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Quint ventures into THE FOG with Maggie Grace and director Rupert Wainwright!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with a little chat I had with a couple of the people involved with the remake of John Carpenter's THE FOG. During Comic-Con I sat down with the yummy-yummy, hottie-bo-bottie Maggie Grace, who stars in THE FOG along with Tom Welling, but is probably best known for playing Shannon on LOST, and director Rupert Wainwright.
Wainwright's previous film was a movie all over the map. I didn't particularly care for STIGMATA, but I think with a good script and a little more focus Wainwright's style could work really, really well. I'm hoping that THE FOG is good... one of my all time favorite movie scenes is the campfire telling of the story of the Elizabeth Dane from the original. Love it!
So here's the interview. Just me, Maggie and Rupert done right before their presentation at the Con. I must confess to being quite taken with Ms. Grace. She's pretty on LOST. She's gorgeous in person and cool to boot. She even gave up a dirty joke! Read on for the chat!
QUINT: I'm a huge movie geek and a fan of Carpenter's work and when I first heard of a remake of THE FOG I thought... "Why?"
MAGGIE GRACE: (giggles)
QUINT: But at the same time one of John Carpenter's most celebrated films is THE THING, itself a remake. So, remakes aren't inherently bad...
RUPERT WAINWRIGHT: Why remake The Fog? A friend of mine had a very funny comment about the original FOG, which is a great movie in its way... He said it's half a brilliant movie. One of the things that's interesting about the movie is that it's so short that it gets out so quickly and you're finished with this sort of sense of, "What happened? Why, what?" That's one of the good things about the movie, but there's a huge range of things that you still want to know about the town and about what happened and about the crash.
One of the things that's interesting about this movie is that we get to really explore that. We really go into the past. Actually, through the character of Maggie we explore the past and the present sort of interweaving together.
In the end, it appears to be basically the same story halfway through. People know it's now on an island, not a seaside town, but it appears to be the same kind of thing. But it grows and grows and grows and the past and the present get tied together in a very, very different way than in the original.
QUINT: But you were familiar with the original film before you got this movie...
RUPERT WAINWRIGHT: Oh, yeah, yeah.
QUINT: (to Maggie) Had you seen it?
MAGGIE GRACE: Yes, of course. I mean, obviously it's the holy grail of horror films. I do think it's essentially a very different movie than the original. Obviously, it gives a great template...
RUPERT WAINWRIGHT: The other thing about it is... you can do so many interesting things with fog right now. You can create whole characters out of it. That's another thing... we can really... rather than just having it sort of going backwards through the engine bucket we can make it come alive, we can make characters out of these things... That's something that just wasn't possible when John made the original.
QUINT: Do you feel any added responsibility about doing a remake as opposed to doing an original film?
RUPERT WAINWRIGHT: I think that making films is so fucking terrifying as it is, it couldn't be more scary! (laughs) It's all so fucking scary! In a way, it can't be more scary!
QUINT: Can we talk a little about Maggie's character?
MAGGIE GRACE: Sure.
QUINT: Is it like Jamie Lee Curtis' character from the original?
RUPERT WAINWRIGHT: Not at all, not at all.
MAGGIE GRACE: It's the same name and she serves some similar purposes, but it's very loosely, loosely associated... This character, she's from the island. She had a somewhat messy love affair with a character now played by Tom Welling and it comes back with a lot of unanswered questions... She essentially abandoned him rather abruptly and suddenly comes back. So, she's no longer just passing through. She's very much invested in the town and its history.
QUINT: And you have Selma Blair playing the Adrienne Barbeau character?
MAGGIE GRACE: Yeah!
RUPERT WAINWRIGHT: Yeah. Obviously we kind of really went completely the opposite way there...
QUINT: Well, unless she still had her mammaries from A DIRTY SHAME.
MAGGIE GRACE: (laughs) If you didn't hear, she threw one at Rupert during a press conference!
RUPERT WAINWRIGHT: She threw half her glands at me...
MAGGIE GRACE: Her glands? That's a new one. Awesome!
