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Jack Black To Play Fox’s GULLIVER!!
I am – Hercules!!
Jack Black will play the title role in Fox’s new version of “Gulliver’s Travels,” based on Jonathan Swift’s 1726 tale of a fellow who finds in distant lands people of improbable size.
Rob Letterman (“Shark Tale”) directs from a screenplay by Nicholas Stoller (“Fun With Dick And Jane,” “Yes Man”) and Joe Stillman ("Beavis & Butt-head," "King of the Hill," “Shrek,” "Shrek II"). Shooting starts in March.
Swift's tale has been adapted a zillion other times. Georges Méliès, of "A Trip To The Moon" fame, shot a silent version in 1902. Dave Fleisher, the director behind the theatrical "Superman" and "Popeye" shorts, brought an animated version of the tale to cinemas in 1939. The Japanese came up with 1965's "Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon." Ricahrd Harris played Gulliver in a 1977 live-action/animation hybrid. Ted Danson headlined a 1996 miniseries.
Find all of Variety’s story on the matter here.
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WOW! ME really....not a JB fan all that much.
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I'm not looking forward to anymore Jack Black all acting kooky and doing a little pee-dance around the little people shtick.
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I guess no one was clamouring for Nacho 2?
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of mediocrity.
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Ive Seen This Movie In My Head Already
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Jack Black is a stapler!
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It'll die.
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There can be only one. Gulliver, that is. And that is Sam Malone. You know it to be true.
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1. Jack Black plays Gulliver as a lovable, slightly slovenly goof ball, who's a BIT of a screw-up, but has a heart of gold.
2. Gulliver says, "rip-a-tip-a-too-too" at least once. It may even be his catch phrase.
3. Kyle Gass cameos as a lilliputian.
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He's the new Anthony Hopkins
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the 1960. three worlds of guliver with Kerwin Mathews, efx by Harryhausen
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Very exciting indeed.
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Crap, I remember watching that when it first aired. I feel old.
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Funny how we complain more about 80s pop culture getting the crappy remakes than we do about actual classic literature getting the hollywoodized poop fest...
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How stupid.
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Why not make Gullivera? The female version. Based on the erotic comic. Maybe less raunchy. You might get an interesting movie, plus booty value.
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Not really, but if I was the director. I'd change it to the female version of Gulliver and cast her. Just to work with her. Because I'm a horny muthafucka.
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...I remember it being alright, actually. Oh, and Dum Guy, if having seen something in 1996 makes you feel old, you mustn't be much more than a kid.
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Jack Black appears in the title role of the 1824 literary adaptation, "Pickings: The Further Adventures of Mr. Finger in My Arsehole."
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When they asked Seth Rogen recently about himself appearing in the long-delayed "Ghostbusters 3", he said something surprisingly honest (I'm paraphrasing):
"Wow, that sounds like a terrible idea, doesn't it?"
Seth has realized, early in his career, that is comic counterparts have ruined themselves by overexposure and "comedy remakes". This is a realization that Jack Black should have come to right after "School of Rock" came out. Since then, it's all been downhill except for "Tropic Thunder" and that didn't make any money (it also provided a sad glimpse into Black's future, but that's for another day). -
It had Harryhausen stop motion effects in it. It also starred the dude that played Sinbad back in the '60's.
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re-done as comedy? Yes, Swift's work was satire, but it was not comedy. I like Jack Black a lot in many films, especially the one where he wasn't trying so hard (y'know, with Kate Winslet; Cameron Diaz was her usual awful). And in his over-the-top shtick too at times. But Gulliver? Ugh.
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NOW. It's great. And does have some comic relief, but...is not a comedy.
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Pick a version. It bores the shit out of me.
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Me too. And it sucked. Worse still, I turned it into a trilogy. Gulliver: Reloaded and Gulliver: Downsized. I wish I could take out my brain. I have no desire to see Jack Black playing Jack Black anymore.
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Your'e right, I'm 12. I just learned to jerk-off last week, and got to see Cool World for the 1st(s) time(s).
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...And swallow the gravy. All in a day's work for Gulliver.
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Christ what an awful pile of crapola THAT was.
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I'm speaking to the talkbacker's who's only comments seems to be:
That's dumb,
That stories stupid.
Boring.
Every good source material has potential for a great adaption.
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funny...must have missed those posts you were talking about. most tb's seem to be not happy with the casting of jack black, not the story.
