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This GHOST TOWN Is Not Harry's GHOST TOWN...It's A Different GHOST TOWN!!
Merrick again...
So, we’ve gotten quite a few e-mails over the last few days about a project called GHOST TOWN – from people wondering if the recent news about the film pertained to Harry’s film project of the same title.
It doesn’t.
This is a completely different film…using the same title. This kind of stuff happens quite a bit, although it kind of sucks for writers/filmmakers when it happens. I know from first hand experience that it's really frustrating and inconvenient.
Anyways, Hollywood Reporter just ran a piece about the non-Harry GHOST TOWN . It’ll be co-written/directed by David Koepp (scripter of PANIC ROOM, SPIDER-MAN, and INDIANA JONES AND THE WHATEVER THE HELL IT’S CALLED THIS WEEK…he also directed THE TRIGGER EFFECT and THE SECRET WINDOW). It’ll star Ricky Gervais and Greg Kinnear and…
The story centers on a dentist who dies briefly during routine dental surgery and gains the ability to see dead people who ask him for help in contacting the living.
So, it’s GHOST WHISPERER…GHOST…and…what am I missing? I’m presuming there must be some sort of different angle here. There must be, no?
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I wonder if he'll look as good as Jennifer Love Hewitt?
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Harry has a movie project? How did I miss that? Can't wait for the glowing script reviews.
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Koepp ripping off shamylan ala 6th sense but with a dentist...so it's little shop of horrors mixed with the Ghost Whisperer, mixed with Ghost, mixed with 6th Sense...and we let this man write Indy...George Steven...does he give that good of head?
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Mar 27, 2007 12:43:19 PM CDT
since "Harry's" Ghost Town is never going to happen,..
by windowlicker74
I'm not really considering this as news. I think most people already forgot about it and went on with their lives.
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that this will be a comedy... no?
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wow, what were the odds of two film producers coming up with the title 'ghost town' independently of one another? it's gotta be at least ... four or even five to one??
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One of the craziest people out there? Seriously...
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I hate dentists.
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...for help with anything. Isn't that like running up to the guy in the hockey mask and swinging the machete and asking him to help you jump start your car?
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While your film seems to gestate for a million years, other people actually give birth...
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...between this and Harry's film is that this one will actually get made.
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As for mine... It is, by no means, dead. Got meetings on it today in fact... as I move. ARGH!
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It was called "Stir of Echoes". Only it didn't have a kid.... or Bruce Willis. And you didn't have many steps to go in the Kevin Bacon game.
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Ghost Whisperer without JLH's Cleavage is like Harrys DVD-list without Shield Season 5.
besides that. There WAS already a Movie called Ghost Town.
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Just call Harry's movie "Harry's Ghost Town". I'm not sure if it'll work, but if it's a hit you could have more movies with the word "Harry's" preceeding the title.
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Didn't you just move about a year ago? I fucking hate moving, I moved, and helped my then GF/now Wife move 4 times last year...twice within a 2 month period! Runnin' from The Man ain't easy! Hope we see the words "Aint It Cool Production" soon!
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All the clubs have been closed down!
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I was so pissed when Spiderman came out. Since then I've been racking my brain on what to title my movie about a man who raises radioactive spiders. Oh, and the twist is, if you get bit by one of those spiders, you get all of their abilities.
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Because this kinda crap makes my penis shrivel.
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That is all . . .
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Yes... Oh yes. Just released. http://cdbaby.com/cd/chr istoph erleemusic Oh my god... this is something ELSE!!! You haven't lived until you've heard his rendition of "Oh What A Beautiful Mornin'"...
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Harry Knowle's Ghost town already ate. A shit load.
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all the stupid things they put in horror movies now...a creepy kid, some stop motion ghosts/zombie stuff, some torture porn and let us not forget a character that "sees dead people". Big pile of meh...
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And dude, David Koepp doing a romantic comedy? And what especially cracks me up is I've seen Gervais say in interviews that he enjoys having the freedom now to say yes ONLY to the projects he really wants to do, that apparently in the wake of The Office he's been offered a ton of simple movie roles and turned them down. So.. ehh... THIS is the kinda thing you've been waiting for, Ricky? eeek.
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It's so much fun to poke fun at Big Red and Mori because their responses are more amusing than the insults. I forget what Drew said exactly but it was something simple like, "So far this week I've been called an assbag, fucknose, dickhole, and penus-face." and when Harry 'thanked' us in TB for basically forcing him to show his Blade 2 review to Yoko because of us, that was classic! In the end though, I agree with *you* more power to both of them that they actually 'work' for the industry rather than 'talk' about it like most of us all. With all that said, at least let us call them fuckwads and assknobs from time to time as long as it's all in fun. I actually blame Mori and Harry for being so witty, if it weren't for their hilarious retorts I wouldn't feel compelled to be immature and insulting.
