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DeadLock's Report on SLEEPY HOLLOW set area...
There's not a whole lot of info in this report, but I just love the idea of someone out to have an adventure finding a set... Getting as close as the trailers and thinking laterally enough to remember... well, there's a forest right... so let's take pictures of the trees. While I'm sure some of these type of trees may very well end up in the final movie, we have heard from a previous set report, that they built an entirely false forest in a soundstage, and for those that read Moriarty's Script Report you know why. But neverthless, I like this report, and hope you share my fondness for it. Here's DeadLock...
Hey Harry!
Glad to know that you liked my report on Ollie Reed (well I presume you
liked it) but here's the real meat.
Cast your mind back about a month to the New York Times article you ran
about Tim Burton filming Sleepy Hollow in the UK. The day I read that
article the UK tabloids had been going wild about Johnny Depp and
Christina Ricci being sighted out together in London, I was thinking,
well they are filming together there.....
What I didn't realise until reading the article was that the location
work was being done just a score of miles away from my humble abode. I
decided to check things out at the soonest opportunity, it's not
everyday someone like Burton's on your doorstep (well maybe Yours).
That opportunity decide to play cat-and-mouse with me until this
weekend, when we drove down to Hambleden. On the way we passed a number
of yellow signs pointing our way and then off onto the Estate mentioned
in the article. Not being able to get onto the estate, but being within
about 2 or 3 miles of the set I took the first 3 of the supplied
photos.
These should give you a pretty good idea of the locations being used
(minus the straw bales). The whole area is damn pretty but much of a
muchness. We decided to follow the back roads which skirted around where
we thought the set was and see if we could see anything else. The fourth
shot was taken in the local woods, if 'Sleepy Hollow' has any woodland
shots then they should be in locations like this - if they are filmed in
the area.
The real pay dirt was hit on the way back, just as we turned to head
back to the main road we passed a field full of caravans, shot 5. I
don't know about you but "Movie Makers" seems to be a fairly large
clue.
We were also back with those yellow signs we'd seen earlier, and as we
went against their flow we also saw signs for 'location' and 'unit'. Put
it this way i'd be surprised if two projects were filming in this area
this close together.
Well that the end of my story, hope you enjoyed it, all that's left is
to say good-bye and leave you with the photos.
My name DeadLocK, goodnight.
Image 1 to Image 3: Shots of the Hambleden Valley
Image 4: Woods local to the set
Image 5: The set caravans - big clue.
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I've been a fan of Washington Irving's THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW since I was in second grade. Our teacher read us a shortened, very abridged picture-book of the tale, but to me, whose biggest monster heroes at the time were Dracula and the Frankenstein monster, the Headless Horseman reigned over them all. My interest in the story was only expanded when I caught THE ADVENTURES OF ICHABOD AND MR. TOAD on the Disney channel about a year later. I couldn't sleep for nights afterward, thinking of that final ride of poor Ichabod Crane, and his terrifying encounter with the Headless Horseman (brilliant animated sequence). Of course after that I read the original Irving short story, and was surprised at how relatively simple it was to get through. When I heard about Tim Burton's film last year, I knew the story would get the proper live-action treatment (I believe the only other live-action version was a 1979 Classics Illustrated TV special starring Jeff Goldblum and Dick Butkis). Burton is a great director for this. I still think ED WOOD is his masterpiece, but I also love his earlier works, including his shorts VINCENT and FRANKENWEENIE. Johnny Depp is an amazing actor, and could certainly pull off Ichabod Crane (although I understand the character has been turned into a policeman investigating the murders of the Headless Horseman in this version). Still, this will be Burton's first real horror film, and I am wholeheartedly looking forward to it. It's going to be released later this year, right? Right??
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Tim Burton did a GREAT Batman ( well the first one at least ) crap! he did a hell of a better job than the Batman & Robin Director!! now THAT was a pile of steaming crap!!
i think this is a movie SUITED to Mr. Burton -
Just as he screwed up the first two BATMANS, just as he tried to violate SUPERMAN's integrity (although his buddy Jon Peters is doing a bang-up job of that withour him), and just as he made all his other films sheer garbage, Tim Burton will screw up SLEEPY HOLLOW. Here's hoping he doesn't set his sights on STAR WARS. Then we'll REALLY be in trouble...
