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If You Dug THE TOWERING INFERNO...Get Ready For SKYSCRAPER!!

Published at:  Oct 28, 2008 2:09:36 PM CDT


Merrick here...


I hate tall buildings - tall buildings are thoroughly absurd and roundly unnerving as far as I'm concerned. I've hated tall buildings since I first saw THE TOWERING INFERNO as a kid.



To be clear, even though there's a lot of over-the-top rubbish in the film, you can't go completely wrong with McQueen, Newman, OJ Simpson (playing a security guard ironically), the operatically protracted death of Robert Wagner, and a super cool theme by John Williams...



It's just...I don't know...seems like the height of folly (forgive the play on words) to isolate one's self so far above the ground...with only a limited number of escape routes...when so very much can go wrong.

With this in mind, along comes FAST AND THE FURIOUS/I AM LEGEND producer Neal Moritz & Universal to smear a handful of my statistically unsubstantiated phobia all over my face with a project called SKYSCRAPER.

Based on a script by Mike Sobel, the...

Project is described as a modern-day "Towering Inferno," in which a Donald Trump-esque developer sets out to build a mile-high structure in Chicago. When the tower starts to falter, a crew must rescue the city from mayhem.


..says THIS ARTICLE in Variety.

I humbly recommend going disaster movie retro with this & putting the project together with a super-cool, bad-ass leads (do we even have McQueen and Newman equivalents these days?) , a gaggle of awesome but not-getting-much-work talent from the 80s and such, and adding a needlessly dramatic exclamation point to the title for kitsch emphasis. I.e. SKYSCRAPER!

You know that looks awesome...










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  • Oct 28, 2008 9:25:30 AM CDT

    First

    by err

  • Seriously.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 9:28:03 AM CDT

    Is this the long-awaited sequel to CHUNNEL?

    by mosquito march

  • Oct 28, 2008 9:28:43 AM CDT

    Bring back OJ to play a security guard....

    by err

    before he goes to jail.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 9:29:15 AM CDT

    so there aren't asteroids in this?

    by t 1000 xp professional

  • Oct 28, 2008 9:33:49 AM CDT

    Let me guess. Samuel L Jackson will be on this

    by ricarleite

  • Oct 28, 2008 9:34:58 AM CDT

    So, This Isn't a remake of the Anna Nicole Smith Film?

    by c.k. lamoo

    or the Julie Harris, Peter Marshall musical that featured the song "Everybody Has the Right to be Wrong? (at least once)"

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  • Oct 28, 2008 9:37:56 AM CDT

    1 or 2 years ago I wrote a screenplay for a competition

    by derlanghaarige

    They wanted "something with lots of action and stunts", so I wrote something about a SWAT team that is about to arrest a gangsterboss in his own skyscraper. But he had of course a "plan B" and when the SWAT team kicked the door of his penthouse, he pushed a button and not just set the lower half of the skyscraper on fire, but also gave the signal for the over hundred thugs in the same building, to kill everything that moves.
    I never finished the 3rd act, because what I wrote so far was so over the top that it even stretched MY suspense of disbelief way too far and I refused to re-write it as parody!

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  • Oct 28, 2008 9:40:54 AM CDT

    OH COME ON

    by datoman413

    Here's my nickel, Err. I think 9/11 took care of the skyscraper-in-trouble premise forever.Seriously. Find something else to do.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 9:41:37 AM CDT

    Sounds like a cinematic disaster

    by iammrmonkey!

  • Oct 28, 2008 9:42:32 AM CDT

    Susan Flannery in her underwear again? I'm in.

    by stuntcock mike

    She may be a little old though.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 9:43:47 AM CDT

    David Lee Roth's best solo album!

    by stuntcock mike

  • Oct 28, 2008 9:44:27 AM CDT

    SKYSCRAPER!!

    by skimn

    I thought for sure this was a spoof ala Airplane. I thought Poseidon had a good try of casting with old-school Kurt Russell and failed next-big-thing Josh Lucas. I asked this once before..what current crop of actors could take the place of Newman and McQueen?

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  • Oct 28, 2008 9:45:54 AM CDT

    Stuntcock Mike

    by karl childers

    beat me to it.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 9:48:38 AM CDT

    FUCK YES!! FINALLY!!

    by dannyglovers_dickblood

    I fucking love disaster shit. Just don't make it anything like that piece of shit Poseidon remake. Go more Dante's Peak.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 9:48:51 AM CDT

    as we no longer have icons as cool as Newman and Mcqueen....

    by gabba-uk

    why don't we just wait for the inevitable hi def remastering on bluray of The Towering Inferno and watch that instead. Much better idea I think.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 9:48:59 AM CDT

    why is OJ as Security Guard = ironic?

    by arcadiands

    what exactly is the irony therein?
    Also, isn't every midwestern hayseed afraid of dem thar tall buildins?

