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Elston Gunn's WEEKLY RECAP
Father Geek here posting a pretty lengthy edition for this week's effort from Elston Gunn, sooooo sit back, relax and prepare to trip through the past work-week's wheel'n & deal'n out in Hollywood USA... Oh, and a little of that from Cannes, France too...
TAKEN FROM VARIETY AND HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
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* Josh Hartnett will star in the Lakeshore Entertainment/MGM thriller WICKER
PARK for director Paul McGuigan. Shooting is scheduled to begin in October.
Brandon Boyce wrote the adaptation of the 1996 Giles Mimouni-directed
L'APPARTEMENT and focuses on a man's obsessive search for a lost love from
his past that ends up uncovering the twisted schemes of an eccentric secret
admirer.
* Gwyneth Paltrow will star in an untitled biopic of the late American poet
Sylvia Plath for Universal's Focus and director Pawel Pawlikowski. John
Brownlow wrote the script which will center on the stormy relationship
between Plath, who committed suicide in 1963, and her husband, Ted Hughes,
the British writer and Poet Laureate who died in 1998.
* Jamie Foxx is in talks to join the cast of the RKO Pictures/Merv Griffin
Entertainment crime thriller SHADE for writer/director Damian Nieman.
Shooting begins May 30. Sylvester Stallone, Thandie Newton, Stuart Townsend
and Gabriel Byrne also star.
* Penelope Cruz will star in FANFAN LA TULIPE, a French-language remake of a
1952 adventure-comedy, where she'll play a gypsy girl who trickes a handsome
young peasant into joining the French army by predicting that, if he does,
he will end up marrying one of the king's daughters. Luc Besson co-wrote
the script with Jean Comas. Gerard Krawczyk (TAXI 2) will direct.
* Val Kilmer is in talks to star in NINE MILES DOWN for Helkon Intl.
Pictures and director Anthony Waller (MUTE WITNESS). Production is set for
this fall in South Africa. It's about a security expert sent to investigate
strange happenings at a remote scientific research camp.
* Hugh Jackman is in talks to star in GRAND THEFT PARSONS for director David
Caffrey, based on the true story of road manager Phil Kaufman's strange
journey after he decided to fulfill Gram Parsons' dying wish of a burial in
the desert. Jeremy Drysdale wrote the script.
* Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are in talks to reteam on Miramax Films'
JERSEY GIRL for writer/director Kevin Smith. Production begins late summer
or early fall. It's about a guy named Ollie Trinke and the effects a new
wife and 6-year-old daughter have on his seemingly already full life.
George Carlin is also negotiating to join the pic, playing Affleck's father.
* Holly Hunter will star in the drama THIRTEEN for director Catherine
Hardwicke. Shooting starts in July. It's about a naive straight-A student
who befriends a popular but damaged schoolmate who leads her down a course
that includes sex, drugs, self mutilation, and borderline flunking. Hunter
will play the girl's mother. Nikke Reed wrote the script with Hardwicke
when Reed was 13-years old.
* Gabriel Mann will star in a remake of the 1945 pic THE BRIGHTON STRANGLER
for RKO Pictures. It's about an actor who takes dedication to his craft a
step too far: he plays a murderer in a movie and commits one in real life.
* Jennifer Love Hewitt will star in and produce the romantic comedy ONE
NIGHT for Winchester Films. Stephen Dorff is also attached to star in the
project that was written by Helena Kriel (KAMA SUTRA).
* Annette Bening will star in Disney's remake of FREAKY FRIDAY. She'll
play a widowed mother who constantly argues with her tomboy teen. When she
and her daughter reveal their desire to escape their situation, they
suddenly exchange bodies.
* Sanaa Lathan will play one of the female leads opposite Denzel Washington
in the MGM thriller OUT OF TIME for director Carl Franklin. Dean Cain is in
talks to join the cast of the film as well.
* Javier Bardem and Anthony Hopkins are in talks to star Miramax Films'
EDGARDO MORTARA for director Damien O'Donnell and Film Four. Set in June
1858, the pic is a drama based on the true story of how police in Bologna,
Italy, tore a 6-year-old Jewish boy away from his parents. According to the
police, he had been secretly baptized by a Gentile servant girl years
before. He was removed from his family in accordance with a law forbidding
"Christian" children from being raised by Jews. This began his strange
odyssey, which had powerful consequences for the future of both the Italian
nation and the Catholic Church. Rob Eshman wrote the script, with revisions
by Jeremy Brock (CHARLOTTE GRAY).
