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Elston Gunn'sWEEKLY RECAP
Father Geek here, just returned to Geek Headquarters here in Austin from THE ALAMO... well, its not nearly as bad as I feared, but its not very good either. I rank John Wayne's ALAMO, Sterling Hayden's THE LAST COMMAND, Fess Parker's DAVY CROCKETT, and Alan Ladd's THE IRON MISTRESS ahead of it... didn't care about anyone in or out of the famous mission, the music is very forgetful, and most for the battle scenes are just plain uninspired... Sorry, as a native Texan who lived in San Antonio from age 3 to 20 I was really pulling for it, but it left me flat... Now on to Elston's regular weekly report...
THE WEEKLY RECAP...TAKEN FROM VARIETY AND HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
CASTING
TAKEN FROM VARIETY AND HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
CASTING
* Jennifer Aniston has committed to star in GAMBIT, the remake of the 1966
British caper film that starred Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine, for
Universal Pictures and director Bo Welch. Story revolves around a British
thief who comes up with a fool-proof plan to steal an expensive statue from
one of the richest men in the world.
* Eddie Griffin is set to star in IRISH JAM for writer/director John Eyre
about an Irish village that pawns the local pub to save itself from a
takeover. When the villagers find that their hometown is up for sale, they
set up a poetry contest offering the local pub as a prize as a way to raise
money. It comes as quite a surprise when a rapper/con man from L.A. wins.
* Julianne Moore is attached to star in THE PRIZEWINNER OF DEFIANT, OHIO for
writer/director Jane Anderson ("Normal"), Imagemovers, DreamWorks and
Revolution Studios. Fact-based story concerns a mother of 10 who saved her
family when she entered and won a contest to think up a song for a
commercial product. She then supported her kids by becoming a jingle writer
in the 1950s.
* Al Pacino will play Napoleon Bonaparte in THE MONSTER OF LONGWOOD, an
adaptation of a Staton Rabin novel about the French dictator's last days and
his relationship with a young British girl who befriended him after he was
exiled to the isle of St. Helena. Patrice Chereau (QUEEN MARGOT) is set to
direct and is overseeing a polish of Michael Tolkin's last draft with
scribe/author Paul Auster. Shooting begins this fall on the Isle of Man and
Fiji. This project is different than Lions Gate's NAPOLEON AND BETSY which
has Scarlett Johansson attached to star. Screenwriter Rebecca B. Kennedy
has been involved with both projects.
* Jane Seymour has been tapped to play Christopher Walken's wife in New Line
comedy THE WEDDING CRASHERS, starring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, for
director David Dobkin.
* Kathryn Hahn ("Crossing Jordan") joins the cast of Beacon Pictures'
romantic comedy A LOT LIKE LOVE, starring Ashton Kutcher and Amanda Peet,
for director Nigel Cole and Buena Vista. Ali Larter and Moon Bloodgood also
star.
* Delroy Lindo, Steve Zahn and William H. Macy have been added to the cast
of the Paramount action pic SAHARA, starring Matthew McConaughey and
Penelope Cruz, for director Breck Eisner and Crusader Entertainment.
* Jason Lee, Crispin Glover, Xander Berkeley, Audrey Marie Anderson and
Joseph Reitman have teamed to star in DROP DEAD SEXY for helmer Michael
Philip. The dark comedy centers on a financial scam gone awry in which the
main characters end up kidnapping a dead body in an attempt to blackmail
their target. Pruitt Taylor Vince, Lin Shaye, Suzanna Urszuly and John
Benjamin Martin round out the cast.
* Jack Black and Adrien Brody have been in cast in Peter Jackson's remake of
KING KONG, starring Naomi Watts, for Universal Pictures and WingNut Films.
Black will play Carl Denham, an adventurous filmmaker and showman trying to
make a name for himself in 1930s New York, while Brody is Jack Driscoll, a
former World War I fighter pilot who is the love interest for archaeologist
Ann Darrow (Watts).