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  • Oct 28, 2008 9:51:05 AM CDT

    There are no equivalents

    by ltgalloway

    But Daniel Craig would make a good McQueen (if its not too much "rubbish") and Josh Brolin would do great as a Paul Newman character. chances are we'll get some no names though.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 9:54:33 AM CDT

    NOT a fan of Disaster Movies

    by jermcdee

    Call me crazy, but I just don't enjoy them. There's no villain. Disaster is the villain. People trying to survive a disaster. I don't know. Just doesn't do it for me. Combine a disaster with some the some sort of criminal that needs to be stopped, then maybe we'll have something. Although, that didn't work out to well for HARD RAIN's Box Office.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 9:54:42 AM CDT

    I'd rather see one on the Cocoanut Grove fire

    by jackrabbitslim

    500 dead in twenty minutes - over 100 of those sailors about to go to ww2 - many die in sight of those outside because there was only a single revolving door (that was choked with bodies within one minute) flanked by reinforced plate windows. There's a pic online that shows the parkinglot filled with cars of the dead - eye-opening stuff.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 9:56:38 AM CDT

    Hard Rain is bad fucking ass.....

    by dannyglovers_dickblood

  • Oct 28, 2008 9:57:48 AM CDT

    I could see Russell Crowe in the fireman role

    by skimn

    He has a rough and tumble believability when he's in shape.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 9:59:26 AM CDT

    don't have a central character....

    by dannyglovers_dickblood

    cut back and forth between 20 characters in different parts of the building all getting fucked.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 10:02:38 AM CDT

    Tell me Daniel Craig doesnt resemble McQueen

    by jackrabbitslim

    When rewatching "Casino Royale", there were several moments I was really struck by the resemblance. And Craig is cheaper (McQueen woulda been in the Top 10 salaries by that point) and (as far as I know) doesn't have McQueen's well-documented ego - McQueen refused to be in Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid because he would have gotten second billing, turned down "French Connection" to bone Ali McGraw in the crappy "Getaway" and didnt want to go to the Phillipines and so he turned down "Apocalypse Now".

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  • Oct 28, 2008 10:03:56 AM CDT

    Hard Rain is shit...

    by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for

    but its also a very guilty pleasure... It would have been much better had Freeman been a badass (i believe he was more of one in the original script). It still would've been shit, but really, REALLY good shit.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 10:08:18 AM CDT

    ArcadianDS...

    by diversenerd

    Are those of us in Chicago considered "midwestern hayseeds?" If so, let me tell you about our Sears Tower, Trump Tower and planned Chicago Spire...

    By the way, just throw the Ocean's Eleven cast into this. That'll make up for McQueen and Newman.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 10:10:03 AM CDT

    And Itgalloway brought Craig-McQueen up first

    by jackrabbitslim

    Fact remains - Craig could be the new McQueen. Or Steve's son Chad McQueen - oh wait - he sucks ass in shitty s.t.v.s like New York Cop.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 10:10:30 AM CDT

    Swayze needs to be in this...

    by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for

    but i don't know why!

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  • Oct 28, 2008 10:11:17 AM CDT

    Craig doesn'T have the charisma of McQueen.

    by derlanghaarige

    In fact: Craig doesn't have any charisma (But yes, he kinda look likes McQueen.)

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  • I love Daniel Craig as Bond. He good in pretty much all he does as he is a quality actor. But I'm sure he'd be amongst the first to say he isn't an icon like either of those two legends. We just don't have leading men like that any. I like dickbloods idea about 20 different stories around the building. Be a much better idea. However the idea of a remake still rankles me. As all remakes do with me to be honest.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 10:15:52 AM CDT

    This could be Gibsons comeback film...

    by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for

    a stupid ensemble actioner to ease him back into Hollywood...

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  • Oct 28, 2008 10:23:05 AM CDT

    Its a hard genre to get right

    by skimn

    Irwin Allen, coming from tv, thought if he had big name stars, and state-of-the-art (for the time) effects and production design, everything would be great. But remember outside the disaster angle, the plots were like the worst of daytime soap operas. Poseidon tried to correct that by getting to the disaster as soon as possible with a bit of detail on the stereotypes lives. Which failed also...