* Will Ferrell will star in the romantic comedy ACTION NEWSMAN for Regency
Enterprises about a 1970s anchorman with raging hormones, perfect hair and
big ego. He's the most beloved newsman in Portland until he's threatened by
the arrival of an ambitious female newscaster who, unlike Burgundy, has
mastered journalism. Adam McKay, who co-wrote the project with Ferrell,
will direct.
* Jay Hernandez is set and Matt Schulze is in final talks to star in Warner
Bros.' motorcycle racing pic TORQUE for director Joseph Kahn. Production
begins in July in L.A.
* Jeremy Sisto ("Six Feet Under") will star in and produce the indie pic
QUIET LIKE SLEEP for writer/director Abe Levy. Shooting begins late summer.
He'll play a recovering alcoholic with a terrible secret who is grappling
with the price he must pay to rejoin his estranged family. Levy co-wrote
the script with David Klagsbrun.
* James Franco (SPIDER-MAN) is in talks to join Benjamin Bratt in Mirmax's
WWII pic THE GREAT RAID for director John Dahl. The pic is based on a true
story about Gen. Douglas MacArthur's secret raid on a POW camp in the
Philippines to free 500 Americans facing death. Hossein Amini (THE WINGS OF
THE DOVE) wrote the script.
* Michael Gambon and Michael Jeter have joined Kevin Costner's western pic
OPEN RANGE, starring Costner, Robert Duvall, Diego Luna and Abraham Benrubi.
Costner is also hoping Annette Bening would join the cast.
* Monica Bellucci (MALENA) will join Fabrizio Bentivoglio and Laura Morante
in RICORDATI DI ME (NEVER FORGET ME) for director Gabriele Muccino (THE LAST
KISS). Shooting begins in July in Rome. The story centers on characters in
an Italian family and their lives inside and outside the home.
* Michael Jackson may play a werewolf in WOLFED, the first feature from his
Neverland Pictures.
* Pierce Brosnan will star in the romantic comedy THE LAWS OF ATTRACTION as
well as the 11th century epic LEGEND OF LOCHENBAR, both of which he will
produce.
* John Malkovich is being eyed to play the role of Machiavelli in the
historical drama BORGIA for Neil Jordan. Ewan McGregor and Christina Ricci
will star.
* Nick Nolte and Harvey Keitel will star in BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY for Sony
Pictures Classics, France's TF1 and Sweden's Svensk Filmindustri, as well as
producers Terrence Malick and Ed Pressman. The project digs deep into the
consequences of American involvement in the Vietnam war. Hans Petter Moland
(ABERDEEN) will direct. Shooting starts in September.
* Cynthia Stevenson, Judge Reinhold, Martin Henderson, Ian McShane and
Arnold Vosloo are in talks to join Frankie Muniz and Hilary Duff in MGM's
junior spy flick CODY BANKS for director Harald Zwart.
DIRECTOR/WRITER ATTACHMENTS
* New Line Cinema is in final talks to pick up the action-thriller CELLULAR
from turnaround by Sony. Larry Cohen wrote the script, which Dean Devlin is
attached to produce. It's about a young man who receives a random call on
his cell phone from a woman who has been kidnapped. Knowing she will die
unless he helps her, the man embarks on a desperate adventure to save her
life.
* Radar Pictures grabbed the feature film rights to author Meghan Daum's
forthcoming novel THE QUALITY OF LIFE REPORT, which Daum is set to adapt for
the bigscreen. The story centers on a lifestyle correspondent on a New York
City TV show who is assigned to report on the higher quality of life in the
Midwest. She ends up discovering that it's her constant journalistic
analysis, as opposed to the locale, that prevents her from living life to
the fullest
* Paul Hernandez will write THE GREATEST AMERICAN HERO, a bigscreen
adaptation of the early 1980s TV. It's about a teacher who becomes a
reluctant superhero after extraterrestrials give him a special suit with
powers he can barely understand or control when he loses its instruction
manual.