QUINT: That's a story to tell the grandchildren!
MAGGIE GRACE: That girl is so gutsy, I freakin' adore her.
RUPERT WAINWRIGHT: She's hilarious.
MAGGIE GRACE: She'll do anything. Some reference to Adrienne Barbeau's lovely, voluptuous figure and she's like, yeah...
(Maggie mimes whipping a boob out)
RUPERT WAINWRIGHT: That's what you need, though, when you've got somebody that's stuck in a lighthouse for half the movie. You know what I mean? She's there on her own. She's doing a monologue the entire time. She has one scene with somebody else and that's her son, when he wakes up in the morning.
MAGGIE GRACE: We worked together for just a couple day, unfortunately. I really, really liked her.
RUPERT WAINWRIGHT: She's a hoot.
MAGGIE GRACE: Anybody that names their one-eyed dog "Wink," like, immediately goes up in my estimation, you know?
QUINT: (laughs) Can you tell me a little bit about the visual style of the movie? You're wanting to make something that's not a photocopy of the original, obviously.
RUPERT WAINWRIGHT: Well, if you want to see real things that are happening to real people you kind of want to make it feel as real as possible. Take a movie like HELLBOY, for example, which is obviously a very fantasy movie all the way through. This not a fantasy movie at all. It's a regular movie about regular people going about their daily business and suddenly all hell breaks loose, so in a sense you don't want it to be...
(an odd sound is coming from Rupert's pocket)
I'm sorry...
(He takes a cell phone out that is going crazy with a kind of weird electronic beat)
I don't know how to change it!
MAGGIE GRACE: The ring?
RUPERT WAINWRIGHT: I have no idea!
MAGGIE GRACE: Oh, I'll show you...
RUPERT WAINWRIGHT: No, this is the one it comes with. You have to buy another ring!
MAGGIE GRACE: Or you can, download it, probably...
RUPERT WAINWRIGHT: That's what I said. You have to buy another ring.
MAGGIE GRACE: For, like, 99 cents.
RUPERT WAINWRIGHT: I know, but I tried to do it...
MAGGIE GRACE: You should, like, get one of the FOG's themes...
QUINT: Get some Carpenter music on there.
MAGGIE GRACE: Totally.
QUINT: If you were really cool you'd get the BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA Coupe de Villes theme song on your phone.
RUPERT WAINWRIGHT: Very good!
MAGGIE GRACE: I had TuPac on mine for a while... which people didn't seem to expect.
QUINT: That would have surprised me...
(laughs)
RUPERT WAINWRIGHT: So, in a sense the visual style needs to get people believing it's a real world rather than, "Look! How amazing!" You need to lead them in there and then, "Shit! The weirdest thing just happened! What the fuck!?!"
QUINT: Well, that's one of the talents Carpenter has... The films in that period were so personal and the sense of doom... with like PRINCE OF DARKNESS and THE FOG, especially. There's no escape.
MAGGIE GRACE: The terror out of the ordinary is so much more haunting. Days after you see HALLOWEEN, it just fucks you up 'cause you're still looking around every corner. It's not some dinosaur. It's really finding that terror in your backyard.
QUINT: I'm almost done, but I'd like to ask you directly about all these X3 rumors. I've read recently that you're off the project, but were you ever attached to X3?
MAGGIE GRACE: Um... You know, I met everybody over there... It was very much... You know, the press kinda ran with it, but...
QUINT: They just took a meeting and said it was a casting decision?
MAGGIE GRACE: Uh... not exactly, but it wasn't supposed to be public information. We did not close a deal, so yeah... But I am, of course, going back to LOST, so I don't know if the schedules would have worked out very well anyway.
QUINT: What're your favorite dirty jokes?
(laughs)
QUINT: I was going to ask Natalie Portman to give me a dirty joke yesterday, but the interview got cut short, so I need a pretty girl to give me a dirty joke or this trip is a failure!
