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Warners Gets Some BONE!!
Merrick here...
Warner Bros. has acquired the movie rights to Jeff Smith's BONE comics. Dan Lin, who is also lording over MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE for the studio, will produce.
The fantasy series followed three cousins from the Bone family who are small, white and bald humanlike creatures with big noses. The trio are run out of their hometown and find themselves in a mysterious valley where they are separated and hunted by other creatures. They are taken in by a girl named Thorn and her grandmother, and find out that the valley is threatened by an evil force called the Lord of the Locusts.
...says THIS ARTICLE in Hollywood Reporter.
The Powers That Be are still mulling whether or not this should be a live action film, or animated.
To be completely honest, I don't know much about BONE other than being aware of its existence. However, you can find out more about it at the official site, which you can access HERE!
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Hi ther.
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Boner!
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Well, we always want him to play every role.Why?Because he's Bruce fucking Campbell!
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Great series! If handled properly it could be the next epic fantasy trilogy. The story chronology would support it as the story grows increasingly darker as it goes on.
I wonder if this development will get telltale games to continue their serial releases of the computer game since they already own the rights. -
Whether old skool or CGI it has to be animated. If it's live action so damn much of it will end up CGI anyway that it will look funny.
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There should be no debate whatsoever. 100% this movie should be animated. I hope it doesn't take them too long to figure that one out.
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I think a hybrid animation/live action could actually work. This is truly great news.
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The comic was made to be animated. This really could be huge. If you read the comic its a perfect mix of children style storytelling and adult humor. I really enjoy it. It was Shrek before Shrek was around. I hope they do this well. I am pretty excited.
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This SCREAMS for traditional 2D animation. And minimum 3 films!
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yeah, they are going to fuck it up....
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and the first way to make sure this is done right is to NOT have it animated in any way! If you are a fan of the comic be satisfied that you have an animated version of this amazing epic. It should be a trilogy. It should be a live action film with all of the fantasy characters as Jim Henson's puppets. Think The Dark Crystal people!
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Beowulf style CG would be best for Bone I think, so the merge between real people and all the weird creatures is smooth and the whole thing feels a little more fantastical, but still looks somewhat realistic. I'd be okay with 2D animated too. If they do it Rocky and Bullwinkle style live action I think I might shoot myself.
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always loved the comics
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Bone is lighthearted as it is dark. I can't believe it took so long for anyone to grab it. Guess they ran out of movies to remake.
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if it's animated - cos they always put em in.
I hope this is done properly as the comic is SO well done and is a good read for all ages- and got well scary in parts. Could be great news. Hope so -
And I still remember reading Jeff Smith's ideal voice actors for the 3 cousins. Tim Robbins, Danny DeVito, & Bill Murray. And it's gotta be animated all the way.
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Guardians of the Galaxy, now there's a movie. Alternate timeline Avengers, Thor, Thing!! It has everything.
http://tinyurl.com/36jm8t
Great comics. -
If Smith is involved I'm guessing it will be animated since that's his background and I'm guessing 2d. That was the plan a few years ago back when Nickelodeon was going to make it a feature film and Smith took a long sabbatical from the book to work on it.
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Another comic adaptation. *Yawn*
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with Mike Myers as the Cat in the Hat or Jim Carrey as the Grinch. Wouldn't that suck?
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But couldn't get the funding together. So he published the comics in hopes that it would be picked up. All that work has finally paid off. I'm guessing that a CGI film will be the results. Mixing live action and animation would not fit since all the human characters are as cartoony as the Bones.
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I always hoped Brad Bird & Pixar would get their hands on this property first..oh well lets hope warners gives this property the respect it deserves
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I've been reading AICN for years, and have always resisted getting a talkback account. But I have to comment on this news here. No one has pointed out yet that the reason the Nick version fell through is that Jeff Smith put a stop to it himself. Nick wanted to include a bunch of pop songs (Britney Spears and the like) on the soundtrack in order to appeal to that audience. Jeff Smith put a stop to that real quick. That right there is the reason why I am not worried about this adaptation. Bone is extremely close to Jeff Smith's heart. He is not looking to sell out and will make sure a faithful adaptation is made. Ofcourse (like most of you have pointed out) this needs to be animated. 2D or CG would both work, and it needs to be a trilogy. They can't pack enough of the story into one movie. As a big fan of this book, and Jeff Smith's work in general, I can't wait.
