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J.J. Abrams Wants To Make An Earthquake Movie!!
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J.J. Abrams, who has plenty of disaster-movie experience via "Armageddon" and "Cloverfield," wants to make a new Universal earthquake movie -- and he wants David Seltzer ("Lucas," "Punchline," "Bird on a Wire," the 1976 and 2006 versions of “The Omen”) to script it.
Universal also released 1974's Charlton Heston vehicle, but the new project is not being billed as a remake.
No director is set. Presumably the project was set in motion by the shaker that hit Greater Los Angeles two weeks ago?
Find all of The Hollywood Reporter’s story on the matter here.
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And that's not a bad thing at all :-)
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Aug 12, 2008 12:27:51 AM CDT
Isn't Brad Bird doing a Frisco quake movie?
by no respectable gentleman
Maybe the real thing will swallow them all before they get released.
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yet again..
Cloverfield...Armageddon..and now this fucking "Earthquake" remake? I smell pure unfiltered Deuce dropping here.
I bet this Hack even goes for rebooted "Sensoround" seats like in the 70's....only rebooted for the 21st century. -
Lived in Cali all my life...Earthquakes are boring..even the big ones....a few minutes of shaking...some collapsed section 8 housing, a few broken water and gas mains...an 48hours of sensationalized news coverage.....Then everything goes pretty much right back to normal. BORING.
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and Bird's a far superior storyteller and film maker.
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Earthquake movie, JJ? Look, we know the new Trek movie will be cool but that's no reason to piss away the forthcoming goodwill with a snoozefest earthquake pile of poo. Fucks sake, do something interesting.
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Lightning storm, too. Holy shit! That's a great idea for a movie! Get it made!
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Those old disaster movies were goofy fun in the 70's. Unfortunantly, ol' JJ will feel the need modernize the concept, you know, hip it up and all and in the prosses loose all the goofy campiness of the orginals. Hey Abrams, how about something original? You know, instead of sequals and reboots of disaster flicks and Godzilla light ripoffs. Just a suggestion hoss.
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http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/
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but he can't surmount the JJ hype summit!
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bunch of Valley melodrama following an earthquake. normal stuff. how is he going to make this different from all the quake movies that came before?
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Seriously?
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...except "Lost," apparently...
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...not.
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And Dark Tower on HBO!
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Those two should be picketed by that retard group from the free speech TB. If anybody gives the metally challenged a bad name its those two shit flinging chimps.
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Mission Impossible 3 was abyssmal.
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Dy-no-mite!
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AICN is there to smell it!
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AICN is there to eat it!
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AICN is there to taste it!
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Especially non-alien/monster/paranormal disaster flicks.
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Earthquakes make for boring movies. The ground shakes, shit falls over, people get trapped, some go rescue them, threat of aftershocks, lots of people die, some survive. The end. That's not a story, it's an incident. Incidences don't make good stories. They make good jumping off points.
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...but I just saw this trailer and I think it might be the best damn trailer I have ever, ever, ever, ever, ever seen:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-HUPDYfva8
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JJ Abrams and Joss Whedon are fucking hacks and they should both be driven from Hollywood with pitchforks and torches. How this site continues to suck their dicks is beyond me. They both turn out the same hackneyed bullshit drivel over and over and over and yet they have some moronic fanbase which laps it up like famished swine. I'm tired of these glorified pulp TV directors given the treatment of godemperor when they are less like Shai-Hulud and more like earth worms, eating up dirt and shitting out the same dirt.
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Isn't California suppose to have a big one in the next few years?
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Possiden anyone?
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After a recent rain in Los Angeles, the Warner Bros executives were horrified to find their newly purchased coats covered in wet stains. In what one of them described as "a cathartic experience", they promptly greenlit J. J. Abrams's latest project, a movie about a rain that soaks Los Angeles for half a day. Shia la Boeueoeoeoeoeuf is in talks to start as the TV Weather Guy.
