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James Mangold goes for sci-fi social commentary with his next flick, CYCLOPS! No, not the X-Man...
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I'm a big, big fan of James Mangold's 3:10 TO YUMA remake. Loved it, the first real deal entertaining western in quite a while.
He's now finally lined up his next project, an adaptation of the graphic novel CYCLOPS by Alexis Nolent. It's set in a near future where soldiers wear helmets with a single camera lens that feeds back to central command and TV sets in living rooms all across America. One particular hardass squad leader begins to question if the war they're fighting is really for freedom or a sick kind of commerce-driven entertainment.
Sounds like an '80s movie to me... kind of a RUNNING MAN vibe. That's not a bad thing, by the way. A part of me hopes they fast track this and have a trailer to run on WOLVERINE just to fuck with the fans a little.
They're going out to screenwriters now and Warner Bros will back the flick.
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3:10 to Yuma was a good time.
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Ohhh, it's the running man with (even more) fucking political overtones!!! I love Mangold, but I really, really, REALLY hope he drops this project when he sees how lame these scripts are going to be.
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stress the could be
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i mean i loved 3:10 and cop land was really good, but kate and leopold...identity, come on give me a break.
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...for genre jumping as much as he does though, i think its cool when directors try out new things, another good example is sam mendes.
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...Its not a bad idea for a fun quicke 80's vibed actioneer. Mangold though...3:10 To Yuma was absolutely the worst movie I watched in a cinema last year, but I love some of his other work. Some of its bland, yes, but Copland and Heavy were both really good. So its just sort of impossible to predict where it will go.
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Not many people know that :)
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needs to be R-rated though.
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Dude Run!
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Fucking Fox.
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Mar 18, 2008 3:13:25 AM CDT
"the first real deal entertaining western in quite a while"
by shermdawg
That'd be Open Range, not 3:10.
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I'll definitely give it a shot.
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Mangold has a great interview in an anthology book entitled "My First Movie", which details how he was recruited by Disney straight out of Cal Arts as a 22 year old and subsequently had his contract bought out after rewriting "Oliver". Fascinating stuff.
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taking out an enemy by blasting his satchel of dynamite and blowing up the whole damn thing, horse and rider? No further questions, your honor! (I suppose I shouldn't admit that I haven't seen Open Range yet.) :)
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Yuma was yet another victim of overhype. I thought it was bland and completely glossed over...Cowboy Curtis was more Western than 3:10 to Yuma. It was a PG-13 movie masquerading as an R movie so I'm not getting my hopes up for "Cyclops" no matter how cool it sounds. Mangold is really good but he's no Eastwood.
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A graphic novel called "Cyclops" was published and Marvel didn't sue them for everything they had? I gotta get to work on that unrelated Batman story I've been kicking around.
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This is good news. Mangold has pulled great acting performances out of his hires, while not skimping on anything else in his recent films. "Walk the Line" and "3:10 to Yuma" both grabbed me from their opening scenes and held me till the credits. Mangold has become one of my favorite directors.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7302841.stm
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Sexiest cyclops EVER.
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Damnit, and only in his 50s - too young. Minghella really knew how tell a story - The English Patient was wonderful and I still think his script for Talented Mr. Ripley was one of the best I've ever read (the movie was very good, but the script he wrote for it was even better). I'll miss him.
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But I saw it like a week ago and I am right in the middle of watching Deadwood season 1 for the first time. And its hard not to compare the two. As for Ben Foster's scene stealing role, ummm he was just gay, like Brokeback gay for Gladiator and not as cool as I thought he would be. I thought that the best acting outside of Bale was the love child of Jason Bateman and John Ritter: Dallas Roberts. He held his own against that scene stealing son of a bitch Alan Tudyk and Peter Fonda. It was like Dallas and Bale took the movie seriously and everyone else just didn't work, seriously Gladiator was just WAY too nice to be seen as a bad guy turning good. Well i feel watching this in the middle of Deadwood seriously takes away from anything good about this movie. Same thing happened to me when I was watching like 4 Law and Orders a day and tried to watch Zodiac. At least then I couldn't tell the difference. The typical western characters are just so much better in Wood then they are in Yuma. That said nice Wilson cameo.
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I'd be impressed if Marvel could defend a claim to own the name 'cyclops', there were these folks in Greece quite a long time ago who beat them to it methionks! :D
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Sounds like The Condemned, which was an above average man flick that had the unfortunate luck to be realeased in the shit year for films 2007 and was forced into using the too cool to fight oscar winning quick cut The Bourne Ultimatum editing style, that hopefully was sucessfully killed by Shoot'em Up. Now that Sylvester Stallone has given action movies their balls back, hopefully a movie like this can turn out awesome, and not MEH like what happened to what should've been awesome Condemned (i guess they fucked themselves with the name). Also hopefully Hostel 2 and the rest of the torture porn 07 showed us that those movies aren't brutal, they are just gay. Brutal is Rambo ripping out your fucking throat for trying to fuck with his women, just like King Kong destroyes your city for fucking with his women. Plus 3:10 showed that Mangold likes to go for the straight on action.
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This sounds more like "Universal Soldier" with JCVD and Dolph Lundgren.
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You're trying to go by initials now, you still haven't been in a decent movie since Timecop.
WWJCVDD...I'm sure someone's coined this one already, but just in case.. -
'I don't know who this Wolverine person is, Dear. Is he an X-Man, from your little stories?'
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James Mangolden nuggets.
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word keep the updates coming on this, it sounds pretty amazing
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No that'd be The Proposition, not Open Range. Open Range was a huge piece of crap.
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It's #3 in my comtemporary western list. Unforgiven, Open Range, then 3:10. Thank the stars that Mangold didn't turn it into another Young Guns-type property (which was OK if like a bit of fromage). Mangold pseudo Sci-fi? I'm in. Though the Running Man theme is a bit obvious, Mangold will likely put a nice spin on it.
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They were both great.
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contrived mess. The original kicked its ass.
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prolly the only person who made a decent living
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Some terrific pages from Jacamon here : http://www.bedetheque.com/serie-12312-BD-Cyclopes.html
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