MAGGIE GRACE: (laughs) All the dirty jokes I know are Josh Holloway... of LOST... dirty jokes... which being southern are just horrible, horrible, horrible... trying to think.
RUPERT WAINWRIGHT: I have a good one... This guy, this writer for The New Yorker, goes away to write a book and ends up in some little... I don't know much about the East Coast of America, but in like one of those sort of Tennessee... middle of fucking nowhere, okay? And he can see one tiny little house miles away, but he's just writing away all day. He's gotta get his book done.
Finally, this guy comes across the valley and he's got, like, one tooth and boils all over himself and one ear and a stumpy leg. The guy goes, "All right, don't be the New York... just be a nice guy." The other guy goes, "Argghh, neighbor... we're having a party tonight! You should come up."
The guy goes, "Oh, I'd love to... what'll be happening?" The guy goes, "We'll be drinkin'! Hahaha... and we'll be dancin'! And when we stop drinkin' and dancin' thing's go crazy! There'll be sex galore!!" The New Yorker says, "Alright, fine..." The guy starts walking away and the New Yorker says to him, "Well, what time should I come?"
He says, "Any time ya' like! It's just you and me!" Ba-dum-bump.
QUINT: Did you settle upon your Josh Holloway joke?
MAGGIE GRACE: Umm... alright. This guy goes through this horrible break-up with his girlfriend and goes into a bar. He's just slamming 'em back, right? There's a woman tending the bar and she's like, "Man, why are you so down?" The man says, "My girlfriend just broke up with me. She says I'm too kinky."
She goes, "Oh, my God! My boyfriend just dumped me. He said I was too kinky!" He goes, "Really, what time do you get off?" So, they hit it off, they hook up... She agrees to leave with him when her shift is over and they go back to her place.
She's like, "Well, I'm just gonna go slip into something a little more uncomfortable" and leaves for a few minutes. She comes back and he's halfway out the door. She's like, "What's the deal, man? I mean, I thought we were gonna have a good time."
He says, "Honey, I already shit in your purse and fucked your cat. What else do you want?"
(laughs)
QUINT: Awesome.
MAGGIE GRACE: Except it's so much better in a really dirty southern accent. It really requires the southern delivery.
There you have it. Dirty joke and all. Isn't Maggie cute holding up the little AICN logo? After the interview Wainwright told me a little about Dark Horse Comics doing a comic book of the movie and funnily enough (considering Selma Blair's involvement) Hellboy's Mike Mignola is doing the cover art. That's pretty cool. They both seem very enthused about the flick and I'm looking forward to giving it a look. I'm not 100% sold on it, but we'll all know what we're in for soon enough. I'm pulling for an ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 type remake myself. I love the new movie and the old one, just different enough to not draw direct comparisons, but the remake still kept the spirit of the original.
So, there it is. One interview down, four to go... yeesh. Keep your eyes peeled. Next week on the site should be Quint interview mania! 'Til then, this is Quint bidding you all a fond farewell and adieu.
-Quint
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Sat next to Maggie...
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better than portman. keep 'em comin', quint. i nominate lee lee sobieski for the next one.
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Rupert, Rufus, Martha. And I like how the pretty girl got a (laugh) after her dirty joke but the poor director who was just trying to get her off the hook apparently met dead silence.
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He really should be, you know. Not that I read the interview or have any idea what it is about. I just think that Joss Whedon should write everything because he is so brilliant and balding.
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heh - and quint, don't forget to credit yourself when you do quotes for films man
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. . . every 2 bit horror movie gets a plug at every stage. Joss Whedon has a new movie coming out in September, but you think AICN will ever do something on that? Not likely.
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It must have been hard to focus the camera with a raging hard-on.
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She's not as pretty as Natalie Portman in my opinion, but she's pretty damn cute in these pictures and what seems to be a good personality to boot. Thanks for the fun little interview Quint.
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"MAGGIE GRACE: Yes, of course. I mean, obviously it's the holy grail of horror films." Ok, I'm not the biggest horror geek on the planet, but if we're gonna go with HOLY GRAIL of horror films, I can think of 20 horror movies that push The Fog out of the way. I guess I'll read the rest of this later.