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  • Oct 28, 2008 10:28:51 AM CDT

    Should be in Dubai

    by fred

    Get em to finance the movie as a promo for the millbillionaire playground they are building. Every celebrity involved in a Dubai enterprise gets a cameo. Tiger woods etc. And Tommy Lee Jones plays the fire chief.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 10:31:59 AM CDT

    Neal Moritz: Hack Producer Extraordinaire

    by ribbons

  • Oct 28, 2008 10:34:33 AM CDT

    Double standard

    by roguewarrior65

    Why is it ok to do a film like this but it's not ok to show our soldiers seriously kicking Al Qaeda's ass? Please use Gran Torino as reference material for how to be a total badass.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 10:35:51 AM CDT

    911 X 1000

    by erichaislar

    dear god thats 91100!

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  • Oct 28, 2008 10:39:07 AM CDT

    Cast Harrison Ford and Kevin Costner

    by kwisatzhaderach

    and i'll go see it.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 10:42:37 AM CDT

    Ryan Reynolds and Chiwetel Ejiofor

    by stuntcock mike

  • Oct 28, 2008 10:44:26 AM CDT

    As a matter of fact, Ryan Reynolds and Chiwetel Ejiofor in.....

    by stuntcock mike

    Lethal Weapon 5

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  • Oct 28, 2008 10:54:31 AM CDT

    The Towering Inferno opening.....

    by madmacks

    ...has once of the best opening/credit/themes of all time! if you ever saw The Towering Inferno at the theatre you would know waht I mean.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 10:55:08 AM CDT

    no subject

    by madmacks

    I mean 'what'

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  • Oct 28, 2008 10:59:06 AM CDT

    actually

    by frank cotton

    that would be 911000...

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  • Oct 28, 2008 11:03:46 AM CDT

    Towering Inferno opening

    by kwisatzhaderach

    is sheer class. Real photography, real locations, a sense of scale and majesty about it provided by John Williams great score. Damn, what has happened to movies recently? And where are the new generation of film composers to take the baton from John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith?

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  • Oct 28, 2008 11:09:24 AM CDT

    I prefer the SCTV "Towering Inferno"

    by blanket-man

    Johnny Nucleo, Dr. Tongue and Bruno, Guy Cabellero, Edith Prickley's Double, and Joe-Flaherty-as-Chuck-Heston... Now THAT'S a cast! "THE BURGER KING PLAN" will save the day.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 11:10:22 AM CDT

    kwis

    by skimn

    Don't refer to John Williams as though he's dead, man. His score for Skull was weak, but the man's still putting out work.Maybe not in their league just yet (and God knows I loved Goldsmiths scores throughout the years), but Michael Giacchino is showing some promise.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 11:12:20 AM CDT

    Blanket

    by skimn

    Oh My God! I completely forgot about the SCTV parody. God that show rocked.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 11:16:35 AM CDT

    Blanket-Man: now your talking.

    by stuntcock mike

    That shit was hilarious.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 11:19:43 AM CDT

    Fuck the Squid: SKYSCRAPER!

    by powereduppacman

    Now THAT I would watch...

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  • Oct 28, 2008 11:25:27 AM CDT

    Jon Hamm as the architect Russell Crowe as the Fire Chief

    by skimn

    Though about ten years younger than Newman and McQueen, I think both qualify for man's men status.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 11:26:45 AM CDT

    Hmm...

    by cobbio

    To me, this premise sounds hollow and silly after the harrowing real-life events of 9/11. If the studio decides, however, to make a character drama where a Joe Everyman, who's lost everything in the wake of The Corporate Banking Bailout of 2008, buys a gun and decides to kill the fucker who swindled away his life savings, then I'd watch. The final showdown takes place inside bank headquarters, which is on fire courtesy of Joe Everyman, so that Fucker can't leave, and lots of bloody steel payback ensues.
    This idea would never get made, I know. It's too close to the way millions, possibly billions, of people are actually feeling right now.
    Plus big banks clean their hands of everything. They pull strings and people do their bidding.
    And no one speaks up or says a word about it in the media. This is why "Net Proceeds" would make a timely and kickass film.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 11:29:44 AM CDT

    skimn

    by kwisatzhaderach

    Didn't refer to him as though he was dead, but his output is limited these days (not surprising due to his age). Giacchino just isn't in the same class i'm afraid.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 11:29:49 AM CDT

    Cobbio

    by skimn

    Sounds a lot like John Q

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  • Oct 28, 2008 11:32:21 AM CDT

    New cast

    by madmacks

    Matthew McConaughey as the architect and Russell Crowe as the fire chief...