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Let's hold off on the disaster flicks for a few...um forever. It's tripe. It's all the same. Some lame, formulaic melodrama squeezed in between highways collapsing and buildings splitting in half. The only upside to disaster movies is that most of the characters are dead by the end. What's he planning to do differently?
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Aug 12, 2008 6:48:40 AM CDT
From the guys who've seen too many movies... EARTHQUAKE MOVIE
by nasty in the pasty
Featuring send-ups of classic earthquake movies like Airport and The Towering Inferno!
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I'm still hoping for a 9/11 Towering Inferno movie, but I suspect I will have to wait years for that one!
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Aug 12, 2008 7:04:43 AM CDT
Everybody is expecting the Big on in LA...set it elsewhere..
by alice cooper stalker
somewhere where people aren't expecting it...like Chicago or NY.
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Damn You Michael Bay
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all the disaster movies of late have been crap ( although i did like the day after tomorrow). could work but only if i see carnage on a fucking massive destructive scale.
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I agree his shows often bottle out as soon as he leaves them, and that he's hardly a brilliant director... but he gave us Jack Bristow and Arvin Sloane - so the guy does get a mild vote of confidence.
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make that JJ. No one cares about another disaster movie.
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Erm, hang on...
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Scenes in strip clubs where the jiggle factor is increased 10x!
But seriously, I can't get excited about this. Seen enough shitty movies on Sci Fi to care about this. They already did an "Earthquake in NY" movie too. Only way this can be good is if the quakes are related to something cool... like moving an island, the space time continuum, or giant pissed off monsters and/or aliens swimming through the magma beneath the earth's crust. Lets hope that the solution to the quakes isn't the old "drop a nuke down the fault line" trick... -
If you want to make an earthquake movie, you just go right ahead and make an earthquake movie, and don't let anyone tell you you can't make an earthquake movie. Live the dream, buddy, just like Jessica Alba in that film about dancing.By the way, I saw J J Abrams the other day. Not in real life, because I don't think he comes here to Bristol very often, but in an acting role in the film Six Degrees Of Separation, which starred young Will Smith as a gay con man. It was weird. I did not know J J Abrams was ever an actor, but there you go. It was like when I saw Michael Bay playing a jock douche in some film I can't remember the name of.
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What a strange thing to bother advertising on a classy site like the Ain't It Cool News.
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Flooding, Volcanoes, etc...
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...Another fucking turd fest from the Abrams machine. Fuck me, I wonder if you losers will proclaim this a bold reinvention of the disaster movie if he can rip off another indie film gimmick. This guy is getting alot of mileage from Lost. I mean, did you not see the completely hillarious yet unconvincing 2 hour commercial for Tom Cruises supposed heterosexuality that was MI3? Or his track record as a producer, being the unmitigated turd fest blair witch rip off that was cloverfield?
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WHAT THE FUCK JJ>? DO THAT SHIT!!!
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At least in an earthquake move Abrams will have a reason to not show what is destroying everything. What a tool.
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or was it a squid?
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yes make that, not this dogshit, who wants a fuckin earthquake movie? NO ONE thats fuckin who...FUCK
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...don't bother, JJ!
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That would be fuckin A sweet!!!!
Shatner saves earthquake survivors and dropkicks looters!!! -
I really enjoyed MI3, thought it was easily best in the series, the first was convoluted and confusing and the second was just silly...so why the hate? But to reiterate my real point...please get to work on THE DARK TOWER as soon as possible
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Aug 12, 2008 11:04:01 AM CDT
JJ saw a honeybee today! Pitches remake of The Swarm!
by cerebralassassin
Redic.
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Aug 12, 2008 11:07:45 AM CDT
Just got off the phone to JJ. He didnt' say much cos
by harryblackpotter
George Lucas slapped an embargo on his ass.
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A weather-related day off of school following the wacky adventures of Shia LaBeuof! Hilarity!
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...when you're 12.
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with Harry Knowles.
