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Holy crap! Jonathan Nolan scripting INTERSTELLAR for Spielberg?
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here once more, with a bit of really cool news. Christopher Nolan is a very talented guy and I think his brother, Jonathan, is a big part of that. Jonathan was the guy who wrote the short story that Christopher turned into MEMENTO and has co-scripted THE PRESTIGE and the upcoming DARK KNIGHT with his brother. Actually, if my information is correct, I think Jonathan is the sole screenwriter on DARK KNIGHT, which I hear is a helluva script, although I haven't been able to get my hands on it... yet...
Now Steven Spielberg has tapped him to write INTERSTELLAR, the sci-fi flick he's developing to direct himself. The idea was hatched by a theory from Kip S. Thorne about wormholes and the ability to use them for time travel.
He's got himself a fascinating writer on a really interesting premise. I know he's still juggling the LINCOLN biopic, but I'd love it if he follows-up INDY 4 with this... which is a possibility if Nolan really kicks out a fantastic script.
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And cast Shia LaBeouf as an Avatar.
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yup!
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We've had enough Spielberg the history teacher. Get back to doing shit like this.
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starve the mother fucker for 3 months to get him all gaunt, give him a beard halfway through the movie and you basically have built yourself a time machine
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I think I remember him saying he was going to do a remake of the old Disney movie awhile back.
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Some asshole (Indy Jones?) goes back in time through a wormhole to prevent the assassination of this Lincoln fellow. They could swing by and pick up little Tommy Cruise along the way (once he's done with kicking Hitler in his filthy anti-scientology face).
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I mean, can Spielberg do Indy IV (due summer '08), then do the Lincoln biopic, and then get Interstellar out for summer 09? Then again, he managed to do War of the Worlds and Munich in the same year - so.
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This is great news. Jonathan and Christopher Nolan have always been two peas in pod, so it's cool Jonathan will have an opportunity to write for someone else. I mean, the guy obviously has a creative mind and a darker temperament (at least about his subjects) than a lot of other screenwriters. He's also hip to scientific research, which is the thing I appreciate most about him, and this is likely why Spielberg hired him for "Interstellar." Nolan's subtle about it, but he's used neural biology ("Memento") and quantum physics ("The Prestige") to heighten the nature of his work. Because, generally speaking, reality is far more glorious and interesting than seat-of-your-pants popcorn fiction.
Good choice, Steven. Can't wait for the film. -
You are about ten+ years too late with this film. Why. You might of heard of something called DS9. which was about a starfleet space station next to a wormhole. Star trek also did an episodes involving time travel, In fact you recently did a dog of a movie called the time machine with Guy Pearce and Jeremy Irons. Hope this is one of your better efforts but I doubt it, since the berg is not the great director he once was.
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David Koepp rewrites it.The new take on "the fat lady sings".
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Maybe I've seen too much Star trek but it's a tired plot device.
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But he was not, as far as I remember, responsible for The Time Machine. You're right about it being a dog, though, emeraldboy. A smelly dog, with three legs and one of those anti-lick cones. Also, one rotting ear and a terrible flea problem.What were you thinking, Guy Pearce and Jeremy Irons? Okay, I know what Irons was thinking: "Mmmmmmm... money."
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The difference between the DS9 wormholes and Jonathan Nolan's likely concept of them is that one was Star Trek (bad popcorn physics), and one will be based on the mind-bending reality of what scientists know (or theorize) about them. I'm not saying Nolan won't take liberties here, but I'm hoping his final script blows people's minds more than DS9 ever blew anyone's mind. I'm sure that's what Nolan will go for.
I'm not saying DS9 was bad or anything, since, for what it was, it was the best of the Treks. But the Star Trek mentality needs to be thrown out the fucking window and stomped on before comparing it to "Interstellar."
Just saying. -
to the Time Machine.Drop Indy 4 and do this movie instead.
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Who else even comes close???
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then count me in!
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they couldn't have gotten Nolan to write Indy 4 too instead of Hack Koepp.
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Get this ready for 2009 spielberg so we can battle Cameron!
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Despite what Bender may have to say 1000 years from now, Huey Lewis still holds up today. His concerts are the freakin' best.
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let Hack Koepp keep that dead horse. He fucked us all in the ass with his lame-ass, sugarcoated WOTW BS.
I want new shit, not old prehistoric story ideas. All Indy 4 is, is a reunion. The idea to do another film came before an excellent story idea was created for the film. Isn't it better for someone to pen down an awesome idea then, say hey lets do another film?
Not let's do another because lets work together again, it'll make a lot of money....Hey Koepp, all the scripts for Indy 4 so far suck throbbing horse cock, write us something you moron. -
Nolan is smart and has balls. This film will need it. It doesn't need that Hollywood fairy-ass tale crap. SS better strap on an extender and leave out the fluff and flowers.