* Walden Media has tapped Paul Feig ("Freaks and Geeks" creator) to adapt
and direct I AM DAVID, based on the novel by Anne Holm. Shooting begins
June 17. It's about an 11-year-old boy's escape and journey across
post-WWII Europe.
* Columbia Pictures picked up the supernatural pitch LAKE POWELL from Lloyd
Entertainment Col about a family that unintentionally desecrates some Native
American burial grounds while vacationing at the Arizona lake, unleashing a
terrible supernatural force that threatens their lives. Michael Kase will
write the screenplay.
* Luc Besson will script, Olivier Dahan will direct and Alain Goldman will
produce RP2: LES ANGES DE L'APOCALYPSE, the sequel to THE CRIMSON RIVERS.
Jean Reno and Vincent Cassel are in talks to reprise the roles of the two
cops. Shooting begins in January.
* Gilles Mimouni (L'APPARTEMENT) will direct THE BIRD WATCHER, based on the
French novel LE VOL DES CIGOGNES for Legende.
* Vadim Perelman will direct Jennifer Connelly and Ben Kingsley in THE HOUSE
OF SAND AND FOG, based on the book by Andre Dubus III, for Signpost Films
and DreamWorks about a former Iranian colonel who wins an auction for a
foreclosed house. The home was previously owned by a self-destructive
alcoholic who is hellbent on getting the house back.
* Bosnian writer/director Danis Tanovic (NO MAN'S LAND) will direct a new
film in Morocco early next year for Film Council and RAI Cinema. The story
is being kept under wraps but the project is said to be politically current
with a mystery element.
* Producers Marc and Peter Samuelson are working on projects with several
directors including: Robin Swicord, who will direct THE MERMAIDS SINGING,
an Irish love story adapted from Lisa Carey's novel; Luis Mandoki, who will
direct NEED for Columbia Pictures, based on Larry David's novel, about a
suicidal young woman who is victimized by her female psychiatrist after the
patient starts an affair with the doc's husband; Paul Mazursky is attached
to helm FREUD AND JUNG, based on the true story of how the founders of
modern psychoanalysis fell out over a woman; and Richard Loncraine, who will
direct APPASSIONATA, a romance written by Felice Fallon.
* Radar Pictures and Universal Focus are developing a feature based on Barry
Sadler's CASCA novels, about a Roman legionary who killed Christ and is
cursed to live forever. The companies have optioned all 22 books in the
series for a possible franchise. John Turman will write the script for the
first movie which is set in the present day.
* Atlantic Streamline has picked up the rights to the French-language sci-fi
graphic novel THE PROPHET for writers Jason Marx and Ben Loory to adapt into
an English-language script. The company also picked up the rights to the
other two novels in the series, which have yet to be published. Xavier
Dorson and Mathieu Lauffran created the story of a professor who returns
home from a scientific expedition in the Himalayas after discovering a
parallel world that is dominated by evil. He must seal the opening before
the two worlds collide and evil takes over.
* Tarsem (THE CELL) is in talks to direct NAUTICA for Escape Artists.
Shooting begins this fall. Richard McBrien wrote the script about a murder
on a yacht in the Caribbean.
* William Diehl is writing the Ballantine novel SEVEN WAYS TO DIE while also
simultaneously penning the script with Michael A. Simpson. The title of the
book is textbook coroner terminology about the number of ways to kill a
human being, which figures in the misdeeds of a serial killer.
* Columbia Pictures and producer Laura Ziskin will develop a feature based
on the hit video game DEUS EX. The story will be set in 2052, with the
world reeling from the effects of disease, economic collapse and global
terrorism. It centers on J.C. Denton, a nano-tech enhanced
counter-terrorist who's the government's most potent weapon. Greg Pruss
will write the script.
* Dominic Sena is in final talks to direct THE COURIER for Splendid Pictures
and Newman/Tooley Films. Shooting is expected to begin this year. Michael
Brandt and Derek Haas wrote the script about a mythic figure who makes
deliveries to anyone anywhere with no questions asked. The courier is hired
to make a delivery to a legendary underworld figure considered impossible to
find.
* Music video and commercial director Marcos Siega will direct the
Millennium Films action-thriller NINE LIVES. It's about a former Army
Special Ops soldier who ends up in the wrong place at the wrong time,
mistaken for someone else and pumped full of an experimental mind-control
drug. He then is stuck in illusionary worlds created by his foes in an
effort to control him. Tom Vaughan wrote the script.
