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ILM's FRANKENSTIEN project
In Friday's DAILY VARIETY and HOLLYWOOD REPORTER than ran some great articles about this project, and while the title is still up in the air, the wolfman does appear still. SO most of what I ran was dead on. But here's a report from someone that's seen a bit more, and here's his descriptions...
Being the classic monster freak that I am, I thought I'd pass along some
cool
info on the upcoming remake of "Frankenstein" .
Universal Pictures is planning on doing an all-computer generated remake of
this classic and plans on releasing it on Halloween,2000. All this is based
on a 17 second test film created by ILM.
Picture this: A SHAQ sized hulk lumbering downstairs to his lair, the floor
thudding with each step as if his legs were filled with concrete . Suddenly
a
door flies open, piercing the room with a shaft of light. Surprised, the
giant
turns towards us, the light illuminating the familiar scars on his hairline
and the bolts in his neck.
The real impressive part was vulnerable look in his eyes. They were the
real
eyes of a man, not the computer generated type.
This super secret project is an 80 million dollar movie will be overseen by
2
directors, ILM's visual effects supervisor Dave Carson and Brett Maddock, a
veteran screenwriter who co-wrote the "Frankenstein" script with writing
partner S.S Wilson.
The story will retain a period setting of 19 century Europe, and is expected
to have close to 1500 cgi shots. They plan on using the computer technology
to
re-create the original makeup done by Jack Pierce and the Boris Karloff
profile, to have the monster look the way it should.
Look for "The Wolfman" to co-star .
you may call me :
-grandpaboy
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This "scoop" is an almost direct copy of an article about the upcoming "Frankenstein" remake that was in the L.A. Times, Friday, Oct. 2nd. Parts of this posting are word-for-word copies of the L.A. Times piece! Hey grandpaboy, why don't you just admit to reading a cool article in the L.A. Times instead of trying to pass yourself off as some kind of "Hollywood insider"??? Gee, only about 25 million people live in the L.A. area, did you really think no one would notice this was a copy? How pathetic.
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I thought I was passing along harmless information .It was not my intention to plagerize this article and I appolagize for not giving credit to the article in the la times.I should have included the title "From The LA Times" in the headline.
-G.B
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Dear Harry. Who the hell is "Frankenstien"?
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Hmm, I'm just trying to figure out what market they're going for here...yes, I know that Toy Story was cool, and Antz looks great, but still, they ARE more based towards kids. But Frankenstein. I mean, even if they do a Frankenstein without blood, guts or any of the heavy stuff about "what is human", I still can't imagine any 9 year olds going to see it. And as for adults, well, I'd rather see a live action version (what did anybody else think of "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein". I thought it was pretty good, but could've been better)than a CGI version, no matter how good the animation may be. The biggest, most terrible mistake they could make is to do a cutesy Frankenstein for the kiddy's, complete with "songs" of the god-awful variety that Disney seems to be using at the moment. And give Frankenstein a cute sidekick (a reanimated dog that can talk and sing...arghhh!) and calls the monster "Frankie".
OK, so i got a bit side-tracked there. The point is that there doesn't seem to be a market for this. Kids aren't going to want a horror movie, and adults certainly don't want a crappy Disney-style version. So where do they draw the line? What will they do? -
This is perhaps one of the most exciting film projects in recent memory. As a fan of the classic Karloff films, I'm currently salivating at the prospect of seeing a NEW Universal Karloff Frankenstein film. And I hope that's really the route they're going; I hope they're planning on scanning the Karloff life cast that, to my knowledge, is in Forry Ackerman's monsterous collection. Let's not go for that generic Glen Strange look. I want Karloff.
Someone mentioned "Mary Shelly's Frankenstein." I'm in a minority with this one, but I think it's one of the greatest horror films ever made. -
The original book sucked. The only thing that could be good about this movie is if they give a lot of money to the Karloff estate for using his likeness. FX is not the yardstick by which great film is measured. Example, Batman and Robin sucked, but Heat did not. Notice how heat used physical effects (like prosthetics and pyrotechnics)? Whereas Batman and Robin had all sorts of animated and digitized folderol and still ate the big donkey dick? The definitive Frankenstein movie has already been made and the definitive update was made when Mel Brooks did Young Frankenstein. The Kenneth Branagh version and the Randy Quaid version ate it because they were so close to the book, which sucks to begin with.
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This gets better each time I hear about this.
