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Is Joel Silver / J. Michael Straczynski's FORBIDDEN PLANET Close To Finding A Director??
Merrick here...
Frank Miller has established a base on Altair IV.
Just kidding (shudder).
James Cameron looks to be orbiting FORBIDDEN PLANET.
IESB has gotten exclusive information from a source inside the Forbidden Planet camp that director James "King of the World" Cameron is eyeing the project and is very interested in helming.
...says THIS EXCLUSIVE over at IESB. Hopefully, Harry (or someone else here at AICN) will have a confirm or refute on this in the not-too-distant future.
If true, this means FORBIDDEN PLANET will now take ten to twelve years to make, be incomprehensibly expensive, and incite boundless upheaval for a whole new generation of Talkbackers.
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...after the fucking they will receive from Avatar.
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How sad.
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Idiots.
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is a first class dickbag, but he does put together some tasty films.
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i was hoping he wanted to direct that
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Is that all there is to expect??? When I go to see a film, maybe I should skip the trailer from now on because I know they are going to be filled with REMAKES. I have actually have been going less and less to the theater. 50% Economic 50% Schlock crap that has been remakes a,d 25% of the schlock has been, guess what? REMAKES. STOP.
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as the planet.
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Seriously.
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Actually, didn't JMS say that his script was more of a continuation/sequel than a remake? I thought I read somewhere that he was picking up from the end of the original.
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At least as far as we know.
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It was reported many years ago that JC was interested in this. I hope this is new interest but i doubt it.
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... Cameron would do this with a script by JMS. James Cameron would direct from his own screenplay, I'm betting.
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Hes already up to his elbows in AVATAR, a sci fi flick. I cant imagine him going right back into another sci fi flick after that. That being said, he would be perfect for it though.
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of waiting for projects forever. Why does it take 10 years to make a movie? This has been on the radar forever.
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It isn't that effects, and cinematic technology, or even a directors ability to tell a story due to the shackles of morality being loosen has not progressed...it HAS! But do these classic period pieces REALLY need the 21st Century treatment? Do we really need to see blood, sex, and CGI spaceships to tell a tale any better than it already has been told? What can Cameron, or any director bring to these wonderful old sci-fi classics that won't smack of retread, reboot, or retard?
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Dec 19, 2008 2:30:26 PM CST
Coming soon: Forbidden Planet 2: A Planet Harder
by thehumanbeingandfish
Fucking our eyeballs in 2019! Starring Michael Biehn as the monster from the subconscious.
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Dec 19, 2008 2:31:34 PM CST
While any new Cameron is good news...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I'd much rather he do Battle Angel after Avatar.
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I saw this as a kid at the theatre and it scared the piss out of me. The scene where they walk out on the gangplank and you see the generators running up and down the shaft! Very effective stuff.
I don't think even Cameron would be able to do these scenes justice. Certainly he couldn't improve on them. Even with fancy-shmancy 3D.
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what a fucking awesome movie
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...if only there was some kind of medium where we could watch movies older than ten years ago but apparently there isn't. The fact is that kids don't want to watch old movies. They don't want to watch Leslie Nielson shoot a rotoscoped ray gun. So what is the alternative? They remake the movie and at least the story gets out there. "I just want to say good luck. We're all counting on you."
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Does anyone really think this is going to happen?
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I'd much rather he got started on Battle Angel Alitia or another Alien movie, with Ridley,
did't he say hed do another to save us from the AvP's? -
Damn, I love that movie. At once of its time and astonishingly ahead of its time. There's a lot of proto-Trek in it as well. The musical was good too. I've got no particular objection to a remake, but its hard to top the original... maybe they should make the Monsters from the Id really fucking terrifying. That might work.
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I just found this quote by Terry Gilliam on "Forbidden Planet" which you will probably disagree with but it interesting nonetheless: "I didn’t have a great memory of Forbidden Planet. When I saw it again - because somebody's trying to remake it - I realized why. It's not a good movie. Robbie the Robot's all right; I liked the beginning - and then they just got very static. I thought it was so fucking stupid. What it does is, maybe, tell us what times were like in the Fifties, how naive people were about psychiatry - the Monster from the Id! I just started giggling at that point. It would have been more interesting to have the Monster from the Libido - the X-rated version of Forbidden Planet! "What's he knocking that door down with?" That was the nice thing about Alien - that wonderful mixture of writhing sexual imagery and totally violent, awful stuff. That works because it's not spelled out. It's working subconsciously." http://www.smart.co.uk/dreams/tgclip.htm
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I think the sequel rumor started here. JMS confirmed it was NOT true.
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...AFTER Altair 4's been blown the fuck up?
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Dec 19, 2008 5:03:35 PM CST
How about Chris Nolan, because that asshole isn't going...
by leafar the lost
...to direct the next Batman movie! Fuck Nolan for not committing to this, when he knows all of the geeks in the world are begging him to do it! Fuck him! There are better directors out in the world than you, Nolan! Fuck you again!
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Funny, funny guy. I don't agree with his assessment, and in fact I was a bit offended when he called FP "so fucking stupid," (shuddup, Terry!) but his version of Forbidden Planet would be interesting. A Monster from the Libido... indeed...
