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Location Scouting for BATTLEFIELD EARTH!
Well folks, here's a project that Travolta has been wanting to get up off the ground for what seems like decades, well... now it seems he's up and gone location scouting. There is definately some ripe material to turn into a gigantic Science Fiction movie, and didn't we hear that the 2nd Unit Director on STAR WARS EPISODE ONE had landed this assignment? Well... looks like the project is moving forward.
I've been a long time reader and fan of yours but, living in Quebec City, I don't come
across many movie scoops so I've never written in. So when I came accros this peice of news I hadn't
seen anywhere before in a local newspaper, I thought this could finaly be my chance.
According to La Presse (a local newspaper), John Travolta himself was location scouting for
the movie Battlefeild Earth movie in Montreal last week. Always according to this article on the
popularity of the city as a shooting location for Hollywood filmmakers, he is going the personnaly
finance the adaptation of the book by Ron Hubbart, the founder of the church of scientology which
Travolta is a proud member of. It is also reported that the budget is now up to 80M$ and that the
artistic director is going to be the frenchman Patrick Tatopoulos who worked on such blockbusters as
Independance Day and Godzilla (let's just hope it's gonna look better than that).
FRANK
Don't worry about Patrick, FRANK... He also designed the hell out of DARK CITY!!!
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if it isn't made Anamorphic on DVD!! Dark City looks great on DVD because New Line Cinema makes great Anamporphic prints! Only buy DVDs that are Anamporhic!!! Also, FIGHT DIVX. They are the enemies of the open DVD market. Thanks.
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Two things: 1- I'll be in the theater for this flick. 2- I agree with 16x9, DIVX is the devil! What a rip off!
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How 'bout a rationale, man. This is a pretty new product, the general public doesn't know the difference between anamorphic and DIVX. First, tell me what they mean,then tell me why DIVX is evil. I was gonna get a DVD with my fat-assed IRS return and I've been seeing these DIVX movies and I don't know if its a format that your DVD player has to have built in to watch these type movies or if its a type of DVD player or what. Also, I've heard nothing about this anamorphic(sp?) stuff.
If your gonna run around crying wolf, back it up with some reasons and some cold, hard, facts. -
Battlefield Earth is going to be a hoot! Travolta as a 12 foot tall space beastie named Tirl going up against the Heroic Johnny Goodboy. But what makes this film so exciting is the media attention it's release will bring to L. Ron Hubbard's goofy sci-fi religion, Scientology.
Seems Ron believed that 75 million years ago Earth was known as Teegeeack and was ruled over by the evil Intergalactic Overlord Xenu! We were just one planet in the Federation of Planets. Xenu solved the overpopulation on these worlds by shipping people to Earth, stuffing them in volcanos and blowing them up. This is the cause of mankind's problems today.
Since we all are reincarnated we can all trace our lives back to that one terrible incident in the volcano. This is why there is an exploding volcano on the cover of Dianetics. It is supposed to restimulate our memory of that incident and drive us into Scientology where they have a systematic approach to heal us.
If we spend about $360,000 Hubbard said we could regain the super powers we once had like leaving our bodies and telekinesis. We need these powers because soon the Marcabian UFO invader Fleet will be back to enslave Earth. They already have an outpost on Mars and Venus.
Find out more wacky Scientology secrets at www.xenu.net -
First, the Scientoligist demand upwards of $300,000 from their members to reach "OT3" (whatever the heck that means). Then they push their dark lord Hubbard's books up the best seller lists by buying up 1,000s of copies and warehousing them. Now they've convinced (or is that conned) one of their members to bankroll an $80 million film from his own pocket. Could this be pennance for the rumor that Travolta wanted out of the church?
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Go to this site it will tell you all you need to know: http://www.thedigitalbits.com/editorial/bz100298.html
DIVX sucks, you have to hook it up to your phone line and set up an account to watch only pan and scan movies with no extras. Plus it's like pay per view which you have at home already. Check this site to find out about DIVX: http://www.bandivx.com/ -
I respect John Travolta as an actor, but I abhor Scientology to the highest degree, and I will not support the movie nor the religion nor that scam artist Hubbard. If anyone thinks that Scientology is 'mainstream' now, beware. You are ignorant to what the 'religion' does to people, their lives, and their pocketbooks. It is the 'world's most dangerous cult' ( a quote from a supreme court judge)
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"L. Ron Hubbard is dead" mean anything to some of you? Those who are so vehemently opposed to these whackballs talk like he is still alive and in charge. He is dead.
As for his whackball religion, it is run by people who want as much money from you as they can get. I got into it for a week or two and in those two weeks, they had me up to over 10K in charges for things I needed to get "clear". It's a scam alright, and I got out.
Warn people away from it, fight against it, but don't give it's former leader any power in death that he does not deserve. He had no powers, he did not ascend to a higher plane, he is simply dead.
