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Orci / Kurtzman + Wiseman =
Merrick here...
As previously reported (HERE), Kurtzman and Orci are looking to adapt Scott Mitchell Rosenberg's ATLANTIS RISING comics over at DreamWorks.
And, as you can probably conjecture from the headline, the project now looks to be one step closer to reality with the addition of Len Wiseman as director.
[INSERT OBLIGATORY WISEMAN BASHING HERE]
Wiseman's name has recently been attached to at least 9,372,441,864,031 projects. Among them: the struggling & wholly unnecessary ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK remake (for which Ratner was later indicated, if you can imagine such a thing) & the GEARS OF WAR movie, which fell off the radar and hasn't been heard from for a while (unless I missed something, which I may have).
It's too early in the morning to start drinking here. Although, it's already later in the day somewhere on Earth...
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wOO!
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The tepid bastard who made Underworld 1 & 2, and Die Hard 4.
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I just can remember Triple X 3 with John McClane.
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No hate here for Wiseman. the guy makes glossy "B" movies and he has a hot wife. An original movie about Atlantis? Knock yourself out dude. Where geeks get mad is when these guys get handed established properties that nobody wants to see change(X3, Die Hard, and Red Dragon). The Rat or Wiseman's Escape From New York would have worked for me. It was a "B" movie to begin with anyway, who was going to direct it anyway Spielberg Cameron? Yeah right. If Burton really wanted to escape the rut he's been in he would take a stab at New York. Leave the cutesy goth stuff behind you and try some R rated action.
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Seriously, they deserve it much more for their crimes against Transformers.
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Dec 05, 2008 9:37:28 AM CST
9 trillion projects? Thats 2 trillion less than Fincher
by jackrabbitslim
Though 1 trillion more than Scorsese. And, Mr Tarantino, whatever happened to 40 Lashes minus 1? Or Modesty Blaise? or the Vega Brothers? Fucking development hell...
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Let's face it, Die Hard 4 would have probably been shit anyway no matter what. We should be focusing our hate on the more dangerous hacks out there. Like Mark Steven Johnson.
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I'm guessing the "expose on chefs in New York" turned into the excretory "No Reservations" (Mr Eckhart - your Thank You For Smoking cred will only last so long) but what happened to Rendezvous with Rama? White Jazz, the James Ellroy pic? Passengers? Damn these teasing directors - damn them to hell.
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Dec 05, 2008 9:54:44 AM CST
What just happened to that Season of the Witch article?
by seppukudkurosawa
Noth-... nothing bad's happened to Nic Cage in the last five minutes, has it?!
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Dec 05, 2008 10:06:59 AM CST
SEASON THE WITCH IS GONE!! Nic's hair is too bad!
by dannyglovers_dickblood
That is not the hair styling of the Crusade era.
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...hit counts. The multi-post spam is inevitable.
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a month ago one of the creators was being interviewed and was asked about it and he said that Len Wiseman and them were still in the early stages but it sounded like it definitely was happening.
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You heard me.
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is a pretty cool guy, and is very committed to making good movies. While I may have wanted more (and less) from Die Hard 4 than I got, Die Hard isn't a franchise that's maintained an ironclad brand of quality storytelling in my eyes, and the standard that LFODH had to live up to wasn't sacrosanct.
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Fact
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You read my mind. I was going to post those very words.
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- what's with all the hate? Here's a guy growing as a filmmaker, and making successful movies in the meantime. Personally, they may not be what I'm looking for, but the guy is developing new content, built a franchise that a lot of people love which WASN'T a comic first, and is always looking to up his game. I'll say it - I like Len Wiseman!
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Congratulations on your next project!
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Roberto lives a charmed life.
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And what, may I ask, is an 'ATLANTIS RISING?' I'm guessing an excuse to break out the sets and costumes from LOGANS RUN, set it on an island and create a long lost race who are wise beyond our imaginings and have flying chariots and such. Since you wont tell me what its about, I'm gonna guess this is it, so I'll go out on a limb as state for the record that it sucks.
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Well the Orci/Kurtzman part of the equation means a sure to miss. Those two infected hemroids are hacks of the highest order. I could care less about Wiseman he doesn't matter because he's bland.
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Dec 05, 2008 1:16:31 PM CST
Len Wiseman - Decent Production Schedule = Surprisingly Good Die
by vote fa stokes brutha
Live Free or Die Hard was refreshingly good compared to what I was expecting. Yes, Wiseman's coverage was spotty and lent for some really obvious editing faux pas, but overall you can tell from the featurettes that the whole schedule was just ruining him. I've seen about 10 minutes of an Underworld movie and it looked bad. I'm willing to give him a chance and this particular project seems interesting. Orci and Kurtzman seem okay (M:I 3 was, again, refreshingly good), but Transformers was awful.