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Always liked the comic. Nice news to start my Saturday!
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Although seeing a hot live-action Thorn would be nice...
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Bone's kinda like a Pogo rip-off, though.
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pleeease don't insult BONE that way! BONE appeals to both kids and adults, but without the relentless pop-cultural throwaways that make Shrek so tiring. Somebody else in the TB had it better when he mentioned Dark Crystal.
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bone is a very personal work...hope they dont take the guts out of it
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give it a chance.
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CGI is acceptable. Hopefully the success of Beowulf will pave the way for a project like this to come together. By the way, is that Dark Crystal sequel officially dead or what? Anyone know?
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Greenscreen with animated Bones and dragons but real actors for Thorn and grandma and some guys.
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Please don't screw it up Warner. Cool...Bone at last!
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You can get it at http://www.telltalegames.com/bone/ ... only the first two chapters are released, but I believe they plan on doing the whole series eventually. The music and voice-acting is great in these games -- very appropriate to the series. (These are also the fellows who've rescued Sam & Max, BTW -- including reprinting the fantastic "Surfin' the Highway" collection.)
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Whatever. Just not live-action...
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brad bird could direct this. then it would be perfect.
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You're expecting Warner to not screw something up? Seriously? Particularly a comic related property? *falls out of my chair laughing at that absurb hope*
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And set as a Trilogy, like LOTR.
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There is nary an original idea in the entire series as far as I can tell. All of the characters are just archetypes; the whole series could barely provide enough material for one interesting movie. That said, I actually enjoyed reading it a few years ago. It is very "cute"
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2-D's dead except for television, indie, and anime. If done right, this is the type of project that could revive 2-D. But the animation would have to be AMAAZING.
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for years. but they wanted to change WAY to much. even little things like taking away Smiley's cigar
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What more could you want out of a movie?
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Live action for everything except humans. they'll be badly made sock puppets. Britney Spears and Lindsey Lohan will provide vocals for the main theme, which will drown out all dialog. Voices will be provided by z list celebritys who couldn't act their way out of a blank expression contest.
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but if someone had the balls to use puppets, that'd be good.. yoda isn't real, but hes really there in the scene, with hammil. that, with puppeteers being digitaly removed would be so wonderfull
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foe a long time i thought howie mandel would be good for bone, but a soft spoken child would be good. billy west for phoney, and john dimaggio [bender] doing his alan alda [who was doing a groucho marx impression] impression as smiley, ted the bug, either billy west doing his new yorker voice or danny devito. whoever did eeyor's john wayne style voice on winney the pooh was what dragon sounded like to me. and just for fun, willem dafoe and mark hamill as the stupid, stupid rat creatures.
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Andy Dick will inevitably get the lead vocal role and most likely Val Kilmer as a stupid Kitt.. er..rat car..uh creature.
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if it's treated like LOTR
if not, animation is best
but this is Warner Bros, they'll find a way to fuck it up -
howie mandel as 'bobby'
http://tinyurl.com/yrdbu5 billy west as phoney http://tinyurl.com/2d2oom Maurice LaMarche [not john dimaggio] doing an alan alda voice as smiley [I couldn't find his mash voice, so heres groucho] http://tinyurl.com/2nbp6o -
...Otherwise, its just a fucking comic book that moves. Its not a bad comic by the way. I would definately be interested in a big screen adaptation. Of course, I would rather see a big screen FRANK.
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Mar 08, 2008 4:40:59 PM CST
AICN HAS actually done an interview with 'Bone' author Jeff Smit
by alexandra.dupont
I know this because I happened to conduct it. We talked for two hours and the transcript must be like 10,000 words long.
I'll be curious to find out if his views about studio execs have changed since then -- because in Part 1, he tells a hilarious and terrifying story about Nickelodeon asking him to put a Britney Spears song in his "Bone" movie. He said no, and they practically threw him off a yacht.
