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AICN Debuts The Official One-Sheet For Alex Proyas's KNOWING!
Beaks here...
I read KNOWING several years ago when Richard Kelly was attached to direct, and thought it had the potential to be a deeply unnerving thriller. In short, it's about the unearthing of a public school time capsule that contains a cryptic series of numbers which predict some not very good things. The trailer is available here. And now, your first look at the official poster...
Very nice. Even better when it's unreasonably huge.
Though I'm sure Kelly would've done right by the material, I'm just as confident that a talented fella like Alex Proyas pull it all together. KNOWING is due out on March 20th, 2009.
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and made a film together.
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cool... I think I can see my house there
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countdown begins!
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where cage can get a semi-decent hairpiece.
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i'm totally *that* guy...
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HOW'DITGIBURNED? HOW'DITGIBURNED? HOW'DITGIBURNED?
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Looking better than Dark City, already.....
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is a master film maker and I for one can't wait to see him make a return to form.
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Clouds will disappear from the atmosphere.
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Testify!
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if it didnt have Cage's name in big white font at the top.
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Dark City was fucking awesome. SLEEP!
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I'm so punny.(slits wrists)
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no dude it went like this, it's as if the number 23 got together with the day after tomorrow and had a baby and then the happening and the day the earth stood still got together and THEY had a baby and then by some miracle those two babies FUCKED, there you have it...so this poster is the product of baby fucking...awesome
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is the best comedic actor of ALL time, bar NONE, wait all of his movies are supposed to be comedies right? Can he just fucking go bald already and look even creepier then he already does???
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I can't blame you! I admire cage as an actor but his hair is just becoming distracting!
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Has this guy's last few movies even made a dollar over what they cost to make? I'm pretty certain they lost money, right? How is Cage even still making movies for the big screen? Shouldn't he have his own HBO show or even a Fox reality show? Is he doing adverts yet?<p>Goodbye "Knowing". Whether you were a good movie or not, you are destined to die a slow painful death in cenemas thanks to the curse of Nick Cage.
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the war of the worlds poster. you know, the bowling ball one? except instead of an alien had there's a bunch of number at the bottom. either way i think this could be interesting. I just want Alex to make the TRIPODS damnit!
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the plot of this sounds interesting enough, but it could go bad just as easily as it could go good. <p>if we get "Snake Eyes" Cage, we're fucked. "Adaptation" Cage or "Raising Arizona" Cage is too much to hope for...maybe "Matchstick Men" Cage?
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re: Nic's last movies, not sure the total, but I know Ghost Rider made a buttload of money in theatres on DVD, Nic's still riding on that wave of Hollywood goodwill, when it starts to peter out, either KICKASS will be out, or ghostrider 2 or something<P>Nic Cage can ride the Hollywood wave like few others
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I was just saying yesterday to my wife (as I was making my case for the Dark City Director's Cut BluRay for Christmas) that I really loved The Crow and Dark City. I refuse to See I, Robot, and I was hoping he'd make a good movie again soon. Yet for some reason, I'm not expecting much here.
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In fact, Proyas has been secretly filming the "Death of Superman" story with Cage finally donning the tights he has always wanted to, taking over from where Tim Burton's planned version left off in the late 1990s. You *will* believe a Super-man can...lose hair! Well, ok, that's not true, but what is true is that Proyas *was* offered Superman some years back... Seriously, folks, looking forward to this, as I do any Proyas flick (yes, even I, Robot and Garage Days). I guess you can tell from my screenname that my love for Mr. Proyas extends beyond your bowels. All your Robots belong to I. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It's not the bad. It gets better with repeated viewings, oddly enough. It has many fine moments.
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Just asking.
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But I have little faith left in Nic. I thought the Nat'l Treasure movies were fun but almost everything else he has done in the past ten years has sucked. And hopefully Proyas returns to form - The Crow was the shit and Dark City blew my mind.
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Tripods. WOW. I haven't thought about those books in some time. Exactly long enough for Disney to capitalize on the fondness for my youth........http://tinyurl.com/6p76bw
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. . . til I saw the trailer. I was expecting actual lil' kiddie crayon drawings of 911-type disasters going down. Then I saw one picture of numbers. Meh . . .
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I don't know who that is, but that's a pretty awesome name...in a really lame way.
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I want Dark City 2 - Darker City
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i can say i actually pissed ALEX PROYAS off - it's true, i swear! didn't mean to, just kinda happened. how sad is my life...
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South America FTW!
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If it had anything going for it, they'd push it back to spring.
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...in this movie means that it will fail. I will return after I watch this trailer to either gloat or eat my words. Be right back...
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...better than I expected. I take back what I said before. This might be Cage's smartest career move yet!
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I don't think I've seen a Science Fiction movie blend noir better than Dark City. It remains in my top 10.
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I mean honestly. What the hell?
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"We bring in the world's best public school math teacher."
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Dec. 3, 2008, 8:57 p.m. CST
Did they just take out the alien hand from the War of the Worlds
by Johnny Smith
I mean, really.
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Damn webbernets fucking up my subject heading.
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Nic Cage will be completely bald
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BOX OFFICE WILL DOUBLE IF ONE-SHEET IS A PICTURE OF ROSE BYRNE. WHAT IS THIS NUMBER-POOPING EARTH GARBAGE!?!?!?!
