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John Woo Set To Turn Comic Book Title Into Motion Picture!! Is It Legion Of Superheroes?? The Doom Patrol?? Planetary??
I am – Hercules!!
John Woo (“Hard-Boiled,” “Hard Target,” “Broken Arrow,” “Face/Off,” “Mission: Impossible II,” “Windtalkers,” “Paycheck”) is set to direct a big-screen adaptation of the Radical comic book title “Caliber.”
Variety describes the premise:
Radical Comics' hit story sets King Arthur and his knights as 19th century gunslingers in the Pacific Northwest.
Woo has loads of other movie projects on his to-do list, including the second part of “Red Cliff” and “1949,” so it’s a little uncertain when he’ll get around to “Caliber.
Find all of Variety’s story on the matter here.
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SECOND!
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I have been drinking tonight.
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if he's gonna do Gunslingers out of time. Yeah, I know it's not doable in a movie.
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but caliber??? fuck it...give him justice league
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way to get me all excited about a possible Planetary movie project and then smash it to pieces
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no, it is some crap you have never heard of. enjoy.
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Jul 17, 2008 1:22:24 AM CDT
It's DOVES man, christ show the guy a little respect
by guy who got a headache and accidentally
The man gave the world Hardboiled, let's not be too hard on him.
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Wait.......WHAT THE FUCK IS CALIBER!!!!!!!!!!!
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the guy with the doves. yeah him. he could do dark tower. if dark tower didnt have a fucking plot.
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not cool news.
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come on Woo, team up with CHOW and make what fans want.. geezzzzzzz
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Too bad that Hollywood fucked him sideways...
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At least then, I could get interested in it. This movie CALIBER sounds like some leftover from the Sci-Fi Channel's 99-cent bin.
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being known as the director of "Broken Arrow",” “Face/Off”, & “Mission: Impossible II” isn't any good unless he wants to be known as a poor-man's Michael Bay.
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Looking forward to his Red Cliff movie too. Looks bad ass.
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i highly doubt that the title is all that popular, and it seems to me that this is another company that was created in order to develop projects to sell to hollywood
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Fucking Frank Miller and Geoff Darrow created Hardboiled.
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Hardboiled crime fiction refers to a literary style pioneered by Carroll John Daly in the mid-1920s, popularized by Dashiell Hammett over the course of the decade, and refined by Raymond Chandler beginning in the late 1930s. Hardboiled fiction, most commonly associated with detective stories, is distinguished by an unsentimental portrayal of crime, violence, and sex. From its earliest days, hardboiled fiction was published in and closely associated with so-called pulp magazines, most famously Black Mask; later, many hardboiled novels were published by houses specializing in paperback originals, also colloquially known as "pulps." Consequently, "pulp fiction" is often used as a synonym for hardboiled crime fiction. In the United States, the original hardboiled style has been emulated by innumerable writers, notably including Chester Himes, Mickey Spillane, Ross Macdonald, John D. MacDonald, Robert B. Parker, Sara Paretsky, Sue Grafton, and Walter Mosley.
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Jul 17, 2008 2:41:48 AM CDT
If a bullet hits a bullet do I get my money back?
by the guy who slept through everything.
Woops! Wrong movie.
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I'm still waiting to see a teaser dammit.
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And probably set in Washington.
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Way to get a joke. So you agree that John Woo didn't invent hardboiled fiction. He directed a movie of that title, and Miller and Darrow created a comic book of that title. My vague point was that if this is an article about the film director making a comic book movie - at a site dedicated to both movies and comics - which takes precedence?But jokes aren't funny if you have to explain them, and sometimes not before.
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his Hong Kong stuff though, is solid. F' the haters.
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Looks like someone read The Dark Tower series and wanted to rape the whole King Arthur history. If this movie gets made and sucks(which it will) and destroys the chance of The Dark Tower getting made.......
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Mike_D, you're thinking of James Wong.
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John Woo blows.