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Are you kidding me? This is a story right up Burton's alley, although chances are he'll identify more with the Headless Horseman (outsider who struggles to maintain his integrity and sheer joy of chucking flaming heads at people). This has Burton written all over it! Friendly hint, if you don't like Burton films stop watching them! Morons!
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Oh you of tiny tiny faith ( whoever you are ). Tim Burton is a visual and gothic genius!
The first Batman film is without a doubt the best one in the series which should have ended after Batman Returns. Burton's focus on the obvious multiple personality disorder of a character like Batman is interesting and Michael Keaton is the only one who has succesfully pulled it off.
Burton's taste for the grotesque is in a class of its own, and his co-operation with Johnny Depp is a unique and powerful team-work. Another Burton-regular, composer Danny Elfman, has created some of the best movie soundtracks to fit the gothic mood of such films as Batman 1+2, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood and now also Sleepy Hollow.
I'm convinced that Sleepy Hollow will be one of the big movies of 1999, and I'm sure that Burton has made the story his own which is exactly what I want and expect from him.
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Are you kidding? It's a good year when there is ONE good sci-fi flick, and so far this year we've already had two. Plus little things like Deep Blue Sea and Supernova might turn out to be good- you never know. As for horror, Mummy + Blair Witch + that Kevin Bacon thing + Lost Souls etc. etc. etc. This is a boom time for horror (and I'm not even counting the Haunting.) Dry spell?!? We were overdue for a great year. They are supposed to show up every 7 years. 1977: A New Hope and Close Encounters 1984: Ghostbusters, Gremlins, Terminator and Nightmare on Elm Street (whew!) 1991: T2 and Silence of the Lambs So what happened last year? Hollywood ripped us off! But this year will more than make up for it.
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Danny Elfman didn't do the soundtrack for Ed Wood. It was Howard Shore, quite a brilliant composer as well!
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Did Burton screw up BATMAN 1? Yes. Will he mess this up? NO. This was the film Burton was born to make. Well that and Ed Wood...ahhhhh. I watch Ed Wood every other week. Johnny Depp is one of the best actors we have today. He acted circles around Pacino in DONNIE BRASCO. He just kept circling him, punching him with quick little jabs goin' "Whose your daddy? Whose your daddy?" Just be happy DiCraprio isn't involved and be happy Burton hasn't caved to Hollywood's habit of sucking off every two bit pretty boy du jour who gains 15 minutes of fame. Be happy and give thanks unto Johnny Depp for being an incredible actor. End Transmission.
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This movie is gonna kick ass. If you don't think this is the kind of movie Tim Burton was born to make than well, I feel sorry for you. Johnny Depp is always incredible (except Nick Of Time, what was he thinking?), Christina Ricci never disappoints and Christopher Walken as the horseman? Casting doesn't get much better than this. This is gonna erase Mars Attacks from our minds and put Burton back in the game!
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Your mad! You seriously doubt Burton's ability to direct?
"Screwed up Batman1" Thats the best of the 4. Burton is a genius, one of the few remaining visionary's. This film will work just like all his others its just a shame Superman wont get the Burton treatment. -
While I agree that Burton did a terrific job on Batman, I am extremely pleased that he's out of the running for Superman. Why? Because Superman should not be a dark film! Sure, the film is supposed to revolve around Superman's "death," and all, but overall, Superman should live in a brighter world than the one that Burton would undoubtably place him in. I love Burton's work (Ed Wood was genius), but when I heard he was pulled off of the Supes project, I was ecstatic. That being said, I can't wait for Sleepy Hollow.
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Why don't you just stop torturing yourself by simply staying away from the movie theaters when there's a Burton film on? I assume that nobody is actually forcing you to see them, and I don't understand this need to go and see films that you already know you're going to hate.
Anyway, I'm glad that it's highly unlikely that I will be sharing a cinema with you for Sleepy Hollow, unless you plan to see it in Denmark ( please notify the proper authorities prior to your arrival, thank you ).