* Keanu Reeves will star in A SCANNER DARKLY, based on the Philip K. Dick
novel, for Warner Independent Pictures, Section 8 and director Richard
Linklater. The project will employ the same technology Linklater used in
WAKING LIFE: It will be shot live-action, then animated. Story takes place
in the future, where undercover agents change their faces along with their
identities. Reeves plays one such officer, and his liberal ingestion of the
drug Substance D causes him to develop a split personality.
* Michelle Pfeiffer is attached to star in the drama CHASING MONTANA,
written by her husband David E. Kelley, for Focus Features and director
Susanne Bier (OPEN HEARTS). The story follows a father and his daughter --
both doctors -- whose rustic Montana vacation becomes a poignant and at
times amusing voyage of self discovery.
* Anne Hathaway and Randy Quaid are joining Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal
and Michelle Williams in Ang Lee's cowboy love story BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN for
Focus Features. Adapted by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana from a short
story by author E. Annie Proulx, the story centers on two men who meet one
summer as sheepherders in Wyoming and form a bond and love that spans 20
years.
* Rapper Ja Rule has joined the cast of ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 for Focus
Features and director Jean-Francois Richet.
* Ryan Pinkston ("Punk'd") is in talks to star in SLAY THE BULLY for New
Line Cinema and director Dennis Lee. The movie centers on an eighth-grader
who moves to a new town. He is immediately mistaken for having beaten the
resident bully to a pulp, and a rematch is set for the wrestling ring.
* Laura Dern, Tom Arnold, Jason Ritter, David Sutcliffe and Johnny Galecki
are poised to join Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lisa Kudrow, Jesse Bradford, Bobby
Cannavale and Steve Coogan in Don Roos' HAPPY ENDINGS for Lions Gate Films.
Shooting starts next week. The ensemble project is described as a
contemporary comedy set in Los Angeles involving three intertwining stories
among 10 characters. Kelly Preston also might join the cast.
* Ellen Burstyn joins Edward Norton, Evan Rachel Wood in the indie pic DOWN
IN THE VALLEY for writer/director David Jacobson.
* Carla Gugino will take a role in Dimension Films' SIN CITY for director
Robert Rodriguez, playing a lesbian parole officer. Film is an adaptation of
the Frank Miller graphic novel series.
* Susan Sarandon, Judy Greer, Jessica Biel, Paula Deen and Loudon Wainwright
III are in negotations to join Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom in Cameron
Crowe's romantic comedy ELIZABETHTOWN for Paramount. Production is expected
to begin this summer. Described as a love letter to the resilience of the
life force, the story centers on an unexpected romance that develops against
the backdrop of the elaborate memorial for a Kentucky patriarch.
* Marissa Jaret Winokur (Broadway's HAIRSPRAY) will star in and produce New
Line's ALWAYS A BRIDESMAIND based on Nina Colman's romantic comedy pitch
about three bridesmaids. Winokur would play a quirky East Village girl who
is a perennial bridesmaid until she finds love in the unlikely form of a
Connecticut blueblood lawyer.
* Killer Films and HBO will team on THE BALLAD OF BETTIE PAGE, starring
Gretchen Mol, about the 1950s pinup girl, with Mary Harron directing. Lili
Taylor and David Strathairn also star, with Jonathan M. Woodward, Cara
Seymour, Tara Subkoff and Kevin Carroll. The most successful pinup model of
the 1950s, Page's kinky bondage pics made her the target of a Senate
pornography investigation.
* Trevor Blumas is set to star opposite Michelle Trachtenberg in the ice
skating movie ICE PRINCESS for Disney. Shooting is scheduled to begin next
week with Tim Fywell directing.
* Lauren Graham and Faith Ford join Vin Diesel in Adam Shankman's THE
PACIFIER for Disney and Spyglass Entertainment. Graham will star opposite
Diesel's character as the principal of the school where he's working
undercover, with Ford starring as Julie, the mother of the kids that his
character is protecting.
* Maya Rudolph and Dax Shepard are close to lead roles in director Mike
Judge's comedy 3001 opposite Luke Wilson for 20th Century Fox. Penned by
Judge and Etan Cohen, the film centers on Joe Bowers, an average American
who is selected for a top-secret hibernation program that finds him waking
up and living among a society 10 centuries in the future. He finds that
civilization is so dumbed-down that he is the most intelligent person alive.