* Ice Cube is in talks to rewrite and executive produce with Matt Alvarez
through their company CubeVision the MGM comedy feature RACE for Hyde Park
Entertainment. Set on the NASCAR circuit, the story is about a cab driver
who finds himself the only black participating in a stock-car race.
* Columbia Pictures is in talks to pick up the rights to Marvel
Entertainment's GHOST RIDER in turnaround from Dimension Films. Shane
Salerno (SHAFT) is in talks to rewrite the script.
* Artisan Pictures has grabbed the family action-adventure pitch NORTH SHORE
NINJA from writers Bob Mittenthal and Michael Rubiner. It tells the story
of a 13-year-old obsessed with the world of martial arts. He finds himself
teaming up with his idol, the karate movie star Jackie Lee, to engage in a
real-life battle against the Hong Kong mob.
* Vortex Pictures and Nicolas Cage's Saturn Films are teaming up to produce
the revenge pic CHAIN, which is described as THE CROW with biker gangs.
John Rice (WINDTALKERS) will direct from his own script.
* Nick Moran is set to direct the biopic TELSTAR, written by Moran and James
Hicks, about 1960s pop music producer Joe Meek. The title comes from the
instrumental hit by the Tornadoes that Meek produced in 1962 -- it was the
first British single to top the U.S. charts. Paul Nicholls, Danny Dyer,
Roland Manookian and Daniel Brocklebank have been cast in supporting roles.
Director Marc Evans (MY LITTLE EYE) is attached to a rival Joe Meek project
for producer Nik Powell.
* Brent Forrester will write THE SHADOW PROJECT, which will mix live-action
with computer animation, for DreamWorks. The project explores the
intersection of human and shadow worlds. When an evil force upsets the
balance between the two, a shadow drags his human counterpart into the
shadow realm to set things right.
* Wolfgang Petersen will bring Orson Scott Card's series of science-fiction
bestsellers ENDER'S GAME and ENDER's SHADOW to the big screen for Warner
Bros. Card will write the first draft. The story begins as two alien
attacks have nearly wiped out the human race and a frantic world government
trains children for war by teaching them a competitive game.
* Jan de Bont will develop and direct a project for Epsilon about fourth
century Austrian warrior St. Nikolas. Ken Young and Dennis LeFevre have
written a script about Nikolas' experiences as a heroic warrior
investigating a deadly mystery when he is assigned to restore order in a
town filled with corruption and violence.
* Ridley Scott is attached to direct a period Western movie to be written by
Bruce C. McKenna ("Band of Brothers") for Twentieth Century Fox and his
Scott Free banner.
* Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner have optioned the recent New York Times
Magazine article "The Light At the End of the Chunnel," and set its writer,
Peter Landesman, to pen the screenplay. The article tells how Middle
Easterners illegallystow away for the speedy train's
trek betweeen Paris and London. The process is dangerous; remains of
unsuccesful stowaways regularly litter the tracks. Landesman also is making
a deal to do a poltically charged drama at Intermedia with Oliver Stone and
is collaborating with Tribeca to set up his Atlantic Monthly article about
the looting and murder mystery surrounding a treasure of gold and silver
found in Hungary.
* Aaron and Matthew Benay have pacted to write three pics for Miramax, the
first of which is a contemporary adaptation of Louis L'Amour's Cold War
bestseller LAST OF THE BREED. It's about an Air Force pilot of Native
American descent who's shot down over Siberia and has to use survival
instinct to elude armed captors chasing him across the frozen wilderness.
* Trudie Styler's Xingu Films has signed a production deal with Luc Besson's
EuropaCorp, starting with CHEEKY, the feature directing debut of David
Thewlis. It's about a widower who participates in a strange game show
because he believes it was his wife's dying wish. Production begins in
October.
* Larry Charles ("Curb Your Enthusiasm") will direct THE BOND, an
improvisational buddy comedy feature for Gavin Polone's Pariah and Senator
Entertainment. Charles will direct from a detailed outline he created,
about Lenny, an uptight family man whose friend Billy is jailed for having
too many parking tickets. Out of the goodness of his heart, Lenny puts his
house up as collateral to make Billy's bail. When Billy is released,
however, the scheming bondsman kidnaps the man, so he misses his court date,
and the house goes to the bondsman.