Oh and he wants to make a movie about looking over at B list celebs to see if they're laughing. Its called, "A Bugnuts Movie" -
Stinky the Hutt is writing the screenplay.
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I'd love to tell you about them, but Im under 10,527 individual embargoes.
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Aug 12, 2008 11:38:55 AM CDT
All star-cast please and EARTHQUAKES can make good cinema!
by spacesheik
I loved the sensurround effects of the original and the Heston flick and enjoyed the Universal Studios ride as well. The original had great effects and matte work by Albert Whitlock and this new one could work as well with todays technology - great thing about earthquakes they make great drama and affect everything: cities, power plants, homes, damns, etc and can lead to floods, fires etc -not to mention an aftershock - so basically you could have three main setpieces in JJ Abrahms flick, the initial quake, the aftershock and the aftershock drama/dilemmas. Get George Kennedy to cameo and Im in.
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Aug 12, 2008 11:45:42 AM CDT
JJ Abrams wants to have a beer and cheat on his wife
by brainstormchaser
Let JJ keep busy with stuff like this and Star Trek and Fringe, that way he doesn't try and wrangle Drew Goddard into an unnecessary Cloverfield sequal, especially with Goddard about to make his directorial debut with Cabin in the Woods co-scripted by Joss Whedon.
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...staring a strong-willed twenty-something female protagonist who uses tranquilizers against the earthquake while riding a smoke monster.
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It'll shake all by itself. Ha Ha. Ignore if I'm the third person do do this joke.
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And Your Firstborn Son!!
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The Enterprise slowly orbits the Earth. We hear the familiar Star Trek theme playing slowly, regally.
Interior: We see a montage of each character doing their respective and established thing; Spock stands patiently and observingly, Uhuru with her trademark earpiece studying communication, Scotty in the engine room watching with a smile as he supervises every machine and readout functioning normally, etc. The montage ends when we follow a young female crew member bringing a particularly familiar metalic clipboard-like device to Kirk who sits in the Captain's chair. He flashes a smile at the Yeoman and doesn't even try to hide the fact that he checks her out as she walks away.
Bones approaches Kirk and calls him out on his obvious observation with a grumpy disposition, and makes a comment about the responsibilty of being captain and exemplifying good moral conduct.
What follows is some banter between Kirk, Bones, and Spock which sets the stage for their eventual relationship. Spock analyzes the situation and disparages or questions the human emotion element which gets Bones all defensive. Kirk attempts to intervene and makes a comment about how they need to start getting along because it's going to be a long voyage, right before telling Sulu to set a course for "anywhere out there".
Spock informs the Captain about orders, and that the orders specify certain coordinates. Kirk barely contains his laughter as he throws a glance at Bones, who also can barely contain his. The theme takes a quick comedic tone, and seques back into it's build.
We get another short montage of each of the main crew as they focus their attention onto the main screen upon which the large image of a sun-soaked Earth begins to shift away.
We see the exterior of the Enterprise as it begins to turn slowly into a new direction, away from Earth and towards the depths of space. We get a few shots mostly of close-ups and flybys.
We then hear the familiar "space...the final frontier" speech, as delivered by Kirk. The sound of the engines of the Enterprise noticeably rises as the ship itself slows, preparing itself for warp. Right as he finishes with "to boldly go where no man has gone before", we see the ship gracefully leap into warp and disappear from our view, the theme triumphantly blaring.
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ScriptGirl set this in motion?
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If any a city needs to be wiped off the planet, its that fucking hive of liberal scum and hippy villainy. Ya' gots the San Andreas AND the Hayward faults to boot!
I'm totally with Space Shiek too.
Combine his idea with the fucker who suggested setting it someplace else (New York does in deed sit on top of an ACTIVE fault).
And yeah - I know there's been a SciFi NY-Earthquake original; it's about quality, not quantity. ;) -
and tell you it's raining. That seems to be his specialty. But at least he WILL be honoring the original.
