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Steve Niles' 30 DAYS OF NIGHT gets a stoned director!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with some interesting update on the film adaptation of Steve Niles' vampires in the arctic graphic novel 30 DAYS OF NIGHT. It seems a director has been picked by the name of David Slade, most known for Stone Temple Pilots music video SOUR GIRL. He also directed a film called HARD CANDY that played Sundance to mixed reviews and is getting some kind of release at the end of the year.
The original comics have a unique visual style, kinda Dave McKean-y. It'll be a trick to adapt the style without totally alienating the majority of the audience, but if they can pull it off, keep the artistry of the book and mold it coherently into a feature film then they will have something special on their hands. The flick is being produced by Ghost House (Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert's production company) who did the sub-par remake of JU-ON: THE GRUDGE. I'm hoping this one works. Like I said above, it could be great.
Anyway, click here to go to Hollywood Reporter for more info!!!
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Is a US senator in the Republican party.
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Worst headline title writer ever. His story titles cause confusion instead of curiosity. "Steve Niles' 30 DAYS OF NIGHT gets a stoned director!!!" WTF?
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Not only will this make for a good film, but so will its two sequels: Darkest Days & Return to Barrow. Cast Clive Owen and Scarlett Johansson, sugar, water purple, and you'll get a lagendary horror trilogy....and grape drink. Both will equally satisfy.
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I really don't give a monkey's butt about 30 DAYS OF NIGHT. I've read lots of great things about the comic but it never really interested me... I'm a bit sick of vampires and zombies now. Overkill right? Anyway, what's going on with the adaptation of PREACHER? That was a great comic and it deserves a great film - hopefully directed by QT.
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Sep 07, 2005 4:49:20 AM CDT
Yeah what ever happened to the PREACHER movie directed by the Ta
by big_bubbaloola
I was sooo lookin forward to that one!!......oh wait.....no I wasn't. I say old Bobby Rodreiguez (sp!) would do a great job on Jessie Custer and his mates.
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GIMME PREACHER! Preacher was the first comic i ever read and damned if it ain't the best. Tragic that watchmen has fallen through, but that's one that you wanta wait until everything is perfect. I will get behind anything Raimi tells me to. He, Bruce and Joss are my masters.
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It creeped the shit out of me! With SMG and those weird tele-tubbies from Hell. Seems like a good match. 30 Days should be interesting...
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"I'm a bit sick of vampires and zombies now"
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Sounds good, loved that fuckin' book. The artwork was the best part, the story wasn't groundbreaking or anything but it was solid. I'm a huge STP fan but have never seen the Sour Girl video (I presumed they would mostly be releasing crappy video's after the travesty that was Big Bang Baby, so I never got anyone to download them), can anyone describe it for me?
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Sep 07, 2005 8:50:19 AM CDT
I was hoping the headline was referring to Oliver Stone.
by rev_skarekroe
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the video is here -- http://www.stonetemplepilots.com/multimedia_video.html -- and speaking of Niles, that scene in BLADE II where the reapers attack the van outside the vampire club looked like his artwork brought to life.
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looks like a Matt Mahurin rip-off.
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Unfortunately, the plot is total Hollywood-style garbage. When they do the movie, they should scrap the whole damn thing and do something totally different with the same basic premise and a new writer.
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Lance Henriksen was BORN to play the Saint of Killers.
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I loved that comic, (in fact it was Preacher that got me reading comics again)but awhile back I read the Preacher script that Garth Ennis himself wrote. What a steaming pile of shit! All of the good plot lines from the comic were erased in order to simplify things for the masses. I know that Gram'ma and Starr aren't in the first story arc on which the movie is supposedly based, but Jesse's motivation for becoming a preacher is changed, which means that all the richness the series became has vanished. If they MUST translate Preacher to another type of media, I'd much rather see it as a HBO series. A movie would just lessen the impact of this grand of a story. That said, I've been a fan of Niles' work since before 30 Days, and can't wait to see this movie, as long as they don't fuck it up.
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Unless HBO picks it up and turns it into a series It'll never fly.It's too contraversial and the religious right would have a field day.It would have too be extremly watered down.AS for 30 Days of Night it was a good looking comic and cool premise but the story could use a little more meat.And why do they keep hiring these hack directors.I'd love to see someone like Cronenberg tackle this.He would capture the tone of the comic perfectly plus add depth to the characters..peace
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It's nothing but an incomprensively paced ripoff of "night of the living dead," only with vampires instead of zombies.
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I've never read the comic, actually, but it's a really cool concept, in my opinion. We'll see how this turns out, I guess.
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Mixed reviews for Hard Candy? Hardly, it was one of the more talked about films when it debuted at Sundance earlier this year and Lions Gate Films ended up paying close to 4 million dollars for world rights. Just watch, this film is gonna be talked about quite a bit when it finally plays at theaters at the end of the year...and I got a feeling it's gonna hit a little too close to home to some of our more "active" talkbackers...
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I look forward to your article come December when you see Hard Candy and put it in the same sentence as Old Boy as one of the best films of the year. Hard Candy was the best film in Sundance, I bet you can't find one bad review for it anywhere....
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Love ya buddy, but I have to agree that the headlines for your articles are fucking confusing.
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I was actually thinking of a totally different director, similiar name when I called him a hack.My bad I have yet to see Hard Candy but from the description it sounds like a couple Asian films and manga that covered similiar ground..peace
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...whatever happened to that werewolves on the Moon movie?