* Miramax Films is developing a feature adaptation of Tom Eidson's novel ST.
AGNES' STAND, with Asif Kapadia (THE WARRIOR) directing. It's the story of
an outlaw who meets a group of nuns and orphans who have survived an Apache
ambush. One of the nuns, Sister St. Agnes, believes the gunman has been
sent by God to rescue them.
* Mauro Borrelli (GOODBYE CASANOVA) will direct SHE, a comedy fantasy about
three men's misadventures while chasing a warrior goddess, for producer Leo
Pescarolo and Salon Films.
* Universal has optioned Daniel Quinn's graphic novel THE MAN WHO GREW YOUNG
for Shady Acres with Daniel Wallace attached to adapt into a feature
entitled TIMELESS. It's about a guy who wakes up in a world where time has
stopped and started going backward for everybody but him.
MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCTION TIDBITS
* Winchester Films is developing a group of projects with Wind Dancer Films
and the Donners Co. Wind Dancer's project is the Daniel Pyne (SUM OF ALL
FEARS) -scripted FIFTY MICE, a thriller about a guy with amnesia who is
placed in a witness protection program against his will. The Donners Co.
projects are two comedies: A-HOLE, penned by Heidi Van Lier, about a man
who must live up to his unfortunate nickname; and MATCH MUTTS, written by
Shaina Carol, about two dogs who fall for each other and try to get their
owners to do the same.
* Film & Music Entertainment and Tartan Films are teaming up to adapt James
Ellroy's novel KILLER ON THE ROAD for the big screen. Originally published
in 1986 as SILENT TERROR, the book gets into the mind of serial killer
Martin Plunkett, whose life of crime begins during his alienated teenage
years in 1960s L.A. and continues through to his capture decades later in
New York. Nicknamed "Sexecutioner," Plunkett lives in a world of twisted
fantasies, is tormented by terrible dreams and finds relief only from the
sight, taste and feel of fresh blood.
* Columbia Pictures has purchased the film rights to Robert Littell's
bestselling spy thriller THE COMPANY: A NOVEL OF THE CIA. The book is a
panoramic fictional treatment of the U.S. intelligence community from the
dawn of the Cold War to the fall of the Soviet Union. It weaves real-life
characters into a story involving a group of CIA operatives and their
counterparts in the KGB, MI6 and the Mossad.
* Legende Enterprises and Nord-Ouest Production have teamed up to co-produce
an English-language remake of last year's French film UNE HIRONDELLE A FAIT
LE PRINTEMPS (ONE SWALLOW BROUGHT SPRING).
* Twentieth Century Fox has shifted the opening of DAREDEVIL, based on the
Marvel Comic, to President's Day weekend next Feb. 14.
* DreamWorks has picked up exclusive film rights to the Japanese horror
video game FATAL FRAME about a woman's search for her mysteriously missing
brother, which leads her to a haunted mansion, armed only with an antique
camera that lets her see ghosts.
Until next week.
Elston Gunn
elstongunn@hotmail.com
elstongunn@hotmail.com
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Did I miss anything good? I'm much to lazy to bother looking up old articles. Just give me the gist. sk
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May 28, 2002 4:39:59 PM CDT
You know what the best thing I look for in a movie? THE FACT TH
by furnace404
Fcukin' god-damned remakes can lick my unoverweight, social-life-having, movie-loving ass. If I have to actually see this remake of Freaky Friday produced, I'm gonna crash a fucking plane into Disneyland. First, AOL, now with the Winnie the Pooh debacle, disney will be next. This possible remake just shows how fucking desperate those Disney fucks are. GAR!!!! In other news, hooray for Will Ferrel's project. http://furnace.blogspot.com
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Casca and The Greatest American Hero... All in one week. Whoohoo.
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May 28, 2002 5:05:21 PM CDT
Man, all these unknown directors with projects is giving me hope
by lenny nero
Keep on going, indie folks.
