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Julia Stiles is a Superhero, but the question is which one'
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with bit of an interview that Julia Stiles recently gave to Cosmo. I haven't really seen this brought up online (although I must admit I've been a little distracted lately by the birth of a friend's baby), so I thought I'd share it with you... I'll meet you down below!
Harry,
This is HarMONICA with some news from a mag on Julia Stiles next
movies.
Cosmo have an interview with Julia Stiles who talked about her latest
film and what it's like to play a princess etc, but she talks a bit
about a bourne identity sequel and a new film she looks like doing
playing a superhero. it doesn't say who or what, but we could guess.
The Bourne Identity sequal is called 'Bourne Supremacy'.
What's your next movie about?
It's called The Bourne Supremacy, and it's a million miles away from And you had the chance to work with her in Mona Lisa Smile. I loved working with Kirsten. She's such a grounded young woman, and Kirsten Dunst did Spider-Man. Whens your comic based film due? I'd love to do one. The one thing I've tried to do with my career is be open to any kind of role and acting experience. Like a buffet, I'm always up for trying a bit of everything. I like comedies, I like Which one is it? You can't get that out of me. Let's just say I get to play the hero, not the damsel in distress. Isn't that every gals dream? Can't let the men have all the glory can we. What does the film-maker believe you'd bring to the role? Good Question. Blonde Hair I think (Laughs). 2+2 = Supergirl!! It sounds like that to me. I haven't heard much HARmonica.
The Prince and Me. Basically, it's the sequel to The Bourne Identity
and I'm playing the character of Nicolette again. You don't really
know whether she's good or bad, so it's definitely an intriguing angle
to play. We just wrapped. I think it will be such an exciting film.
They're already talking about doing a third one.
has been in this game for years. There is nothing she can't teach you.
Going to work with Kirsten, Julie and Maggie each day was very, very
easy. A real joy. I'd love to do something with her - or any of the
cast, for the matter - again.
romance, but I also like a great thriller - and that's why I jumped at
the chance to do the Bourne Identity. What they're doing with these
comic books and turning them into films is just magical. They've got
great special effects, but they've also got heart - and that's why
actors want in. Spider-Man really nailed it. If they hadn't been as
good up till now I probably wouldn't even be interested in the comic
film I'm looking at doing.
about a sequel to Bourne Identity either, so hope that is news!Think Supergirl, huh? I don't think so. Blonde hair, early 20s... Since they're moving forward with the Ultimates version of FANTASTIC FOUR (click here for IGN's follow up with Avi's confirmation), I'd put my money on her being The Invisible Woman... or, more aptly, The Invisible Girl. For a young Sue Storm, Stiles isn't a bad choice... Is there a more obvious choice of a female superhero that Stiles could be taking on that I am missing? Let me know below!
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And as much as I hate Paul Walker, I think he'd be the ideal Johnny Storm.
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so i see no problem with her as supergirl or sue richards (sue storm - whatever)as long as they dont cast ahnold as the freeze it should be fine. hahah. ok. who would be a good reed richards is the question i want answered
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You asked for possibilities.
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because when I lean backwards I fall down
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She's a better actress, though, and that's what should count.
