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Want an update on the Saga of Harry Knowles in FANBOYS?
Hey folks, Harry here... This is a weird post, because it probably is the single most bizarre story. You know - over the years of doing AICN... 12 years now... We've reported on so many things that have fallen apart, been controversial and just the woes of filmmakers, fans and the material that inspired it all.
How strangely ironic then that a film called FANBOYS - a film that began life as a rather sweet light comedic adventure... much like ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING for the geek set... that a film that was meant to celebrate FANBOY culture - would itself become wrapped up in the 7 layers of Hollywood Hell... and that the part that was written for me to play me... would be so much trouble.
The screenwriter and original brain behind FANBOYS - Ernie Cline - has been writing a series of blogs regarding his long gestating passion project. Over the course of this movie's journey to the screen - Ernie has gotten married, moved away from Austin, moved again, moved back to Austin - and spawned a new lifeform, that'll probably cry and scream and be annoying at multiple screening of FANBOYS.
Well, Ernie has written a blog about me. Not just me, but how and why I became a character in FANBOYS - as well as the casting history of all the people that were actually cast to play me in the film. Not only that - but the various disasters that kept them from that. Not included are the other folks that were approached, but never committed to the project due to financial demands (I'm not kidding). Anyway - as readers of AICN - I figured this rather bizarre egotistical link might interest some of you. However, more to the point I decided to post it so I could be raked over the coals of self-importance. Click here to read why Ernie "Wicket" Cline will be on my Christmas Card list forever!
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three articles in two days and not even a friggin plot synopsis. I guess it's about Star Wars nerds and one of them has cancer? Sounds great... (crickets)
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Damn you Michael Bay
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We've seen that publicity photo around too many times at other sites. At least get a decent monitor to pose with you.
Why does the Ethan Suplee version sound like its going to suck balls? Give us the Jordan Gelbar version! Why the controversy and why didn't Jordan come back with the rest of the cast? -
is the sexiest tomboy beanpole on the planet
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but that's mainly so I can find my own cock
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Just passed away. Bummer.
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Nice CPU Webmaster. Just kidding pal- you do a great job and you can play StarFoX
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I think we have found a new layer of gimpdom.
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Any word on when our very own TALKBACKERS goes into production? That's a film I'd like to see...
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Mar 26, 2008 4:07:20 PM CDT
Do you like Beans? Do you like George Wendt? Do you like movies?
by dogsoup
Would you see a movie with George Wendt eating beans? Admit it, this movie wouldn't be nearly as cool if it went off without a hitch.
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That's... All your BASE ARE belong to us. And you forgot Dead Raped Deer.
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A lot. "With a bomb in his ribcage." - haven't heard that one so I've gotta find out about it; TB catch phrases flippin crack me up, at least the ones that aren't too Venomy, but Kurt Russel laughed so it's ok.
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http://www.craveonline.com/articles/filmtv/04649887/i_cant_stand_harry_knowles.html
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pretty cool article
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Mar 26, 2008 4:31:23 PM CDT
Let this movie die, along with every other movie this site has h
by critch
Does anyone care about this movie? The premise is horribly sad for a comedy, (Imagine all you want to do before you die is go see a movie....which ends up sucking.) it only appeals to geeks that are more likely to download this movie instead of see it...and then every review that's come out basically said that the movie itself is crap.
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I saw abotu 40 minutes of this at a the Star Wars con last year.
Hey, I am not a prude. I love jokes of all kinds. I'm not easily offended.
But there's a lot of gay jokes in the film that for me fell flat and seemed really dated.
Are sci-fi geeks homophobes? Probably to some degree just liek any other picked upon group but I'm not quite sure what the point of these bad 80's jokes were.
Seriously, the jokes come close to having a gay guy talk with a lisp and swing their limp wrists.
Like I said, I love gay jokes as much as any other genre but the humor in Fanboys felt liek a big step back. Especialyl for a film that's essentially a mad on the cheap wannabe cute film.
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there's one sequence where the SW nerds are battling the Trekkies. Again, it's mostly about how muhc gayer the trekkies are. One guy says Picard is gay. And then the trekkie responds with??? nothing.
really? how about gay C-3PO is. (hence the gag that both are not gay but British) I mean, at the very least why not make the Trekkies just as balanced as the SW nerds? Again, weird. -
...and cheets on his right hand.
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http://www.craveonline.com/articles/filmtv/04649887/i_cant_stand_harry_knowles.html
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yeha, i kinda agree with you Gotham_Night.