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  • Oct 28, 2008 11:34:02 AM CDT

    Cobbio/Skimn

    by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for

    Yep, also sounds like Mad City

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  • Oct 28, 2008 11:46:12 AM CDT

    Yeah

    by cobbio

    True, skimn. I guess "John Q" paved that road a bit. Oh well. Back to the drawing board then.
    I was just considering the payoff of a more timely film that includes a burning skyscraper. What else right now is going on in the world that could be represented in a disaster movie? The Goverment-Corporate Banking Bailout that's turning America into a socialist state right under the nose of supposed right-winger George W. That would be ironic, wouldn't it? A film about socialism creeping in and taking over without people realizing it, with the film's culmination centered around a bank headquarters where Joe Everyman, Bank CEO (aka Fucker), Corporate paramilitary, a fourteen-year-old camera holder, and five hundred pounds of C4 combust in a mushroom cloud of intensity.
    That idea's too broad, obviously. Needs massive detailing and editing to keep it from being wholly silly. But I hope the makers of "Skyscraper" don't puss out, even though I know they will.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 11:53:05 AM CDT

    Starts to "Falter?"

    by abominable snowcone

    Whaddaya mean? NOT a fire this time? It literally starts faltering, as in, tipping over? They should let OJ out for a cameo. Shoot it in dubai with that new ridiculous huge tower.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 11:56:57 AM CDT

    kwis

    by skimn

    I'm not saying that Giacchino is in their league, not by a long shot, but I think he has potential. He's paying his dues in television, just like Williams and Goldsmith, and I think he's better than Hans Zimmer and the others.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 12:11:04 PM CDT

    'Cause tall buildings are always...

    by kid z

    ...full of GHOSTS! Oooooo! Scary!

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  • Oct 28, 2008 12:14:20 PM CDT

    LOTS OF EXPOSED TITS IN THE THIS PLEASE!!

    by dannyglovers_dickblood

    Like bitches be running down the hallway and a Fireman grabs at her to pull her to safety and her top just rips off. Then cut to news footage outside of the building just as its about to go down and for no apparent reason dozens and dozens of topless women run out of the building screaming in slow motion!!

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  • Oct 28, 2008 12:18:24 PM CDT

    DannyGlover

    by skimn

    Were you Roger Corman in a former life?? Thats some funny shit.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 12:20:34 PM CDT

    The closest thing so far to Towering Inferno

    by abominable snowcone

    that has been truly great was Die Hard. I don't see what other cool stuff they could do with tall buildings other than have a giant squid attack one.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 12:23:38 PM CDT

    The Towering Poseidon

    by abominable snowcone

    Why not combine the best of both worlds? Coming this summer: They said it couldn't be built, but they did it. A mile-high super skyscraper on the edge of the atlantic. But when a freak accident sees the top half break off into the bay, over a hundred bedraggled survivors must navigate 70 water-logged floors of inverted terror to safety! Featuring at least two dozen randomly topless babes.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 12:23:58 PM CDT

    Roger Corman for Congress 2012!!

    by dannyglovers_dickblood

  • Oct 28, 2008 12:27:01 PM CDT

    the only way to make this interesting.....

    by dannyglovers_dickblood

    ...other than loads of exposed tits, is to make the building like Gremlins 2. Where its sort of barely futuristic with all that smart technology. Gremilins 2 was smart to make it a t.v. studio where every level is a different set with different props and gags to fuck with and get the laughs. That would be cool to do something similar here. Don't just make this shit a generic office building, how is that fun? We need weird gags. Like its a giant toy company headquarters. But a fanciful toy company where there are rooms of bouncy walls and weird shit. I'm telling you...this shit could put asses in seats and tits in my hand.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 12:34:09 PM CDT

    On the top floor

    by abominable snowcone

    you gotta have an upscale gentlemans club, just so we can guarantee three dozen topless babes running for the elevators in a panic. Drench them with water. Lots of water, and fire extinguisher foam. Have them lather each other, so that they are fire-retarded and not just retarded.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 12:39:40 PM CDT

    Finally! They're making my movie!

    by skycrapper

    Oh wait...