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May 12, 2004 5:21:05 AM CDT
Groan. It'll probably be Sue Storm (and the FF) only to lock up
by big dumb ape
I like Julia Stiles...really, I do. I have no real grudge against her. But IF she's going to be Sue Storm I can already tell what a shitfest movie this is going to be. Then again, if they change Dr. Doom to Dr. Van Damme per the comic (is Jean-Claude under the mask?) you ALREADY know this project is fucked up. Here's your FF movie: George Clooney as Reed, Charlize Theron as a babe-a-licious Sue and Michael Chiklis as Ben Grimm...and then, fine, some young actor to be Johnny. Hell, make it Paul Walker. Because you want a younger face to be Johnny. Point being that the first 3 are ADULTS the way the characters were CREATED to be and SHOULD be. This fucked up ULTIMATES idea that the FF should be teens is just fucking ridiculous and outright dumb. Even if I was willing to buy it in the comic (which I'm not, the idea sucks there too) this pandering notion in Hollywood that everything and every concept must now be "downscaled" to be young, young, young and nothing but young is insane. Did the fact that you had Hugh Jackman playing Wolverine as an ADULT hurt the movie? Was there a need to de-age Patrick Stewart or Ian McKellan as Professor X or Magneto to appease -- I mean, appeal -- to younger movie goers? No. They turned out in droves. The POINT of someone like Reed is that he HAS lived a bit longer and thus GAINED his genius and mature outlook on life. Same for Sue, allowing her to actually BE an older sister to Johnny and for her and Reed to have a marriage based on YEARS together and a certain maturity. Same for Ben Grimm to be an ADULT who recognizes his past life growing up or his test pilot years. As DarthChainsaw nailed it in a post in the other FF thread, it's one thing to tweak little details in a comic to film adaptation, but it's another to change the core fundamentals outright.
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They might as well cast Julia Stiles as the Mole Man, she's so completely wrong for Sue Storm. Jeez Louise, Marvel's lost its mind. Hey, I know -- let's cast The Rock as Prince Namor! HOLY CRAP. It's like we're living in some twisted issue of "What If?" where the Watcher's on crack.
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One of the kids from "Power Pack." Because the world is really clamoring for a PP movie about now.
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May 12, 2004 6:18:57 AM CDT
Maybe she's being cast as the lesbian character from Darkhold
by vikingkitty
One of my Marvel's classics from the Midnight Suns series. Hey, it's probably as well known as Hellboy is by the general public, and that mess of a movie got made.
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What was wrong with Supergirl?where to begin? IT WAS A HELEN SLATER PILE OF SHIT HOWS THAT? and in kirsten dunst's defence, wet pink shirt in spiderman anyone? as for julia stile Save the last dance? ugh every time she cried "MY MOTHERS DEAD" another piece of my gut put in an appearance.
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but just imagine a teenage Doom and your frontal lobes will decay instantly. I don
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May 12, 2004 7:37:04 AM CDT
is that porn comic book "CHERRY" still being printed?
by chickengeorgevii
now THAT would be the kind of "superhero" little miss stiles COULD PLAY!!!!! woo!...And thus, let's see some casting photos! - - - George, The 7th Chicken!!!!
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just expecting to see her there...shes a b.c.w.
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Just an idea . . . Black Cat for a third Spider-Man flick seems a bit more Julia Stiles-ish, though I know it's a little too close to the topic at hand to really be of merit . . .
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('bringing 'blonde hair as in 'introducing' it..)
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Julia Stiles isn't a bad actress, but big dumb ape was right on in his post. Everything doesn't have to be "youth, youth, youth." The main X-Men are all fully adult, like he said, and the movies drew the teens. Julia as Sue would be hard to swallow because either Reed is also going to be young, which is totally unbelievable, or she is going to be young Sue with a boyfriend 10+ years older, which is typical but gross. And she's not sexy enough to play the Black Cat.
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She should play Cherry Poptart.
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Who cares about this? I'm sure what we all want to know is, who will her love interest be? Mos Def, Tyrese, Omar Epps, Morris Chestnut, or Taye Diggs? Or possibly will it be some middle-aged white guy? Only if her character is 14, I'm sure! Julia Stiles can bite my shiny metal ass!
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She not a bad actress. She seems like a great person, but I can't watch any of her movies. Same thing with Annabelle Sciorria. Oh and were is that Darkhold movie or, dare I say it, tv show?
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Jessica Lynch Criticizes U.S. Accounts of Her Ordeal
By David D. Kirkpatrick - November 7, 2003
In her first public statements since her rescue in Iraq, Jessica Lynch criticized the military for exaggerating accounts of her rescue and re-casting her ordeal as a patriotic fable.
