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So...What's STRAYS About??
Merrick here...
Yesterday we linked out to a Hollywood Reporter article that said INCREDIBLE HULK director Louis Leterrier would be developing/directing a movie called STRAYS. You can read our report
HERE.
Little was said regarding STRAYS' nature, other than it was about a group of consultants who wake up in an abandoned radioactive city in Russia & have to get out...but something dangerous stands between them and escape.
We later updated our piece indicating that HR's information may not be accurate & that Leterrier will write and produce the project, but probably won't direct it (an arrangement similar to his relationship with Luc Bessson on the TRANSPORTER films).
And, still, not much was known about the film - which HR described as an "eco-thriller".
Keep all of this in mind...
Last night, I received a provocative-but-mysterious e-mail from a source who (to the best of my knowledge) has never been tested by AICN. Which means, take all of this with a grain of salt until more information is gathered.
The e-mail has a slightly different description of STRAYS...one that sounds closer to WOLFEN than any of the titles thrown around in yesterday's Talkbacks.
The mystery message describes STRAYS thusly:
The Russians have been having problems in and around Moscow
with hyper-intelligent feral dogs that the police believe are responsible for missing homeless people.
These dogs are intelligent enough to catch rides on trolleys and subway trains to go to specific destinations.
More would be known about them, but they are aware that they are being studied and they go out of their way to conceal their activities.
So, are these megadogs the "strays" of the title? Are these dogs the dangerous obstacles standing between our consultant team & escape from the radioactive city? Or, are we talking about two disparate concepts here?
We'll let you know as we learn more...
with hyper-intelligent feral dogs that the police believe are responsible for missing homeless people.
These dogs are intelligent enough to catch rides on trolleys and subway trains to go to specific destinations.
More would be known about them, but they are aware that they are being studied and they go out of their way to conceal their activities.
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Eat it.
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29 seconds too late to be first. Nertz.
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You were 29 seconds away from being a stupid cunt, you should be pleased. Although you *did* shout 'Second' with the now obvious assumption of being first, so I've decided that still makes you a cunt. Sorry.
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uh... do you mean disparate concepts merrick? Like different? Not desperate like hopeless.
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closest i've ever been. you know what, i don't need your guff. DONT JUDGE ME!
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I'm there. Sounds too crazy to pass up.
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fuck the lot o' ya.
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Radioactive dogs??!! That is a desperate concept indeed. Almost as bad as making a new Indiana Jones movie with a flying saucer in it... oh wait... *sigh* All joking aside, it's safe to say that he meant 'disparate'.
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Lo siento mucho, fat and bald gringo. But I must say, you are the awesome, although underrated, one out of the members of the D
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...sounds much better than the smart feral dogs. Or is this Deep Blue Sea 2, the Red Scare?
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Always have/Always will....because I help to control the pet population.
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He couldn't get them in with Norton so he's doing a whole film on them, brilliant.
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The Day Watch will eliminate those radioactive dogs before they cause too much trouble.
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that was going to be my post. I just logged in, and suddenly there's your post.
Oh well. Hulk Dogs! there!
I'm actually thinking it sounds a bit like a werewolf movie. -
Those bastard Russikes should have known better than to have let that poor pooch orbit forever. Now, she's back from the dead, radioactive...AND ON A MISSION. I say...GO GET EM LAIKA!
for today's history lesson, google LAIKA. Learn something for pete's sake! -
At least it's different...
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http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=46009
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I really hope that, in fitting with this concept, we get some closeups of the dogs with their shifty shifty eyes. And also checking their watches when the subway is running late.
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The intelligent dogs line made me think of Grant Morrisons WE3
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Our abandonment of our humanity. WE are the true "beasts" here.
Gods, thats from contrived shit. -
....anyone know the deal with that project as the film script for WE3 was meant to be very impressive.
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Now WE3 would make a killer movie in the right director's hands. Me thinks Nolan or Verhoeven.
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. . . how nature points up the folly of man.
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... sounds like
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Disparate, perhaps?
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I found a copy of the original the other day.