Rudolph, who is still in negotiations to join the cast, would will play a
prostitute with Shepard starring as Frito, a defense attorney.
* Willem Dafoe has joined the cast of Revolution Studios' sequel XXX: STATE
OF THE UNION, starring Ice Cube and Samuel L. Jackson, for director Lee
Tamahori. Dafoe will play George Deckert, a five-star general and secretary
of defense.
* Pink will make her screen starring debut as Janis Joplin in a Penelope
Spheeris-directed indie film that is eyeing a summer start date. The Pink
buzz is building because her screen test has begun to circulate. She shot it
last year, acting in two scenes and singing Joplin standards in two others,
replicating the late singer's growling vocal style so convincingly that it
was decided she will sing the songs live in the film. A soundtrack deal is
now in the works with Pink's label Artista, whose head, Clive Davis, signed
Joplin to her first major record contract. Pink is inked to the label.
DIRECTOR/WRITER ATTACHMENTS
* Disney has picked up RUPRECHT, a broad comedy pitch by Josh Weinstein and
Bill Oakley ("The Simpsons") for Andrew Gunn to produce. The story recounts
how, in Victorian times, Santa Claus left presents for all the good children
and Ruprecht was responsible for leaving switches and coal for the naughty
ones. Ruprecht went away when the partnership soured, and kids eventually
stopped getting coal. The story picks up in the present day when Ruprecht
resurfaces.
* Chuck Wilson (SOUL PLANE) will write and direct MEET THE MO'FOCKERS for
Maverick Entertainment, based on a story he created with actor/comedian
DeRay Davis about a high-society African-American man falls in love with a
beautiful woman whom he believes possesses a social pedigree similar to his
own. As he prepares to ask for her hand in marriage, he discovers his
would-be in-laws are straight from the 'hood -- and that he had a one-night
stand with the woman's mother.
* Disney grabbed J.T. Saladin's pitch ORPHAN'S CLUB for Jane Startz and
Beacon Entertainment to produce. The project revolves around an underground
network of kids orphaned after the first World War, which produced more than
80 million orphans. The aim of the secret international organization is to
prevent all future wars and, in turn, the creation of more orphans. The club
follows highly structured rules outlined in the Orphan's Club Handbook.
* Gold Circle Films has acquired Todd Stein's script 2:22 about a creatively
frustrated artist who begins to notice that the random events in his life
have formed a pattern that is repeating itself daily. He soon connects this
to a murder that took place on the day he was born. He begins working
desperately to keep history from repeating itself.
* Landscape Entertainment has set up BARRY AND STAN GONE WILD, a comedy
scripted by "Election" author Tom Perrotta (ELECTION author) and Rob
Greenberg ("Frasier"), at New Line. It revolves around an uptight
dermatologist and his newly divorced brother. For spring break they travel
together to Daytona, where they must rescue the doc's son, who has been
arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct.
* Universal is in talks with Michael Brandt and Derek Haas (2 FAST 2
FURIOUS) to adapt Mark Millar's comicbook WANTED for Marc Platt Prods. The
dark tale centers on an angry young man who discovers that he's the son of
the most powerful supervillain on Earth.
* New Line Cinema picked up Mark Bailey's true crime pitch THE ZENITH MAN,
about McCracken Poston, a lawyer in small-town Ringgold, Ga., who in 1997
was recovering from a failed run at Congress and a failed marriage. At the
same time, Alvin Ridley, the town recluse, was charged with the murder of
his wife, who had not left the inside of their home for 30 years. Poston
agreed to defend Ridley, who was being vilified by the small town and media.
* Clint Eastwood will next direct and star in MILLION DOLLAR BABY for
Malpaso, Lakeshore and Warner Bros. Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman are
expected to take the other lead roles. Written by Paul Haggis from short
stories by F.X. O'Toole, the film will tell the story of an ex-fighter who
runs a gym in Los Angeles with a fellow former boxer. They are approached by
a young woman who's determined to become a fighter.