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Aug 08, 2005 6:34:04 AM CDT
"Half a brilliant movie (...) 'you' are finished with th
by salvatoregravano
Disgusting scum... can't it pick up AIDS somewhere already? Yes, the thing that vomitted "Shitmata" certainly has all the right to criticize Carpenter. Was this "wreinright", or whatever its name is, born that way or did it simply inhale too much cocaine?
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'you're finished with this sort of sense of, "What happened? Why, what?" That's one of the good things about the movie', doesn't sound like criticism to me.
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When you get a chance to interview and photo hot ass like this Grace bird Quint, you should be reminding her that you're doing her a favour by plugging her mediocre remake and that if she posed nude for the site her film would get a top review. If she doesn't, then you'll say it's shit. This is totally fair and an abuse of your position if you don't do this, as there are plenty of us willing to.
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What's with all the John Carpenter remakes? The guy is still alive and directing - just give him some more cash to make new classics!
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Anyways the original Fog was good all the way through i don't know what "half of a movie" he's talking about but oh well i mean i didn't get nor like Stigmata at all So maybe it's just me. As long as this version isn't some WB Dawsons creek with ghosts type thing then i'm in. Speaking of WB that has to be the dumbest network in history to date,they canceled they're number two show(Angel) to make room for shit that has already failed like,Jack off and Bobby,and Summerland which was just The OC lite,and now they keep fucking with they're number one shows(Smallville) time slot. All of that after the fact that they practicaly gave away Buffy the vampire slayer which like it or not was the show that put the network on the map. Sorry about that rant ,after seeing that Selma Blair is doing Adrienne Barbeau's role in the remake i was just thinking about the Horror movie she did with Nicholas Brendan (Xander from Buffy)i read about it on this site but i can't remember the name,it's supposed to be real fucking scary.Who's tits are better Suzanne Summers 1978 or Adrienne Barbeau's 1978?
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When they went deeper into the whole Sadako thing. I can't think of the number horror films that went crapola the moment they tried to explain things and delve to deep into the reasons why. I'm not saying, 'get away with total nonsense', I'm saying leave as much to the imagination as possible.
That's why The Fog was so damn creepy because it wasn't entirely clear why these psycho ghost pirate monsters were trying to whack everyone.
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Hmm, it's not sounding too good when he makes it seem like they are going to to go all "The Haunting"(1999) on us with the "living" fog shit.
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"Yes, we wanted to do something different..." blah blah blah.. "We wanted to explore the main characters... answer some of the audience's questions..." blah blah yada yada.. "a totally different slant on a classic horror theme..." There are 3 types of interviews with directors and actors; the one who know they are A-list and don't have to explain anything, and the ones who know they are B-movie material and are unashamed, and then the middle ground where mid-range actors and actresses skim the B-zone and make up bullshit excuses, pretending their movie will be something 'new' and 'exciting.' This falls into the 3rd category. The mediocrity shines through the inane chitchat so unabashedly.. it's like they all know this will go straight to DVD, but they're playing the 'game' anyway. USA Network Sat. afternoon material, anyone?
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Rufus and Martha Wainwright are brother and sister. Their parents are folk singers Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle. Rupert Wainwright does not appear to be related to them (he's British, whereas the others are Canadian/American).
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...of keeping that whole part of the interview where wainwright gets a cell phone call?
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Another fuckin hack director who dont know shit.Anybody see the trailer for this turd it has cgi fog.How hard is it to make fog.I mean I'd like to think they've made improvements in fog machines since Carpenters original.And the cgi looks third rate taking out any sense of mood that real fog could give...peace
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What kind of disgusting mallrat evolved media whore creature uses the word 'freakin' - Fucking idiot, if you're gonna swear, swear, if not don't Don't use these stupid made up pre-watershed words.
Frakkin' nerf herders!
