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Pics From The Silver/Wachowski/Straczynski NINJA ASSASSIN Project Are Now Online!!
Merrick here...
JoBlo has a cool pic from NINJA ASSASSIN, the new film from director James McTeigue (V FOR VENDETTA)...written by BABYLON 5's J. Michael Straczynski from a draft by The Wachowskis, who are producing along with Joel Silver.
This is Rain as he'll apepar in the film. We recently saw him in SPEED RACER as Taejo Togokahn. CLICK to significantly embiggen.
JoBlo has another image from the film which you can find HERE!
Look for this in theaters January 2009 at the earliest.
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Get Tony Jaa in and then I might show interest
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looks cool
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yeah what the fuck happened to the sequels. on another note will Straczynski be putting a Vorlon in this? i bet he does....he totally will
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My interest on this flick just went up a notch.
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...be good again.
if they were directing this, i'd say this is the one.
you can't make a movie like 'bound', then 'matrix (1)', and then drop off the face of the earth.
by the way, is there a good ninja movie out there?
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They never found me. I've lead a life of solitude.
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RAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIN!
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Are talented. I don't care what anyone says. I still think they have the possibility to make an awesome action movie. They did it before. Also, Speed Racer may have bombed, but I'll say it again, the fight sequences in the film were very well choreographed and shot.
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not by Ninja but by BITCHES!!!
http://bitchslapmovie.com/
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Ninjas are cool..and yet so silly when put on film. I'm there!
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..So, basically, it will suck. Movin' onnn
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his bowels spilled out.
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The real Ninja in feudal Japan were really evil bastards. They were like the Nazi SS of their time. Things like slow painful poisoning and murdering babies were the NICER things that the ninja were pad to do. Someone needs to do a proper movie on the true history of the ninja and show them for the nasty cruel bastards that they really were.
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samurais for example. Yeah there were those that were murderers and assassins of innocent people but mostly they were assassinating people that deserved....so called "nobility" and such. We get the historical perspective of them being "bad guys" b/c the history we have of them comes from Japan itself where stealth and methods they used were considered dishonorable compared to the samurai's more open style of combat. But in truth they were the rebels of Japan like the Rebels from Star Wars. They worked with what they had...made weapons our of farm implements...weapons designed specifically for defending against samurai...and waged the only warfare they could...guerilla warfare against a "noble" culture so fucked up that to test his sword a samurai would call a peasant over so he could take a practice swing and if it didnt kill in one blow he knew it wasn't good enough to take into battle against other samurai yet. Yeah, so i'll take ninja anyday. They were heroes of feudal Japan as far as I am concerned. A few bad apples does not ruin the entire tree in this case.
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hell no, aint you seen samurai jack!! or afro samurai. lone wolf and cub? zatoichi? samurai rule! no one is gonna be afraid of ninja jack or the afro ninja, being a samurai is how you know their badass!! all big swords an shit WHOOO
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That ninja needs to eat something.
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I like that pic. McTeigue did a great job with "V for Vendetta," in my opinion, so I'm looking forward to "Ninja Assassin".
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Guess its time to shake up the establishment. Where is his ninja outfit and stars and cool ninja stuff. stupid.
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is a good start. Gotta be R-rated
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If it is, I'm totally in. That guy should be a megastar right the frak now.
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Damn, I love The Golden Girls.
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then it would be Tony Jaa. He would be enjoying grilled ninjas with a splash of lemon.
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Jul 22, 2008 1:58:16 PM CDT
as long as Chan doesn't appear with his slapstick unfunniness
by donwillymo
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Like one of those 80s action martial arts b-flicks. I think that's the point. And it works.
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Dammit.
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I would go see it then.
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They had ninjas when I didn't know what the fuck a ninja was.
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So maybe the Wachowski brother's were listening to people's complaints after all. Did you hear Shyamalan is doing something similar? He's producing films based on his ideas, but written and directed by others.
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Ah, that's sad. You know she was nearly the same age as Beatrice Arthur, who played her daughter?
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Pass
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flaming jarv, buddha crush!
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and won me again with Speed Racer. Those pics look ok, but the director is not. V for Vendetta was to the political allegory what Iron Man was to RoboCop: a neutered epigone.
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throw momma from the train remake!
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Why does everyone on internet forums hate everything even stuff they should like? Do you guys secretly make movies and shit that are awesome but don't show them to anybody?
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The pussy needs to be bundled up in a coat...NOT A REAL BEAR!
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IS THE ESTELLE GETTY OBITUARY?