Part 1: http://tinyurl.com/3xvd7y
Part 2: http://tinyurl.com/2kuxob
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Mar 08, 2008 4:43:27 PM CST
Let's try that again: AICN Jeff Smith interview.....
by alexandra.dupont
Jeff Smith AICN interview, Part 1: http://tinyurl.com/3xvd7y *****
Part 2: http://tinyurl.com/2kuxob ***** Part 3: http://tinyurl.com/39ksvp -
Oh lordy lordy lordy I LOVES ME SOME BONE. Wish I knew who to bug to get on this project. Would REALLY really love to work on these films. SWEET!!
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...Setting on fire and burying beneath a large slab of concrete. Why would you wish to inflict that ugly abomination of shitty animation onto a worthwile property?
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This has ruin-the-original-for-a-generation written all over it.
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Now, does anyone care?
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My son got me into those comics in the early 90s. Without a doubt, Bone is one of the greatest comics of all time.
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For Bone!
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I think full-animated might be good, but who's to argue a blending of CGI Bones and kick-ass cinematography like in the Rings films.
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This guy probably got a deal by relinquishing all creative control. Sometimes I wish Evanier and Sergio were sell outs. I may just be that desperate to see Groo animated which has been attempted since it's conception.
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With no progress at all.
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Warner Brothers make animation? News to me.
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they can never make cerebus....ever...if they couldnt do howard right, think about how they will handle the aardvark
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Mar 08, 2008 10:38:54 PM CST
I''d love to hear authentic voiceover professionals in the cast.
by osmosis jones
...like Billy West and John DiMaggio, but you just KNOW they'll get BIG NAME CELEBRITIES with boring voices to play the three Bones and Thorn. Honestly, BRAD PITT AS SINBAD?! Anyways, this also needs to be in 2-D, with a minimum of CGI and soft, watercolor backgrounds, but that's never going to happen, either.
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I hate it when animated films use well known stars instead of tried and true voice actors. First, it takes me out of the fucking movie. I don't care how well the film is done, I can still tell that's the guy from the Office and it's infecting every fucking scene. Second, if you're popular enough to get a role in a major animated film you probably don't need the work, unlike the talented voice actors you're pushing out of the business. Finally, you're not good at what you're doing. Voice actors actually know how to work within animated films. They don't just drop in for the fucking paycheck. Voice actors improve the film, instead of detract from it. Okay, that's my rant.
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Dark Crystal didn't suck, little man, you're just too small to appreciate its ambition. You can argue a point without making such stupid comments.At the end of the day, I can't think of any CG animated work that really needs to exist. Pixar's stuff isn't really aging well for me. Work that reveals nothing of the creator's hand is lifeless.I'll take Dark Crystal, Neverending Story, Legend, and Bakshi's LOTR over Xbox crap like Beowulf and 300 any day.
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Far more inventive and imaginative than most fantasy fare. Since LotR the only fantasy film that managed to capture imagination and whimsy was Stardust. All the imitators pretty much sucked.
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There could be more than one film, right ?
Problem is that it would be a quite direct competitor to Warner's Hobbit. -
I can't imagine it working any other way.
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Mar 09, 2008 3:32:52 AM CDT
get the kids with the cuteness, then take a dark turn in pt 2
by ironic_name
WB.. you could have a LOTR on your hands.. don't fuck it up.
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all 3d? live action/2d? all 2d? personally, a combination of live action/2d/puppets would be amazing.. but thats me.
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and it would be a sweet film. But making it live with 3D Boneses would be more amazing, and give this film the power it deserves. Think of a fantasy Roger Rabbit. And the Boneses are from another 'world' so this tretment would make sense.
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it would probably remain slightly distracting having animated Boneses in a live-action environment. Better keep it all 2D, but make it visually rich.. not just flat colours.... aaah.. i can see why they're having trouble deciding. Best thing to do is make some 2 minute test films. 1) 2D. 3)all live-action. 4)the same live-action but with animated elements
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Otherwise it would be like watching The Simpsons in 3D.
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Don't get me wrong, there are many famous celeb voiceovers I love (James Woods was hilarious as Hades in Hercules), but I share the weariness of genuine voiceover professionals like West, DiMaggio, Tress MacNeillie, ect., over how they're getting crowded out of their own field. Like West said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly a few years back, "I can voice four major characers on Futurama, but I'd be lucky to voice background fish #37 in Finding Nemo".