And the fact of the matter is, this movie will come and go and we will still have Carpenters version ruling them all. Why don't these people just be honest and say "Well the fact of the matter is, our neo-nazi run studio heads are so creatively bankrupt that they will only put cash into a movie with sub-25 year old bims and a title that people recognise so they don't get scared - cause everyone knows the view public are moronic sheep that fear anything new'. Apart from that it sounds ace. -
Aug 08, 2005 10:05:28 AM CDT
she sure is 10.000 times hotter than the girl they picked for ki
by silverdog
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But then, it didn't really need to be much more. The strength of a lot of Carpenter's work comes from the fact that his films are short and move fast. I dunno if we really need more back story; Hal Holbrook providing the necessary exposition in the original seemed like enough.
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Aug 08, 2005 10:07:26 AM CDT
3rd pic down, Rufus is thinking 'man, I'd love a piece o
by angry chimp
Go on, take a look.
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You're a jack ass. You disagree with someone's OPINION by wishing a fatal illness on them?
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It really is sort of half a movie. I think a lot of Carpenter's work is that way. That alot of his films aren't bad, but just lacking "something" in a rather glaring way. The atmosphere in The Fog is perfect and the tension is really great, but its massively anti-climactic.
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he's sounds like he was the guy who fucked the cat
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Remakes almost always suck ass and I love the original Fog to death. I saw the trailer to this new one and it has potential. It looks like they are going for the truly freaky scares as opposed to the "fun night at the movies" scares. Hopefully they keep the original pirate's look also (barely seen and very haggard). Blake needs to keep his glowing red eyes as well. Come to think of it, if this reamke sucks, I will do another remake and finance it myself. I'll just call it The Mist so as not to get sued.
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Aug 08, 2005 11:57:26 AM CDT
Oh yeah, the Fog has one of the coolest single shots in film his
by doom ii
..when Hal Holbrook (Father Malone)turns around in the church and sees it filled with Blake and his dead pirate crew just standing there waiting. Name a recent horror movie that has a single shot that is that fucking bad-ass!
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I think the original Fog is a really good movie, but I wouldn't call it the holy grail. Her dirty joke was great though.
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She doesn't know what the fuuuuuck she's talking about.
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Quint! What a troll! Why not do a real interview and ask the serious questions like who is doing the score or will they turn it into another prop for current bands to get air time? Instead of being an old mall troll pretending to be a movie critic Quint should have remembered what the hell he was there for. She is just more meat, more Hollywood whore product. You want ass Quint? Visit the Porn Awards. The film looks promising but at PG13 it wont cut it. Reading the review was like a laundry list of whats wrong with Hollywood hack town today.
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The image where she is sniffing her fingers from the previous nights party is classic!
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WTF? I mean I love The Fog unconditionally, but I'd like to think I also have some perspective when it comes to the horror genre. Whenever stars say shit like that I feel insulted because they obviously haven't got a clue about either genre or property and truly believe they can pull a fast one on bonafide fans. One example: Lili Taylor trying to pimp The Haunting back in 1999 by saying that it's in the same classic horror category as The Exorcist and The Shining. Another example: Paris Hilton trying to make people believe she actually knows who Vincent Price was. Feh....
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Aug 08, 2005 2:18:03 PM CDT
Hey Hollywood. Try casting a horror film with adults again (like
by doom ii
As I enter my mid-30's I am getting less patient with horror movies filled with nothing but teen meat (or 20 somethings pretending to be teens). Do adults get terrorized anymore? John Carpenter's The Thing is one of the top 5 horror films of all time and there wasn't 1 single teenager (or woman) in the whole film! Can you imagine pitching THAT idea to Hollywood today? PITCH: "This film takes place in Antarctica. There is a research station and the employees are terrorized by an unseen creature that takes over their bodies" STUDIO AIRHEAD: "Sounds great. We can have Sarah Gellar and maybe a Hilton sister lead the research team!" PITCH: "Umm, actually there are no woman at this station. That would cause problems as they are totally isolated and..." STUDIO AIRHEAD: "Oh there can be a couple woman there! And maybe a younger researcher. We can get one of the Dawson kids in there. He's fresh out of college or something!" PITCH: "Well that kinda distracts from the horror aspect I was going for. I was thinking these were all ex-veterans and grizzled government employees that have no ties to the outside world, they..." STUDIO AIRHEAD: "I'm sure they have woman and younger kids working at those places! I've never actually BEEN in the real world, but I know what the people want to see my friend. Hot girls and hunky guys. That sells tickets!" PITCH: "Ok sir, here is my dignity, self respect and my soul. It's yours." STUDIO AIRHEAD: "Great! We got a movie my friend!" THE END
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During early development, Julia Stiles expressed interest in the role of Elizabeth. The screenplay was subsequently tailored, the character matured, and the role expanded. When Stiles did not come aboard, Maggie Grace was immediately cast, and the character of Elizabeth was rewritten to be younger and more innocent than in previous drafts.