* Alexandre Boury (DIDI THE GOOFY CUPID) will direct DIDI QUER SER CRIANCA
(DIDI WANTS TO BE A KID), comedian Renato Aragao's 43rd pic and the latest
entry in one of Brazil's longest-running franchises. Shooting begins April
5.
* Erica Beeney (THE BATTLE OF SHAKER HEIGHTS) is writing the script for
GIDGET, a remake of the 1959 Sandra Dee pic, for Red Wagon Entertainment and
Columbia Pictures. Beeney is also rewriting NEW SENSATION about a high
school dropout who adopts a new identity at a prep school.
* 2929 Productions optioned the Mark Borrowcliffe novel INFIDELITY FOR FIRST
TIME FATHERS with R. Lee Fleming Jr. (SHE'S ALL THAT) set to write the
script. The book is about an immature man in his late 30s who faces the
ultimate crisis for a philanderer: Both his fiance and his college-aged
girlfriend have gotten pregnant at the same time.
* Sanford Bookstaver will direct THE TINY PROBLEMS OF WHITE PEOPLE, written
by Will Aldis, for Maverick Films.It's a comedy about a grieving former
sportswriter haunted by the ghost of a man who claims to have written the
works of Shakespeare.
* Universal Pictures has optioned David Schickler's upcoming novel SWEET AND
VICIOUS and has set the author to pen the script. It's about a diamond thief
hiding out in a small Wisconsin town and the girl at the car wash who falls
in love with him.
* Jason Rothenberg and Bill Robinson sold a thriller pitch in the vein of
THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE to Focus Features for Platinum Dunes to
produce.
* Stuart Beattie and John Enbom will adapt the Tom Clancy novels WITH
REMORSE and RAINBOW SIX, respectively, for Paramount. The studio is looking
to develop a franchise based on the CIA character John Clark.
* Twentieth Century Fox purchased Ari Schlossberg's untitled occult pitch.
* MGM and producer Jennifer Klein picked up the urban classroom comedy F+
about the unlikely friendship between the nastiest teacher in high school
and a student who makes his life a living hell.
* Albert Hughes is set to direct ART CON, an MGM film being developed by
Michael Douglas' Furthur Films as a potential star vehicle for the actor in
which he'd play a charming con man who masterminds ambitious art fraud
scandals.
* Producers Kathleen Kennedy, Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen will make a movie
about how the power of rock 'n' roll helped oust the repressive regime of
Yugoslavian strongman Slobodan Milosevic, optioning the Matthew Collin book
GUERRILLA RADIO: ROCK 'N' RADIO AND SERBIA'S UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE. Zach
Helm will write the script titled THIS IS SERBIA CALLING and will tell the
story of the war in Yugoslavia and how the workers of one radio station
risked their lives to defy a brutal government.
* Peter Paige ("Queer as Folk") will direct and star in the satirical comedy
DONUT HOLE based a script he wrote about a young artist who goes on a
desperate search to replace the relationship with his godson, who has moved
to Japan with his family. He tries a baby-sitting business, works in a toy
store and spends his free time playing with kids at nearby playgrounds until
catching the attention of a neighborhood mom who determines that Johnson is
a danger to the community. Kathy Najimy is in talks to co-star.
* Hillary Seitz (INSOMNIA) has sold a pitch to Paramount Pictures. The
thriller pitch is said to take a reverse approach to one of Paramount's hit
films from the '80s -- though the studio is trying to keep the exact details
under wraps.
* Disney has snapped up THE REINVENTION OF KATE from writers Amy Rardin and
Jessica O'Toole for Storyline Entertainment to produce. It's described as a
comedy thriller about a young woman who works at a U.S. patent office.
Everything in her life changes when someone applies for a patent that people
around her are killing for.
* Burr Steers (IGBY GOES DOWN) will rewrite and develop the action/comedy
THIS MEANS WAR for the Robert Simonds Co./Fox. The original pitch revolved
around two best friends who both fall in love with the same woman and then
wreak havoc on Manhattan.
* Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami and Ken Loach will direct TICKETS, a film
set on a train traveling from Northern Europe toward Rome. The directors
will each shoot one part, but the film will have the same main characters
throughout. The three helmers penned the screenplay, though with each
working on a section individually.
* Oren Moverman (JESUS' SON) has been attached to write the period drama
CONCORDIA for Tiny Dancer Films. Character-driven story is set in rural
Kansas during the final months of WWII.
* Universal has acquired a "middle-aged coming-of-age" pitch by Steve Carell
and Judd Apatow, and Carell will star in the film. The two will co-write the
script for Apatow to direct.
* Disney has purchased the comedy pitch POWDERPUFF GIRLS from Cindy McCreery
for Tapestry Films and producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar to produce.
Family comedy centers on an NFL coach who's fired, and ends up moving back
to his small town in Texas, where he coaches his tomboy daughter's all-girl
football team in an all-boy's league.
* Alonzo Brown and Kim Watson (HONEY) will write an untitled feature
focusing on the men and women who work at a car customizing shop,
culminating in a competition at a car show. It's based on a pitch by Michael
Rapaport and Andre Harrell who will produce for MTV Films and Paramount.
* Jerry Stahl (PERMANENT MIDNIGHT) will script a remake of the Burt Reynolds
film SHARKY'S MACHINE for Warner Bros. and Basil Iwanyk.
* Steven Soderbergh will replace Terrence Malick as the director of CHE,
based on the life of Che Guevara, to star Benicio Del Toro. Production is
expected to begin in South America in August 2005, and he will supervise the
writing of a new script. The producers also hope that Javier Bardem,
Benjamin Bratt, Ryan Gosling and Franka Potente will remain involved if
their schedules allow them to be in South America next year.
MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCTION TIDBITS
* Walt Disney Co. studio chief Dick Cook said he was leaning toward making
the third installment of TOY STORY 3 as a feature movie rather than a
direct-to-home video project in a few years.
* Warner Bros. Pictures has optioned the feature film rights to Julia
Donaldson's novel THE GIANTS AND THE JONESES for David Heyman to produce.
It's a reverse Jack and the Beanstalk story about a young girl giantess who
kidnaps three children and hides them in her giant's playhouse in the sky.
The kids then have to use all their wits to survive and figure out a way to
leave the magical world and return home to earth.
* Lisa Marie Butkiewicz and financier Steve Delaportas have secured movie
rights to G.P. Taylor's SHADOWMANCER for Fortitude Films to produce. The
book is an 18th-century ghost story about three children's battle against an
evil vicar out to control the world who has the ability to enlist the dead
as his forces.
* Universal has greenlit THE GOOD SHEPHERD, which is scheduled to begin
production this fall. Robert De Niro is set to direct Leonardo DiCaprio in
the project, written by Eric Roth, about a Yale grad who was recruited as
one of the founders of the CIA. Story spans the character's 40-year career
through the Cold War and details the emotional toll it takes on the man and
his family.
* Samuel Goldwyn Jr. and his son John Goldwyn are teaming up to produce the
remake of the 1947 Samuel Goldwyn production THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY
for Paramount Pictures. Jim Carrey has a first-look option to star.
* Harry Knowles will co-produce PRINCESS OF MARS, Paramount Pictures'
adaptation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs book that Robert Rodriguez is
directing. Jim Jacks and Sean Daniel of Alphaville are producing the project
along with Rodriguez and his wife and producing partner, Elizabeth Avellan.
* Venture Management has optioned feature rights to Marcus Gray's THE CLASH:
THE RETURN OF THE LAST GANG IN TOWN. Novel, published in 2002, follows the
history of the band from its origins in London basements in 1976 and the
release of its first album the following year. The book explores class
issues, the punk scene and the Clash's strong political edge.
Until next week...
Elston Gunn
elstongunn@hotmail.com
elstongunn@hotmail.com
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I wont say it. Brody in King Kong as well? cool
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I miss Leela's beautiful eye...
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That news RUINED my day yesterday.......Malick bailing on directing his Che Guevara flick to direct a Pocahontas film starring Colin Farrel??? BAH!