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  • Oct 28, 2008 12:39:57 PM CDT

    Next thing you know

    by abominable snowcone

    they'll remake "Rollercoaster." ANd if they do, I insist that KISS be in it, even if they were in a completely different movie about an amusement park.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 12:42:48 PM CDT

    "YOU BURNED HIM STEVEN!!!"

    by stuntcock mike

  • Oct 28, 2008 12:49:05 PM CDT

    hot damn chitown!

    by juice willis

  • Oct 28, 2008 12:51:33 PM CDT

    Amusement Park disaster movie would be awesome...

    by dannyglovers_dickblood

    ...that reminds me of a Goosebumps book about an evil amusement park. Some family wins a trip to go there or some shit. But the park and all the employees and guests in it saves for a few other unlucky families, are all evil. I remember there is a log jammer sort of ride with shit swinging at you with axes, but they are fucking real and someone's head gets knocked off. That movie would be fucking awesome. Scrap this shit...make that movie. Make it Rated R and have lots of topless zombie bitches in a haunted house attraction.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 1:20:33 PM CDT

    KISS + Rollercoaster = Birth of Evil.

    by darth macchio

    You know that KISS stands for: Knights In Service of Satan, right? People think their just idiots in makeup with berserk marketing. No sir. These guys are demon-worshipping fools I tell yaDemon-worshippin' fools I say!

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  • Oct 28, 2008 1:20:57 PM CDT

    Needs Jimmy "J.J." Walker.

    by otm shank

    With a saxophone. And his only line will be "Dynomite!" just as the building explodes.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 1:26:23 PM CDT

    Why'd this take so long to remake?

    by j2talk

    I mean we just had a bunch of disaster movies-Dante's Peak, Volcano, Twister, The Day After Tomorrow, Poseidon, why did this one take so long????

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  • Oct 28, 2008 1:32:39 PM CDT

    if they go my route with the Gremlins 2 t.v. studio....

    by dannyglovers_dickblood

    ....I say they set it around Christmas time and have the characters running down a hallway for their lives and bust into a door which opens up into a massive stage housing an Ewok village set where a crew is shooting an Ewok Christmas Special. They could just cut to a funny ass dance battle between two Ewoks doing all these bad ass head-spins and shit. One of them takes their mask off and its Warwick Davis!! Warwick Davis takes a drag off a cigarette, looks over at characters standing there covered in blood and ash. from sprinting down 10 floors of smoldering staircase-- and asks, "WHO THE FUCK ARE THESE CUNTS?!" BOOOOOOM!! The stage wall tears open with a massive explosion and the Ewoks all take off running for their lives!! Now we got the main characters and a shitload of Ewoks racing down the hall screaming!! Cut to random close-ups of Warwick shoving people aside and screaming "MOVE THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY!!"

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  • Oct 28, 2008 1:33:02 PM CDT

    Plans have been around for something like this for a while

    by hereagain

    Then 9/11 put a cap on it. Guess it's been long enough. Wasn't the original one of the first two-studio pictures? The Special Edition DVD has some cool stuff in it.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 1:38:23 PM CDT

    this could be an unofficial sequel to NOTHING BUT TROUBLE.

    by dannyglovers_dickblood

  • Oct 28, 2008 1:53:35 PM CDT

    here come the 9/11 whiners?

    by bouncy x

    you just know if this is made and comes, you'll have morons complaining about the similarities to 9/11 and how its too soon or wrong or some other stupid excuse.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 1:59:22 PM CDT

    Do we get the hysterical women that ruin rescue?

    by hellking

    I loved that scene in Towering Inferno where a helicopter comes in to rescue people at top of the building when two ditszy women can't wait and run onto the helicopter pad before it lands causing it to crash. It's like watching an episode of Mad Men.

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  • The actors actor. Remember that cop show he was on about 36 year olds pretending to be teenagers? That Depp fellow couldn't even carry his jock strap in it. Richard FUCKING Greico, that's what I'm selling.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 2:18:30 PM CDT

    New trailer for Earthquake Man

    by mr.stiggs

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBSGjokUWmQ

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  • Oct 28, 2008 2:19:39 PM CDT

    If you're referring to me, I wasn't whining about 9/11

    by hereagain

    It's actually what happened to the project at the time. But, yeah, some folks will get the willies watching a very tall building burn, and possibly topple over. Can't say that makes them morons.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 2:21:52 PM CDT

    yes EWOKS!!

    by the milf lover

    Ewoks on fire running around randomly all over the place screaming like hell, and every few minutes, whatever scene it is, there's an Ewok on fire running in the background screaming that nobody acknoledges...

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  • Oct 28, 2008 2:27:23 PM CDT

    Bouncy X

    by dannyglovers_dickblood

    Stop being such a fucking prick. The guy was saying why the project got delayed originally. No one is whining about shit except you. So fuck off.