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I think she is so friggin hot , what a beautiful babe..I loved the scene on the beach on LOST where she is just laying around in her bikini , feet swaying in the air on her stomach watching everyone else work lol. Did I mention she's hot? She's so hot..
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I don't think there is a holy grail of horror movies, unless you count Edison's Hunchback of Notre Dame.
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Aug 08, 2005 3:37:19 PM CDT
"Oh yeah, the Fog has one of the coolest single shots in film hi
by maguasynfield
How about that shot from Pitch Black, where Mr. Antique Collector wanders away from the group in the dark, finds himself alone & surrounded; wounded, he then takes a huge swig of alcohol & lights it off as he spews it out, temporarily illuminating all the creatures closing in on his soon to be dead ass. That worked. Submitted for your approval...
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John Carpenter has pretty much washed his hands of it. He said he doesn't care, because he really doesn't like the first one (cash that check Johnny-boy). Read between the lines: http://tinyurl.com/dehqc This quote sums up why this movie will fail, and why the current state of horror, and film in general, sucks balls right now. From the director (Foster): "And we have popular, young actors too, which was a very specific plan, you know...[]...These pictures succeed or fail based on the young people who are going to the movies, and mostly young girls." 'nuf said?
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Foster is the producer, not the director. Still, he's a chode. His last movie was "The Core"...which has the same screenwriter as "The (new) Fog". Once again, this will suck.
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Thanks for the link. Foster's comments in that interview say it all: "And we have popular, young actors too, which was a very specific plan, you know, to--Tom Welling is really popular with the young people. Lost is a very popular series with all kinds of people. And then Selma, who's also young, but she's not a television star. She's sort of the glue to these young people, you know. And it was a very calculating thing. These pictures succeed or fail based on the young people who are going to the movies, and mostly young girls. It's amazing. It's amazing. Young girls."...... Sickening.
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From what I know of this project Wainwright has a big chip on his shoulder when it comes to Carpenter. As far as Wainwright's concerned "Stigmata" is the "Holy Grail" of horror movies and somehow puts him on a plain far above that of JC. His lack of articulation during the interview is consistent with his lack of vision concerning the project. Apparently Wainwright was catching a lot of flack from the studio for not capitalizing/capturing the film's key scares and this cause him to further resent JC's involvement. The script was being written, re-written, and re-re- written throughout the entirety of production to adjust for Wainwright's inability to direct the movie that the studio wanted. If this ends up being any good, it'll be so thanks to editorial and vfx.
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This interview says it all about what is wrong about hollywood these days. Having read it, i still cant see one valid reason why this film is being remade.
quote: One of the things that's interesting about the movie is that it's so short that it gets out so quickly and you're finished with this sort of sense of, "What happened? Why, what?" erm...no your not. Part of the origional films charm was that it was a simple, old fashioned ghost story, not the fucking Matrix, where you need every last detail explained. The short camp fire narrative at the start of the film tells you all you need to know, and dosnt waste a quarter of screen time doing it, as does the Hal Holbrook narrative scene. And just because they can make the actual fog look better using cgi is no excuse to remake a film. FFS, cant anyone come up with an origional idea anymore??! It says a lot that a film that the director himself didnt think was one of his best is still a million times better than 95% of the shit that is spewed out these days. -
How the fuck can quint put this and Carpenters The Thing remake in the same boat?? Carpenters Thing is hardly a remake, since its completely different from the origional film (and is more based on the origional short story, rather than its first film incarnation). Not like this unorigional, same story, different actors pile of poo (oh, ime sorry, its now set on an island rather than a coastal town).