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Should like? Haven't you heard of Sturgeon's Law? Ninety percent of everything is crap.
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or Tony Jaa breaking all the ninja's arms in this movie or I will not watch.
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Wowsah, you have ZERO idea what you're talking about. Do the research. Start with a search on the Bujinkan, the only authentic ninjutsu tradition left. You might learn that the real ninja of old Japan were quite analogous to the Native Americans and the position they found themselves in after the arrival of the Europeans.
Dogmatic, thanks for chiming in with a little perspective.
That said, there has never been a film made outside of Japan that has dealt with the authentic art(for instance, its unarmed combat techniques look nothing like karate or kung fu) or its history. This looks to be more of the same cartoon/video game/evil assassin bullshit. -
...thank you for being a friend.
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Jul 22, 2008 2:55:37 PM CDT
With the talent behind this movie, why such a shitty title?
by judge briggs
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I'm glad someone brought up the issue with the redundant title. I don't know much about the hierarchy of Ninja society, but I'm assuming there are some Ninjas who need to do the everyday jobs to support the Ninja Assassins, presumably there must be people like Ninja Postal Clerk, Ninja Guy at the McDonalds drive-thru window, Ninja Theater Usher, Ninja Proctologist and so on. I'd like to see the Wachowskis explore this aspect of the Ninja in this movie.
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I love all these genre pics coming out lately. Hopefully Rain will stick as a viable action star then we can work on some cross-over with the Jaa. He would be a great villian, like Jet Li in Lethal Weapon.
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And so will I.
But I repeat myself. -
Check out 1965's "Samurai Spy" (Masahiro Shinoda). Great flick!
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They want Liu Kang back
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Tony Jaa
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1. Wall - E
2. Iron Man
3. Speed Racer
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Great I tell you!
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very vhs 80's. the only worse title i could think of is lazer warrior.
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That's sad, yo.
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It has Sho Kosugi in it.
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Jul 22, 2008 4:02:59 PM CDT
THE TITLE IS NOT REDUNDANT - it is all in how you read it
by bass bastardson
The title is only redundant if you are attributing the ninja with being an assassin, but if you are attributing the assassin with being a ninja it makes perfect sense. For example; "What kind of ninja was it? It was a Ninja assassin!" Would read as redundant but "What kind of assassin was it? It was a ninja assassin!" would not. Also, the title could refer to one who assassinates ninjas.
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when one of them went batshit crazy and decided that life was better without his junk.
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Because he assassinates ninjas--so the title is descriptive. Yeah, ninjas are assassins, but how many ninjas assassinate other ninjas and hence become ninja assassins? There ought to be a Japanese word for that (if there isn't already).
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Fuck all the people who come into these talkbacks pretending to have watched Speed Racer but are really just making assumptions based upon the trailers and what they read at rottentomatoes. I don't give a fuck whether it only got 36% - that's only because people just didn't get it. Real vision goes over peoples heads sometimes. Remember, Blade Runner and Tron both got horrible reviews when they came out too. I thought the trailers for Speed looked like crap and because of my anger over the Matrix sequels, I was really hoping the movie would bomb. But then I saw it and I was blown away. It may not be the best movie I'll see this year, but I don't doubt it will remain the most daring and unique. I know that there are people who legitimately did not like the film and that is fine - everyone is entitled to their opinions... if they bothered to watch the movie. The thing is, I would bet good money that at least one out of every two Speed Racer haters in the AICN talkbacks hasn't actually seen it and is just a fucking liar.
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I saw it, and all I kept thinking was "fuck me, that's the dude who puked to death in the shower in v for vendetta!"
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haha, childhood memories..
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its set in modern day, i was hoping for a ninja movie set in feudal japan
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Does anybody remember that movie how many of those did they actually make? And for some reason this reminds me of that.
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Wasn't it like 5 movies? Chuck Norris has a lot tanswer for, with the trends he starts.
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I freaking loved that movie, I don't give a damn what anyone says. I loved every minute of that movie.
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You know it's only a matter of time if this thing does even remotely well.
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This guy can write. Check out his Thor and The Twelve series. hell check out his IMDB file. this guy is finally hitting the top.
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well yeah we know he can write. he made a little show called babylon 5...maybe you've heard of it bucky?
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Who the what now?
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seriously, this guy still gets gigs? And don't get me started on the Wachowskis.
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I didn't know that JMS was involved with this project. My interest has grown from 0% to, um, something more than 0%.
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I think his body fat percentage is actually negative...if you walk near him you actually get a little bit fatter...