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Oh, wait, because ultimately I will make that. Give me time.
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Darko gave us anything we needed to know about wormholes
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and still going strong. he's probably in the autumn of his career but he still makes popular films with intriguing themes. stop bitching about him. if you lot could do have the shit he does and bring half the magic he brings to the screen you'd be worthy to suck my dead rabbit's rotten knob. and he died in 1984! recognize
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please people. it's not like the last thing he put out was fucking catch me if you can. have you all even seen two little films called war of the worlds or munich? 2 of the best of dudicand's career were put out IN THE SAME FUCKING YEAR. that's right, get over the fact that tom cruise is in it you babies. you need a tool like cruise to anchor the terrifying shit that goes down in that thing. and anyone who says munich is not good has either not seen it or needs to wake the fuck up and take a look at the world around them.
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But Munich was excellent. WOTW was rushed from the get go. SS had a schedule to up hold and he did. They were also in competition with Timothy Hine's WOTW which turned out to be a turd. So they were in a hurry to dominate on that story for a summer release.
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so because the unwatchable DS9 used a wormhole 10 years ago no one can ever make a movie dealing with the subject again? give me a fucking break.
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you know it
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Unhand me, Yankee!!!
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Please keep this movie new-age-quantic-bullshit free
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Damn you, Michael Bay
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recognize.
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probably because SS wasn't involved in it. Dreamworks is probably his only connection. He probably read the script and ran the other way. Like Guy Pierce, the machine, and the first teaser trailer, but everything else was fucked. Way to go fucking up a potentially awesome franchise. Start and end it with a turd.
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Damn you Michael Bay
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JUST LOOK AT HIM!
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That's funny.
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little kid? Maybe just the opening 15 minutes, huh, Steve?
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... is so fucking tired. I've yet to see any theoretical data that stretches any further than simple science fiction.
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Learn to tell the difference, Bender my man, else CHEESE IT.
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while he's at it he could take a look at the indy IV script too... there's still some time for script rewritings until june. just kidding.
actually this project, especially with talent like that attached to it, sends me back to the AI anticipation level. let's see if it postpones Lincoln another year and gives liam neeson some more time to continue his superbig lincoln research project. -
Sounds like the concept has infinite possibilities.
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Van Damme gotta eat...
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Michael Crichton. Timeline. Straight-to-video.
Actually Arthur C. Clarke had the most interested take (usually does) on wormholes and time with "The Light of Other Days" which is all about these little polished discs which are "wormcams" that can see any point in space - and time - and the fun that ensues when all the world's unanswered questions get some perspective... Now THAT would make a decent.. er.. telemovie?
btw somebody mentioned Stephen Baxter? Wrote the official sequel to one little known work of H.G. Wells called The Time Machine - maybe you heard of it? Picks up where Wells' story left off...
Personally my favourite time travel story remains to this day 12 Monkeys - time travel without copping out to some multiple timelines/universes crap. Can someone remind me who wrote that one? I think it was a husband/wife team? -
Writing credits
(WGA)
Chris Marker (film La Jetée)
David Webb Peoples (screenplay) (as David Peoples) &
Janet Peoples (screenplay)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The_Light_of_Other_Days>>>>
Plot summary---
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.---
First pure information is sent via gamma rays, then a development allows light waves to travel. The media corporation who develops this advance can spy on anyone anywhere it chooses. A logical development from the laws of space-time allows light waves to be detected from the past. This enhances the wormhole technology into a "time viewer" where anyone opening a wormhole can view events and people from any point throughout time and space.
When the technology is released to the general public, it effectively destroys all secrecy and privacy. The novel looks at the philosophical issues that arise from the world's population (increasingly suffering from ecological and political disturbances) being aware that they could be under constant observation by anyone, or that they could observe anyone without their knowledge. Anyone is able to observe the true past events of their families and their heroes. An underground forms which attempts to escape this observation; corruption and crime are drastically reduced; nations discover the true causes and outcomes of international conflicts; and religions worldwide are forced to reevaluate their divine histories. As the underground movement grows, it utilizes a direct neural interface coupled with the unlimited communication provided by the wormhole technology to develop a group mind.
One of the central themes of the novel is that history is biased towards viewpoints of the person who wrote it. Hence many great "historical" events often did not occur as they now are collectively remembered. For example during the book's progression; the time viewer technology shows that Jesus was the illegitimate son of a Roman Centurion and that Moses was based on a collection of stories rather than the actions of a real person.
In a climactic time-viewing experiment at the end of the novel, a time hole is opened to the beginning of life on Earth and it is discovered that all existing life is descended from a biological sample placed by intelligent beings (labeled Sisyphans) who inhabited the Earth over three billion years ago, trying to preserve genetic samples when geological and climatic changes threatened an extinction level event.
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