Asked by the ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer if the military's portrayal of the rescue bothered her, Ms. Lynch said: "Yeah, it does. It does that they used me as a way to symbolize all this stuff. Yeah, it's wrong," according to a partial transcript of the interview to be broadcast on Tuesday.
After months of retreating from the news media, Ms. Lynch will be a ubiquitous presence next week. In addition to her appearance on ABC, she will be on the cover of Time magazine, and NBC will broadcast a movie based on an Iraqi's account of her ordeal. On Tuesday, the book publisher Knopf will release an account of her experience, "I Am a Soldier, Too," written with her cooperation by a former reporter for The New York Times, Rick Bragg.
The book and the movie are unrelated and tell different versions of Ms. Lynch's story, but the publisher has timed the book to capitalize on publicity from the television movie.
The book has already added another, lurid indignity to the public accounts of her capture. It reports that Ms. Lynch's military doctors found injuries consistent with sexual assault and unlikely to have resulted from the Humvee crash that caused her other wounds, suggesting that she was raped after her capture. Ms. Lynch, who was unconscious immediately after the crash, does not remember any such assault, according to people who have talked to her and read the book. Those details of the book's contents were reported yesterday in The New York Daily News.
In the book and in the interviews, Ms. Lynch says others' accounts of her heroism often left her feeling hurt and ashamed because of what she says was overstatement.
At first, a military spokesman in Iraq told journalists that American soldiers had exchanged fire with Iraqis during the rescue, without adding that resistance was minimal. Then the military released a dramatic, green-tinted, night-vision video of the mission. Soon news organizations were repeating reports, attributed to anonymous American officials, that Ms. Lynch had heroically resisted her capture, emptying her weapon at her attackers.
But subsequent investigations determined that Ms. Lynch was injured by the crash of her vehicle, her weapon jammed before she could fire, the Iraqi doctors treated her kindly, and the hospital was already in friendly hands when her rescuers arrived.
Asked how she felt about the reports of her heroism, Ms. Lynch told Ms. Sawyer, "It hurt in a way that people would make up stories that they had no truth about. Only I would have been able to know that, because the other four people on my vehicle aren't here to tell the story. So I would have been the only one able to say, yeah, I went down shooting. But I didn't."
And asked about reports that the military exaggerated the danger of the rescue mission, Ms. Lynch said, "Yeah, I don't think it happened quite like that," although she added that in that context anybody would have approached the hospital well-armed. She continued: "I don't know why they filmed it, or why they say the things they, you know, all I know was that I was in that hospital hurting. I needed help."
Lt. Col. Rivers Johnson, a spokesman for the Department of Defense, declined to comment on Ms. Lynch's views. But he said, "Essentially, the mission to rescue Jessica Lynch demonstrated America's resolve to account for all of its missing service members." He added that the rescue had been conducted under the appropriate procedures for a fluid situation like the war in Iraq. "You always plan for the worst."
Ms. Lynch also disputed statements by Mohammed Odeh al-Rehaief, the Iraqi lawyer, that he saw her captors slap her.
"From the time I woke up in that hospital, no one beat me, no one slapped me, no one, nothing," Ms. Lynch told Diane Sawyer, adding, "I'm so thankful for those people, because that's why I'm alive today."
Jeff Coplon, who helped Mr. Rehaief write his book, "Because Each Life is Precious," said it was possible that both he and Ms. Lynch were telling the truth in their divergent accounts.
"One of the questions that could arise in the wake of this kind of trauma is that someone could believe they remember everything and their memory could still be incomplete," Mr. Coplon said.
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May 12, 2004 12:16:40 PM CDT
actually, Dunst was one of the sole bright spots in "Spider-Man"
by beamish13
she was a great Mary Jane: cute, perky, flirtatious.
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In a Green Arrow movie...