It DID feel like a pre-teen wrote it. So sad. becasue this a GREAT idea for a fanboys film. -
Had declined the role due to financial demands? Did I miss something? I reading this on the pooper. Just trying to feel like Harry when he is making a post.
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So is Harry the kid that dies of Cancer? What happened to the cancer kid in real life? WIPE.
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Man good dump. Anyways, on a different topic in hopes Harry is still reading this. I feel like if you are going to have banner ads, especially for DTV movies there should be a review somewhere letting us know if it sucks are not. I know you've done it a couple times before in you DVD post. I mean this is after all a movie site. You know I didn't want to see Fanboys, then I remembered a fake Harry was in it, now I want to see it again. Can't wait for this film to never be released.
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Don't knock Harry for posting about himself..I post myself every morning in the shower...wait..
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All 4 cheeks and a couple of chins coach..
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too bad Orson Wells isnt around to portray Harry
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How in Heaven's name can you even think in such a cluttered room?! (Sorry, man, my neat-freak tendencies are acting up. Carry on.)
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since she's all getting nominated for Oscars for playing dudes and such.or possibly Shia LeBoeuf. i hear he's popular.
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but, in the end, i think it's obvious it has to be Eastwood.
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I say this is a reasonable thing to put up on your website
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Ian McKellen?
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or Matt Damon?
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unless... Sly's available?
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Spitting image...at least one we can all stand to look at for more than five minutes.
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im kind of new to the fanboy drama, so i just read ever branched-off link and article to get the whole story all the way from the begining. (yeah i got time on my hands.) the best part about reading all of it were the talkback comments from the original article talking about this movie before EP I came out. and people were saying things like.. "well, would this movie still work if..now lets just pretend..Episode 1 happened to suck?"
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Damn You Michael Bay
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Im not a hater, nor do I troll or whatever, but for fucks sake this is such a pathetic article. You're a big man-child, Harry and I dont mean that in a cute 'aw shucks' way. You need some serious fucking therapy, man.
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Give Harry a Cameo:
The Faculty
Texas Chainsaw Remake
Give Him Credit for the idea:
Hostel
Hire an Actor too play him:
Fanboys
As far as the faliure of Fanboys goes.
A small man underestimated the system. He sold it off, and they fucked him. I don't care, I didn't believe in his fandom. This film is all about how the Prequels suck. As boring as Anti Bush Jokes...
I'm going too make a movie about a Butt-numb-a-thon Massacre flick.
Harry receives an email containing a bunch of quicktime shorts from an independently created Mock-u-Dock Snuff Horror. Harry loves it, the line of communication is established. The director convinces Harry too premier it on at the next Almo Draft House Ritz Butt-numb-a-thon..
The director and cast were going to take stage before the film plays, but they can't be found... The lights remained fixed at the podium for an uncomfortable amount of time.
AICN finally decides to roll the film.
It's not too long before Harry, his crew and the audience in attendance suddenly realize that the snuff stuff on screen is not fake.
People dressed up in the same costumes as those in the film raid the theater-room from the lobby they open fire and attack the patrons with axes and knifes.
All at the Numb-A-Thon are seriously Fucked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -
No, it's not his stupidity (which is huge). It's the lack of size of his penis. Shame.
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Jorge Garcia woulda been perfect. You need to clean your room though.
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Not a Harry fanboy (geddit?!), but fuck man, that was some weak sauce!
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Mar 26, 2008 11:12:17 PM CDT
I don't give a toss about this film but I sure as shit do
by half vader
about 052577 or whatever the Patrick Read Johnson Star Wars Fanboy Film is.
When the holy fork is THAT one coming out???
Harry? -
This sounds like a fucking fanflick pile of crap. Cant they just bury the turd and forget it ever exsisted.
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I mean really sad. Fucker even writes like Harry. "lets have 4 paragraphes of meaningless bullshit before I write about what I'm writing ". This isn't going to end well, my guess is that guy is gonna kill Harry when he finally wakes up and realizes he wasted 10 years on a shit film.
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"Writing Harry into my movie set off a domino effect. He read it, loved it, and agreed to be in it. Them he posted a review of the script on his website, and that changed everything. His review set Fanboys on its long journey to becoming a big-budget Hollywood film." Don't mean nothin' by it. Just sayin' is all.
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and he was laughing so I guess it was okay.
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This could make Harry the new Chuck Norris.
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