The onlu links I can find to the movie are in Russian.
http://www.panoramastudio.tv/films/film/Dogs/Dogs.asp
Dmitri Svetozarov is the director. -
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Svetozarov&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=5&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DDmitri%2BSvetozarov%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG
Psy (in Russian: Псы, which can be translated as Dogs) is a Soviet film of 1989 directed by Dmitri Svetozarov. Fue filmada en una ciudad fantasma. It was filmed in a ghost town.
A group of people found wolves killed by eating sand in the central city, left town on the shores of the Aral Sea. A su llegada, el grupo descubre enjambres de perros abandonados por el pueblo; en venganza por la brutalidad de las personas, los perros comienzan a atacar. Upon arrival, the group found swarms of dogs abandoned by the people in revenge for the brutality of people, dogs began to attack. Cubiertos por el temor y la locura, la gente empieza a destruirse unos a otros. Covered by fear and madness, people begin to destroy each other. -
The dogs are radioactive too? Does this mean they are HOT DOGS????? Sorry 'bout that. Have some lemon drink.
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Of course, for some reason I liked Albert Finney in his middle aged hippie phase. He even made Looker bearable to me. And listen to Horner's music cues which he flat out reused for Aliens.
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Because Strays sounds like a sci-fi channel title. How about "30 Days Of Bite"...
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Made me giggle.
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There was a TV show or movie(s) about attck dogs that may or may have not been robotic. They had red glowing eyes and could jump high and stuff. I know I sound like an idiot explaining, but that's all I can remember. I believe it was in the early 80's.
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...you beat me to it, and I'm glad. I'd hate to think I'm the only one who notices such a thing. And -- for any of you AICN writers who care -- dictionary.com . Try it out. The internet is looking to be the graveyard of grammar and spelling. Do you guys really want to be part of the problem? Stop using words that you're pretty sure you think you know, and start spell-checking. Language is a tool of communication, not decoration. You only look smart if you can spell the big words you're using. Not that "disparate" is a big word, but when you misuse or misspell certain words, it makes you look like you tried and failed to be clever.
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...at the line "These dogs are intelligent enough to catch rides on trolleys and subway trains to go to specific destinations." Just picture them, paying their fare, going through the turnstyle, reading the local doggy newspaper on the journey...
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Bear City! It would be a plus if the dogs could drive cars, holding out their paws to signal turns...
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I want a visual of a CGI dog actually looking at a train like, "about time this motherfucker got here, goddamn."
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Serious Dogs*
I had always thought dogs to be playful and spirited; to me they were animals who loved to chase sticks and romp around and lick you. That is, I used to think that, until that day I met the serious dogs. When I first saw the serious dogs, they were sitting on a small hill out to the side of my house watching the sunset. One dog was standing on his hind legs, leaning his elbow on a tree, lost in melancholy thought. They all watched this particularly glorious sunset, then each sighed in turn and strolled in a pack over the hill. Were these the dogs I had thrown bones to for the last several months? These day-dreamers?
Several days later I saw the serious dogs lunching under the willow. They were not gulping their food down like Spritzie does; they seemed almost refined. After dining they buried their trash, cleaned themselves up, and disappeared over the horizon. I waited half an hour and then took my shovel over to that willow and dug up what they had buried there: several wrappers of cheese, some half-eaten doggie biscuits, and Good Lord! . . . two empty bottles of fairly expensive Bordeaux! I turned, confused, and saw a small pamphlet lying on the ground. I picked it up and read the title, "Federal Migratory Waterfowl Stamps." "Well," I thought, "some poor stamp collector left his book here. . ." Just then, one of the serious dogs appeared and gently took the volume from my hands and padded off.
I stopped. This was something more than just some dogs who didn't like to play fetch. I decided to secretly follow this dog. I laid about a hundred yards back and watched him. I was impressed with his courtesy to other animals and his compulsion to leave his pathway neat. If a branch had fallen over he would right it; if leaves had blown over this trail, he would brush them back onto less traveled ground.