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...some film-maker, Gilliam perhaps, would read Johnathan Swift's work, realise it was a socio-political satire (rather than just a 'big guy in the land of small guys' story) and make the film properlyMuch as I love Jack Black, I don't see this version breaking the mould. The least they could do is include Brobdingnag as well as Lilliput, though. Gulliver's juxtaposition is what makes the tale work. Not having him be the small guy is like reading 'A Clockwork Orange' and skipping the last chapter (like Kubrick did for his movie) - it takes away the whole point of the story.
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if you refuse to work in better movies, at least work in you own sandbox. "Tenacious D and the pyramids of mars" or something.
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Nov 06, 2008 4:32:35 AM CST
GET THAT CORN COB OUTTA MY FACE!!!!
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Jack Black is much better suited to supporting roles, like High Fidelity. And if he's going to star, avoid "From the director of Shark Tale" like the plague. Re-team with Linklater. That worked.
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Record an album with DIO.
Man big fan. Yet your movies are starting to flop a bit too often.
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on so many levels. But I don't care. Gulliver was done right in the Ted Danson mini, and so they can't really ruin it now.
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Will they have Yahoos in the movie plot? Hope Yahoo doesn't demand any rights for the use of the word (it would be just a stupid demand)
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Gulliver. This has a lot of potential.
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Nov 06, 2008 7:30:53 AM CST
How About an Absurd Adaption of "A Modest Proposal"
by shut the fuck up donny
Jack Black running around eating Irish babies!
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....and the last thing I want to see is a 'comedy' version. Especially with Jack Black. He does dick and fart jokes - I don't see him in a satire that questions society and it's pecularities (war, money, the rich etc). He was the least funny aspect of Tropic Thunder where Tom Cruise ironcically stole the show.
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This will suck. The Ted Danson miniseries was great, and I'm not a huge Danson fan.
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Seriously. It gets right to the hits-you-like-a-ton-of-bricks end of the original story, and it figures out an ingenious, parallelized way to avoid the episodic-ness of the original. Danson, Steenburgen, Henson prods. impress.
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So not giving a damn. Black has a kid now and both of their fat asses have to eat, but he only has one flavor and it's like wasabi: a little is too much. Watching him carry a movie just gets to be too much,
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he'll be good in it...he knows how to act goofy and young children like that
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I thought he did a great job with that show. I enjoyed it entirely, and admit that I was surprised to find myself doing so.
Jack Black is becoming a parody of himself. -
Now we'll see who actually read the book...
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In other words shitty!
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...he was all about fart and piss and shit jokes, the book is full of them.
Swift had a strange relationship with human body functions.
Like when Gulliver pisses on the church to put out the fire (church or royal palace, it's been ten years since last i read it. -
Nov 06, 2008 7:14:56 PM CST
he was all about fart and piss and shit jokes, the book is full
by mossad77
Uh.......I think you'll find that the scene you mention is the ONLY one in the book.
Also ; satire or not, Gulliver isn't a loud grinning, gurning jackass. 'Taking it too seriously'? It's not a COMEDY. -
...Gulliver is very preoccupied with where he will go number 2 while he's with the Lilliput folk, and when he's with the Brobdingnag, when he's small, he's forced to walk around on the handmaidens nipples.
And there's more...
Gulliver is very funny, and does often boarder on slapstick. -
Yes, Gullivera!! An erotic version by the master, Milo Manara. Why not?
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The pitch makes it sound like it's just going to be the Lilliput section.
I get fed up of adaptations which only concentrate on the Lilliput and not Brobdingag, Laputa etc. -
... the Eddie Murphy of the 21st Century!
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the flying city that takes him in that have their share of 'scat' humour too. One of the scientists is trying to solve the world hunger problem by extracting the nutritive content of shit (he's descibed as having REALLY bad teeth and breath)Later in the book he encounters the world of the Yahoos,who if I rember correctly choose their leaders based on the amount of feces they smear all over themselves. One section I always wanted to see played closer to the text was when he visited the land where no one dies, but continue to age.(and they don't age gracefully either)The Ted Danson version was a nice "family friendly version" of Swift's novel,and it derserves some credit for going beyond Liliput, where most versions stop. But Danson seemed to "clean cut" for a character like Gulliver, I always envisioned someone like Leeam Neesan(sp?)somebody with ordinary looks to play that part.
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I meant to write "Liam Neeson" for Gulliver.
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do that version instead!
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