    Open wide and gargle my piss you dumb shit.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 2:27:56 PM CDT

    as for getting naked women in the script

    by the milf lover

    maybe part of the building could be a big fancy casino with a showgirls-type stripclub, where there's a big maffia meeting.
    Also, there should be a serial killer wandering, just to add to the mayhem, once in a while he hacks up some girl, and there's an undercover cop played by Lorenzo Lamas trying to catch him and ignoring everybody else that needs help from the fire.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 2:32:06 PM CDT

    Seems a little disrespectful.

    by phool2056

    I mean, the building thing a little bit, but more than that, could we maybe wait a year or two before we decied to declare someone the "new Paul Newman?" Maybe other people weren't hit as hard as I was when he died.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 2:38:15 PM CDT

    You know the old joke..

    by banditmania

    combine Towering Inferno with Earthquake and you get Shake and Bake.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 2:40:36 PM CDT

    DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD

    by stuntcock mike

    Spot-on with the topless hysterical ding-dongs. Oh, and Seagal needs to be the Architect.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 2:45:57 PM CDT

    Breast make every movie better

    by xiphos_2

    Throw in midgets like Danny said and I'm there, opening day. Tits+Midgets-CGI=100 million dollar opening weekend.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 2:53:10 PM CDT

    the milf lover

    by dannyglovers_dickblood

    Brilliant!! Its part casino/ party television studio. That is fucking awesome. Seagal as The Architect (the role originally written for Sean Connery in The Matrix). Hahaha.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 3:01:03 PM CDT

    JESUS DO I LOVE TITS!!

    by dannyglovers_dickblood

    Nice big naturals.....awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.....

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  • Oct 28, 2008 3:01:14 PM CDT

    This movie needs talking Chihuahuas.

    by derlanghaarige

  • Oct 28, 2008 3:08:52 PM CDT

    Connery would have stumbled over some of that crisp dialog.

    by stuntcock mike

    Seagal, on the other hand, would've nailed it shut.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 3:09:38 PM CDT

    talking chihuahuas????

    by the milf lover

    only if they're being burned alive in the chaos. And no CGI please, burn them with real fire!!!

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  • Oct 28, 2008 3:16:27 PM CDT

    Mark Whalberg should have a cameo...

    by dannyglovers_dickblood

    ...running down the staircase with that dick extension flapping!!

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  • Oct 28, 2008 3:25:00 PM CDT

    Daniel Craig as Steve McQueen!

    by nasty in the pasty

  • Oct 28, 2008 3:27:29 PM CDT

    the only movie I ever liked McQueen in....

    by dannyglovers_dickblood

    .....is Love With the Proper Stranger with that fine ass Natalie Wood. Anyone ever see this? Its fucking kick ass!!

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  • Oct 28, 2008 3:28:56 PM CDT

    You mean Natalie"gives me" Wood?

    by stuntcock mike

    **slobbering**

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  • Oct 28, 2008 3:29:52 PM CDT

    the only disaster movies that actually worked

    by magic01273

    were the ones made back during times of accelerated technological advancement. The original Towering Inferno was so good because it actually created a brand new kind of frightening scenario, played out during a time when man really was obsessed by its own ability to build bigger and more automated with no thought for the possible consequences. It was a brand new metaphor for our wreckless attitude at the time. The films became - and remained - cherished classics because of this, coupled with infinitly superior acting stars of the time.

    These days we are so desensitised to any kind of "threat". Today its difficult to know what gets the masses all worked up. Technology? not in this day and age..and Terminator has never qualified as a disaster movie really has it.
    Natural Disasters? They are in the news every day. Nothing new here unless you try to get BIGGER with them but then you just get The Day after Tomorrow (fun I guess but also preachy and implausable) Terrorist threats? again - always on TV - and its hard to pull off a terrorist movie that isn't all about the politics (Die Hard was the last to do this and be more about the "action" than the Terrorists motives)

    The sad fact is; these days, nothing much genuinely scares us. We have to supersize everything in our movies nowadays to generate even the slightest buzz. And then it becomes all about the spectacle than the situation.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 3:31:18 PM CDT

    P.S

    by magic01273

    I like boobs

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  • Oct 28, 2008 3:36:47 PM CDT

    Magic01273

    by dannyglovers_dickblood

    Hehehe....before you posted your BOOBS post I was just about to say-- so what you're really trying to say is you love TITS....and TITS running from a collapsing building, even better!!

