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RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT!!! Could be one of the coolest films ever!
Hey folks, Harry here with a rundown on a project that Sean Daniels and Jim Jacks have going on over at Alpaville with Paramount that would be perhaps one of the coolest films around. RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT!!!
Personally, this is one of those quirky cool projects that I'd love to see Tim Burton do. From the Logline that is going out to screenwriters right now, they want to detail the film from Ripley's earlies sports days for the New York Globe at the age of 25 through to his death at the age of 55. The film would follow him in his world wide quest through the 30s and 40s for the strange and unusual be it animal, vegetable, mineral or just plain wacky human behavior.
Ripley was an artist and one of the most entertaining cultural antropologists to have ever lived. Robert Leroy Ripley. Personally, I'd love to see Johnny Depp do this just because I love him doing strange and unusual characters... at the same time I can imagine Sam Raimi doing this with Bruce Campbell.... or the Coen Brothers doing this. God I love Ripley's Believe it or Not stories. W. R. Hearst financed his column and his travels.... He was the founder of the first world wide radio broadcast in 1934! He did radio broadcasts from underwater to snake pits to hot air balloons... and he became the most popular man in the world. Literally the most popular man in the world. He created a legacy that has continued to live, a personality that has infected millions with a curiousity about the strange and unusual. A film based upon that life, that sort of media fame in that era.... It could be a fascinating film. Can you imagine though if Charlie Kaufman wrote the screenplay, if Spike Jonze directed it... and if Ed Norton played Ripley? OH MAN! I'd love that!
Anyway, Alphaville has it, and they're looking for writers, hopefully this project will be as great as any story about the life of Ripley should!
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David Letterman did it better than Ripley..."Normally a taxi from LaGuardia to midtown costs about $15, but when Abdul Al-Kazzar, an exchange student on his first trip to the States, took the same trip IT COST HIM OVER 100 DOLLARS. Hard to believe!"
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Nov 15, 2002 6:20:59 AM CST
SOON coming to a theater near you! All the fun of watching paint
by doggydaddi
Or was that watching your car bumpers rust? Wel.. if they put in a scene with zombie Bruce Paltrow I MIGHT go and see it.. but only if he has a tatoo of a bomb on his ribcage ;)
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It messed with my mind man. Especially the cow with 2 heads.
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Nov 15, 2002 7:33:53 AM CST
They need to work in Jack and Holly Palance somewhere.
by margot_tenenbaum
"...Believe it (long, long near-Shatnerian pause) OR NOT!"
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is one of the coolest places on Earth. I kid you not. sk
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but to be a truly great film it needs a space monkey. a monkey in a space suit is what sets apart great films (the right stuff, planet of the apes, the discrete charm of the bourgeousie) from the everyday muck of movies (lethal weapon 4, blade runner, apocalypse now). also they should sell corn dogs in the theater cause i like corn dogs and they taste good.
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Who'll be playing Tom Ripley in this one? ... Is this mic on???
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All the oddities that the man claimed to find back in the day...were they for real, or just hoaxes? It'd be great to see the movie tackle those questions, though it'll probably maintain some of the mystery by making a lot of the weird stuff kinda ambiguous...maybe it's real, maybe not.
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Nov 15, 2002 11:35:59 AM CST
Brilliant idea! How come no one ever thought of a Ripley film be
by spacesheik
This could work. Part adventure, part straigh biography. Has lots of potential. I too could see Johnny Depp playing this under Tim Burton a la ED WOOD.
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do u always cast these films with ur people?
like they'd ever put bruce campbell in as the star here
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...it doesn't have Dean Cain & Nicole Eggert and isn't on the SuperStation, I'll be really confused.
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When are they finally going to make the biopic about the guy who created "Mark Trail"? Who was he, anyway? He brought so much sunlight into our lives. I want to see the full Richard Attenborough treatment, maybe with Edward Norton or Benicio Del Toro as our hero. "This isn't the right shade of brown, Barry! I can't draw this woodchuck without the right shade of brown!" Let's keep our fingers crossed. Or a scene where he has a drunken tryst with the creator of "Mary Worth" at a comic strip convention. It practically writes, shoots, edits, markets, and caters the premiere itself.
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starring Phillip Seyour Hoffman as Skip Henderson? How about a THAT'S INCREDIBLE! movie that takes place in a haunted Toys 'R Us? The lead will have a nightly recurring dream about a plane crashing...
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Or Eric Bana, or Hugh Jackman or Christopher Lee or Ian McKellen. Man that would be so cooool. And Paul Verhoeven should direct.
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Nov 15, 2002 12:20:51 PM CST
Actually, Margot, that long, Shatnerian pause would be filled wi
by sod off baldric
Ripley's Believe it or not is one of my favorite childhood memories. Jack Palance was so cool, and his daughter inflamed my oh-so-young hormones. This could be fun.
