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The Rat now in the running to direct the INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN remake
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Brett Ratner's in talks to direct THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN which has been long in the works as an Eddie Murphy vehicle. If I remember correctly 5 years back it was supposed to go with Keenan Ivory Wayans directing.
The only reason I'd hold out any hope for this movie would be that Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant have scripted the latest draft. They're the RENO 911 guys, but I've noticed something really odd with them... I've interviewed them and seen them speak on a few occasions and they are fucking hilarious in person. But I never really see their humor translate successfully. BALLS OF FURY was a big missed opportunity and I wasn't able to get into RENO 911.
If Ratner wants to work on Eddie Murphy vehicles, I have nothing against that. I'm sure he'll shoot a good looking film and I'd prefer he doing these and not, say, Spider-Man 4. You?
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don't mean to be a dick about it, but come on now.
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Seriously.
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sure, they're lightweight and reek of studio interference, but sometimes you just wanna watch a movie and enjoy it. i think Ratner would've done a better job with Spiderman 3 than Raimi did, so why not Spiderman 4?
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Spider-Man 3 will be an improvement over Spider-Man 3. I don't care if a gorilla directs the next one. It HAS to be better than that.
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Hi, I'm Tom cruise. You may know me from classics such as "Endless love" and "Taps"
My career is currently in tatters and I think nothing would finally kill it off as perfectly as a role in this movie.
Also I am already really short so I wouldn't need to shrink!
Think how great it would be. I could even introduce some of the true and not at all rediculous concepts of Scientololologuie to the film to make it more believable!!!
Please Mr Rat gimme a part. -
Why fight the tide of poop?
Saying this, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas are probably having a fanboy rant about it. The Incredible Shrinking Man is highly regarded in some circles and is one of those films that reaches out beyond its pulpy storyline to something more meaningful. -
Bret and Murphy just stop and leave us all alone.
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..The Incredible Melting Man.I saw this B-movie back in the mid 80's (on VHS)and though it was cheesy as Kraft, Rick Baker's makeup scared the shit outta me.It had a lot of potentual but the acting,story and direction was piss poor.Now if Zack Snyder or Paul Verhooven were to consider a reamke, I'm there!
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Of brain-less star vehicles.
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Including the killer tarantula?
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Matheson wrote the original The Shrinking Man novel upon which the old movie is based. It's a serious book, not comic. This creepy, unnerving scene in the book is so awesome: He's trapped under a box as a huge spider scrapes over it, death millimeters away in pitch black dark. (sigh) Please read Matheson's books and short stories. You don't know what you're missing. He also wrote the original I Am Legend novel, which is amazing.
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Apr 18, 2008 6:17:47 AM CDT
Matheson completely raped by Hollywood knuckle-heads!?!!
by maxthesilent
Say it isn't so!!
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Nobody should bash Indiana Jones or Avatar.
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Completely, totally and utterly misses the POINT of the book. Even the 1957 version was more about spectacle than the dark exploration about the loss of manhood and our notions of size that Matheson wrote about. Anyone who has read the book knows the amount of possible cinematic and disturbing scenes - him hitchhiking at the height of a ten year old only to find that the driver is a pedophile, his affair with the circus dwarf, his daughter using him as a doll etc etc. Having Eddie Murphy in it (who clearly has had a career crash at this stage) is only going to make it more farcical with Norbit like humour and having Ratner direct is adding insult to injury. I wish these people who go about adapting classic works of fiction would, at the very least, honor the tone of the work. And if not, then call it something else.
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I forgot he wrote this. Matheson gets everywhere without you noticing it. It's funny how he has a pretty low profile amongst the written science fiction community, maybe he just didn't publish enough overblown spacewar stuff. Any Theodore Sturgeon admirers out there btw?
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book was great. It was scary, creepy, dark, intelligent, poignant, and this was in 1957. Now they want to re-do this as a comedy? Idiocracy here we come.
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because it's written by two guys who are funny in real life but can't write for toffee? Yeah, sure i can see that!
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Spielberg won't be worried about the Rat doing this, he inflicted Ratner on the world in the first place! He's responsible, the Rat has as good as said so numerous times.
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Well I suppose he did actively seek out Michael Bay to do Transformers...
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to make his films look even better. He inflicts all these terrible directors on us to lower expectations so that he can continue to appear the greatest!
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That would be fuckin terrible. His movies have zero personality. Nope, I hope he makes shitty DTV Chris Tucker movies for the rest of his life. Wishful thinking, I know. He'll probably end up remaking Lawrence of Arabia next.
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Apr 18, 2008 7:51:46 AM CDT
Matheson's turning over in his grave and the dude ain't even dea
by carl's hat
May as well get Lilly Tomlin back, seeing as this is sounding as shit as "The Incredible Shrinking Woman", which starred her a few years back.
