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Published on Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 4:56am |
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A Project From Long Ago... FANBOYS Looks Like It Is Finally Set To Be Made!!! Re: Star Wars!!!
Harry here... Nearly 10,000 stories ago... Back in 1998, I wrote about a screenplay by a fellow I didn't really know named Ernie Cline... The script was called FANBOYS and it was bar none... The best "fan" script I have ever read. For one, it wasn't a parody film, it wasn't about how cool it was to be a Star Wars fan. In fact, really... though Star Wars plays into it heavily, it isn't about that at all. This was a story about what that group of best friends grown up would do for the friend that had only one wish left... It is about that road trip, the people they met on the way, the changes they go through and ultimately about seeing STAR WARS early, because life... unfortunately is too short to wait for release dates and permission.
I get lots of scripts with tiny cameos for me and unfortunately... by and large they suck. This one didn't. In fact this one was magic. Back in 1998, Ernie Cline was set to direct the film himself, because he had nobody else to do it for him. He was trying his best with a budget that would mainly comprised gas money and a van that ruled all. He began shooting, I read the script, and I flipped. I wrote about it, and that's when the jackals and hyenas and swine swooped in... Aka Money People. They started talking big deals, swimming pools and movie stars. Ernie decided to skip the low-budget self-directed route and to get the movie made for real. The process was molasses fast. So much so that EPISODE 1 came out, and Ernie lost a certain amount of heart for the project.
Now... nearly 5 years later, the project has been picked up by a new production company called First Addiction, and it seems that it is finally going to see cameras by year's end. Ernie (Ernest professionally) is excited again about the project, and has done minor retooling to his script. Which I have not read the latest drafts. I told Ernie back in 1998, I'd film the part of Harry Knowles... A fictional character with a fictional website called Ain't It Cool. My understanding is they will put me in a big fat suit and dye my hair red. Sounds ridiculous I know, but apparently that's Ernie and this director, Matthew Cole Weiss' vision of Harry Knowles. Sounds wacky! Here's the original stories... ages old...
CLICK HERE FOR STORY ONE
CLICK HERE FOR STORY TWO
CLICK HERE FOR STORY THREE
Here's the press release for Ernie's flick FANBOYS... A film hopefully one day coming to a theater near you...
First Addiction has optioned Ernest Cline’s screenplay FANBOYS
with
director Matthew Cole Weiss set to take the helm later this year. The road
comedy/drama follows four best friends in the fall of 1998 from Ohio to No
rthern California in an attempt to see Star Wars Episode I earlier than
the rest of the world, before one of their group dies from a life
threatening
illness. Adds Perniciaro “It’s rare that you find a script that has so much
heart, not only amongst the relationship of them as friends, but also that
of
what it really means to be a fan. Ernie hits those points so well and we’re
all really excited to capture that moment in time through this great story”.
The only announced cast is that Internet guru Harry Knowles of Ain’t It Cool
News will have a cameo in the film. Weiss previously directed the award
winning short film MEAN PEOPLE SUCK starring James Franco, Dominique Swain
and Eric Christian Olsen.
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Reader Talkback
by liquidtmd | Apr 16th, 2002
06:08:07 AM | This movie won't show them
bitching about how much
Episode O
by Joe Mammary | Apr 16th, 2002
06:08:37 AM | cool?
by last.czarnian | Apr 16th, 2002
06:33:01 AM | popups
by last.czarnian | Apr 16th, 2002
06:35:55 AM | Boy, is he gonna be
disapointed
by Pageiv | Apr 16th, 2002
07:04:09 AM | Christ, Harry, now I feel old
cuz I REMEMBER you posting
these o
by Tall_Boy | Apr 16th, 2002
07:06:39 AM | This all reminds me of how
much better those Sci Fi
Channel ads
by exit272 | Apr 16th, 2002
07:40:08 AM | isn't there another movie
similar to this in the pipe?
by BurlIvesLeftNut | Apr 16th, 2002
09:14:41 AM | In Heaven they play all 6
episodes around the clock.
by rev_skarekroe | Apr 16th, 2002
09:25:15 AM | Is this....
by Damer1 | Apr 16th, 2002
09:37:02 AM | Harry's big scene?
by Trav McGee | Apr 16th, 2002
09:56:03 AM | Here come the trite cliches,
let's count them one by
one.
by rabid_republican | Apr 16th, 2002
10:15:07 AM | I run to except my reward...
by jay2075 | Apr 16th, 2002
10:41:22 AM | i agree with another poster...
by omarthesnake | Apr 16th, 2002
11:01:18 AM | Tweaks and Geeks
by jollydwarf | Apr 16th, 2002
11:10:39 AM | I Loved this Movie When it Was
Called "Crossroads"..
by The Feral Kid | Apr 16th, 2002
11:18:54 AM | Yeah, this movie is called
STARGEEKS!
by buzzstorm | Apr 16th, 2002
01:29:43 PM | what a sad bunch of cynical
jackasses some of you are
by exador | Apr 16th, 2002
01:35:33 PM | I love it
by pedant | Apr 16th, 2002
01:36:42 PM | Look forward to this, aka A
Suit???
by FirstAddiction | Apr 16th, 2002
02:13:38 PM | Sounds cool
by Dragonfire | Apr 16th, 2002
02:18:20 PM | Quit bitching about the
pop-ups
by exPFCWintergreen | Apr 16th, 2002
02:44:27 PM | Ripping on geeks on AICN is
pretty hypocritical
by IAmLegolas | Apr 16th, 2002
03:33:20 PM | A Few years back..
by Virgil Sollozzo | Apr 16th, 2002
04:20:15 PM | "About us and for us" LOL!
Speak for yourself.
by nazismasher | Apr 16th, 2002
04:30:59 PM | So much so that EPISODE 1 came
out, and Ernie lost a certain
amo
by JAGUART | Apr 16th, 2002
04:51:41 PM | Wow, Marc Price is starting to
come around on Fanboys!
by exPFCWintergreen | Apr 16th, 2002
05:09:46 PM | Jedi Death Rattle
by JAGUART | Apr 16th, 2002
05:47:41 PM | Actually, ebonic_plague, I was
just trying to get a reaction
out
by exPFCWintergreen | Apr 16th, 2002
08:45:52 PM | Stephrn Dorff
by Franky 5 Fingers | Apr 16th, 2002
11:56:19 PM | This is so passe....
by 20th Century Fox | Apr 17th, 2002
01:13:31 AM | Ben Affleck as FANBOY. An
excerpt of his last dying
speech to
by JAGUART | Apr 17th, 2002
01:57:49 AM | Way too similar to 12-5-72
by ESBYoda | Apr 17th, 2002
02:52:51 PM | Sorry, but "Fanboy" is one of
the lamest terms ever invented
to
by ARCTURUS | Apr 18th, 2002
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