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May 12, 2004 1:52:12 PM CDT
Julia Stiles is even more annoying than Cameron Diaz in real lif
by 007-11
Amazing but true. Also, KIRSTEN DUNST IS TERRIBLE AND UNNATTRACTIVE!
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May 12, 2004 2:11:12 PM CDT
Yeah, real nice - but I'm STILL waiting for Charisma Carpenter a
by robinp
And I'm gonna hold my breath till I get to see it.
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But I'm also leaning towards Sue Storm.
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No Dr. Doom...Young cast...altered origin...crappy actors/actresses. Hey, maybe "Catwoman" will have company in this sh_t-fest of comic book movies. All they need now is Mekhi Phifer as Reed Richards...
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and thats all I've got to say.
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Someone explain to me the appeal of these two -- just based on interviews alone, I can't stand either of them. Also, both have the uncanny ability to make the most innocent lines sound so fucking pompous and cold: "But there really is a handsome prince!" They can act, but who the fuck wants to see some condescending neo-feminist as a superhero?
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such as Freddie Prinze Jr. as Reed Richards, Matthew Lillard as Johnny Storm aka The Human Torch, and Benjamin McKenzie (from the O.C.) as Ben Grimm aka The Thing. Come on Fox executives, us AICN geeks demand it.
"This is how we do it in the OC, bitch!" - Luke Ward -
Hello to all, it is me James Brown, and this lil bunny needs a strong black man to be her python lover, well damn I can be that. Just so long as she keeps her coochy cheese clean and she don't have anything freaky like a tail or a nipple with a butt hole on it, cause I have had women like that and let me tell you, that shit is scary. But I seen this gal before and she is all right, I will be her he-bitch if she wants, me, Henry Earl. Oh and another thing, check it out, I is on the web, hot damn can you believe it, look at my shots, goddammit I am sexy, love me whores! LOVE ME!!!
http://www.monkeygumbo.com/wee/news/henryearl/ -
Maybe this is a hint and she's tackling HARley Quinn?
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There are MILLIONS of good looking gals out there ... why choose HER? I'm amazed that the mirror doesn't crack everytime she looks into it.
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Hi everyone, this here is James Brown, and I am angry at Mac. Don't you say one more thing Mac you bitch! This cutie pie said she'd be my woman, and I would be her man-ho! So you best leave well enough alone cause I will cut your goddamm bitch eyes out and turd squirt in the holes if you don't quiet down, I really will, I gots a nice new shiv and everything and I been practicin on squirrels. And if you are listening Style Girl, I will go downtown Julie brown all over you, mmm mmm, yes I will, breakfast is served!
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May 12, 2004 4:35:51 PM CDT
Julia Stiles will probably be the Invisible Woman along with Mic
by spyguy
C'mon, there's been absolutely no news whatsoever about a new Supergirl movie or Black Canary. The WB can't even get a decent Superman production together, let alone one with his cousin Kara. I'm not wild about Julia Stiles as Sue, though...What's wrong with Elisa Cuthbert? Let Stiles be Husk or Polaris in X-MEN 3 instead...
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May 12, 2004 4:39:14 PM CDT
The Bourne Supremacy trailer showed with Van Helsing. I thought
by bobthecat
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May 12, 2004 4:41:26 PM CDT
Oh yeah..... Julia Stiles is terrible and fugly and I hope she's
by bobthecat
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Victor Van Damme....why not Cletus Van Damme??? I guess now that The Thing will be That Entity, Mr. Fantastic will be Mr. Extravagant, Invisible Girl will be Imperceptible Girl, and the Human Torch will be the Incendiary Human....???
/I got nothing
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May 12, 2004 5:52:12 PM CDT
Julia plays "The not-cute-girl-Hollywood-is-determined-to-make-a
by mrcere
She already is a superhero. She is a plain looking girl who is so super-hyped that people are convinced she is something else. Now, she probably is a nice person and all, but she is NOT Sue Storm. Yikes. 8(
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It's not like she's a model or a pronstar for a living.