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I think its a shame Selma Blair is putting her name on this shitpile, considering she is one the few young female actors out there these days who can actually act.
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is the picture where Maggie is giving the old Two-finger Sniff to Quint. That a boy, Quint!!! ...just be careful, she digs 2Pac.
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The director sounds like a bit of tosser very unlike Caprenter . I love The Fog and I hate the idea of someone thinking they can automatically make a greater movie by inserting a ton of extra(unneeded) information.
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Aug 08, 2005 10:00:00 PM CDT
I dunno why they remade this. The original FOG is still scary
by orionsangels
Just re-release it, old horror movies had more class, more style, today it's all giant monsters and CGI and you know the girls. They prefer the older horror movies.
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Aug 09, 2005 2:55:13 AM CDT
Hey Hollywood, try making some films rated R for adults again...
by jackburton
That's my request for the day. And if Hollywood doesn't start making R rated horror and action movies again...call The President.
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We're seeing all that Hollywood has left, & it ain't a pretty picture. When a dreeck movie based on a excruciatingly bad tv show rings up a number one at the box office, stand by for more shit. Its stacked up in Hollywood's colon as far as the doctor's gloved finger can probe. Pray for something original - no one is listening. Beg for an idea that hasn't been stretched thinner than Anna Nicole's underwear. We live in the age of sloth, of hacks rummaging the pockets of corpses for spare change. Think a big screen HR Puffnstuff aint far behind? The Bananna Splits? A Gomer Pyle remake? It is to laugh! No cow pat will remain unturned. Even when they attempt a remake of great material ( The Haunting by Shirley Jackson/Robert Wise) they cock it up. Mutilate it. Will they, can they improve the garbage? Pass that blunt this way, Silent Bob. For whatever reason, John Carpenter has been targeted by The Suits...before we die ( or kill ourselves in a fit a pique) they'll paw through his entire canon. I look at this "remake" of The Fog & I don't see an Adrienne Barbeau or Jamie Lee or Hal Holbrook or John Houseman or John Carpenter or a single reason to go something that will substitue CGI for story. And this is all that's left for us, now. Thank Crom for the miracle of DVDs..
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I watched The Fog again last night for the first time in at least a year and a half or maybe even two. It still scared the crap out of me and I jumped just when Carpenter had planned for me to. It works. The Fog worked and they didnt need CGI, Carpenter even states on the DVD that they wanted the Fog to become a character which it deed on an elemental level, they didnt need porn style topless shower scenes, they didnt need ass in lingerie. In the documentary on the DVD Carpenter goes on to say that everyone involved thought they just didnt capture it initially and even going back for reshoots, rescoring, and sound they still felt it was either going to hit or miss. Just like The Thing, The Fog worked over time, not initially and it grew into a classic tale of seaside ghostly revenge. The aspect ratio they filmed in made the original as well. The sense of isolation. Carpenter and Hill did it right the first time. Sadly, the MPAA has put such a stranglehold on anything cinematically creative you cant get it made unless you leave the country to do it.
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Aug 09, 2005 10:56:44 AM CDT
What really sucks is that even though we all want more "R" rated
by right bastard
absolutely no one went to see the only rated R horror movie that came out this summer, "The Devil's Rejects". Though not perfect, it's a hell of a lot better than 1000 Corpses, and it's almost gone after, what, three weeks? Do the genre a favor, and go see this movie again. If for no other reason than to see Sheri Moons' ass again. Actually, my only real problem with the movie was the ending, where I had to sit through that goddam "Freebird" song. Up 'til then it's pretty good.
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