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TAKEN FROM THE WIND BENEATH YOUR WINGS...James Toback will direct his own screenplay VIAGRA FALLS, starring Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart as a couple on their honeymoon...John Carpenter's next horror masterpiece will be JOHN CARPENTER'S WHAT LIES BELOW MAINE, which examimes why so many horror stories and not just those by Stephen King, take place in Maine...John Cusack will star in Gary Fleder's adaption of Christopher Humdrum's spy now THE AGENDA IDENTITY FILE CONSPIRACY...Our old friend Oliver Stone apparently didn't learn his lesson with THE DOORS and will be making another rock drama. "This features the other great musical influence in my life," Stone told BMWR. "The Doors influenced me in the '60s, but in the '70s, really all I listened to was Lenny and the Squigtone." LENNY & THE SQUIGTONE, to be released by Universal, will feature the rise and fall of the vanity band created by Michael McKean and David L. Lander from their characters on LAVERNE & SHIRLEY. Stone has tapped Brad Pitt and Jack Black to play the title roles...Finally, things are just getting out of hand when Hollywood greenlights a movie called BEATNIKS VS. THE GAMESHOW HOSTS. Word has it that Ben Affleck will play a dual role as Jack Kerouac and Wink Martindale...See you at the snack bar...
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where's the x-men 2 casting news, gunn?!
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May 28, 2002 5:52:28 PM CDT
With any luck, less than half of Mr. Gunn's Weekly Report wi
by pan_ziege
Jesus, Mary, and Joe Meek. Here's hoping for some Natural Selection out in Hollywoodland.
(survival of the least lame, maybe?)------Also, who else thinks
that Ellroy's "Killer on the Road"
would be too damn disturbing for
public consumption? Great book,
but to feed it to movie-goers they'd have to give him a wacky young sidekick who teaches him that deriving perverse pleasure from murder is "gee golly, wrong,
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Because he constantly interrupts the time-honored tradition of easily rattled fanboys flaming each other over petty geek arguments to be all humorous, witty, and flippant.
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I appreciate the coolness.
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May 28, 2002 6:35:09 PM CDT
Ridley Scott is attached to direct Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner o
by granhalcon
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Greatest American Hero--believe it or not this movie will suck, it should have never gotten a green light. The show was magic so just leave it alone. Believe it or not, it's just me.---although, Casca looks good...when it was called Highlander. Nine Lives and Race seem like typical tripe. What do you want to bet that Ice Cube depicts all NASCAR drivers and fans as bigoted rednecks? Sounds like Days of Thunder with gangsta rap. 100 bucks says it has him overcoming some kind of racism--as if a taxi driver ever making the NASCAR circuit over guys who have actually busted their asses since childhood on dirt tracks and small time circuits their entire lives to get there and know what they're doing is the least bit believable. Give it up and just do "Yet Another Friday", Cube. It's the only kind of movie anybody can stomach a 'versatile' actor like you in. (seriously. I like the guy, but look at all of Ice Cube's movies. Tell me which roles where he played anybody -besides-Ice Cube?) The Shadow Project looks okay *cough*Tron*cough*. Sorry, had some phelgm there, Ender's Game I'm holding back on for now. But if Carrot Top goes anywhere near it...Chain = The Crow w/ Biker Gangs. Umm...wasn't The Crow 'The Crow w/ Biker Gangs' minus the bikes? What in the blue blazing Hell is up with all the westerns? NOBODY WANTS TO SEE WESTERNS. No one has EVER made a good western in the last 10 years with the possible exceptions of Tombstone and Unforgiven. You know WHY? Because nobody friggin' wants to SEE westerns. Just another example of how f'ing out of touch the suits in Hollywood are.
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First up, who in god's name wants to see (another) remake of the parent trap? "but this time it's got dogs!"
God give me strength.
I can't wait for the Ridley Scott western. Why shouldn't we be excited? Scott's ideal for the genre. He tells efficent adventure stories and is easily the best director at transporting the viewer to a specific time and place (be it Ancient Rome, or future cityscapes.)
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Can they at least make sure this one makes sense?