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Hello you fucks! This is a very sad James Brown, now maybe it's the fact that I just finished my second bottle of Southern Comfort, or the fact that I cut my foot when I stepped on a nail, Goddamn carpenters always trying to build shit n' stuff, but the horrible things that you all are saying bout my lady are making me so fucking mad I could shiv you all!!! And maybe she ain't no pronstar, but who the fuck cares, what the hell is a pronstar anyway, screw you all I love my bitch and she loves my pickle, anyway that is all and I am going to go take a nap. YOU HOs
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I could care less about Stiles being a superhero. What I do care about is her being in the Bourne Supremacy. She was the only bad thing about IDENTITY. THE ONLY BAD THING. Other than that the film was a gem. I'm just pissed that they kept her around for the second installment. Damnit - this is one of my most anticipated films of the year, other than the Manchurian remake.
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I sure as shit hope it isn't Dazzler...
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I thought Julia Stiles=Black Cat when they said blonde hair...
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Um, she can't act?
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I am sorry. She was in that movie about dancing and suddenly the studios went nuts. Let her fade already. We don't want her.
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Okay: for the slow - IDENTITY, as in THE BOURNE IDENTITY, not IDENTITY THE MOVIE, dumbfuck. I did mention that they were putting her in the sequel didn't I dumbshit? We're talking about the sequel to THE BOURNE IDENTITY, which is THE BOURNE SUPREMACY.
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...not the John Cusack/Ray Liotta "Identity." Stiles was definitely in Bourne Identity. She ran support for the Paris operation. It looked like she's the only one who got out of Paris alive, so it makes sense they'd use her again.
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FREDDIE PRINZE JR LOVES YOU SUPER WOMAN!!! TAKE HIM BACK!!!
whoever said dunst was uglier than stiles, you are obviously a virgin. sad virgin. sad. sad. dad. -
May 12, 2004 9:50:42 PM CDT
Quite honestly, "The Bourne Supremacy" is one movie I MUST SEE,
by jdanielp
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May 12, 2004 10:37:31 PM CDT
Gotta be BLACK WIDOW -- she says "the" hero, which sounds like s
by frankdrebin
I bet she could do a convincing Russian accent. Not sure how she would look as a redhead, though. Anyway, based on the few films I've seen (10 THINGS, BUSINESS OF STRANGERS, and the pervy WICKED), I think she's pretty good.
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Wouldn't a Black Canary flick be fun? No Green Arrow, than you very much. Just Black Canary. She rides her hog all the way!!! Stiles is not the choice I would have in mind. It requires a fairly sexy actress with silky blonde hair and oozing hormones. Someone like that beautiful big-breasted bitch from SWIMMING POOL and PETER PAN. I imagine none of you geeks are old enough to remember a cycle-riding mama named the Black Cat. She was pretty sexy in her day, and looked a lot like a female Batman or Catwoman. Jet black hair and a very tight outfit. Had a sidekick named Kit, a boy no less. She was published by a smaller house than DC or Marvel, maybe Archie Comics or Dell or Charlton. Joan Severance played a somewhat similar character in a bad TV movie about eight or 10 years ago. There also was a mercifully brief TV show three or four years ago about a sexy masked superheroine that was horribly acted and written.
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She's a redhead, she's in great shape, and she can act. They could do worse than Julia Stiles.
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WB is working with Brian Robbins and Mike Tollin. They have been trying to get it going for the last four years. Maybe more. These are the great folks responsible for Smallville and a bunch of great Brian Robbins films like Ready to Rumble, and Varsity Blues. and a few other decent flicks like Good Burger, and Hardball.
