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The City of Angels & Santa Monica Have Alien (The Kind From Outer Space) Problems In BATTLE: LOS ANGELES!!
Merrick here...
Columbia has acquired a spec script by Chris Bertolini called BATTLE: LOS ANGELES.
The story follows one Marine platoon's encounter in the battle against an alien invasion on the streets of Los Angeles.
...says THIS ARTICLE in Hollywood Reporter.
Neal Moritz (I AM LEGEND, THE FAST AND THE FURIOUSes, the xXx films, TVs PRISON BREAK, and...most importantly...TORQUE) will produce.
THIS ARTICLE in Variety offers another detail, saying BATTLE is about...
an alien invasion that starts in Santa Monica and heads east toward Los Angeles.
I've always thought Santa Monica people (are they "Santa Monicans"?) were kinda weird...are we sure these invaders are aliens? Maybe they're just citizens wandering down the freeway.
Either way, this sounds like a great video game.
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well, I dunno, actually. But maybe I can catch some live production work when they do some "on-location" shooting.
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first. What'd you think I'd say?
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Marines vs. aliens street battle? Something we like to call a plot would be nice.
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Obviously this is Cloverbud 2: Clover Takes LA.
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not the best Rage album, but up there.
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Apr 11, 2008 11:23:39 AM CDT
How far do you think we'd get if you or I pitched this brilliant
by beezbo
Yes, I am bitter.
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Sorry.
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Santa Monica where the inhabitants try to force their laws on the world, "Do as I say, not as I do! You WILL OBEY! Long live, Big Brother!2 plus 2 is 5! O'Brien For President!"
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I have some Transformers stuff for him!
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Independence Day meets Cloverfield right? How many 'Cloverfield with a (fill blank)' things do you think we'll have to endure now from imaginationless Hollywood execs?
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Reserve judgement until you've sampled a Godmother sub sandwich from Bay Cities deli, across the street from Vons on Lincoln Blvd. The aliens can invade, but I won't let them touch my Godmother. Or the Adelaide Street stairs, where you work off the Godmother.
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Could end up being pretty interesting if done right...of course by that i mean a good plot and likable characters
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Anti-aircraft batteries during World War II on the coast fired at what was a slow moving "mystery" object that travelled from the Santa Monica Bay to Long Beach Harbor. It even made the front page of the papers. Google "battle of Los Angeles" to learn more.
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... and kill the pesky invaders.
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outlawvern@hotmail.com
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Just let me know when the motherfucker is being made and then we'll talk. The last good spec that had me excited was the Green Arrow in jail film SuperMax. I guess it's still in developmental hell, oh well my point was I'm tired of hearing about these cool premises only to be let down when no movie comes out of it.
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Aliens from another planet, aliens from another country, Los Angelenos who act like they came from space......they are all already here, and who can tell the fuckin' difference?
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The whole thing will probably be filmed through the sights of an M-16!
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on Route 66, which ends at the Santa Monica Pier.
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Who would be able to notice the difference?
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Give them a chance to start over. All those smelly, egregis, panhandling bums pissing and defacating here and there, the public library as their washroom and hostel during the day, excessive taxes on business driving the mom and pop stores out, corrupt city council(Nothing new there.) and much, much more! Personally, I would welcome the spacemen!
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Maybe even one of those top view down flying games ala 1941 meets galaga. As a movie...it's an interesting premise that could turn into a 'Sci Fi channel original' movie if not done right. -
How many CLOVERFIELD clones will we have to endure? A LOT, pure and simple.Let's face it, this is Hack Hollywood we're talking about -- a town entirely built on the notion "How little can we make it for and STILL trick people into shelling out their dough?" This is the HALLOWEEN and FRIDAY THE 13TH syndrome all over again, when Hollywood woke up and realized a slasher with a knife and some boobilicous teens and fake blood was all you needed to make a quick buck. Now we have reality TV on the low end of the production scale (and the intelligence meter) and that (unfortunately) has brought in ratings since apparently people actually have reached the point where entertainment can't ever be too stupid. Last night's 30 ROCK and Alec Baldwin crowing over the success of MILF ISLAND and how audiences would eat it up was spot on.So it was only inevitable that someone would pitch CLOVERFIELD (reality TV meets a monster movie shot cheap with a camcorder) and now, yes, since THAT made money here come the clones.Well, at least until someone comes up with an even STUPIDER idea that can be made even CHEAPER and turn a profit, at which point being the "creative and artistic souls" (cough! cough!) that they are, all of Hollywood will then flock to copy THAT...
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It's been a while since we had a good alien invasion movie. I just hope they don't do the shakey cam thing.
Everybody's sick of it.
Me, I'm still hard at work drafting my alien invasion movie "Rape The Apocalypse". It's touch and go to say the least... -
Apr 11, 2008 7:34:28 PM CDT
It began with LOS ANGELES: The prequel to BATTLEFIELD EARTH!
by guy who got a headache and accidentally
Yes!
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Because the exact ending you suggested, I suspect sarcastically, was the climax of a four issue comic by Dark Horse many years ago called Predator The Heat aka Concrete Jungle. All the Predators invade LA and only a the intervention of all gangmembers puts things right.
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sorry had to say it
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this feaux realism shit is tedious...and anything but realistic
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This sounds like another absolute classic - yet more aliens who have only heard of fucking LA... I hate this repetitive bullshit - if it aint New York, its LA, if it aint LA, guess where? Branch out people! Leave the United States, there are locations outside the US (yep, that's right - there's world beyond its borders) that are vastly more interesting than fucking LA... This shit pisses me off. Its The Day After Tomorrow without the ice. Fuck off!
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the script mentions the invasion begins in California. L. Ron Hubbard is ressurected within Suri Cruise and she brainwashes even more 'dumber-than-dirt celebs to start attacking the media and more. Starring: Tom Cruise, Isaac Hayes, Catherine Bell, Kirstie Alley, John Travolta and poor Katie Holmes.
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Quick, find Billy Jack and get your salt licks out!
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Am I already too old for this site?
I like me some alien invasion movie, but that resume reads a bit beefhead.
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