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Can't say I'm upset that he's no longer involved with that, I dig Woo, but he doesn't have the best track record when it comes to American films.
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Will there be whores?
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Wow, an entire movie based on a pun. I'm just glad it's not Planetary. Woo is not the right man for Planetary.
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Nick Cage as husband Bill and John Travolta as his wife Thelma.
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...sounds like an awesome comic, and I now have to seek it out and read every episode. John Woo sounds like a cool fit for such a premise, too.
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Just take the game and film it. Hell, I'd pay to see it. And work with Nick Cage again, please.
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...if you want to look it up. I never started reading it because i saw the premise and having already read The Dark Tower thought why bother.
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How about King Arther as California gangs.
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Jul 17, 2008 8:16:20 AM CDT
There is only one Arthur of the Eld.
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
and only one Roland.
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I was just thinking about it and, c'mon, Superman can't have a kid.
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Can John Woo direct anything else apart from action sequences where the characters shoot at each other with two pistols as they leap horizontal? He's a great fight director and nothing more. His characters are nothing more than excuses leading upto such sequences. Give me a story for chissakes. No wonder Hollywood is up its own ass with this guy and Tarantino making train wreck movies. And Michael Bay.
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Featuring a slo-mo, three-way shootout between Archie, Jughead, and Moose.
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AMBUSH BUG: the motionless picture!
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Woo Hoo...
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...HARDBOILED, FACE/OFF, and THE KILLER, while the ending of BETTER TOMMORROW PART 2 still stands up as one of the top ten movie shootouts IMHO. What makes his action scenes resonate are the characters, the deeply felt codes of honor, and big emotions in those movies (especially HARDBOILED).I'd love to see him go back to those types of movies (instead of the poor imitations we've been getting from others/wanna-bes).
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Woo's return to Asia might be surprisingly good you know.
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palewook is right! His hk films make American action look like ginger beer.
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or any other aborted project from The Woo. "Caliber" sounds a bit lame anyway.
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Now that made me fucking laugh.
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Ever since I was a fat red headed gorilla carrying water bottles around in the background scenes of The Faculty, I've dreamed of the whole Hanna-Barbera universe coming to film. One where the whole universe is consistently represented. Cameos of Jack Black in his now famous Captain Caveman role showing up in Ang Lee's Stop That Chicken - or that after-credits appearance of Samuel Jackson as DynoMutt in "Blue Falcon: Man of Unspecific Origin or Purpose." I mean not in my wildest fairskinned geek-dreams did I ever dare to hope that the Hanna-Barbera universe would come to the big screen in vivid technocolor and Sensaround sound. The only shame is Will Ferrel still owning all sequel rights to the fan beloved I Dream of Jeanie Cartoon. His Zapple-Dapple Productions company so far isn't going to budge, but that shouldn't be enough to prevent them from bringing us the ultimate cartoon hero team-up movie of all time: Laff-O-Lympics: The Movie. Yeah it wont be the same without that fatty genie saying zapple-dapple, but with Seth McFarlane already signed on to play the role of the snickering little dog, I mean how can this not be the greatest movie of all time? Its like a bowl of bowels from a gastric bypass dipped in chocolate and topped with fetishistic geek reference material.
What a time to be alive. Oh and sign up now for the Hanna-Barbara-Butt-Hump-A-Thon at the Ft. McHenry drafthouse and theater and historical attraction in Baltimore. It will be a chocolate covered star spangled banner rockin good time.
Also Hostel IX will be previewed. -
Personally, I was hoping for them to be cast as tap-dancing Broadway wannabes... Or is that the point of Spamalot?
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Wow talk about writing yourself into a corner. You can almost see the drama and tension in all the battles between Arthur and his foes now...
...Oh wait, no you can't. Unless maybe he is shooting at Greased Lightning! What is worse than an almost good idea? An idea that could've been good, ruined, because it wasn't fully thought out. -
I'm totally pissed now.
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