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David Slade is one of my favorite unknown directors and this is such cool news. I think that 30 Days is an amazing comic and the combo of these two are going to make for an intense horror film (and I can't wait to see Hard Candy). If you aren't familiar with Slade's work it is very intense and visually bold. My bet is that he will soon become another Cronenberg type of director. This is a link to a video he made for a Rob Dougan track called "clubbed to death" - it's awesome, never seen anything like it.
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Boogeyman and The Grudge were crappy. Let Sam Raimi do it himself. Spidey 3's gonna be the same old same old anyway. The comic wasn't perfect, the pacing, as someone already mentioned, was completely off, but there are enough good ideas to make a fun movie as long as they don't pussy out. Hiring a music video director is the first step to pussying out. Rodriguez would be good for this, give him a chance to play around with his Sin City toys again and make something really twisted. If it's crap then it's crap, if it's average I'll be very annoyed. I'm sick of paying to see average movies. Average comic book movies are a dime a dozen. Constantine was nonsense, From Hell was merely okay, but in fairness LXG and Punisher were just plain shitty. Death to average movies! Give the story to someone completely out of the way, get something a bit different. A Takeshi Kitano vampire flick. Brian De Palma's 30 Days Of Night. That kind of thing. Actually, come to think of it, GIVE IT TO JOHN CARPENTER! The story is practically a rip off of his films anyway and, given the budget and respect he deserves, he could still turn in a god damn masterpiece.
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Sep 07, 2005 6:34:55 PM CDT
Granted I've only read the first 2 trade paperbacks of these
by iamlegolas
... but it seems to me that the real appeal to them is the great artwork. And if they don't figure out a way to translate that to the big screen, it's just going to be another lame vampire/zombie movie as the story by itself is nothing to write home about. But of course if Sam Raimi himself was directing it, at least we'd have some cool and humorous camera work going on.
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...Francis Lawrence, Spike Jonze, Mark Romanek, Michel Gondry, David Fincher, David LaChappelle, etc. It's not necessarily like these people don't know how to make feature-length movies (granted Lawrence needs to work on his pacing).
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Right. First look at those names Ribbons posted above you (I guess you don't read anyone else's stuff just your own). Then think about the possibility that there are an equal ratio of good-to-shit directors in movies, television, theatre etc. Then feel like a total fool, Warrior-poet. Christ on a bike.
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...Is what I meant. God forbid they should let you preview or at least edit your posts here.
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I stand corrected. I appologise for not being clearer. What I actually meant to say is: "I'm sick of films where vampires and zombies are the main threat." Cas is different as he is actually one of the main characters and has a personality. Ah, well - why are we talking about Preacher anyway. Fried Samurai was correct - they'll never make it. Could be worse. They could be making a film based on something like The Suffering.
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I'll give you Spike Jonze and David Fincher but that's about it. Human Nature was a piece of shit and Eternal Sunshine was gimmicky schmaltzy shit that was basically a bunch of music videos strung together anyway. And Constantine was average and forgettable despite looking pretty. This production company has made nothing but shit so far. Granted, 30 Days Of Night isn't The Godfather, but it deserves more than a music video guy and "From The Producers of The Grudge and Boogeyman". I hope it turns out well and I wish the guy luck but this kinda thing is always going on. Maybe they hired him because he's cheap, or they can beat him up to make him agree to anything they want, or maybe he really is a talented dude, but it's killed my enthusiasm. I'll be very happy if I'm wrong. We don't need another average horror movie.
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...was it Michel Gondry's fault, necessarily, that you found 'Eternal Sunshine' schmaltzy (ironic IMO considering it was probably one of the least schmaltzy love stories that Hollywood's produced in some time)? If you're gonna attack these guys for being "shitty," then make sure you're not making them scapegoats. Now, this guy COULD very well suck. But it's not like his background in music videos makes him an inherently bad decision. I recommend y'all chill out and wait until you've actually seen enough of his work to have an opinion on him. And if you take the "i don't have to eat shit to know it tastes bad" tack with this one, then you're just being a cynic for cynicism's sake. Yeah, he's directed music videos. So have a lot of talented filmmakers. By itself, that doesn't mean jack.
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I appear to be locked in a stone cell.......What shall I do to amuse myself???
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Oh it's Athena's popquiz *http://tinyurl.com/t54m* I'll do that..........
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Best song on the quiz........Trev you beat me I only got 98..........
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MMMMMM........
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* DRIP, DRIP*
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Just close my eyes for a bit......
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OH just drips...........* DRIP,DRIP*
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Stick around!!!!!!! I'll be back later........* It's quite a big cell and he knows his way around now*
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Hope so........
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and then I might get banned........
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So be it.........
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Wake me if you find me..It may take a while, I'm a heavy sleeper........
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YEP.......*snore*
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YEP.......*snore*
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There's a really good review of this on JOBLO....The art looks interesting and thats the kind of story that appeals to me, so I will check it out.....reserving judgment on a film adaptation till I've read the book........
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If you though Eternal Sunshine was schmaltzy crap you are lying to yourself to sound cool. I bet you heard all the good shit about it and assumed you were far smarter/cooler/more eruidite than all those schlebs. In fact you are a FUCKING IDIOT without an original thought in your tiny little brainstem. Go home cunt.
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