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yea. I get all excited when I see it. wheee!
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i guess chris rock was right.
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for the person who wrote the steller big screen hit, "honey" get to do a movie about people in a garage who end up in a competition!!! Wow! Is anyone else just going crazy for it like I am? And a second triple X? How cool is that? I am so glad Hollywood is taking the time to be more concerned about making good films than making money of cheap generic movies that appeal to the lowest denominator of society! Yay!!!
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Sorry 'bout the misspellings...gimme a break! Its 1am and I'm 5 guiness under!
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i have a million dumb ideas just like these.
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Apr 07, 2004 2:02:25 AM CDT
Depends on if you want to throw a knuckle or speed ball.
by pizzatheface
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Finally a production where he won't have to stand on any apple boxes.
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OH and I really wish Robert Rodriquez was not directing Sin City...but maybe he will prove me wrong and not make such a mess out of it...like his other attempts at making movies.
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This was a nifty little caper picture with lots of twists, a good MacLaine and a top-flight Michael Caine. Might be the role to make Anniston a star. Really. OK: What Brit or Aussie gets the Caine role, now? Hugh Grant? Colin Firth? Hugh Jackman? How about: MICHAEL CAINE. He'd be great, and I hear he's hardly working now. P.S. Interesting: Shirley MacLaine and Michael Caine are getting romantic in "Bewitched" supporting roles. A reunion!
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Man, I was dissapointed when I heard the studio took it away from Terry Gilliam, but now this? I'll still see it, of course, but what a blow.
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Apr 07, 2004 2:30:35 AM CDT
Nice to see Father Geek busting out some film knowledge
by daddylonghead
Always happy to hear him weigh in. Shame about The Alamo. The movie, I mean. Here's hoping sometime soon you'll be seeing my novel up there in the weekly recap, and the fabulous Hollywood deal that's gonna get me out of this frozen hellhole. Snow on April 6th, love of christ! Good night to get high in front of a warm fireplace.
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..is alot of these movie plots like really rediculous. A Jewel Theif who hides out in a small Wisconsin town and falls in love with the girl at the local car wash. As Gilbert Godfried would say on VH1.. WHAT THE FUCK!? There are many others like this and I'm sure many of you read them and thought the same thing. It really is starting to feel like Hollywood is running out of Ideas expecially with all the Remakes, not to mention the afore mentioned rediculous storylines.
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Ok, how in the hell are they going to make A Scanner Darkly into a film? (ahem, movie..)
Have they even READ THE BOOK? The narrative would be almost impossible to effectively translate onto the screen...and even if they could, it wouldnt capture what the book was doing. I don't know what to say about this...if it was being made by Ridley Scott it'd be easier for me to keep an open mind, but Richard Linklater? Not only is he a mediocre director at best, but a director totally inexperienced in the sci-fi genre, let alone post-modern science fiction that's as tripped out as PKD. Either way, I don't trust a story by one of the best science fiction writers of all time in the hands of the guy that completely ripped off American Graffiti. As for Keanu Reeves, well, he isn't a good match to play Bob Arctor. He could certainly play the usual PKD-short story character, but A Scanner Darkly is on a totally different level than the PKD short stories hollywood has a habit of turning into feature films and ruining. I dunno, i don't mind Reeves, but he doesnt fit this role, and in this time period this film is bound to be a fuckup and turn into car-commercial science fiction like the Matrix. It should have been made in the early 1980s, thats all i have to say about that.
Moving on, Soderbergh taking over on Che as Malick's replacement? That's really really dissapointing...
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Apr 07, 2004 3:21:33 AM CDT
So does that mean that Jane Fonda isn't going to be in ELIZABETH
by cash bailey
That sucks. I watched KLUTE a few weeks ago and was floored by her performance in it.
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...I bet I could pull one off that would be better than half this uninspired shite. Anyways,I thought Charlie Kaufman was writing the adaptation of A Scanner Darkly as The 3...If anyone could make a movie out of that book,it'd be him.