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After Bangkok Dangerous and whatever else he's done lately, I am surprised its not DTV>
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Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude
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It's pure garbage from beginning to end. Next to Wild Wild West its the apex of Will SMiths non-acting, self masturbatory style of film making. It takes any themes the book may have had and completely eschews them in favor of exactly the kind of bland homogenized action crap that SMith seems to demand making. Moreover not a shred of Proyas' visual style or slow burn storytelling is evident. If his name wasnt on the poster I would think it was directed by Simon West or Len Wiseman. Its also a fucking two hour commercial for Converse. no joke the fact that Smith wears "vintage" converses is practically a sub plot. Shameless.
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This sounds like it will be the shittiest thing in the world. Nicolas Cage ruins everything he touches, and usually what he touches wasn't really that awesome to begin with. But aside from the numbers thing, the premise of finding some time capsule that predicts doom for the world... that is pretty hard to resist.
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I feel nothing when I read this and watch the trailer. No emotional response whatsoever... I need to see a better trailer to make me think its not going to be like "The Happening" without the wind confused faces...
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looks totally uninteresting and boaring.. like Cage!
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I thought it was National Treasure 3 and zoned out.
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but that quick shot in the trailer of the volcano erupting is from dantes peak
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Bear Bear City
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The one sheet makes this film look like its a sequel to the Scorcher series. Scorcher 13: When the Numbers Run Out
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it starts looking very typical which surprised me "knowing" who the director is...Heres hoping that Alex Proyas hasnt lost his touch, I wish Richard Kelly would've done this he would've actually had a movie released in more then 5 theaters.
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Better than Nicolas Cage's head I suppose though.
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And that is the kind of pretentious, "I'm a follower of the trendy crap that passes for quality cinema", idiotic, unintelligent crap that passes for film criticism and comment these days.<P> You're better than that, Beaks, and you need to start living up to your potential. Young, delusional, and still believing in the absolute charlatan that is Richard Kelly is no way to go through life, son. <P> It's important to remember that, as much as Richard Kelly would have appeared to the common twit as something of a - actually, I can't bring myself to use the word beginning with G in this context - rhymes with Peenyous - he was a guy who was temporarily saved by producers who cut down Donnie Darko into something almost watchable. <P> Almost. Watchable. <P> But then, we see the "Director's Cut" and find that Kelly is just another talentless hack - one step above (say) Troy Duffy, but a few steps below (say)... anyone who's ever made more than one good film. And Donnie Darko is a very borderline and arguable case on the "good film" front.<P> Actually, I would love to see a Troy Duffy/Richard Kelly team-up where they do The Emperor’s New Clothes<P>. Produced by Tony Scott, with extra pretension and delusions of grandeur from QT... and a special sequence from everyone's favorite adulterous alcoholic, Robert Rodriguez. <P> Funded by the Weinstein "Kray Twins" Brothers, it could be a real winner for the "I still believe Spike Jonez is the best director ever, even though he's a retard" set.
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God, yeah, The Director's cut of Donnie Darko is terrible. I knew sommin' was up when he replaced 'The Killing Moon' with INXS.
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So let me get this straight - he agrees to make a film with Will Smith ... and expects it not to blow the high hard one?. It pains me to say this but ... Will Smith is the biggest movie star in the world. That's Newtoninan Fact. Proyas, on the other hand, is a respected but no non-fanboy will argue him even in top 10 best directors - exactly what did he expect to create other than an inflated bank acc ... errr ... a piece of shit film? Folks - Proyas took the money. He cashed the check. He SOLD OUT. Stop making excuses.
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Dec. 4, 2008, 4:59 a.m. CST
IndustryKiller is spot fucking on about I "Nice Shoes" Robot
by Lost Jarv
Shameless doesn't even cover it
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Seems to be that he did so in service of nothing. It didnt seem to buy him the capital to make some huge budget dream project like when Cuaron got to make the masterpiece Children of Men after Harry Potter 3. Now he's directing Nicholas Cage films, it's amazing now that back in the day that carried a good connotation.
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He will either reclaim his former talent (the guy used to be great)or he will become Gary Busey.
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how'd they get burned? How'd they get burned?! HOWDTHEYGETBURNNNNNEDHOWDTHEYGETBURRRRRNED
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Bruce Willis and Sean Connery took off their hairpiece in real life so it was never a distraction when they wore one in a movie. Nic Cage is like Burt Reynolds 20 years ago. You can't help but stare at his toupe and think "WHO IS HE KIDDING".
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This would be cool if it didn't have fucking Nicholas Cage. and the poster is very War of the Worlds.
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War of teh worlds without the hand. now all we need is some nerd to do a photoshop gif of it phasing between them both....
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Duh Duh-what? No Ghost Rider 2? -MLB
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but it is IRINO.
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not quite by-the-numbers enough to completely give up hope, but also generic enough that it bodes ill for this production. Nic Cage has just been such shit recently, but maybe if this thing is a little more complex and interesting than the trailer makes it seem, he'll finally have some material to get into. Really tough to tell at this point; my hope is that they're holding a lot back right now(you know, one of those trailers which shows you only the first third of the film). Do kind of like the scene with the plane going down. Hope?
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Yer Slipping Proyas.
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This is like Armageddon and Deep Impact all over again. Will this and '2012' suck like both of those did?
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There'll be no Knowing here...
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seriously - everytime i see him in a movie (trailers anyway) i think "heh, nicholas cage again" - fix the fucking weird hair already - no one in real life has hair like that - except assholes that cant decide how to fix the fact that theyre balding - "lets see, should i go bald and rely on my acting talent or get halloween witch hair and hope nobody notices" - i miss the "leaving las vegas"-cage - the last great movie he made was "adaptation" - fantastic movie, and he was amazing in it
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great actor though
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oh man Tony and Ridley are gonna be pissed!
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