Then I saw him crawl through an opening in some thick brush. As I approached, I could hear the sounds of other dogs moving lightly. I moved toward the opening and cautiously peered through. I could see a few dogs staring intently at something, as though studying it. I could not make out exactly what it was so I moved in closer. I was sure not to make my presence known. As I parted some branches in the brush, I saw a most incredibly sight. A fully-constructed skeleton of a cow! The construction was crude to be sure, but, missing only the head and feet, it was well-formed and highly commendable. I remembered throwing them bones now and then, and I could recall several of the dogs seemingly analyze it before accepting it, I looked along the ground and saw several of the books I had thrown out months before. They were well kept and stored upright. Most were reference, but I recognized several of the better novels. Then I noticed some dogs all facing something and sniffing judiciously like connoisseurs would sniff wine. I could not make out what they were looking at as a bush blocked my line of sight. I moved ever so slowly through the underbrush, with such caution that it took me a full ten minutes to travel five feet. Then, with some trepidation, I lifted my eyes at the object of the dogs' curiosity and saw. . . My God! . . . THE LOST MONET!
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starring Vin Diesel, looked like shit.
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Sounds cool.
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And he's played by Monkey Boy.
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If you only see one movie about hyper-intelligent feral dogs next year, make sure it's "Strays."
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Dog 1: "Hi Bob! How are you feeling?"
Dog 2: "Ruff" -
There was a movie... ^_^
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made me think of this USA movie called..well...Strays. It was about this family that brought a house that had a lot of stray cats around it all the time and then the cats just decided to attack them one night. Decypher44, you might be talking about Mans Best Friend where Lance Henricksen had to track down a dog that was like a hybrid of a bunch of other animals and pissed acid or something. It was also part machine I believe. There's also an old movie called the Pack where apparently a town suddenly left in fear of some kind of disaster but when they came back all the dogs they left behind were pretty hungry and ate them. It was pretty cool for a cheesy 70's animal horror.
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This concept reminds so much of the 1981 film Wolfen (based on a book by Whitley Strieber)that it might be as well be a remake.
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...in that a stray dog is a key visual and audio element running through the film. When the travelers first get to the Zone, they hear a dog howl, and later on, they encounter the stray dog.
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sounds a bit dodgy this! The zompire hounds in I am Legend I quite liked, a lot more than the actual Zompires but riding trains around! ???
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"Or, are we talking about two desperate concepts here?" I call that it was supposed to say separate. Spell that shit wrong and the spell check gives you desperate. I am the last person on Earth to lecture on spelling though.
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Yes, I did shout "SECOND!!!" knowing full well that I was not first. I reiterated that in my next post. You then responded to my post(s), calling me a "stupid cunt" in the process. So, what would that make YOU? Dumbass.
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so whos operating the trains? doggy drivers with caps and whistles and little red flags?
Does this mean we could be in for a canine 'taking of pelham 1-2-3?"
with robert shaw played by a boxer dog in a mac and a hat.. IM IN!!!! -
Dancer extraordinaire, today at the age of 86.
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Wow...sounds like a pretty good plotline, with many, many possibilities
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"What, like 'The Happening'?" "Um, no, um... nevermind. Forget I said that."
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beaks?
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Society.
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something terrible has happened
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really does have problems with stray animals. After the humans left and sectioned it off, they sort of took over. But they're not mutant super animals...
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I don't know about you guys but if that is the premise of the film then that shit is going to be one hell of an experience. Hyper-intelligient dogs....what the fuck. That scares me.
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Nyet.
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These dogs can PRETEND to be friendly house pets, before they reveal themselves to be hyper intelligent godless killing machines. Now I only want a movie where bears start shooting hunters.
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More some hybrid between Deep Blue Sea and The Lady and The Tramp. For shame.
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"Hyper intelligent dogs" smart enough to ride on a train? For crying out loud, how exactly is that super intelligence? Heck, my dog knows to jump in the front seat of the car any time I'm going out!And that's the best these Russian dogs can do? Ride a trolley? Bah! Let's see 'em bounce a basketball off their snout and score the winning point in a game. Air Bud would kick their commie canine asses! It would be like the US Hockey team taking down the Russians...uh...only played by dogs. And you know, even now some studio exec at Disney just read that and said "Whoa! That's gold, Baby! I'm smelling another direct to DVD movie!"
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Seriously. There hasn't been a good one since cujo.
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or am I thinking of Cat People? If this is a werewolf movie, I'm out. Sorry, but it's been werewolf overload already and I think I've hit saturation point...
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would stop leaking urine everywhere.
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Put a dog in it.
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