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... Eddie Murphy doing foam latex again. Bet the f***er even plays the effin' spider the lead character gets into a fight with at the end. And Ratturd directing... it's gonna be like "the Perfect Suck"!
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..."Murphy even playing the spider" comment. Good for you! Bet he plays the cat, too. And of course he'll have to break out the sassy, overweight African-American woman suit again to play the wife.
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And join the vast majority who are against this incredibly stupid idea. The original is a classic and could be remade as a great little sci-fi pic if the right (RESPECTFUL) people were helming it. I remember the original made me look up the word "infinitesimal" as a kid - how many movies actually get kids to grab a dictionary?!
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CGI CHEESE! CGI DOLLHOUSE!
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... I always kind of like the Christmas movie, "The Family Man." Is that wrong?
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"Bitch, that better be a twinkie in your panties!" Hmmmm Ratner and Murphy could share with one another their experiences of shemales...perhaps something good could come of this film?
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although now im sad because harbinger would make such a kick ass film
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He should direct that.
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Martin Scorsese/Robert DeNiro! Martin Scorsese/Leonardo Dicaprio! Ridley Scott/Russell Crow! Chirstopher Nolan/Christian Bale! Brett Ratner/Chris Tucker!
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It should be done in the spirit of the original; a shrinking man trying to survive in a dangerous, new world. We've already seen the comic angle with The Incredible Shrinking Woman and Honey I Shrunk The Kids.
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Make another R-rated movie, Eddie...I beg you.
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I remember the Wayans brothers were attached to direct. Yeah, you heard it right: the fucking Wayans brothers.
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About Wayans that is. Oh well, I never read AICN articles. Only title on the main page and the TB.
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anything about 'the Rat'.
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It's not just the black actors that get to piss on Matheson's work.
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and with Viggo Mortensen in the lead again. These guys make a great team and Cronenberg has the right approach to this sort of story; Dead Ringers, The Fly, Scanners etc The studios really have to stop turning everything into a cheap comedy and for once try to do some of these great books some justice.
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It even ended on a philosophical and metaphysical note, which was rare in the "bug-eyed alien" sci-fi of the fifties. How will this end, with a wink and a freeze frame?
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Oh, I just threw up in my mouth a little when I realized that that pitch would actually guarantee some box office.
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1981 was the year, the much-reviled Joel Schumacher was the director, and it actually wasn't terrible. So, this one is really more of a re-make of that comic re-hash than a straight-out raping of Jack Arnold's timeless classic.
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he would be great for a modern day remake
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Ratner is directing! Aw, shit.
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I ever saw. I just watched it again a few months ago, it still holds up.
*SPOILER ALERT* At the end, when he accepts his fate and expresses some curiosity about what the microscopic world will be like, I admit I always wanted to find out too. With effects the way they are now, it might be kind of cool to show him floating around on the cellular level, molecular, even atomic and beyond? Or that could be super cheesy and ruin that great ending I just described. -
This project. He would at least respect the source material. Damn, this is one of my all time favorite movies, and to think that it will be reduced to an Eddie Murphy vehicle is downright heartbreaking. I'd much rather see Thomas Jane or Chewitel (what's his name) starring as the lead. Can you imagine the gravitas they could give the line reading during the existential coda while he shrinks into the micro-universe?
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Awesome actor. And yeah, a modern retelling based on the book would be fantastic, and **SPOILER** I wouldn't mind seeing him slog through the cellular level a bit before becoming one with the molecular/cosmic level. **END SPOILER**
But the producers clearly have as much respect for this material as they do for Land of the Lost and think it would make a great goofy Eddie Murphy comedy full of Ratty action aimed at the frat brats. Oh! Won't it be hilarious when he gets kicked in the crotch by the giant tarantuala? -
It's part of of a Universal Sci-Fi compilation that was exclusively sold at Best Buy last year. I think it's still available through Amazon, since it was re-released to all retail outlets after Best Buy Exclusive Run expired.
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We need to set up some sort of Heritage society, like they have for old buildings, to stop arseholes like these re-making classic movies.
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It would be nice to see a good, serious adaptation of that story, but with Ratner and Murphy on board, it sounds like junk. Still, i'd rather see him do this than fuck up something I do want to see. Ratner sucks because he doesn't pick interesting projects. He picks cookie cutter Hollywood bullshit and cowtows to the studio system. We don't need filmmakers like this anymore! And fuck Eddie Murphy too!
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as Dollman vs. Demonic Toys
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3rd for Cronenberg, that would be incredible.
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and do a movie about Dr. Shrinker. Now, that would be fantastic.
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this would have made an amazing dramatic scifi movie like the original
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