Thank you to whomever for correcting my mistake about the composer for Ed Wood - you're right, it's a brilliant score.
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Burton didn't screw up Batman, and I can tell you why. The animated series came AFTER Burton's version Jelloboy, and although a lot of the animated series is Dark Night,
a lot of the Fox series owes its roots to Burton. The animated Joker, Batmobile, Batwing, are all like Burton's vision. If only Arnold would have taken a page from the animated Mr. Freeze, all would have been right with the world. Just because you put new clothes on old stories doesn't mean your not creative. Burton is one of the visionaries left. Mars Attack sucked, but from BeatleJuice to Batman the man has a gift. Sleepy Hollow should be great, -
Jun 01, 1999 3:30:19 PM CDT
Mars Attacks sucked big time but Beetlejuice and Ed Wood are mas
by paragonian
Those are some spooky forests, the trees curve like spagehtti noodles. Johnny Depp better get a fucking Oscar soon cause he's my favorite lead actor from his generation, he chooses off beat and mainstream projects and always gives great performances without playing it safe and protecting a star image. Tim Burton always transports you to whatever time or location and you never think for a second that it's fake. Combine those two with Andrew Kevin Walker's scripts ( he should've got Best Screenplay for Seven) and you've got a potentially great film, I'm really looking forward to this.
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Burton is a hack? Huh? Because his stories are adapted from an original source? News flash, most directors do NOT write their own original scripts to direct. It isn't the story that you tell, but HOW you tell it. I think Joel Schumacher is pretty much living proof of that. It was so awful the way Burton created a dark Frank Miller style Batman when what the audience really wanted was cheezy sexual puns and cardboard characters. I mean what could Burton have been thinking putting complex psycho characters into a summer movie? Leave it to a typical HACK to do that!
Your right though, he should have NEVER tried to reinvent Batman. If ONLY he had kept him in those spiffy grey tights with that big blue cape like in the original detective comics, now that would have been pure movie magic! Comic book films are always better when they just go mechanically through the motions of the old plot rather than putting anything NEW into the story. Just look at that genius film "Spawn." 100% faithful to the story... and everyone LOVED that movie right? -
Tim Burton has an incredible knack for combining both the visceral and cerebral elements of filmmaking. Anyone who says he screwed up BATMAN evidently hasm't seen the cinematic atrocities Joel Schumacer has wrought upon the public.
Sure he was wrong for Superman
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Batman Returns was the best of the series you fucking lameasses.
The first Batman had 2 good scenes, the rest sucked the big dick. -
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Was Kubrick a hack then? I mean he based almost all of his films on other people's books. So I guess he was a hack, right? No talent there...
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After reading the script and seeing some of the dailies, I think Burton has got the hit of this fall on his hands.
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Please, admit it. What Burton couldn't accomplish with BATMAN, he made up for it in BATMAN RETURNS with a vengeance. Everything wrong with BATMAN was all JON PETERS. Get a clue. Guber/Peters had virtually nothing to do with RETURNS because of the SONY deal. We got Siouxie and the Banshees to take the bad taste of Prince's BATDANCE out of our mouths. And look what happened. McDonalds,Daly and Semel got nervous. It was TOO dark. And the world got Schumacher's version. I almost puked after being swindled in seeing BATMAN FOREVER. And what of SUPERMAN? Who cares? In the long run, it's probably the best thing that ever happened to Burton NOT to do it. The relationship between Peters and Burton seems to be a lot like the one between Robert Evans and Francis Ford Coppola. Understand?! I think I'll go switch on my old bootleg of ED WOOD. Congratulations to Johnny Depp on the birth of his kid. You've come a long way since Wes Craven and Nic Cage, baby! Now if only I could see Vanessa Paradis...sorry.
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Jesus, Jelloboy, are you on some bad trip, or what's going on? Frankly, I'm concerned for your health. So what if Tim Burton changes the story? It's all fiction - not cancer research! Would you rather that he did a step-by-step remake like that wonderful waste of money that was Psycho?
If just the fact that Burton ( or the rather the writer ) changed Ichabod's occupation from school teacher to cop puts you in such distress, then I really don't think you should see this film.