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Yes, Mr. Cameron and whoever else commented here, you should indeed be completing your adaptation of "Battle Angel Alita", please, pretty pretty please?? You've been talking about it for YEARS, just like AVATAR -- I'm much, much rather you take this on NEXT rather than Forbidden Planet...that can wait!
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aw, crap, someone beat me to it. Kudos on Klaatu and Gort's Excellent Adventure.
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I swear he better be doing Battle Angle after that dive movie he is shooting after Avatar. I will seriously be pissed if he puts Battle Angel on hold. It's my fave Manga/comic... the first series that is, Last Order is not so great.
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who keeps making the same sniveling, depressed 13-year-old nerd's view of life in his cocked up movies. Putting DeNiro in drag was a stroke of genius, who bloated cockbag.
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... that J.J. Abrams be hired to ruin another beloved sci-fi classic? Yes? Sorry. No? They should hire J.J. Abrams to piss all over another sci-fi classic. I'm sure his mongoloid writers would love a chance to have Robby the Robot pee oil on something.
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FORBIDDEN PLANET will be fucking our eyes balls in 2020?
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I would MUUUUUUUUUUUUCH rather have Battle Angel Alita fucking my eyeballs after Avatar
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but who really cares when Battle Angel Alita will be fucking our eyeballs in 20XX?
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...he wouldn't direct anything he didn't create originally? I guess times change.
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...someone has to remake "Forbidden Planet" let it be Cameron.
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But don't forget that this ISN'T a remake we are talking about. So...
Anywho, this doesn't seem likely to me, at all. Possible, but not likely. The only way I can see it is if the script is 20 sorts of incredible and James wants to get a faster project off the back of Avatar and get back in the game more (wouldn't it be great if Cameron had a little revelation like Ridley Scott and just cranked 'em out?) -
... where a character states they are generating an "infinite" amount of energy, and there are gauges there *measuring* it???? Doesn't make too much sense to me.
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Call me kooky but a movie about some douchebag's death while trying to hold his breath 200 feet underwater sounds like boring melodramatic shit. If ever there was a victim of Darwinism it's that jagoff. Any project that gets Cameron away from the fucking ocean is fine by me.
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Trust me. Cameron's doing The Dive, then Battle Angel. If he does sign on for Planet, the shit's not getting done for another 15 years.
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Cameron has to be bored with it by now
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The one clear scientific gaffe in the original is Mobius pointing to a finite number of gauges -- maybe 60 or 80 -- and saying "ten raised almost literally to the power of infinity" when he means 10 to the 60th. But 10 to the 60th is an incredibly big number that sounds like a small number to folks who don't know the lingo, so I do get what the screenwriters were trying to convey.
The only other possible scientific gaffe is, I think, an intentional joke. The Scotty precursor character says of some high-tech gizmo "any quantum mechanic in the [galaxy?] would love to get their hands on this." That's actually pretty funny.
Terry Gilliam completely doesn't get it. The movie actually had the foresight and balls to represent Freud and the concept of "the id" as obsolete and forgotten at a time when Freudian psychology was the only game in town. That actually plays better today than it did even in the 70's when I first saw it as an adult on the big screen. "The id" is ordinarily not a useful concept at all any more (in Freud, it's about motivation), but it *is* useful in the context of the movie's proposed technology, which is still terrific and totally credible science fiction. -
Gone with the Wind starring Jessica Simpson? Classics should not be fucked with. Period.
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Or maybe after a small dramatic film (The Dive?) to recharge before tackling Battle Angel, which is a huge sci-fi film that would be at least as complex as Avatar. I'd love to see those Alita fight scenes in 48 fps 3D.
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Damn You Michael Bay
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because if they DO then they'll be getting an asspounding from my interocitor and then ama call up some hard pipe-hittin zagons to fuck yo planet biatch.
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Three cheers for Rindain! We need 48fps NOW. We have the cameras. We have the projectors. Let's go, industry.
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...the eyeball fucking commences in less than a year now, right?
Also, if there must be a Forbidden Planet remake, seems like more of a Fincher-ish type thing to me.
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WTF? Ridley Scott? Why are still loving this guy 16 years after he made a good film? Gladiator was wank, through and through. Fat fucking Russell Crowe huffing and puffing his way through a boring set of ridiculous trials and tribulations. Black Rain was *okay*, but jeezus.
Scott's so up his own arse because dicks like us are still giving him props for Alien and Bladerunner, he just cuts any old shit together and gets awards. Fucking pisses me off. -
I suppose for comedy relief they'll sign Chris Tucker or Chris Rock to play the zany, alcoholic Cookie....
The only thing that could possibly be improved on from the origional is, instead of the Disney animated ID, they'll go with an all CGI version.
Love the original score (or sounds) Hope they incorperate some of that into the soundtrack.
I'm cureious. Wonder why the Zuckers never used Leslie Neilson in a spoof version of the original film? That would've been hilarious. -
after legend he didnt want to get typecast doing fantastical stuff so he embarked on a 20 year period of war, gangster, realistic bullshit which frankly bores the piss outta me. he needs to get back to space shit or fantasy is good too, that's where he's at his best, is it any coincidence with only 2 scifi movies he's considered one of th ebest scifi directors ever? i dont think so. Forever War cant some soon enough.
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takes on all comers.
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...still more James Cameron projects are definitely a good thing. Just get to Battle Angel Alita before you work on Forbidden Planet? Kthanx
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