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Updated w/ NO ART AT ALL!!! Sarah Polley and Adrien Brody to play gene-tampering scientists in SPLICE?!?
SPOILER ALERT !!
Quint here again... a long time AICNer, Boba Fat, sent me a bunch of art from this flick shortly after I posted the below story... I've included what he/she/it sent, what looks to be a booklet advertising the movie or selling it for foreign... I've seen tons of things like this at the American Film Market... anyway, the imagery is pretty goddamn surreal and fantastic. I'm really impressed with I see below... but be warned... here there be boobs. Don't say I didn't tell ya' this was NOT SAFE FOR WORK!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Now this project sounds sweet. CUBE helmer Vincenzo Natali has a flick called SPLICE about scientists who become famous for successfully splicing the genes of different species of animals, creating brand new creatures. These guys aren't content with the lesser species, though... oh, no. They decide to inject human DNA into the mix and see what pops out. I'm betting it isn't very pleasant.
Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley are starring as the scientists, so you know the script by Natali, Antoinette Terry Bryant and Doug Taylor has got to be solid. Also you have Guillermo del Toro producing.
Sounds right up my dark and twisted alley. What about you?
IMAGES REMOVED PER REQUEST OF PRODUCERS!!!
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for something that is not a remake for once
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hmmm. At least it isn't a remake
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But this actually sounds half decent, unlike Dr.Moreau! Plus, CUBE is awesome.
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Plus, del Toro is producing, which makes me very excited!
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I'm happy that it's finally coming. And I'm happy about every new movie from Natali.
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examples of suprior low budget genre films. The guy deserves break-out success.
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Oct 04, 2007 5:29:51 AM CDT
It's a chimp with Brody's nose and Polley's sarcasm...
by powereduppacman
...it will roll it's eyes in comtempt, snort you up whole and spit you out like a giant loogy. Yuck.
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And an elephant making love to a pig?
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If del Toro was directing. Seems like a project suited for him.
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so good that I watched the sequel. It think it was called Hypercube. And it was shit.
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Haven't we seen this 'plot' a million times before? Scientists go too far... scientists meddle in God's domain... things go wrong... scientists are humbled... yadda yadda yadda.
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Digitally re-use Marlon Brando's likeness for this.
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...Moreau was the first thing I thought of.
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Bloody splicers!
next they'll be taking a sweet little girl and making into something terrible...before teaming her up with the metal Daddy... -
Electric-Ell crossed with chimp crossed with bat. Cool, you could have those scary monkeys from Oz, but with electric powers!
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i want some feet like that
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At work as I review these NSFW photos. Is it wrong that I think the splice chick is hot? Looks like a similar design(er) to the faun in Pan's Lab. Really looking forward to this.
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Done a lot worse in my time!!!.....BTW, sounds just like Species.....
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Nice pics/news to wake up with, very very cool. Now I have something to talk about today.
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but I was too lazy to read through all the posts before me. Is it just me, or does that whole thing about "Her evolving into a new form that may kill all of humanity" sound like Species 4 to anyone else?
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Fucking hell. That shit was horrid in Aeon Flux and is shit here. She needs some tentacles.
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she'd have to wear tampons, as theres no way to wear a sanitary towel when you've got a tail. that's what cousin-girlfriendad tells me anyway.
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If it's handled with care and given the proper budget this could turn out to be the kind of movie that SPECIES should have been. Those pics are pretty impressive even if for a handful of preliminary artwork.
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Those pictures look amazing, and the story of the film sounds great as well so far. So when is this film gonna come out ?
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The one with the alien kid. You know what I'm talking about.
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If we're talking animals here, that extra joint below the knee is actually the ankle and what she'd be standing on are her toes. But she has extra feet/hands attached to the bottom. It doesn't work like that. She should have chunky toes (like a dog) or hoof-like feet for it to work.
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What do I do with the tail!!?
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Humans are animals. They are going to have to get more sophisticated with their jargon.
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That System of a Down song is called "Aerials." (spelling might be wrong.) And that is EXACTLY what I thought of too - that alien kid in the video. By the way, I'm not necessarily all that interested in this movie, but those photographs are really impressive.
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Looks good!
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Pubes, but no hair on head? Truly a miracle of modern science...
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Looks a touch Species but with that list of talent and an interesting and very relevant plot and the director of CUBE! Bring it onOne question though, why does the baby whatever it is have its tail coming out of its left butt cheek?
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It has normal mammal knees, and backward bird knees. Very unstable. It's legs would be broken all the time.
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Looks like human-marsupial hybrids. The surprise ending will be that they weren't genetically engineered at all, but rather a product of several generations of bestiality in Mississippi, and the genetic engineering project is a cover-up because a Senator is one of the fathers.
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Might not survive the night. lol. With all this talent behind it i cant wait to see what they come up with.
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If you got fired because of watching these pics at works, it's probably not only because of the boobs, but because your boss might think you are fucking animals after work.
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It gets spliced with a galactic cloud.
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If you get fired for this picture it isn't the boobs- IT'S THE FACT YOU ARE MESSING AROUND ON AICN WHEN YOU SHOULD BE WORKING
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im excited. by the film, not the boobs. although the boobs are exciting too. for my penis.
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Oct 04, 2007 9:05:26 AM CDT
From the Producers of Pan's Labrynth and Transformers
by crichtonastronut
That's quite Splice itself. Like from the producers of Citizen Kane and Plan Nine From Outer Space.
Loved what Guillmo Del Toro said though. Definitely be checking that out.
