Liddy. Michael (THE SHIELD) Chicklis will cameo as David Ferry. THE SS BARBARA also stars Horatio Sanz as Fidel Castro, Ricky Martin as Che Guevarra, Bill Pullman as JFK and Kathleen Turner as Barbara Bush...Ronnie Ravencroft's screenplay FINISH THE TRILOGY is being comapared to THE TREASURE OF SIERRA MADRE and WEEKEND AT BERNIES. The story concerns a boy band Ryde'm'Cowboyze, who accidentally and secretly kill science fiction director Greg Locus (Robin Williams is in talks) while doing a cameo in his new film series. The band decides to make it appear that Locus is alive and finish the films themselves. Soon, the boys are enarmored with filmmaking and want to make their franchise the most successful ever, even if it means murdering Tito Paul, a Tazmanian direct currently adapting a series of classic fantasy novels THE KING OF THE TENNIS BRACELETS. Everything disentegrates when a pair of geeks discover Paul's murder and blackmail Ryde'm'cowboyze into completing BOTH trilogies. Brittney Spears, Christina Aguilara, Mandy Moore, Kelly Osbourne and Jessica Simpson may play Ryde'm'cowboyze if they agree to have their breasts taped down (sources close to the production say "We couldn't find any male actors pretty enough to be believable boy band members")... SEE YOU AT FURLONG'S HOSPITAL ROOM AFTER I THROW HIM OUT THE WINDOW...
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Apr 15, 2002 1:23:56 PM CDT
Also, For The Last Time, There Isn't Going To Be A WARRIORS
by buzz maverik
Kevin Costner, Kurt Russell and Wesley Snipes have long been attached to this scenario about three members of the baseball themed gang who got their asses kicked by Swan, Cochise and Ajax in the park. The new film opens seconds after that fateful battle. A mad scientist drags off three members and uses them in his cryonics experiments. His freezing method is imperfect and the young boppers age into middle aged men, kept buff through a kick ass physical therapy regime. The scientist dies from auto-erotic asphixation and the Furies are unfrozen during a rolling blackout. While they have aged physically, they still have the minds of 18 year old gang members and set out to retake their old turf, while dressed like a baseball team made up of mimes!
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Buzz you're hilarious and insightful.
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Michael Jai White played Spawn in the movie of the same name.
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I was a little puzzled why the guy who did the first BLADE is attached to this project. I mean I can see why Warner Bros wants to do a remake. It has all the elements and potential for a great summer film. Why? Because a real life version of Kaneda's motorcycle would just be beyond cool to see on screen. Plus remember the cities being destroyed in Independence Day (the ONLY reason to watch it)... well times it by ten for the end of Akira and you have the coolest CGI/Pyrotechnics telekenetic necular disastar ever done on film. Were talking Stephen King's Carrie, but on a more distructive city/global scale. I just hope it stays true to the original and dosen't dumb it down for American audiences. Like having it in "2038 Neo-New York after world war III" or with Freddie Prince Jr as Kaneda & Joshua Jackson as Tetsuo. The film does also have a profound back story that can't be ignored either, not to mention at the very tail end it eludes you to it also being the birth of the universe. Whoa!
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Well, watch all the stupid little fanboys eat it up and praise it to the skies the way they are with the Peters/McG/JJ Abrams troika on Superman. No sooner do Abrams and McG sign aboard than all the fanboys (notably at DC Comics' official site) magically forget all of Peters' designs for Supes and start gushing about how great the new movie is gonna be (regardless of the Superman CINEMA article stating that McG is taking a camp approach to the material). I'm not kidding. They're actually HAPPY that Peters is making the movie with McG and Abrams, and are ready to support the film no matter how bad it is. With a fan-fave director like Norrington on board, Peters is sure to become a fanboy darling in full with Akira. Instead of being held as a loser, he's gonna be regarded as a geek god. Oh, well, such is life.
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We, as fanboys, will ALWAYS hate Jon Peters, no matter what he does. I can't imagine a single person being happy about McG doing SUPERMAN, with the exception of McG himself. Peters has raped (or attempted to) too many cool properties to ever be given any grace by us. As for Norrington - BLADE was decent but what has he done since; sweet bugger all, and although his relentless flirting with cool projects has kept his name on fanboy's lips, soon he will have to just put up or shut up and actually MAKE something.
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Apr 17, 2002 12:20:37 AM CDT
CashBailey, I'm talking about the regulars at the DC site
by kingkrypton
They're absolutely delighted with the the creative team on the new movie, simply because (a) the "death of" story has been scrapped and (b) JJ Abrams pulled a Kevin Smith-style "I'm sticking with the flying and costume" boast (of course, we all know how well it went when Smith said the same thing on the project). They think that if Abrams says it, then it's cast in stone and that the movie's going to be good (and they blatantly refuse to believe that anyone could/would overrule Abrams). Superman CINEMA ran a scoop shortly after McG was hired revealing that he's taking a CHARLIE'S ANGELS camp approach to the film, and guess what? The Superman fans REFUSED to accept it! They've conviced themselves that McG is going to do it right! And ANY time you even TRY to remind them that Jon Peters is still involved, they turn around and defend him, saying that everything bad about the project was all Tim Burton's fault (actually, Burton was just AS much at fault as Peters, but that's another story). They won't accept anything that isn't fawning with praise over the Peters/McG/Abrams troika. They're determined that this is going to be a good film come hell or high water, just like the ultra-rabid Hubbard fans did with BATTLEFIELD EARTH. Peters has become a martyr to them. Hell, some of them are lobbying for Superman to ditch his costume and secret identity in favor of a leather jacket, jeans, and a T-shirt (and one guy suggested getting rid of the existence of Krypton completely and making Superman a genetically-altered human with false memories--Krypton would be a hoax). They're adopting the Peters party line and going out of their way to ignore any of the warning signs surrounding this film. And just watch as this film rakes in tons of dough at the box office. This movie's going to redefine Superman for generations of viewers...and not for the better. And gues what the fanboys are going to do? They're going to egg Peters/McG on and support them simply because the movie carries the Superman name. And based on the newfound support Peters is getting from the Superman fan base, there's no doubt in my mind that Peters' AKIRA will be a monster hit lauded by the fans. Let's face it, comic book fans are sell-outs. They'll accept any trash that gets tossed their way simply because they're being "loyal"...when all they're doing is perpetuating crap and helping to ruin the properties they claim to cherish.
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But not anymore. The fact that someone like Peters could even be allowed near it has put me off. If it was set in Japan with a 200 million budget, directed by Otomo himself i could go for it, but i wouldn't settle for anything less.
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I'm surprised no-one has sadi this so far...
Italian Job...in L.A....
"Jesus dude! your'e only supposed to blow the goddamned motherfuckin' doors off...!
No, no, no, no. Cancel this now, Don't bother. Abort the project. I guarantee you that no-one in the UK will like it. Is Hollywood so desparate for ideas, so barren for decent storylines, that it constantly resorts to ripping off foreign classics? This film in LA. Doubtless, Akira in NY or LA , see above for all the Ken and Ted references. Why not remake Dr. Zhivago in Washington and Fiddler on the Roof in New Jersey while you're at it? I dread the day we get Americanized remakes of The Hill or Ice Cold in Alex (it'll come with a sub-title "How The US Won the War in Africa". Don't get me wrong here -I love our cousins on the other side of the pond. I just dislike the way everything gets turned around. Coming soon to a theater near you: "Manon Des Bronx" and "Jean De Seven-Eleven". Sheesh, gimme strength.
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