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Apr 07, 2004 6:22:02 AM CDT
They should make "The Passion of the Claudio Ranieri" starring H
by kid ab
I'm a crazy man, Brother!
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What, does Clarke break down and cry each time he kills a drug dealer? Does he beg Jesus and God for forgiveness? Does he do Helping Hands to ease the pangs of guilt? Or is it TYPO'D?
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scriptsales.com says it's a thriller.
A quick search on IMDB for Paramount-produced thrillers...
Hmmm. "Friday the 13th" seems unlikely to be a Paramount production now and the "in reverse" part doesn't make much sense.
Oh, there it is, glaring right at me: "Fatal Attraction."
Swap the roles around and dump some big namers in the leads and milk it.
I have to concur... most of these pitches suck rhino. Time for some fresh blood in Hollywood. Really, I can just hear it now, "movies based on comics are hot.... I know, we'll do Garfield. He sure is funny." Nevermind that they got the kind of comics all confuzzled. -
I'd do Pink 'til her eyes changed color. sk
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And I....I can't...speak...coherently....so bad.....I can't....duh?
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I read it years ago. I'm not into that sort of thing now, but at the time I thought it was a damn good book. Very different from Clancy's other works. Not as much a "technothriller," but more of a personal story. They'll probably change all this for the film, but the book is more of a prequel, in that it takes place just after Clark (not his original name) returns from Vietnam, and tells how he became the CIA's go-to guy for wet work.
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...their brains would melt.
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Wow they are really moving forward on this and the 3rd issue just came out. Them comic book movies sure are hot these days, with studios snatching up the rights just a few issues in. Had you told me this sort of thing would be going on ten years ago, I would have thought you mad.
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Saw it and it was much better than I was expecting. It looks great and the battle scenes are excellent. Billy Bob is fantastic as Davy Crockett.
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Apr 07, 2004 10:10:59 AM CDT
if you can't bitch about anything else, bitch about the writing.
by stan the bat
"The music was very forgetful"... are we going for a Winnie-the-Pooh effect, here? 'Forgetful' and 'forgettable', like so many different words, MEAN DIFFERENT THINGS.
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http://www.angelfire.com/creep/batmanbegins/batmanbegins.pdf
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Isn't the title to the sequel of "Meet the Parents" "Meet the Fockers"? Or have they changed that? Also saw the Garfield trailer. I have no problem with the CG Garfield but why did they not go with a CG Odie? Why use a real dog that looks nothing like him? And how could it? Odie is the most bizarre looking dog in creation. What next? A live-action Dilbert film with Benji as Dogbert?
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I saw over at Sony's Spider-man site(spiderman.sonypictures.com)that the newest trailer for Spider-Man 2 will be shown during Thursday's broadcast of The Apprentice. But for those who shun all forms of reality TV, fret not. The article says the trailer will be available online later that night and in theatres starting April 9.
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Balls. Well I hope this is fucking amazing, but this isn't giving me much hope. Ever since I heard Kaufmans script was NOT being used I've been depressed about this. His script, by the way, is fucking great. Why it's not being used therefore must be due to either egos, idiocy or politics... Or else Linklaters script is fucking amazing. I suspect not. If it was up to me, I'd use Sam Rockwell as Arctor, and William Dafoe as Barris. If it was up to me.
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Apr 07, 2004 12:28:53 PM CDT
Gambit, The Thomas Crown Affair, Ocean's Eleven, Ocean's Twelve,
by christopher3
Anyone besides me getting tired of these?
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Don't get me wrong, I think the guy can act, but he's too young and his screen presence is better suited to immature, comedic roles. Now imagine Robert Armstrong's hammy dialogue delivered by someone like John Goodman, line's like, "We're millionaires boys, I'll share it with all of you!-- Ladies and gentlemen, I present KONG, the Eighth Wonder of the World!-- No, it wasn't the airplanes,... etc., etc, " THAT I can see. also, Matt Groening needs to sue someone at Fox for 3001. They barely let his show get on the air, and then they rip off his idea.