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  • Oct 28, 2008 3:38:05 PM CDT

    Natalie Wood

    by dannyglovers_dickblood

    Fuck she is the hottest she has ever look in that McQueen movie. OUCH!!

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  • Oct 28, 2008 3:53:46 PM CDT

    Airport '77 is still my favorite disaster flick.

    by stuntcock mike

    "Art thieves hijack a 747, hit fog and crash into the ocean, trapping them and the passengers under 100 feet of water. "

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  • Oct 28, 2008 3:55:51 PM CDT

    DANNY: don't forget Spledor in the Ass...I mean Grass

    by stuntcock mike

    Either way...it's splendor. And ass.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 4:12:05 PM CDT

    Stuntcock Mike

    by dannyglovers_dickblood

    Thats an awesome premise. Never seen that one. I enjoyed Crocodile 2, where four bank robbers hijack a plane and crash it off the coast of Mexico where a GIANT FUCKING CROCODILE waits to pick them off one by one!!

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  • Oct 28, 2008 4:22:02 PM CDT

    Pihrana 6: Hijack the Concorde

    by stuntcock mike

    "A British Airways Concorde is taken out of mothballs for one final trip. It carries a list of dignitaries including President Chester Arbuckle(Christopher Walken). Things go astray when a container of rare air-breathing Pihrana smuggled on board by Flight Engineer Chip"pig-knuckle"McCain ruptures upon takeoff. They can only be saved by Raunch McToole(Daniel Day Lewis), an elephant tusk dealer from Greenland.".........FLESH EATERS AT MACH 2. THIS SUMMER.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 4:50:16 PM CDT

    Its my favorite Fred Astaire movie.

    by toowhippy

  • Oct 28, 2008 4:59:05 PM CDT

    THAT'S ARMAGEDDON!

    by thetagger

    (gets shot with arrow).

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  • Oct 28, 2008 5:27:26 PM CDT

    Mel Gibson is perfect for the McQueen part.

    by sid 8.0

    As far as the Newman part maybe Clooney.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 5:32:22 PM CDT

    you know what I always thought would be cool?

    by the amazing g

    a Poseidon Adventure flick where the women have to run around TOPLESS and in their underwear and shit because their clothes have been destroyed

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  • Oct 28, 2008 5:33:08 PM CDT

    or maybe

    by the amazing g

    a zombie movie where all the women's clothes have gotten ripped up because of the zombies

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  • Oct 28, 2008 5:43:23 PM CDT

    Will Mark Valley take the Robert Wagner role...

    by leafar the lost

    ...in Skyscraper? I would love to see him lit on fire and burnt to death on screen. I think that Hollywood is going to go through a disaster movie cycle. They are easy movies to make and market. You don't need to pay out big bucks for a big star to open the movie, since the movie itself is the star. I look forward to a remake of Airport 1975 too...

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  • Oct 28, 2008 6:44:29 PM CDT

    WILL THIS HAVE A BIG ALL-STAR CAST?!?!

    by bringingsexyback

    I love the original. You got your heroes in Newman and McQueen, and you got your sleazoids in Chamberlain whom you were waiting to see engulfed in flames. No way will this surpass the original (just like Poseidon Adventure) but if they can capture part of what made the original great - solid cast, great storylines all around, empathetic characters, and amp it up with some great effects - then this'll be something worth seeing.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 6:56:48 PM CDT

    This sounds just like...

    by genericgeek

    ...an episode of The Thunderbirds. You know, the puppet sci-fi show. There was an accident in the subterranean parking lot of the tallest building in the world (can't remember if it was a mile high or not, but it reached the clouds) and the International Rescue Team had to use their cool ships to save the survivors, who couldn't escape because the fire was climbing rapidly. To my 10 year old eyes, it was the coolest of the cool.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 8:42:21 PM CDT

    No one has mentioned the obvious:

    by eyeofpolyphemus

    Donald Trump needs to play the developer.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 9:37:06 PM CDT

    McQueen and Craig

    by dougmckenzie

    McQueen used to race motorcycles around dirt tracks without a helmet... Craig held up shooting of Casino Royale because he didn't know how to drive a stick shift (true story). Craig's a tough guy on screen but he's Nancy Reagan in person. Truth is the actor who probably lives his real life closest to McQueen is Jason Priestly, who was close to becoming an IndyCar driver.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 9:54:01 PM CDT

    GenericGeek...

    by bob cryptonight

    ...I was thinking the same thing! I remember the episode being about the Empire State Building having to be MOVED a few hundred feet for some weird reason, and construction crews had these tank-like vehicles lifting the building and attempting to carry the whole freakin' thing! When it all goes haywire, The Thunderbirds are called in to rescue everyone!! Wild stuff, man!!

