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Columbia wants Sam Raimi to do their Fantasy Flick! Not New Line's!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Sam Raimi recently talked about THE HOBBIT during press for SPIDER-MAN 3 and the feeling I got from that was that he thought the series belonged to Peter Jackson and wouldn't even consider it if he didn't have Jackson's approval. That could just be him playing politics, though.
Now Columbia has picked up a fantasy flick from Damian Shannon and Mark Swift. It was a huge deal. Raimi is definitely lined up to produce, though the trades don't mention him being locked in to direct.
The title wasn't released, but the story follows a New York cynic who is forced to go to a land untouched by modern civilization and ends up a reluctant hero, saving a village and a princess from fairy tale creatures.
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It'd be nuthin' without Kirsten Dunst you hear me, nuthin'!!!
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Sounds a bit like the unmade Terry Gilliam's "Man who killed Don Quichotte".
But Sam's the man.
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attract Sam. Him helming the Hobbit doesn't geek me out as much as it should. A bit too traditional and safe.
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That's my guess. Bring on another Jeremy Irons dragon flick.
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Or do the Hobbit. This sounds sketchy.
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someone of Cuaron or Del Torro's calibre could step up, both would be well worth anticipating.
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Sorry but this sounds like one of those 1000 page fantasy books that fat, lonely chicks like to read, the kind that has no originality whatsoever and just rehashes Tolkien and Lewis with a dash of bodice ripping romance novel hackery thrown in for bad measure.
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Jesus - can't you guy's generate any news of your own?? Everything on this site is nicked from Hollywood Reporter or Variety. I'm not trying to be nasty, but very little bona-fide journalism actually happens here. I could start a my-space and sit all day copy pasting from Variety and Hollywood reporter with the same results. The only good side of this site is the occasional interview from the likes of Quint and Moriarty, and those are now few and far between.
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godoffireinhell, lets not bring your girlfriend into this.
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It sounds like Terry Brook's Landover series.
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Magic Kingdom For Sale is in the works, so that's my guess.
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But I also know that Raimi is attached to produce Terry Goodkind's Wizard's First Rule, which is what I'm excited about. He fought hard to get it, since Goodkind was reluctant to give up the rights, so he better not back out now.
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First of all, he's from Chicago and hardly cynical. Secondly, there's no princess, since his love interest is a wood nymph. Thirdly, I don't recall a village. Sommers needs to get his ass going on a lot of things...
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Her Majesty's Wizard, Oathbound Wizard, The Secular Wizard...read them all when i was younger and really dug them. Def were the books that really introduced me to fantasy.
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....Three Hearts and Three Lions to me. Though I didn't think the "hero" was cynical, he was pragmatic and somewhat skeptical of the whole affair- he is also a scientist/engineer in the "real" world. And there is a princess (who can turn into a swan) and a village to be saved. So... Maybe that's it?
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I say go for The Hobbit.
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..if one were to latch on to the 'cynic' part. Since Thomas Covenant is unfilmable and too 'cerebral' it would never be made by Hollywood, one hopes. Sam Raimi would not be the right director for it either.
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Christ, I can hear the Trailer Voice already. 50 bucks says someone has considered casting Paul Giamatti in this mess.
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...Army of Darkness? Let Raimi have a go at the Hobbit. That film needs making and it needs making by someone with a sense of fun and whimsy.
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Would be nice to see that great book on film.. but it would need a lot of work to translate though.. and Carahue (A Saracen converted to Christianity) would have go or be changed completely, or maybe become a pagan converted.. eh either way.. it'd be a hard one to do.. personally even with all the zillions of great fantasy books based on this premise.. my money says its a whole new story...
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Everyone here has read to many fantasy books. Either that or every fantasy book ever written has this same premise. Might be a touch of both though.
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Apr 17, 2007 9:20:48 AM CDT
Maybe he'd actually make a decent "Hobbit" for a change
by jackpumpkinhead
One without "maiden warriors", revisionist characters and insulting changes to major sections of the novel?
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I loathe the "real-world cynic who enters a fantasy land and becomes a hero" plotline of crap. Thomas Covenant notwithstanding, every other attempt I've read (Brooks, et al) by an author using this plotline has failed miserably in capturing my attention. The reason "The Lord of the Rings" and "A Song of Ice and Fire" (by George RR Martin) work so well is because they're created worlds. They occasionally bear a resemblance to Earth as it exists for us, but the rules, politics, geography, and history aren't remotely Earthlike. You don't find yourself wondering how a person from New York City, circa 2007, would fare in such a world. This is the appeal of created worlds and the appeal of fantasy in general.
Therefore I want Sam Raimi to direct "The Hobbit" and not that other poorly conceived, formulaic bullshit property that would insult Raimi's intelligence. If Jackson is out, and in my opinion he is, let another fabulously talented director take the chair and let rip. I hope it happens before Ian McKellan is too old to play Gandalf again. -
The best of these by far was Joel Rosenberg's "Guardians of the Flame" series. (not to be confused with Joel C. Rosenberg, who is kind of a jerk). In the GotF series, the world is HARSH and the fantasy is tinged with tragedy. The characters learn the hard way that being in a fantasy realm is not fun. I'd love to see that put to film. Think "Dungeons & Dragons the Cartoon" but with Diana and Sheila getting captured, sold into slavery, and brutally gang raped multiple times before being liberated from their captors. Rosenberg's story is actually compelling and makes you feel for the heroes, who were just innocent college kids before being sent into a fantasy realm.