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Episode 1: The Phantom Menstruation. Episode 2: Attack of the Hermaphrodites
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...shouldn't Sigourney Weaver play Ripley?
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I was wondering ... if there really is a Bruce Campbell fixation amongst so many fans... why do the Hollywood Studio's still have him on such a low radar? Why isn't he up for more important roles? Sure, he was one of three finalist to replace David Duchoveny in the X-Files, but he lost that part. Do you think the X-Files would still be on the air if he was given the part? I might hazard a guess that it would. Given his fan base, I would think so. It's sort of weird to see his name thrown out for so many parts by his considerable fan-base, but the roles he actually gets are very B-Movie or A-Movie cameo's at best. I would think the Studio's would have been paying more attention to his rabid fans and what casting him would bring in terms of pre-movie talk back publicity and box-office. Most of his films go straight to video. His fan-base seems to be his crowning achievement, so far.
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And in answer to the poster's question regarding Bruce Campbell: I think the reason he doesn't get the choice roles is because studios are afraid of the weight his name carries. He started his career doing B movies (that were, in reality, A movies. Nothing beats Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness) and now he's destined to finish it that way. Studios are afraid that with him headlining an A film, it will get a B-movie rap.
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Did somebody say that Holly Palancewill have a nude scene that was cut from the origional show twenty years ago. Ta ta city!
Whoo hoo!
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Bruce Campbell's fan base isn't as big as you'd think from web sites like AICN. I mean if you were an alien reading this site you'd think Campbell was a bigger star than virtually every other leading mail actor - how many times are the likes of Tom Cruise, Keanu Reeves or even Tom Hanks mentioned on here, except for the odd negative slap-comment? Probably one-tenth of the fanboyism Campbell gets. In the 'real world', Campbell probably is an unknown to at least half of the modern movie-going audience (I would even guess 75 per cent couldn't place him except maybe for token appearances in stuff like CHARMED), and probably can count on less than 1 per cent as fans. Campbell is a B-grade star because he's B-grade. Sure, he might be a great guy and given us some memorable performances, but don't go telling me he's a great actor or anything. And it's a bit old to have his name thrown up for every new project that comes along. *sigh* The simple fact is that he isn't a box office drawer and never will be. Sure, ARMIES OF DARKNESS was a classic, but let's not go overboard here.
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Long day.
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...should have a new song/remake/remix of Roky Erickson's Two-Headed Dog. They could team up him with Rob Zombie for a techno-disco remix to play over the end credits: TWO-HEADED COW! TWO-HEADED COW!
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...about suicidal alcoholic cartoonist. Wally Wood, Jack Cole, Basil Wolverton... It's "Caroline In The City" (or "Bob") meets "Barfly".
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Unbelievable? Believe it.
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I guess you guys are just too clever for me. Carry on.
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I researched Ripley a few years ago when a company at Disney was interested in doing an adventure film about him. Unfortunately, there was no throughline to make this guy's life that kind of film (adventure). He was basically a guy that kept a bunch of women on his private island to hide the fact that he was gay (big rumor back then). He wasn't much of an adventurer either. Hearst paid him to fly/sail around the world in luxury and collect everything he saw, which amazed a majority of Americans that had never crossed a state line. Most of his trips were staged, and his finds were stories that he slapped the Ripley name on after they came to him through the newspaper (think Geraldo). If anything, there's a story in that this guy was a very public figure in that day and age with a big secret to hide. In today's global society an audience isn't going to be wowed by Ripley collecting tribal masks in Borneo (His favorite find was a statue that a man made with his own hair and fingernails. How exciting is that?) If Alphaville tries to turn him into Indiana Jones, they'll do Ripley a great injustice. If they make it about Ripley's personal struggle against his image and his time, then they've got something. I told Disney the same thing. They passed.
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"Was Jack the Ripper the Loch Ness monster?" Remeber that from Amazon Women on the Moon? Funny stuff. Anyhow, I think Pistolas post was fascinating. Fat Chance. They are looking for a Mummy kinda thing.
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Jon Davidson is my hero.
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...everyone knows that the movie to watch for is gonna' be IN SEARCH OF...starring AND directed by Leonard Nimoy. Cue the early 80's, twangy synthesizer music!
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"Everyone knows that the movie to watch for is gonna' be IN SEARCH OF...starring AND directed by Leonard Nimoy. Cue the early 80's, twangy synthesizer music!" HAHAHAHAHAAHAAA
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"When are they finally going to make the biopic about the guy who created "Mark Trail"? Who was he, anyway? He brought so much sunlight into our lives."
I have fond memories of a MARK TRAIL comic book when I was very small. I somehow think it was a one-shot, since I don't recall seeing a second issue. MARK TRAIL rules! Almost as good as GIL THORPE, the high school coach -- you know who I mean. MARK TRAIL spoke directly to me, and still does. He smoked a pipe, I believe. In the woods. While standing over a dead woodchuck. Saying, "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"
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