BTW is Sunshine on DVD. It never came on at my local theater. Tits and tails killer combination. -
It used to look a little more like a creature from mythology.
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I am so excited about this. It's been a while since I actually cared about anything cinematic. So cool.
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What are those freaky bastards called? You know, the cat people in anime porn?! I almost understand why people find them hot now.Anyway, Cube kicks ass, and this sounds like a Michael Chrichton novel(a shitty one, but still), so I'm in. Did I mention Cube kicks ass? So does the prequel Cube Zero. But avoid that second one like the plague. What dogshit.
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...not Denise Richards.
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the 'final metamorphosis' sounds kind of like a cop-out but i guess you gotta have a third act. whoever above was complaining about having 'seen this all before' i would rather see this genre be revived in a smart and interesting way by cabaple filmmakers than... well than a lot of other stuff. gattaca, dr. moreau and alien resurrection were a long time ago and god knows there are not too many original, or at least creative movies being released these days.
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The legs need to be worked on for realism. I've always like the idea of a fast-running creature also having grasping feet, but it doesn't work in reality. The only thing I can think of to preserve both forms would be modified, hoof-like knuckles on the lower extremities so that she could make "fists" with her feet while running. They should talk with Wayne D. Barlowe - he's really good at this stuff.
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I'm sold! Those pictures rule.
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Could be paw-like, like cheetahs. But I agree the hands just don't work. Unless she was built for climbing and not running. Then I guess it works. Yeah, so never mind.
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Fancy a Spit Roast..? cause that lizard chic is bitchin'..!
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...she's need one less joint in her legs to accomodate those hands. Like a monkey, for example. The biology doesn't work. Now you'd be perfectly right to ask who gives a shit. Most won't. But the director should and that he hasn't already fixed that before sending out the pics would seem to be a bad sign.
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TARANTINO!
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What the fuck! That's not a selling point, they're both different! Keep the Pan's part, remove the Transformers.
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Seriously. Unless the Tool guitarist (who creates a directs their trippy videos) is behind the design here he has a real case.
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I think you meant they wanted to go from the lesser animals to the least one!
This sounds too much like species.
Island of Dr Moreau was more flamboyant.
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a MJK-free TOOL would make a hell of a soundtrack for something like this
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in a good way.
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I love all the people here criticizing the leg and arm designs. I for one would love to see either the structural comparison work you've done on animals with pedigrade or digigrade architectures or the physics models you've obviously constructed of her skeletal structure. I'm not sayin' the producers did that crap either, but its a little cheap to say they did it "wrong".These don't work, in the same way that horses and gazelles don't work, or kangaroos don't work, or elephants, or capucin monkeys, or (insert unlikely moving animal here). I do agree with the Wayne Barlowe suggestion though, but I don't think he'd be as doubtful of these designs as you lot are.So, why don't we all jess chill and hope the story, acting, and SFX can save this flick from your petty and unfounded critiques on the chick's "unreality".
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SPECIES By Any Other Name! ! ! ! !! ! ! ! ! ! ! C'mon, it's got the folks from TINO working on it. We got us a whole new slogan just begging to get used. SBAON in '08!
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this shit looks awesome, and i'd hit it. i'm a molecular biologist, and i know almost nothing about comparative biology, so this design does not bother me. for me, its painful to hear actors rant on about "we need to make a mutant chromosome for the genetic marker!!!". in RED PLANET, michael madsen says "i'm a geneticist, i write code, thats what i do. A, G, C, P!" fucking "P"? they couldnt open a high school bio book?
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the Transformers credit at the top I knoew Murphy was involved. This looks like a good and interesting project, here's hoping Murphy is just on board and isn't activly involved or we'll see mutating Mtn. Dew machines
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Reading this makes me want to go out and fuck an Ocelot.
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I know it's nit-picky, but I've been bothered by this stuff since I was a kid. Even before I learned the word biology, I could see that most my monster toys from D&D, He-Man, etc were build wrong. I could see their wings wouldn't work, their joints bent the wrong way or their weight distribution was wrong. Maybe it is just fiction and the story matters more than a creature, but it still bugs me. It's like a hole in a fine painting.
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Oct 04, 2007 11:55:43 AM CDT
I'm guessing there's gonna be some human/hybrid loving
by dr_buggerlugs
...going on in some form or another and there's an interesting script review on filmick about it... looks like it could be a really interesting and suitibly fucked up piece of serious sci-fi horror.
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http://tinyurl.com/yw6hds
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I genuinely don't know.
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that's the big reveal?
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They're recessed, but they have them. How else would you think they would procreate? Spores!?!?
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which makes me a little nervous.
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The creature designs are cool.....but yeah, this practically sounds like a remake of "Species".
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The attraction I was feeling towards the adult version was making me feel all dirty inside...
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See you in 3 to 5, buddy...
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I am there. Her recent direction of Away from Her was brilliant. I know, a side comment from this flick (where she acts) - but she really is an incredible talent. A Canadian too!!
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With a less-hot chick :-(
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and I liked Go for her attitude and matching wits (and stats!) to katherine (don't call me sherlock) holmes.
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This time some unused chestnuts from The Island of Doctor Moreau. I mean, since some idiots thought it was a good idea for Superman Returns...
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that is all.
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some from thailand.
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...a prelude to 'At The Mountains of Madness,' perhaps?
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then I want to bang a scientist. She's very sexy, in a snarky, geeky way. I could totally see her and Tina Fey experimenting with lesbiansim together back in college.
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