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Three words, "Super Mario Bros.", it's painfully obvious. Masked Avenger rides again!
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where New York cynics are forced to go lands untouched by modern civilizations, one man will become a reluctant hero, saving a village and a princess from fairy tale creatures.
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I prefer movies about modern warriors using old fashioned types of war more than modern heroes going into the past like Timeline or Timecop.
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I love the lord of the rings trilogy but after the mess jackson made of King Kong I think he`s went off the boil, cant wait to see Biblo with a chainsaw for a hand fighting wolves and smaug
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to do something horror again...
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Haven't read the rest of the TB, but this sounds a wee bit like that...
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Hate to say it, but I actually like that idea. Peter Jackson for JLA!
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Oh please, oh please, oh please, oh please.
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Sorry, but Raimi is one of the less than a handful of directors trustworthy enough to do adult fantasy right and I would hate to see him trade a whole series for one single movie. Wizard's First Rule could make 300 look like Puff the Magic Dragon and I wants it.
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Im trying to forget about that bullshit animated Dragonlance thats being thrown together, thank you.Startin to understand where those Transformers psychos are coming from
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I don't have a girlfriend, fat or slim. Haven't had one since 1999. Why the hell else would I troll AICN talkbacks?!
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you called jackson hackson. fuck thats some original shit. you just took the J out and put in an H!!!comedy gold....and you are the first person to ever have done it too so you should be extra proud of having that type of creative genius....romero..the most fucking over rated direcotr in the history of film.its even funnier when two posts above you mention loving romero. theres a real film maker....land of the dead wasn't at all a slap in the face and a stark remindeer that the guy is fucking terrible.
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thats it...
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Every wannabe-nerd director on the planet wants The Hobbit. Only Raimi can get the pulp heroes on the screen.
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mark my words.
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I'm down with that. Great book and series.
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Do the directors of future Potter's need the approval of the previous directors? What is the difference? It is wrong to take away the importance of the author and the Tolkien Estate. These books were very popular before the films were made, especially in the 60's. In all fairness, it is the Tolkien Estate who Sam Raimi should look for approval towards.
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I seem to remember a story about 6 months ago that Sam's production company had signed a deal with Terry Goodkind to develope his 'Sword of Truth' novels into a miniseries, and preduction of it would beging after Sam had finished all the post production stuff with SpiderMan 3 ... anyone know of any updates to that story or if it's still a go? ...
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because when I turned around Kurt Russell went out to buy a burger.
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The retro-Doc Savage type story with fairies and elves. Time portals and assorted crap. This sounds about as interesting.
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Sounds to me like "A New York Yankee, in King Arthur's Court." Maybe starring that girl from the Cosby Show?
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"Children of Hurin"? Did New Line get that one as well?
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The Army of Darkness Strikes Back
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http://www.solaceincinema.com/2006/12/01/why-i-dont-give-a-fuck-if-peter-jackson-directs-the-hobbit/
And Kirsten Dunst is seriously seriously hot. -
But I stand by it!
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Christopher Tolkien hasn't sold any film rights to 'The Silmarillion' (maybe after he's gone and others in the Tolkien estate see fit to do so...we can only hope). I'm sure Children of Hurin falls under that category. It would make one hell of a movie though...it's got everything. A dragon (make Harry happy), incest, murder and everyones favorite character, Morgoth. Yeah, give Raimi some other fantasy story and let Jackson direct the Hobbit. I don't care if it gives the complete back-story of the White Council or even how Gandalf came to meet Thorin Oakenshield...a chance meeting, as they say in Middle-earth.
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No no no Mr Spiderman!!!
If anyone disagrees, just look back at LOTR and see how f**king fantastic they are. Nobody can emulate that level of brilliance. People knock Jackson, but I bet if Raimi makes a Hobit movie it will be a Return of the Jedi compare to the Empire Strikes Back of Jackson -
Antonphd is correct. WFR would be awesome to see. Raimi has already bought/optioned the rights from terry goodkind per terry goodkind's website. THAT would be a sweet movie.
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is Sam Raimi trying to bilk more money out of Columbia/Sony. Same thing goes for the recent comments from Tobey Maguire/Kirsten Dunst I'm betting. They're probably negotiating contracts for Spider Man 4 right now and this is a good way for them to try and get more money. I for one am hoping Raimi and the rest of them make like ten movies together. Absolutely no reason a comic book franchise with as many great story lines as Spider Man 3 should ever stop really.
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The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant...or based on it, probably.
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You know the classic of the fat-lonely-chick genre? THE MISTS OF AVALON. Blecch!
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...fits pretty good, but I never thought they'd make a movie out of that...
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