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Platinum Dunes Going Action/Noir With FIASCO HEIGHTS??
Merrick here...
Platinum Dunes, who've been actively working to remake horror classics like FRIDAY THE 13th, THE HITCHER, and THE BIRDS, is heading a slightly different direction with FIASCO HEIGHTS - described as an "action thriller" with "shades of film noir".
It's about what happens when...
a gunman returns to the crime-ridden city of Fiasco Heights and teams with a degenerate gambler/private eye on the run from a syndicate to look for a beautiful femme fatale and a mysterious briefcase.
...says THIS ARTICLE in Hollywood Reporter.
The film will be directed by Samuel Bayer, who has directed videos for artists like Smashing Pumpkins, Sheryl Crow, The Offspring, Green Day, and Garbage. He also directed the action-heavy Domino's "Gotham City Pizza" TV spot that's currently in circulation (see it HERE).
So, not to be pedantic, but...why would someone live in a city named Fiasco Heights?
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not a bad vid
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Like a music Sheryl Crow video
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is how it should read
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I'm just saying.
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a first. shit now Im a tit for mentioning it. Damn
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Wheres my Hollywood contract!!!???
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Well, Wuthering and Pacific, among others were taken...
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it was a disaster.
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Aug 06, 2008 11:32:07 AM CDT
I guess I'll take a Sin City ripoff over those shitty horror mov
by neo zeed
That remake of The Hitcher sucked balls. Never did understand why Bay was charge of a horror company anyway. He should've been funding R rated action flicks.
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Truth in advertising.
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This is just too easy.
Corollary - This stuff just writes itself. -
Sorry, but it just had to be said!
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Aug 06, 2008 1:02:19 PM CDT
Sounds fucking horrible.....read the script review on Latino Rev
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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..to invest in this fucking bomb.
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Of course, this is Platinum Dunes we're talking here....
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Of course, this is Platinum Dunes we're talking here....
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"It was a dark and stormy night..."
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I've read Kyle Ward's script and you guys are all wrong. Fiasco Heights is the next Sin City. The writing is fucking solid. The story is fucking awesome. The characters could be cool as hell depending on who they get. This movie is gonna blow you away, trust me. Maybe I'll send in a script review under a pseudonym.
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And you know, I can seriously imagine the CEO of Platinum Dunes personally stalking message boards planting propaganda.
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Yeah, I'd put Fiasco Heights on a salad...
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Wow, that's sad. After most of the '90s high-profile video directors had gone on to features (such as Fincher, Tarsem, Dayton & Faris, Corbijn, Pellington, Romanek, Jonze, Glazer, Gondry, and the loathed Ratner and McG). I was very curious as to what direction Bayer would go, as he's done some fine videos over the years, but this is pretty disappointing. Who's left from that era to make the transition? Sednaoui, Cunningham, Muller, Kerslake...?
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Jake Scott's another of 'em that switched to features. Never saw "Plunkett & Macleane," though.
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Michael bay is a Hack. Fuck Michael Bay. Stop raping my childhood. Michael Bay is the devil. See how I know more about film than Speilberg now, who keeps hiring Bay to direct films for him. Speilberg must be a fucking hack too, fuck Spielberg, stop raping my childhood... blahblahblahblahblahblah..........
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