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Report on AMERICAN BEAUTY, THE FIGHT CLUB and THE VIRGIN MARY
Alright, here's a selection of some good flicks to keep an eye out for. However, in regards to THE FIGHT CLUB, the scooper talks about how reshoots are indicative of a 'troubled film'. Actually this is not always the case, in fact often times reshoots are just a director fixing and being given the resources to fix the bits he isn't quite happy with. Mechanic has stated publicly that he won't be testing this film as he trusts Fincher's vision for the movie. That being said, back in February we did have a spy who at least claimed to have seen THE FIGHT CLUB and wrote a review CLICK HERE TO READ IT! I have faith in this project, and like many fans... I'd love to see Fincher playing with the FORCE a bit...
you say you haven't heard much about American Beauty (now-filming Kevin
Spacey flick) I haven't seen it, but I've read it. a damn solid script
if I ever read one. it's narrated by Spacey's character after he is
murdered and his daughter (Thora Birch) and her boyfriend have been
arrested for the crime. of course they didn't do it, but they take the
rap for it anyway because of a rather sexy but incriminating video the
film-school boyfriend made in which the daughter comments that she'd
like to kill her father. what this really is is just your run of the
mill parent-hating teen angst comment but the authorities connect it
with the sexual relationship her father was having with her best friend
(played by Mena Suvari). The story rides on us thinking we're going to
find out who actually did it and that the poor kids are going to get
out of this nasty mess, but they don't. we DO find out who the killer
was but it's in a sort of impossible POV scene A La Citizen Kane in
which no one but the audience and the killer could have seen what
happened. The film is unique in this sense and in another. While there
is this dark, murder-intrigue and statutory lust aspect to the script,
it's also comedic. Kevin Spacey quits his job, sick of trying to please
his less than supportive family and spends months lounging around the
house smoking pot and lusting for his daughter's best friend. You
aren't going to get any one-liners out of this one, but it's the sort
of thing where you'll either be disgusted with the situation or find it
amusing. Rounding out the cast of characters are Annette Bening as
Spacey's wife, two gay men who live next door and have the same name
and another militant nazi-type neighbor. If you want to read it I can
se if we still have a copy at work, but it was in the office about a
year ago.
Also, in your section on projects that you are covering, perhaps I
missed it but I didn't see anything on American Pie. I read this about
a year ago as well and it is HYSTERICAL. I've never read a script that
made me laugh out loud as long and hard as this one did. Sure to become
a comedic classic. It IS a high school comedy (and aren't we getting
sick of those) but this one is so outrageous that it easily stands
apart from all the others.
The Fight Club - I heard they rewrote the ending. Actually, I know they
did because (REMOVED TO PROTECT SOURCE) I've seen reshoot activity start up again at least twice
in the months after the film was supposed to have wrapped in November.
a fairly long shoot. About six months (June-Nov). Indicative of
problems, perhaps? I don't know Fincher's on-set habits, if he's
naturally that time-consuming. I've seen the soundstage sets - VERY
David Fincher. Dark, dirty, moody. To my knowledge, it is still being
edited. I have yet to hear of test screenings taking place.
One more thing...there's a project in development called The Virgin
Mary, Jennifer Aniston attached to star, Fox 2000 producing. About a
woman who is about to turn 30 and still hasn't lost her virignity.
there was a blurb about it in the trades awhile back. it may spend
awhile in development hell because of the plot problems (starts out
well, but has an absolute train-wreck of an ending) but definitely
promising.
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Jun 13, 1999 12:47:25 AM CDT
Fight Club will rock if the brass at fox doesn't tear it to shre
by hal9000
NOTE TO DAVID FINCHER: FUCK CENSORSHIP!!! Don't take any crap from no one, and stand by your final cut of FIGHT CLUB!!!! The jagoffs at fox fear that Finchers latest opus is more violent than A Clockwork Orange. Who cares!?!? Be adamate in defending your cut of this film. I've read the novel, and I'm convinced that you're the only person who could pull it off. DO THE MATERIAL JUSTICE!!! Don't back down to the powers that be at Fox. I've been waiting for this movie for years, and I'm gonna throw a hissy fit if you tone the material down to bow to the whim of jagoff test screening audiences. DON'T EVEN BOTHER TO TEST SCREEN IT!!! I trust your judgement, so have the integrity to do the right frickin' thing!! I will invest my respect into Brad Pitt and you if you release an atypical balls to the wall flick that pisses in the face of convention. If you soften the material to appeal to the conventions of morons like Bill Mechanic, you will lose my respect. If I was in your position of power, I would release a cut of FIGHTCLUB that is so gratuitous and depraved that the whole world would shit their drawers in agony!!! I'm a little plastered, so I'll quit while I'm ahead before I make a total ass of myself. Fight Club will be the #3 movie 2C this summer (right behind EYES WIDE SHUT and BLAIRWITCH). HARRY IS GOD!!!!!