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Bank on it. I can't wait till it comes out. Too bad it probably won't have all the doo-dads and extras I want to see. ;-(
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it comes as a double dvd set with Dishonorable Discharge.
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People arguing about nonsense that is COMPLETELY inconsequential to real life, like "Who is more evil? Samurai or ninjas?" as if it was accurate to classify entire occupations together and say everybody is the same. I'm sure there were just as many ninjas and samurai as there were "evil" ones. Then again, who really gives a shit? And Speed racer was so much fucking fun. I liked it over Iron Man actually. That being said, why is Rain getting any acting gigs at all? He doesn't even emote that well in his pop music. Dude's ripped though. Hot damn.
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He's one of the few guys who's opinion I actually care about on this movie. Fuck all you morons who are saying you "just want Tony Jaa" or "Just a Liu Kang clone." Ignorant sluts. Seriously dude, I need another bloke actually well versed in Asian cinema!
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He's one of the few guys who's opinion I actually care about on this movie. Fuck all you morons who are saying you "just want Tony Jaa" or "Just a Liu Kang clone." Ignorant sluts. Seriously dude, I need another bloke actually well versed in Asian cinema!
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total accident. I'm not that needy.
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*just as many ninjas and samurai with good intentions as there were "evil" ones. Maybe I'm on here too much...better go fuck my girlfriend to check.
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Don't mean to be an asshole, but please tell me what is it that I didn't get. In MY opinion,SR's story wasn't that interesting, yes the first couple of minutes were really fun, specially with the tour of the company, and some of the races were cool even though they looked like Mario Kart on crack; but EVERYTHING took forever and seemed uninteresting: The whole corporate aspect was boring, the whole Asian guy and his sister subplot didn't interest me AT ALL and neither did the Beno Führman scenes as some sort of handler for Racer X. Matthew Fox was maybe the best thing in the movie, but then radical plastic surgery? come the fuck on. And I also wanted to kick the shit out of that annoying brat and his monkey.
I used to really like the cartoon and went to se it with an open mind, but the whole time I was thinking that Dexter's Laboratory did a far better job adapting the source material in 20 minutes, that the Wachowskis did in 3 FUCKING HOURS -
...JMS didn't come up with the "Selling your soul to Satan is better than getting a divorce" story line in Amazing Spider-man. That idea came from the Editor-In-Chief, Joe Quesada. Straczynski was the writer of the book at the time and did what he could to make the idea work. According to a couple of posts from JMS, whatever script he did turn in for the story was significantly reworked by Marvel before it saw print, so he isn't even fully responsible for what was published. The story was a misfire dictated from an office much higher than the one occupied by JMS.
Now, I will lay most of "The Other" and "Sins Past" at JMS' feet. I kinda liked the Spider Totem stuff that JMS was doing with the book, but "The Other" was terrible. To me, "Sins Past" was unnecessary trash produced by a talented writer that should have known better than to write that $#!+.
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than see another WB self-indulgent movie. Now, fuck off.
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I can't argue with your sentiments. Well said.
You could spell his name Q's'da. It would almost be a 4-letter word and would then meet one of the requirements for common profanity. -
No seriously though, this looks cool.
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well, one of the many ninjas from Mortal Kombat is named Rain... maybe that's how they got confused into hiring a korean singer.
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Damn You Michael Bay
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So long as the film isn't castrated by the studio, you can bet your ass this will rock even with a Korean pop star as the lead. And since Oldboy and The Host failed to propel the Korean movie industry in North America like I had hoped, more Korean exposure can't hurt.
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Yeah... I thought so, too.
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DO I know what rhetorical means?
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Lets not hit enter this time.
In Japanese the title would probably be "Ansatsu sha no Ninja". Where Ansatsu sha is someone who kills for a living, and Ninja means "hiding person". Ninja predominant role being spies rather than assasins. -
...There you go. :)
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was pretty awesome.
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to tell me why I'm not supposed to like the Matrix sequels? 1 was outstanding, 2 and 3 I thought were good..(dodges scorn)...
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fucking spamsters.
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what an amazing title for what I'm sure will be an amazing movie. I do think Speed Racer was underappreciated, though. "zomg but its the wachowskiz"...so? Matrix 2 and 3 were overwrought, not the worst criticism for a movie. But meh.
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...at least it's look and feel, if not the pretentiousness of the whole thing. The W-bros on the other hand are liable to screw this up. Hopefully their influence will be limited.
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Like Richard Bachman or whatever?
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Are they still working after Speed Racer?How? Why?
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