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I agree, the Bourne Supremacy is a must see - but I don't know if it's a smart thing to bring back Stiles' character. She was basically a low level operative who did little more than admin functions - kind of like the kid on the US end who was answering to the head of the intel division, after Chris Cooper was taken out of the mix. I think her character was easily left out of the sequel - however, I haven't read the books so I don't really know how she factors into the next story. All that I do know is, if you're going to keep that character, you lose Stiles and recast the character. She just doesn't give off the "intelligence agent" vibe - I don't think Julia has quite the range that people give her credit for - I think she's very limited. Every other casting choice in The Bourne Identity felt organic. Everyone fit. Matt Damon being the biggest surprise. Who would have thought that this diminutive guy could pull of the bad ass secret agent part? His battle with Clive Owen was poetry in motion (not to mention his climb down the building wall). Subtle action which many, or should I say MOST, of the directors working today could take a lesson from. Far more engaging than the typical explosion filled shitfest that has become the norm at cinemas.
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That message re: Stiles was meant for KTAK. Let me know what you think dude.
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While I'm posting on this subject - isn't it telling that a film like the BOURNE IDENTITY - which is like a fine wine - does middling business at the box office? Yet crap films like THE RUNDOWN and VAN HELSING will most likely destroy BOURNE'S business numbers?
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It hasn't been talked about much, but it went out to a bunch of casting agencies that they were looking to film a new SuperGirl movie starting this August.
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...but your assessment of Bourne Identity's casting is almost exactly like mine. I felt that Stiles was too passive in the first film to rate being sent out into the field that way. She just didn't seem like she "belonged." The way that Bourne just let her go, it was obvious he didn't consider her a real threat either. I'd probably have more objection to her return if not for a plot summary I read a while back. It described Stiles character as either being out of the CIA or relegated to a background position. But the bigshots (either the Brian Cox or Joan Allen character) think it's a little too convenient that she's the lone survivor, and therefore suspect that she had some kind of connection with Bourne that can be exploited. My impression is that she's forced to join the operation. I don't know if this is accurate, but that's what I read. One of the things I enjoyed most about "Identity" was the fight scenes which were brutal yet extremely efficent. Bourne's fighting style is based on Kali/Escrima, a Filipino martial art. It incorporates stick, open hand and knife techniques, which was perfect for the situations he found himself in. It's one of the rare fight scenes in recent memory that didn't have my martial artist friends screaming "bullshit" when they saw it. I hope this movie does well because I really miss this kind of intelligent, not-over-the-top kind of spy thriller. Blowing shit up can be fun, but not if it's the only kind of spy flick we ever get.
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Apologies. I accidentally pasted that article over my original post and before I realized it, I hit "post". Once it was up, I didn't know how to get it back down.
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I agree, the fighting scenes were great: quick, efficient, and brutal. Nothing drawn out - just very real and very engaging. The only objectionable move possibly being Bourne's ride down three stories on a body. I'm really looking forward to seeing what they'll come up with for the next installment.
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Does anyone else think that the Manchurian Candidate remake just looks a million times better than the original? Obviously I've only seen the trailer so far, but the film just looks great - the original simply did not age well...
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....if she's Invisible Woman and Michael Chiklis is priming to play The Thing, she is the soon-to-be-girlfriend of Reed Richards, who I assume will be young, mid-20ish maybe, like her. Reed Richards in turn is best friends, possibly childhood friends, with Michael Chiklis, a man in, at least, his late thirties?? Agh. This comic book science makes no sense.
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May 14, 2004 12:55:44 AM CDT
Some of you are truly pathetic. Stiles actually has talent, and
by the founder
I can't believe it, a actress thatr actually has some acting chops is b!tched about. Now Stile is decent looking, not as pretty as say so many of you fan boys wet dream for Sue, Ms Elisha Cuthbert, but Stiles is the better actor. She has my support as Sue.
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Julia's agent has been pursuing a lead part in an adaptation of a British novel
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haters go home...she is red hot! Man she should play Sue
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not good for a super hero chick.
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