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May 28, 2002 9:42:10 PM CDT
Nobody hates Buzz Maverik as much as I hate Buzz Maverik!
by regis travolta
He's the Devil I tell you, the Devil! Always coming up with better and funnier movie ideas than us real jamokes here in Hollywood can come up with. Therefore Hollywood Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL Time Warner, has decided to take out a contract on Maverik. His days are numbered, he's a marked man, Hollywood Inc. has hired a team of MPAA assassins to silence Maverik once and for all. But not before we go Hannibal Lecter on his skull we are going to saw open his cranium, remove his brain and hook it up to a computer to generate new and improved movie ideas for all eternity without the hassle of having Buzz himself around to make fun of our lame movie ideas on the Talkbacks. Buzz's mortal remains will be buried under the big Y up on the HOLLYWOOD sign in the hills and his brain will be kept in a secret cryo-chamber vault deep beneath the new shopping mall at Hollywood Blvd. and Highland Ave. beneath the subway. Access to this top secret cryo-chamber vault holding the Buzz Brain will be limited to studio heads and their subordinate Yes Men. Since I'm a subordinate Yes Man myself I'll have continuous access to the Buzz Brain. So when the new and improved movies come out nobody will ever know their true source.
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Some stuff sucked, and some other stuff rocked.
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Ice Cube switches bodies with Annette Benning in ANOTHER FREAKY FRIDAY. Rumor has it Warren Beatty will have a cameo as a "politician who raps." Jimmy Smitts' star is on the rise again! Wowing audiences with his portrayal of Senator Organa in ATTACK OF THE CLONES, Smitts has signed onto SWITCH 2. Smitts will also be in the upcoming STAR WARS EPISODE III: WHO'S YOUR DADDY?
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i hope thats the guy you mean, cuz if it is, his name is larry david not larry charles
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I'd be willing to bet that Buzz is friends with just about any hitman you could hire.
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May 29, 2002 11:05:59 AM CDT
All comedy fans should look forward to the Ferrell/McKay collabo
by billbrasky2620
If you've ever seen the short films that Adam McKay did for "Saturday Night Live" a few seasons ago, they were hilarious. My personal favorite was "The H is O" where Ferrell plays a psychotic Glenn Frey who ends up raping Ben Stiller. (heh, I guess you had to be there). McKay is an ex-member of the Upright Citizens Brigade and was head writer of SNL during its pre-Tina Fey period, and all of his films demonstrated a definite visual sense and a GREAT use of music (he used songs in them by Sonic Youth, Beck, Massive Attack, and others). I am interested in seeing what he comes up with for his first feature directing job.
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Quick note. Casca (all of them) was written before Highlander. Also, phenominally different. No lightening bolts come out of automobiles, no cutting off the head to experience something called the quickening. Casca's a regular soldier who doesn't know kung fu or who always carries a sword (somehow) in the lining of a trenchcoat. Casca fights and fights and fights, until you kill him. Then he regenerates, comes back to life and fights some more. You cut his head off, something happens to make the head roll back to the neck and reattach itself. This could be really cool, and probably a bit gory, if done right. Casca is cursed. His entire life is agony after agony. For instance, there's no breathing underwater. Casca drowns and floats lifeless until his body washes up on shore and his body rejects the water in various unpleasant ways. There's nothing family oriented about Casca. This ain't no science fiction. It's scary biblical. Now if they can stop with all this Michael Bay nonsense. Bay would be a terrible choice of director for this film. Casca is very human, and so he needs to have humanity oosing out of every pore of him. Bay couldn't get a decent preformance out of the most talented actors. Everything the man touches turns to crow. Note 2: The Greatest American Hero rocked on tv. Hopefully they'll do it right and it'll rock in the movies. Anybody seen William Katt lately? He, he, he.
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Someone hand me a dolly, I'll show you exactly where...
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May 29, 2002 6:50:37 PM CDT
"Casca" has the potential to be a better franchise than Bond.
by christopher3
Unlike Bond, who has become something of an anachronism, the filmmakers can vary the eras to fit the tastes of current audiences.
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Although I loved the show as a kid, I have this sinking feeling this will be a steaming pile of fecal celluloid complete with Matt Lillard in Katt's super suit, FPJr as Culp's agent and choose your favorite three-namer actress (Jennifer Love Hewitt, Melissa Joan Heart, Sarah Michelle Gellar, etc.) as Selica's lawyer love interest. If anyone wants to know where that portal to the evil dimention resides, its surely on the corner of Hollywood and Vine. Have mercy on our film fan souls...
~Soylent Bob -
You could be right. I hope you're wrong, but you could be right. If the wrong people picked it up, the material could very easily be turned to shit. Here's hoping somebody decent picks it up, and the scenario you pictured doesn't take place.
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