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You don't know much about Bone? It's quite, quite good. Read it so you'd be as worried as the rest of us on how Hollywood is going to fuck this up. Even with Jeff's involvement.
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I can't wait for the bone movie so I can come here and read the words "best comic book adaptation ever" 100 times while the other half of you talk about how boring and formulaic it is and how you hate the voice actors and then I get to read your top 5 alternate casts and about how if the movie had been in your hands it would have been so much better even though you have yet to ever do anything remotely creative ever in your own very real and sad life, like me.
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Of course you can't wait. You just pegged AICN for exactly what it is. And that's why you and I both come back every day. And stop holding up the damn Zeppelin reunion tour damnit!!!
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Mar 09, 2008 1:02:12 PM CDT
I went to grade school with Jeff Smith's cousin or something
by jackie boy
She brought in a Bone book for show and tell once or something. It was pretty cool I guess.
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...inauthentic. They have a patter and style down that sounds like voice over work. Your right though, that generally speaking, I'd take them over most of the celebs who get thrown into the mix just because. But the odd celeb, like Eddie Murphy (no, seriously) does much better work with a character than most voice over guys.
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it usually sounds like the persona of that actor, not a different animated character. On the one hand this is probably because the studio is paying for a recognizable name/voice. Sure, some go out of their way to actually act, but most don't understand voice over work. Osmosis Jones already mentioned West, who does a superb job with multiple characters on Futurama. He is able to do multiple characters because voice acting is his profession and he understands it more fully than someone like Wanda Sikes, or whatever c-list celebrity they choose to dump into their latest animated feature.
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Helena Bonham Carter and Ralph Fiennes in the Wallace & Gromit movie. They both actually did VOICES, they didn't just lazilly speak in their normal cadences. Also see Kate Winslet and Hugh Jackman in Flushed Away. On the other end of the spectrum is the aformentioned Brad Pitt in Sinbad (BRAD PITT!) and the entire cast of Shark Tale, who not only didn't bother to alter their usual speaking voices one iota, but this was also increased tenfold by having each character be a slavish, grotesque caricature of each actor. What 10-year-old kid gives a shit if an animated movie features the voices of Martin Scorsese or Robert De Niro? Would Spongebob Squarepants be more popular if Spongebob were voiced by Robin Williams? How about Futurama's Fry voiced by Steve Carrell? Horton Hears A Who LOOKS like it captures the visual spirit of Dr. Seuss, but hearing Jim Carrey and Carrell's voices just dragged me out of the trailer big time. What about the VERY quirky, contemporary-sounding Jeff Goldblum and Sandra Bullock in the otherwise somber Prince Of Egypt? I saw that at the theater with my brother, and at one point he leaned over and whispered "Dude, that's TOTALLY Jeff Goldblum!" At that point, you're not even engrossed in the story, you're just visualizing the celeb-crammed cast in a recording booth. Remeber the Sinbad trailers, how they seemed to feature more footage of Pitt, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michelle Pfieffer recording their lines than any of the film's exciting action sequences? At least Pixar chooses offbeat, little-known or unfairly forgotten celebs like Patton Oswalt and Craig T. Nelson for their films. Imagine The Incredibles with Harrison "Monotone" Ford or George Clooney as Mr. Incredible.
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As was said above. This needs 2D animation. If they do that, cast the voices well, and treat the material with respect, then this will be fantastic.
Merrick. Get a copy of this and read it through. It's well worth it.
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Scholastic has printed several original Bone TPBs geared at the young ones. Here's to hoping they don't adapt those and stick with the more adult stories. Someone did mention Shrek somewhere up there ^ which is likely the tone the movie will end up with.
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Dark Crystal was incredible.
You however are a shit fisting waste of DNA. And for the record, there isn't, nor ever has been a "collective intelligence" in any of the talkbacks, fuckstick.
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Please, how about another sentence about how big their humanoid noses are? BONE is nothing less than Disney Comics meets Lord of the Rings and has long been anticipated as the second-coming of 2D animation. A 3D option should only be considered among studio executives and simple-minded adults.
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