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http://www.earthquakeLA.com
I don't recognize any of those faces but then again thats what he did with Cloverfield. -
Yay! Tommy Lee scowls at another natural disaster
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C'mon, J.J....just admit your given birth name was J.J. Bronkowitz.
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HOW THE FUCK ARE THEY GOING TO STRING THIS OUT INTO A 2 HOUR MOVIE? EARTHQUAKES ARE NOT STORIES.
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It's not about the earthquake, man...it's about the people...the emotional drama. About man's struggle to survive in the face of nature's fury, and of the undying spirit and camaraderie of...nah, I'm bullshitting. I agree with you Ray. Been there, done that, gave the thumbs down. C'mon, J.J., do something interesting, not recycled corn-filled shit filled with CGI porn and a cast of has-beens and TV actors who don't require a fat paycheck.
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show that JJ Abrams has a serious interest in making disaster films. Bah-zing!
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I know no such thing.
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was hot in the original.
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No way can a natural disaster compete with some kind of rampaging monster. I can't remember any movie based on a natural disaster that I ever wanted to see twice.
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Aug 12, 2008 5:42:39 PM CDT
I agree with Mullah Omar, in fact, take it one step further...
by mcvamp
And make it a ridiculous balls-out Monster Island movie where the Cloverfield Monster feasts upon the spawn of the fake US Godzilla and battles the dragon from Dragonheart (voiced by Sean Connery.)
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in his 80s he'd kick your ass for remaking his film. Either that or he'd be buried in makeup for a cameo. Damn you Hollywood for your remakes. Damn you all to hell.
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of course it will be
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This will of course have scene after scene after scene of skinny low-rent model-type Hollywood "actors" getting crushed by falling debris, falling into cracks, getting electrocuted by falling power lines, blowing up, sucked into jet engines, etc.... 'Cuz JJ hates bad actors that much.
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Shouldn't he be working on that?
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That would be awesome. Then he can remake Rollercoaster and Midway. Bring it on.
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...starring Zachary Quintos eyebrows.
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Aug 12, 2008 9:39:58 PM CDT
"We're yuppie douchebags!" "Oh noes, house shake!" "We're still
by tallboy66
And so on. Typical work from the master J J.
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And so on. typical cut-off header from crappy AICN talkback design.
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They're already at it.
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About the same level of acting skill
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You kids wouldn't remember that fun lil' gimmick, but it was a triumphant bit of showbizzary back in the '70s... lotta fun.
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Of all of his creations only Lost is interesting (and even that can be fucking stupid at times).
Oh and HE wrote Armageddon? LMFAO, so it looks like Bay wasn't the only one to blame for that shit (for once in his life).
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First Cloverfield and now this. It seems the man wants to destroy us all!
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Does anyone have fond memories of going to Universal Studios (Orlando) and walking through this attraction? Man, this brings back the 80's/90's for me. And how about that hot-as-shit actress that was in the film; Geneviève Bujold. Smoking hot in that 70's kind of way. Oh yeah, and she's in 'Coma' too. Just the poster alone used to scare the shit out of me, all those people hooked up to machines....
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Aug 13, 2008 11:16:22 AM CDT
EARTHQUAKE at Universal has been modified, its now DISASTER!
by spacesheik
They scrapped Heston and the 'Earthquake' footage and brought on Chris Walken as a campy Irwin Allen-like producer but the subway train crash and flooding is still there albeit with a 'Rock' trailer featuring audience members as part of MUTHA NATURE! - the flick audience members are featured in.
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Yeah! J J Abrams is remaking an already useless movie. Uber-viral marketing on its way, with first "Shaky-sensurround" websites ever to open next week. Billions expected to fall in the pockets of brainless executives. First reactions from foreign markets don't seem promising though. La Frog : " Me no buy ticket for cette merde". Salope!
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I thought it was about a monster attack during an earthquake. Then why was the camera jerking around so much?
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