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  • Oct 28, 2008 10:36:09 PM CDT

    Craig is no McQueen

    by xiphos_2

    He's a very good Bond but he's not even a pimple on Steve McQueen's scrote bag. McQueens generation was probably the last of real men in cinema. Today they are all prissy looking metrosexuals for the most part.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 11:12:21 PM CDT

    O.J. should get a cameo.

    by otm shank

    He and some of his buddies are in one of the hotel rooms with guns trying to get some "personal" items back from some other men who took them. Fire explodes through the room. Hilarity ensues.

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  • Oct 28, 2008 11:24:40 PM CDT

    BURT REYNOLDS!

    by sonnyfern

    Just throw him in there somewhere...

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  • Oct 29, 2008 12:11:32 AM CDT

    Irwin Allen is a fucking pimp!

    by dannyglovers_dickblood

    http://tinyurl.com/5lblq9

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  • Oct 29, 2008 12:51:23 AM CDT

    And most people don't realize that Irwin Allen...

    by hereagain

    ...had nothing to do with "Earthquake." I hardly think a promotional film is pimping - the studio sank a bundle in "Inferno," even with Warners kicking in. I suggest catching some of those old studio promos from the 30s/40s/50s on TCM - they always have, and always will be, part of a film's marketing campaign.

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  • Oct 29, 2008 12:05:08 PM CDT

    Love the Steve McQueen apologists

    by jackrabbitslim

    First off - there are plenty of stunt folks out there who will tell you he did NOT do all his stunts - saw an interview with the head stunt guy for Great Escape who was pretty much pissed off that people think he did. Doubtlessly a bold guy - but then again you must think then that Steve-O and Johnny Knoxville are "real men" too. *sneering* Second off - McQueen had a monumental ego. Its well-documented he did not take a role in Butch Cassidy because he didn't want second billing . He turned down Apocalypse because he didnt like the idea of doing four months in the Philipines. And he turned down French Connection cuz he wanted to fuck Ali McGraw in the (comparatively) shitty "The Getaway". He also refused to take part in 'Bridge Too Far', thinking he should get billing over Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Gene Hackman, Laurence Olivier etc all of whom agreed to equal alphabetical billing (If thats not the mark of supreme conceit I have no idea what is) As for the "icon" bit - what a bunch of nostalgic crap. He was a decent actor at best - solid - no Brando/DeNiro/hell even Newman.

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  • Oct 29, 2008 12:22:13 PM CDT

    McQueen Ego

    by samson_k

    He also demanded a taller horse while appearing in Magnificent Seven so he could be taller that Yul Brynner and he counted his lines against Newmans lines in The Towering Inferno and demanded some written in so he could have more.

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  • Needs one more thing. . .What's that on the middle floor - an illegal zoo full of bears and tigers????

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  • Oct 29, 2008 12:26:36 PM CDT

    My biggest problem with diisaster movies

    by samson_k

    Is the fact that as the rip-offs continue they get less and less inspired with their disasters. Ending up with 'Irwin Allen's Heavy downpour' or The Swarm

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  • Oct 29, 2008 1:41:22 PM CDT

    Jon Hamm should be cast in the Shazam movie...

    by leafar the lost

    ...as Captain Marvel! He would be prefect. He would not be prefect as Superman. I could give a monkey crap about this Skyscraper movie, by the way. Lets change the subject...

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  • Oct 29, 2008 2:08:33 PM CDT

    TOO SOON!

    by ricarleite

    I mean... Towers! Colapsing!

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  • Oct 29, 2008 7:49:41 PM CDT

    One thing I'll agree with...

    by royston lodge

    It would be fun to see movies that up the ante when playing "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" by throwing in as many well-known actors as possible. Maybe they can convince Doris Day to come out of retirement?

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  • Oct 29, 2008 7:50:55 PM CDT

    Jon Hamm's too melancholy for Shazam.

    by royston lodge

    Superman's character has way more pathos to it than Captain Marvel's, which is why Jon Hamm is a better choice for Superman than for Captain Marvel.

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  • Oct 29, 2008 8:50:09 PM CDT

    Joe Petroni's Towering Inferno

    by banditmania

    I'll drive this bitch off the runway.

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  • Oct 30, 2008 1:04:29 AM CDT

    Jon Hamm needs to be cast as SOMETHING

    by prossor

    he's playing some scientist in the day the earth stood still remake. what the SHIT!?

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