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Yo Sithlord999,
Tarantino can't reprise Travolta's role as Vincent Vega in another Pulp Fiction movie because Vega was killed in the movie. His fat ass was shot back into a bathtub by Bruce Willis and about fifty rounds from an uzzie. Stop your bitching and pay attention. -
Battlefield Earth was already filmed once, back in the '80s shortly after the book came out. I remember seeing some photos from the press conference announcing its impending release. But it was sooooo bad, with some of the lamest SFX ever filmed, that it was shelved (maybe the Church of Scientology forces its members to rent video copies to recoup the money?) Some of the props from the film are on display at the Scientology headquarters in L.A. I don't see how Travolta can trim this down into a single movie. The book is so long, it would take a trilogy, or a TV miniseries, to cover everything without cutting out so much the audience would be lost.
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BattleField Earth. Sounds Classy. To the Church of scientology- Please take all of my money. I don't want it anymore
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Vincent Vega is dead. How the hell is Travolta going to reprise this role in Pulp Fiction 2?
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Sorry about my last post- someone else has already made that statement. Pulp Fiction 2 should be about Jules Winfield becoming a gun slinging jesuit Priest who struggles to put his psychopathic tendencies behind him.. But doesn't and becomes a bastardised version of Kane in Kung Fu. Since this is a Battlefield earth Post I will add that the title Battle Field Earth if used will sound too much like Mars Attacks.
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Actually, QT said about two years ago that he was thinking about doing PFII. It would be a prequel and would detail how Jules and Vincent met, their first adventures together and how Vince ended up going to Amsterdam. *Sigh* Ever since you-know-who announced you-know-what, it seems like everyone is planning/doing a prequel.
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Okay, we all know that the Scientologists are collecting huge amounts of Hollywood funds to build a giant non-scientologist oven, but what does that have to do with this flick? If you have read read BATTLEFIELD EARTH you know that it has little or nothing to do with Scientology. For real, I hope this sci-fi film survives all the anti-Scientologist hype that it is sure to get, and that it finally makes it to the screen. Even if you assume that it is agenda driven (which we all know it is not) what is the harm? We should all be happy to see a film with a Scientology Engine before we all decide to light the flames and storm the castle. And let's watch out for the commies too.
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Lane, I didn't expect to find a single Scientologist anywhere near this site but I am delighted to find a few folks like you who are aware of the negatives. Frankly, I just like saying Xenu. It makes me smile. Xenu. There. I'm rediculously happy...nay...I'm giddy with delight. Xenu. For folks who would like to watch the Xenu cartoon, it's at a site prepared for Howard Stern but you can go there, too. http://members.xoom.com/xenu1
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After reading your posts, I'm still not quite sure how you feel about Scientologists, L. Ron Hubbard, "Battlefield Earth" and/or the people who post here who can't seperate the movie from the religion. Don't be so vague. Stop beating around the bush. Tells us how you really feel. :)
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Just a short word to Face. It wasnt an Uzi used by Bruce Willis it was a silenced Mac 10.
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Who says this film wont brainwash us. i havent read the book but why are the scientologists so desperate to make it. Is there an independant body that tests films for mind warping subliminal messages? Would this body know it if they were seeing it? Would anyone know?. These wackos havent had much of a voice in the media so far... until now
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To continue what I was saying. These bastards have never had cintrol over the images on our screen. Now they do. I realise that I sound Paranoid but I have good reason to be. DO NOT LET THESE CRAZIES MAKE A FILM.
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If there was an independent board of censors that should check movies for subliminals, who would keep the filmmakers from making subliminals that said "dont-censor-the-subliminals-in-this-movie"?
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It pains me to hear such a novel (?)(nothing very novel about it) described as science fiction. For me I felt that Old man hubbard had regurgitated 50's style sci-fi, the type of writing, that Dick, Simak and EVEN Robert Heinlein had tried to break away from. It's future adventure, theres no great new or progressive ideas in it. It could have been a tale of African slavery set in a crap futuristic setting. Why worry about location when it's the script that will kill this movie. Who cares? I do! Why not spend the money trying to finally make a decent adaptation of maybe a Gibson yarn. The most sickening thing I found about Battlefield Earth was the introduction by Hubbard. It went on and on and on, about how he felt he was such an important figure in the sci-fi world. CRAP. Why has nobody attempted this movie before? The story line is desperately brutal. Why is Travolta doing this? Coz he's the only one with a lethal combination of tunnel vision and the cash to go with it. Thats my tuppence worth anyway.
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Back in college, the librarian and I used to be just amazed that someone who was so *dead* kept on writing novels.
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Let them spend the $80 Million+ on the film, then DON'T GO TO IT. Watch them financially bleed to a lesser state. - In our dreams.
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