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Will they have the balls to cast him? Thought he did a great job in a small part in Sum of All Fears. After seeing him play so many weenies, it was refreshing to see how well he could handle playing a tough guy.
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Apr 07, 2004 3:11:18 PM CDT
Yeeouch!! Barbershop director hired for Fantastic Four.
by fatal discharge
...scariest news I've heard in a blue moon. On the other hand, Quentin Tarantino wants to direct James Bond Casino Royale remake...I believe Harry suggested QT should try and revamp the Bond franchise before and now he's offering to do it. The producers will be morons if they don't take him up on his offer RIGHT NOW! And wow, I thought Harry's Princess Of Mars notice was an April Fool's joke but no! Well, good luck but that's a pretty big leap for a novice producer...what experience does Harry have other than being able to arrange the catering? BWAHAHA! But seriously, still no mention of Peter Ustinov's passing...that guy was a joy in his film and tv work as well as a great charming and funny story-teller in real life as well. This site needs to hire people who can break stories and keep up with the latest news as obviously you guys are all busy with more important jobs in your lives now and this site risks becoming Ain't It Stale News.
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I'd love to see a Quentin Tarantino Bond as much as anybody, but I've read elsewhere that the "Broccoli Kids" (who inherited the franchise from their late father, Cubby) consider Bond to be "the family business" and are actually scared of letting anybody too big into their house to play with it. Spielberg,Tarantino, John Woo are among those who, I think, have been rebuffed in the past, and the Broccoli Kids haven't wanted to hire terribly big stars for Bond himself, villains, or heroines (though the Halle Berry thing was a fluke.) I think QT is hinting at this problem in suggesting that this won't happen. btw, I read elsewhere that Pierce Brosnan heard that the Broccoli Kids indeed want to call the next Bond "Casino Royale," and Brosnan is irked, thinking that's a classic title that doesn't fit the high tech Bonds of today.
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Apr 07, 2004 3:46:53 PM CDT
So Tim Story is directing Fantastic Four...whoop de freakin' doo
by terry_1978
I'm not passing judgment until I've seen or heard some choices he's made as far as the flick. I liked Barbershop, and he's done two indie flicks that have that action-adventure vibe going, so I can't say whether it'll suck or not.
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Fuck him until he HOLLAS. Cookie Monster sounding motherfucker. Splash on his face! PUNK BITCH.
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That's the first thing I thought.
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With Anne Archer? That'd be hot.
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..sorry, but it had to be said.
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Gunn, you kinda missed the boat on the news that Tim Story of (ahem) "Barbershop" fame was picked by Marvel to direct the Fantastic Four. Also, Marvel is in discussions with Michael Chilkis to play the Thing, and Tim Robbins to play Doctor Victor Von Doom. They should call this site "Isn't Old News Cool?". Scooped by Superherohype.com again.
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Apr 07, 2004 8:08:39 PM CDT
What's the holdup on more Jack Ryan & John Clark movies. 'Cuz i
by frankdrebin
Gretchen Mol as BETTIE PAGE = sweet (except that America's as puritanical as ever, so there'll be none of the joyful nudity Bettie was famous for)... For some reason, 3001 made me flash on Woody Allen's SLEEPER, where he intentionally misinforms future historians about the what went on in the 20th century. But, at least it'll be interesting to see what Maya Rudolph is capable of outside of SNL... And Jervis_Tetch is right that Gambit was a fun, lightweight little caper movie (like TOPKAPI), with a clever twist (SPOILER): the story is told twice, once how the theft is supposed to happen, then how it actually happens. If you rent it (that is, if you can find it), the last scene in the movie is priceless.
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And Waking Life is by far his most pretentious wank fest of a film...and now they're letting him do the same damn thing again with A Scanner Darkly. They dumped Kaufman's version for this shit? Why not just use the money to personally go around and kick each and every one of Philip K. Dick's fans in the balls instead, it'd be less painful and a far better use of the money in the long run. Outside of the strictly lightweight fare of Dazed & Confused and School Of Rock, every single thing that he's done has been an over rated, and usually pretentious mess. And he's cast Ke-antact-Nu to boot. Great. Jusssssst great...
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