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Badass Nick Fury drops a short note on Del Toro project.
Long-time super spy Nick Fury files the following notes to help clarify some of the Hellboy report from San Diego Con.
Yo Harry, Shield Directorate Chief ass-kicker Nick Fury here to give you a
'lil piece of info regarding the HELLBOY update that ran today on your page:
In a related note, Mike said it looked like del Toro would probably get
to this project after, lemme see if I can remember Mike's words, a
weird, "Quick and the Dead" style western with Coppola, featuring some
guy with a mechanical hand (a la Army of Darkness?)
Your spy is referring to del Toro's project MONTE CRISTO, a re-making of the
old Count of Monte Christo story, but set in the 1800s Mexico and played
like
a Leone western. Del Toro fans will be mighty pleased with the script, which is
big
pulpy fun.
That's all for now...
Nick
We here at Geek Headquarters have read the Cristo script, and in Father Geeks opinion it has the makings to be the best Western since Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the West", possibily even better. However, word we've received is that it is un-sure which of del Toro's projects will be filmed first at this time.
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It's interesting and ironic that Zorro's grosses are being looked at before greenlighting this new Coppola project.
There was a lot of The Count of Monte Christo in Zorro. In fact, many key plot points came from that work.
Greg Espinoza
"The rules don't make any sense to me, they're being made up by all the wrong people." -- Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate.
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Who are you trying to kid?
Del Torro is a truly gifted filmmaker in the caliber of Leone, Lynch, Argento, Raimi, Cronenberg, Cameron etc...I'm sure he's considered for the StarWars, Alien & Batman sequels [He knows Lucas through Mathew Robbins]. The notion that he will not get a larger budget because he's Mexican is so outright provacative that its STUPID!!!!!
Filmmakers come to Los Angeles from all over the world and Hollywood is blind to nationality when you've got the talent. How do you explain Alfonso Curaon [sp?] directing Great Expectations? The man has vision. (BTW, Robert Rodriguez, who is a US Citizen-ahem, American, left Zorro on creative differences).
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