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Ahhhh what happened to the good old days when names like Fincher and Spielberg where attached to every movie. Ohhhh Hollywood what have you become.
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But still I don't see Wiseman doing anything good ever again.
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Surprisingly Good Die Hard, that should have read.
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"I did like Die Hard 4.0: Live Free or Die Hard"
Now I know there is no hope for mankind unless we dispose of such idiocy.
Wow, since Transformers had such good writing. LOL, These guyus are the used douchebag writers of Hollywood next to the Rat and Bay.
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Conclusive proof you don't need talent to make it in Hollywood.
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Dec 05, 2008 3:05:05 PM CST
Just IMDB'd Die Hard 4.. Wisemen didn't write that shite.
by damien chowder
I'm willing to give him a chance.
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so it didnt have all the Fucks that the previous films had, big deal... it worked....killer casting, Kevin Smith was pefect
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No but he did direct Underworld, Underworld: Evolution and Live Free or Die Hard. Which were all shit.
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Damn You Michael Bay
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We only flame these fuckers because they REALLY FUCKING DESERVE IT. Can you name a single movie Wiseman or Ratner has made that ISN'T a half-assed attempt to squeeze out just enough shit to satisfy the studio suit fucker that greenlit their piece of shit, bankrolled their fattyboombatty paycheque, and keep them in hookers and blow?
These two masters of bland are the enemies of everything that passionate and cine-literate film-lovers stand for. FUCK THEM AND ALL WHO APOLOGISE FOR THEM!!! -
They WISH they were as talented as Rossio and the other guy who wrote PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN. Though they aspire to be worthy of even licking the dogshit from the fine-ass shoes of Jane Espenson, while they suckle at the teat of bland mainstream Hollywood shite, they will forever know the agony of NEVER WRITING A DECENT FUCKING SCRIPT WORTH READING! If it weren't for Megan Fox and ILM, what the fuck was worth watching in TRANSFORMERS anyway?
Talentless punk hack motherfuckers. To hell with these useless quim-bothering twatbags. I couldn't give a cow's bastard if we never heard from them again. -
He makes shitty movies, but his wife is SMOKIN'
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She has to if she's gonna take his filthy cock in her mouth. (ouch, even I thought that was uncalled for)
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although DH4 was OK!
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pest, cholera and aids united for the next blue-filtered slo-mo shitfest stolen from whole movie history and researched at wikipedia
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I can't say I'm a fan, but he doesn't inspire rage in me
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He's only made 3 movies so far. The Underworld movies are good horror/action entertainment, nothing more or less. Live Free or Die Hard is a fun, stupid action sequel to what is a fun, stupid action franchise. If you dont like his movies, fine, but Wiseman hardly had the kind of Bay/Ratner/Boll resume that can justify bashing.
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Wait, if you've seen Die Hard 4, Underworld or Underworld 2 that really isn't necessary.
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I looked this up on a web site:
For thousands of years, the legendary continent of Atlantis has thrived unencumbered by those who live on Earth's surface. Now after decades of surface pollution, from oil spills to off-shore dumping, the Atlantean way of life has been threatened, bringing the two civilizations to the brink of all-out war.
"With the ongoing debate regarding global climate change, Atlantis Rising offers a mix of real-world issues, combined with suspense and action on an epic scale," says Platinum Studios Comics Publisher, Sean O'Reilly.
They offered the first issue of Atlantis for a quarter, but sadly I don't know anybody who bought it. To be fair, though, it got pretty good reviews. (Well, okay, I don't know that "Much of the story reads like an ... underdeveloped screenplay" is that positive.) In any case, it turns out the Atlanteans are actually aliens who crashed here thousands of years ago, and now they're pissed. And there's a reporter, Angelica Danielson, who's on the trail of a missing industrialist who may be tied into the reasons for the Atlanteans' annoyance. It's not much of a spoiler to say that the confrontation between the humans and aliens heats up in future issues of the miniseries.
This is the latest in a recent line of comics that got movie deals either before they published their first issue, or soon afterwards. Readers complain about comics that read like movie pitches, but the result seems to work for Hollywood.
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...from that talentless hack Len Wiseman.DAMN YOU, Tom Rothman! Damn you to hell!!!
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Orci and Kurtzman, why are they hired at all? They blow. Wiseman? His greatest feat is getting Kate Beckinsale to marry him. Let's see, O+K did Transformers, Fringe, The Island, Eagle Eye and M:I 3, Wiseman did Underworlds, and Die Hard 4, if you can name one good film or show on that list, you don't know shit.
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I actually went to see ESCAPE FROM L.A., and I thought it was an average movie, not as good or fun as ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK. I liked the ending, when Snake typed in the World Code and wiped out all electronic devices. I don't give a fuck about an Atlantis Rising movie...
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Now THAT would be interesting.
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