I respect your love for a work of fiction, but I think anyone is entitled to their interpretation of a story. I'm sure Burton will not use the title "Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow", but rather "Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow".
I'm sad that you don't think Burton and comic books belong together. I personally love his drawings and animated work like "Frankenweenie" and "Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas".
You also criticized him for "always working with the same people", but I failed to understand exactly what was wrong with that. If working with certain people creates an energy that you like and find inspiring, then why not work with them again?
Creative teams are responsible for many great things that would never have existed if one part of the team was missing.
Film makers as well as writers make up fictitious worlds, and personally I like being in Burton's world, but you don't have to! I happen to enjoy Burton's vision whether it was conceived by him ( Edward Scissorhands, Nightmare Before Christmas ) or not, and I don't see what on earth that has got to do with being shallow, as you said. Who are you to say that your taste in movies makes you better or less shallow than everyone else? I think that point of view is called narrow-mindedness!
M. Vesterdal
PS: Go, Johnny, go!!!!
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Let me clarify: Tim Burton is a visual director. He is an artist NOT a screenwriter! This is Tim Burton's film of Andrew Kevin Walker's SLEEPY HOLLOW. A liberal adaptation of the old legend.
And this BATMAN bullshit you're giving me. Again, JON PETERS. Don't you think Burton was under enormous pressure in 1988? Peters was still an uber-producer back then.BATMAN RETURNS should have been called Tim's revenge. Daniel Waters take on the script was brilliant, and adds to the watchability of it all these years later.
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It never ceases to amaze me how often some retard has to spout filth about a talent greater than himself. Fisrt, let's get a few things straight. If I want to read Miller's Batman, I'll read it. I don't need every movie about Batman to be just like the Batman I picture in my mind. If movies shouldn't draw from other sources, than we're all in for some boring times. Plus, unless I'm mistaken, Miller's "Year One" and "Dark Knight Returns" are sources right? RIGHT? So if that's the case and Burton did a more Milleresque Batman, he'd still be a hack for ripping off an established comic genious. Bullshit. Secondly, I tend to follow the path of those that think for themselves. I don't need other opinions to shape my own. For instance, I see what I want to see based on whether or not it interests me, not what any critic has to say. Yes, I loved Phantom Menace. Yes, I loved Batman. Yes, I loved Mars Attacks. No, I hated Clerks/Mallrats/ChasingSlut. No, I hated ID4. If you don't like what I like, shut the fuck up and get out of my house. You watch your shit and I'll watch mine.
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Your entire argument against Tim Burton's Batman and the new Sleepy Hollow film rests on the "it's not true to the original." Who fucking cares if it's true to the original? Where is it written in stone that a novel/story has to be duplicated EXACTLY? I've got news for you... it's never ever been done. There has NEVER been a text turned into a film in exactly the way the author had in mind. And let me remind you that sometimes taking big liberties like that works very very well ... for example, I for one am exceedingly glad that Coppola took liberties with a mediocre Mario Puzo novel called THE GODFATHER!
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Gee I'm late.
The movies would do well to pay more attention to the comics. I have said this all along.
Sleepy Hollow: I bet will be good. But I feel I Crain should remain a teacher. Geez, haven't we seen enough cops. Detective work in the 1800s, give me a break. Movie need a protaganist thats a teacher. It would be a breath of fresh air.
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Any film + Johnny Depp = I'm there.
Any film + Johnny Depp + Tim Burton = I'm there first in line with a large popcorn!
If Ed Wood is any indication of what these two talented men can create, Sleepy Hollow will be awesome.
DEPPitydawg
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Yes, true, Ichabod Crane will be a policeman instead of a school teacher. Yes, the Eddie-Murphied cop steretype IS gruesome. But we must remember-- this is not your everyday character. It is in the able hands of Tim Burton (whose credibility has been teetering on the edge of this forum's sanity). The script makes it look like this is not your usual cop-- he uses weird forensic sciences to find criminals. If you've seen photos, he has a funky lab that looks a bit like Dr. Finkelsteins in NMBC. And I've read the whole screenplay-- it is fairly true to the original Washington Irving story.
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