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Who fucking cares? I've got a hole in my back yard you can throw that money into.
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Directed by Michael Bay...
Starring Carrot Top as Harry...
Also Starring Hugo Weaving as the voice of Harry...
With an extended cameo by M.Night himself...
Coming soon..er or later to a theat..er dvd soon!
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Not horror.
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You know you wanted it. But now I feel dirty.
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GEEZ!!
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It's a race and the loser must change the name.
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nothing's scarier than ghost cowboys. Clint Eastwood wouldn't need make-up. "The Good, The Bad & The Dead"!!!
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"Ghost Town" is an uninteresting title anyway. Come up with another one, Harry. Ask your friends or associates who have read your screenplay what they think would be a good alternate title. Many times the original author of a script (or novel) picks the worst title.
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or how about "Hamlet Hamlet"?
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I've heard that after The Office he turned down dozens of projects, some that became huge hits like Pirates... But this film he has to do? I don't know. Sounds pretty rotten. And neither he nor GK are really known for thrillers. Will this be funny? I don't think I can get behind this. I'll just patiently wait for Stardust.
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"Harry has a movie project? How did I miss that? Can't wait for the glowing script reviews."
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that he was going to post saturday...then sunday morning...then sunday night....then monday morning....It takes what, 15 minutes to type a movie review.....
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Jeff Goldblum...
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He is trying to produce it, not write it, although if I remember correctly he was involved in coming up with the basic premise... If I am wrong I am sure I will be corrected...
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... if it only took "15 minutes" to "type" a movie review, it would probably be a "piece of shit."
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lets all just calm down around here...
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for Harry and Moriarty to textually fellate Tarantino and Rodriguez. Let's get it over with, already. You plants.
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Regardless of whether Harry picked the title, and regardless of this different movie to star Ricky Gervais, the title sounds generic. Is Harry's version an Old West horror? Well, "Ghost Town" doesn't describe that kind of movie well at all. Hell, it doesn't describe this Ricky Gervais vehicle well either.
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A dentist who dies briefly during dental surgery? That is fucking genius right there. To make full use of the premise, the dead people our hero talks to should only want help with their teeth - bridge work, root canals and suchlike. Imagine the side-splitting, uproarious laughs as generic comedy actor #19 attempts to practice dentistry on ghosts! Brilliant!Also, dentists are not in films enough. Not since that LA Law guy in The Dentist (also, The Dentist 2) have we had a good one.
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tells us that Harry isn't exactly the first one to pick that title. So why the bitching about it?
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...Lyndsay Lohan isn't in it - I'll give it a go. I despise Lyndsay Lohan...she is not pretty...has no talent...and is a drunken hussy drug addict...in my opinion...damn all Americans who made her famous...why is she working when there is so much talent out there?? AND this movie will be nonsense...a comedy of errors...the error being why it was made. I am in a bad mood now.
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There's one listed that is set for release on November this year. It's a western, but I didn't see Harry's name listed in the production credits. Maybe this movie will undergo a name change, or maybe the Ricky Gervais version will. But the fact that there are three movie projects using this title, all within just a year apart, should be proof enough that the title GHOST TOWN sucks. All three projects should come up with new titles.
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who dies during dental surgery? Was he performing surgery or was the dentist also getting dental surgery done? I'm confused already.
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Dont listen to all the naysayers Harry, I cant wait till your projects finally roll out. Im sure they will still hate on you even in your successes.
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that's for sure....critics are good at being critics but when they venture into the realm of filmmaking they will find that they suck balls.
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Man, just LISTEN to this CD!!!! It is absolutely completely impossible to sum up in mere words. 'The Impossible Dream' has to be heard to be believed.
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"It takes what, 15 minutes to type a movie review" WOW!!! are you a complete retard? seriously, I'm not trying to ba an ass, are you? That's quite insulting to the craft of writing...while not a critic, I do write an occasional review on my lame blog, I certainly don't spend as much time and thought as I should, but it's more than 15min. I'm working at making a movie the middle of this year, directing is my dream, and I'm as far from a writer as you can get, I illustrate, do graphic design...I constantly struggle writing my script...there is far, far more thought behind the final word's we all see written.
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Harry will UNLEASH COSMPIC POWER
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Yeah stud...I'm a retard as you put it so politely. I have a MySpace site FILLED with underground movie reviews. About 40. Takes me about 15 minutes to write one. They are light in tone and well worded (for a retard that is. Hang on, I just drooled on my keyboard). But I type fast. I want a real Grindhouse review. Cumpston's was fun and entertaining but now I want real details.
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accept it was a routine bikini wax.
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Understood. Moving sucks. You're an adult male. Get over it.
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...in BRAINJAIL! You know you want it.
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