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Frankenstein movies blow. Hell, Dr. Frankenstein's monster didn't even have a name. trying reading the book which is a thousand times better than any cheesy rip-off. (Yes, Boris Karloff is great, but that still can't make me stop gagging when I think about the story has been bastardized). Read the book and you'll never go back.
PS- Branaugh's movie did suck b/c the writer obviously did not understand the book. -
What? Huh?... I'm sorry. I wasn't paying attention. I was too busy " using my Brian " :)
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I really wouldn't call Antz a kids' film, its rated PG and the humor is not really kid stuff (for the most part), and there's no songs. It's a great film, just go see it...
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What the hell is it with
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Is it me or has there been nothing new on this site since Friday, Harry where are you man ?
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This project sounds exciting, but I fear the "Virtual Ed Sullivan" factor. Did anyone ever catch that lame-ass show on UPN? The CGI effects would need to be 20 times better than that in order to be convincing. Of course, the 80 million dollar budget should help, but I question whether or not realistic CGI "actors" are truly capable of expressing emotion at this point. Animation in fantasy-type films like "Antz" and "Toy Story" is one thing. Attemping to create a virtual world which mimics our own - with human characters displaying human emotion - is a whole new ball of wax. If ILM pulls it off, it will go down as one of the great leaps in effects technology ever to hit Hollywood, right up there with "2001", "Star Wars" and "Terminator 2". If it fails, well, there's always UPN.
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ANITLO is the only Frankenstein/Wolfman work I can think of. And I can see it as a project that would have to be done in CGI.
The plot goes like this: every fifty or so years a portal opens through which the Elder gods can return to Earth. This is not a good thing. So strange people and their familiars come, some to help open the door, and some to close it (and save the world). The time and place is Victorian London. The charcters include Frankenstein (monster and man), the Wolfman, Count Dracula, Sherlock Holmes & Jack the Ripper. It's very tongue in cheek, not traditional horror at all.
But I don't know if it's the same as the ILM project. For one thing, Frankenstein doesn't have a major part. The Wolfman and Jack the Ripper are the major heros of the story. And it's more comedy than horror. -
I think all the informant did
was read Friday's Los Angeles
Times, which contained the same
exact information, including the
"vunerable look in the eyes"...
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Am I the only one who has noticed that since this site got all Big and Fancy Pants style that it gets updated less and less. I think this site Rocks, but ever since that day it seems that someone is alittle too busy for us small people out here, always at parties and convention I could see how he could forget especially on the studios ticket.
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Is this movie gonna be the Monster Squad 2? The virgin reading the book should be CGI, too. The old stereotype of science leading us to doom gets on my tit. Condider our pollution, today you can die in your 70's from cancer, compared to 1914 when you could die in your 20's from flu. So you know, that's why there is more cancer nowadays, you have a longer life to get the chance to develop it. A shout out to science for transplants, antiobiotics, vaccines, and the wonders of film preservation. Drug use predates modern science, but I applaud drugs, too. If you would like to send me a complaint notify my office at Dreamworks, I am David Geffen. P.S. If this movie is an 80,000,000 dollar CG extravaganza then it should have a hip-hop soundtrack.
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It just struck me as I read the exciting news about the new Frankenstein movie. Not so much the exciting prospect of seeing a CGI Boris Karloff (That's Mr. Pratt to you sonny), a cool 19th century setting or a real stab at an atmospheric horror classic - no, what stuck me was how the hell is ILM and Lucas going to fit this in? What, with Episode Two on the way (God knows what he'll call THAT one....I shudder to think)and a supposed fourth installment in the Indy series, how will it all fit in? My tiny mind boggles. But, Georgey-boy IS a God amongst men, so I'm sure he'll work it out. (as long as he isn't given the task of naming the new Frankenstein movie - `The Franken-Menace' sounds horribly prophetic.
Yours sarcastically (as ever)
Mark Newbold -
Whatever genius thought of this idea might as well have put on a T-shirt saying "I'm a moron." A CGI monster?? C'mon people! The whole point of the original tale was that the "monster" was more human than the Dr. who created him. A CGI monster in Frankenstein is like a CGI Darth Vader in Return of the Jedi. This is just a lame excuse to exploit a great actor's face. I poop in Universal's general direction.
Shout out to Dr. Beavis -- I agree, the "Science = our doom" and "Don't play god" ideas are so tired. Frankenstein is a great story, but I can't take these paranoid and science-illiterate ideas very seriously. OOh... I'm SOO scared of cloning and genetic research! The power will go to science's head and ruin the earth! Doomsday is coming for sure!
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