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Jun 13, 1999 12:48:03 AM CDT
All four sound great but I'm gonna see The Fight Club no matter
by paragonian
Are they not testing it cause of this site, like we're gonna destroy a great movie or something, if it's good then we'll do everything possible to help it. We want good movies to do well and bad ones to do.... less well. It's nice to see Mechanic trusting his artist though, as long as it's not Michael Cimino they'll be fine. It sounds like Kevin Spacey's character needs to get the hell out of that neighborhood and American Pie is hopefully gonna be as good as Fast Times. The Virgin May sounds original and interesting but I'll wait and see.
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Anyone got info on what Fincher is doing next? Whatever happened to Rendezvous with Rama or Ellroy's The Black Dahlia? Dahlia's more his style, of course...wicked novel.
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Black Dahlila would be bicthing if Fincher directed it.
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I've tried several times to contact Harry about this film, but there seems to be a disconnect going on. Oh well. Anyway, the latest on American Beauty is that DreamWorks and Spielberg in particular are very very happy with the recent cut handed in by Sam Mendes. It was probably a bit of a surprise for the writer, Alan Ball, though, as the entire framing device (the trial of the teenagers) has been removed. Also, Spacey doesn't actually do it with his teen daughter's best friend. Well, that should come as no shock. What studio is going to release a movie where the hero bonks a 15 year old? Yeah, baby! Beyond that the Mendes cut looks to create a straight surburban Man in the Gray Flannel Suit for the 90s with Spacey. One has to wonder how determined Spacey is to keep his hetero identity going with the American movie-goer. A lot it seems. Conrad Hall's lensing looks great, but in the end, the snap, crackle and stylistic pop of Ball's spec is almost nonexistent. For anyone who has read the script, the obvious need to bolster and explain some of the characters is understandable, yet what was the point of stripping out all the shine and shimmer?
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Being a huge fan of the book. Ed Norton is one of my fav actors, as is Brad Pitt. David Fincher one of the best directors out there. This movie is going to ROCK!
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Why doesn't George just kick his own butt upstairs and let someone else direct Episode II. Have someone come in and rewrite his lame-dialogue screenplay, and then let former ILM cameraman Fincher work his magic. Maybe he could get Brad Pitt to be Anakin.......just a shock to those anti-Leo fanboys out there. Seriously, David Fincher should be directing either Episode II or Episode III.
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Christ I hope they don't screw this up. As a fan of the book (if you do read it, don't look at the summery on the back cover, it gives away the major plot twist) I hope this flick comes out as cool as the trailer was.
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See the "Fight Club" trailer? What's up with the soap? (with Irish accent) "Aye! Fresh as a Fight Club!"
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Well if you must know, brad pitt's character makes soap, with lard.
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Just finished reading "Hannibal", this should be the next film from Fincher, suitably dark and with a media unfriendly ending a la Se7en. What are the chances that the story gets completely re-written in the hands of anyone else? Must admit I almost threw the book across the room as I turned the final pages. Now finding it a bit more amusing. Gamekeepers turned poachers is how I see it, if that does not give too much away.
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Does anyone know about the status of Fincher's involvement with RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA? Morgan Freeman's company supposedly had him signed up, but that was before Polygram got sucked up into the whiskey bottle that is now Universal Pictures. It'd be a shame if the picture didn't happen -- a visual stylist like Fincher could do wonders with RAMA.
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Fight Club is the movie I'm looking forward to the most this summer. THe trailer fucking rocks and I agree with the other comments suggesting that there should be no cuts to censor any of the violence. I want to see a movie that fucking knocks the wind out of the audience as opposed to sending everyone home with a happy ending. AS fof Fincher's next film I hope it is either Rama or a mind fuck of a film a la Se7en. BUt, while his Star Wars could be much better than George's, I hope he does more unconvential films. Either way he is quickly becoming one of the best directors of the late 20th century.
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Am I the only one that notices the similarities here?
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You can STAND UP and fight all you want but it depends on who has final cut of the movie and of course the beloved MPAA. If its FOX than we're screwed, but I'm sure Fight Club will kick either way.
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