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THE BOOK OF ELI - A post-apocalyptic western from the Hughes Bros?
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Now, this is pretty sweet. WB bought this project earlier this year, but now they've attached the Hughes Bros (DEAD PRESIDENTS, MENACE II SOCIETY and we'll try to overlook the majority of FROM HELL) to this flick and it sounds really sweet. Post-apocalyptic America... a lone hero has to trek across the wastelands in order to protect a sacred book that could hold the key to saving all of humanity.
Joel Silver produces for WB and the flick is expected to begin production by the end of the year! More post-apocalyptic actioneers, I say.
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and more relevant than ever post 9/11.
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Awesome book, which te 70's flick only touched upon, the central character was a proto-Snake Plisken (uber cool Anti-hero great filmic potential; tons of Muties and Cursed Earth action!
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Gotta watch this guy - his script to this is AWESOME!
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Woot!
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Will be interesting to see the parallels. I can't help but wonder whether this has been greenlit because of the JJ Abrams DT miniseries.....
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not the xmen kind but the mutated monster freak kind...hope they use jodorowsky's crazy western as an inspiration.
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I'm in!
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It's Called Deadlands: Hell on Earth
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i love even a bad post-apocalypse flick....this just sounds like road warrior meets the novel 'the road' meets dark tower meets anything where the goal is to get 'a book' that will save humanity. how many times have we seen that.
maybe the character's name is eli...or maybe he finally gets the old book, the cover seems to say 'BOOK OF ELI' on it then he blows the dust off to reveal it says 'the big BOOK OF world bELIefs' and thus the world has religion again. and credits roll...OMG that would suck. -
like a post apocalypse Mailman... that would be cool.
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If ever there was a duo who haven't not lived up to the standard of their first film, it's these guys. And I'll never forgive them for the shit they said about Scorsese when he made CASINO, when their next film was FROM HELL.
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The book isn't Salem's Lot or Insomnia by any chance, is it?
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I'll try to watch that film again. But after ten minutes of it I got bored. Try Alejandro Jodorowsky's Holy Mountain instead, way more weird and interesting.
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Sure it wasn't faithful to the comic but neither was V for Vendetta. I thought that From Hell featured Johnny Depp's second best performance . And Heather Gramham was hot and good as well.
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the original FoTNS is a decent anime but made one horrible live action movie. who knows, silver and the hughes bros might make a decent knockoff.
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Mad Max, Fist of the Norht Star, A man and his Dog, The Postman, Waterworld, Soylent Green. All these movies have covered every base of the post apocalypse genre. Yawn! Totally Snorlax.
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read the comic becaue it was almost a completely different film. However, I did not read the comic before going in and I really enjoyed it. It has wonderful atmosphere. Why all the hate?
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The Road, Jericho etc...
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The Hughes Brothers are supposed to be gearing up for the Kung Fu remake, for release in 2008. I take it they're off the project?
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I really liked the movie. I don't really get the hate.
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Why all the hate for From Hell? I'm a fan of A. Moore, but I will admit I never read the graphic novel. When I saw the flick the 1st time at the theater, I enjoyed it, but left feeling somewhat ambivilant about it. Since then I've rented it, and have watched it on cable several times, and I'll say now that I enjoy the movie immensely -- primarily for Depp's performance and the incredible atmospherics of the film. I may even buy the damn thing. I can see how someone could feel it didn't live up to the source material (very common), but the amount of vitriol directed at this movie still baffles me. Quint, watch it again sometime, but try to let go of the baggage before you hit "play" -- you may be surprised.
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Apart from the wimmen-hatin' that's the real deal right there, a massive influence on George Miller and still very funny in palces too.
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Sorry brainfart there.
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Everyone (myself excluded) pretty much hated The Postman but the description for this just makes me think of that. Post apocolypic western...yeah. Sign up Mr. Brooks.
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Just wait till Cormic Mccarthy's The Road is made into a movie. The novel is the best post-apocalyptic story I've ever read, and it is on my top 10 greatest novels of all time (it just won this years Pulitzer Prize for fiction). If you haven't read it yet do yourself a favor and go get it right now. The book will completely wreck you. cheers
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...or some freakin' Zelazny!
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i'm sure they are working on the movie already- i hope so. and i hope it kicks this ones ass. i'm sick of movies with 'goals' like 'a book that will save the world' a 'magic talisman' or 'must raise $50,000 or the old folks home gets demolished' bullshit.
the best thing about 'the road' was that they DIDN'T KNOW WHERE THEY WERE GOING OR WHY. that human drive amidst hopelessness is something american action hollywood usually sucks at though. -
I believe John Hillcoat, the director of The Proposition, has been attached to the film version of The Road.nice choice if you ask me.
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I found it pretty slow and repetitive. There are some scenes of true horror, though - but I don't know if there's enough there to make a movie.
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With Hulk Hogan as Cort: "Have you come with your chosen weapon BROTHER!!!"
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I think the repetition of the prose adds to the work. By the time you have finished the book you have been bombarded with ash imagery,looking for food, fire, ash, death, walking, looking for food, death, walking, fire, walking, looking for food, ash......you get the idea. without this repetition the final paragraph would not hold the power that it does. The Road sucks you in and doesn't hold back, and at times not easy to read. It's haunting.
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Man I couldn't shake thinking about the book for days afterword. It truly is a haunting book. Not what I expected going in but definitely worth the afternoon spent on it.
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At the end of that article, about the writer: "Whitta, who is writing "Diablo" for Legendary and Blizzard Entertainment, is repped by UTA, Circle of Confusion and attorney Howard Abramson." I've never heard that before; Warcraft, yeah, but -Diablo- also already being written? (And by an apparently badass screenwriter? Nice!)
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I think you're talking about Just A Pilgrim by Garth Ennis. I haven't read it in a while but thet plots do sound similar
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Deathlands needs to be made into a better flick or TV series.
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