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UPDATED!! Batten Down The Hatches!! McG's 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA: CAPTAIN NEMO Is Now Fast Tracked!!
Merrick again...
A little more on Marks' involvement with the film (and the movie's fast tracking) via THIS PIECE at Hollywood Reporter:
Marks has been hired as a "world builder" to fill out the deep-sea universe in this action-adventure based on the 1954 film "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," which was an adaptation of Jules Verne's classic novel. As the new "Leagues" moves toward preproduction, Marks has four weeks to work with McG and craft designers to expand the film's world to the scale of a tentpole extravaganza.
Four weeks!? They're hoping to move that fast?
Merrick here...
Justin Marks is reworking Bill Marsilii's script for 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA: CAPTAIN NEMO. A while back, we heard that McG wants Will Smith for this movie (details HERE) - we don't know the status of this notion.
A Marsilii draft for this project was recently Rodney Kinged on the Internet, when word of its dopeyness was spread by THIS IESB SCRIPT REVIEW.
Remake will serve as an origin story of Nemo as he creates his warship, the Nautilus. Characters come from the Jules Verne novel and the 1954 actioner, that was the first live action film made by Walt Disney. Studio is fast-tracking the project that McG will direct.
[EDIT]
Disney hopes to make the film this year and is McG's follow up to "Terminator: Salvation."
...says THIS ARTICLE in Variety.
Marks is writer of Joel Silver's MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE reboot (a script I rather liked, even though many kinda didn't), the VOLTRON movie (as long as someone yells "I saw it! It's a lion!"...or whatever...all will be Copasetic), the not-so-awesome looking STREET FIGHTER adaptation (trailer HERE), and a GREEN ARROW movie (the SUPER MAX one).
[EDIT]
Disney hopes to make the film this year and is McG's follow up to "Terminator: Salvation."
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I hope by "rewrite" they mean re-writing, as in making it better than the Battlefield Earth version that's out there.
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Maybe Captain Eo...but Nemo? Aaawwwww Heeellll Noooooo. The less Will Smith the better. The guy is a camera mugging PR machine and nothing more.
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The best thing to come from this will be Will Smith politely telling the DP to avoid getting in his eye line if its not too much trouble.
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Stupid. Won't be getting my money.
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You have to be kidding me! McG does know Smith isn't Indian, right? Why not get a great Indian actor, like Hrithik Roshan to play it?
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Let me guess, Shane will be the DP. He will be looking at the lights.
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Blockbuster filmmaking is in the toilet. Fuck's sake.
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As I saw that the DVD of the original film is going to be re-released from Disney later this year.
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a noble named Szlachta...who was angry at the Russian repression of 1863-64... At least in the original draft of the novel...then Verne's editor chickened chickened out for fear of offending France's Russian allies, and they just buried Nemo's past; then when Verne wrote Mysterious Island he re-tooled Nemo as an exiled Hindu prince. But clearly the original intent was not for Nemo to be a Hindu, but a Pole.
Of course, Will Smith is neither Hindu nor Polish, he's just a dollar sign to the producers. -
I don't see how making him indian and therefore making britain the oppressor is so much more cowardly than using russia???
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Don't get wrong here, I like most of Will Smith's Movie work...but he has definitely made a few stinkers/had a few misfires in his career!
This Idea of a 20,000 Leagues under the Sea re-make (how many are there now to date?) just smacks of the Wild Wild West movie that he made back in the 90-ies when he was hollywood gold and untouchable movie-wise
I would like to keep an open mind until I hear more and see more stuff here or online....
But.....??? -
He was the only good thing about that movie.
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if Will Smith is cast, I won't watch this tunt casted thing, even on TV.
Is McG a scientologist? -
not as many invasion of the body snatcher remakes
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...blunderblahter bl-scene blan blis bluckin' blerk blshwims blinto bly bleyebline! Blub."
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Feb 12, 2009 10:03:51 AM CST
whats with these fucking fish! da dada dada in the background
by ironic_name
do I swim in while you're eating seaweed?
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Feb 12, 2009 10:07:06 AM CST
at least its gonna put will into cuba gooding jr airspace
by ironic_name
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But Sendhil Ramamurthy would be darn close to what Verne wrote in mysterious island as to having been the age Nemo started out.
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Sounds shite.
Will Smith is way too overexposed. I liked his initial stuff but I'm getting sick of all those hero roles. Mix it up, you coward. -
Jay Chakaswhatever as Nemo.
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There are tons of more qualified Indian actors just waiting to be breakout stars. Sheesh.
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the character Kirk Douglas played in the 1954 movie, not Nemo.
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Surrounded by girls and drinking a martini. David Cross as Ned!
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they should get Naseeruddin Shah and director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, effects by WETA.
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the reboot of this one was by far the worst. It is soooooo far removed from the vision of author Jules Vern that it should not bear the same name.
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kinda like I, Robot, ehh?
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There is a tie in I can sink my teeth into! So Harry....how many boxes did they send you? They go great with Mike Linnig's Tarter Sauce!
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Plenty of terrific Asian actors who could do this property Justice. McG's a studio shill for cow-tying to such a commercial casting choice. You just know this is going to be about as faithful to Verne's novel as any other Shitseltown adaptation, dumbed down to the lowest common denominator.
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that dude sure is involved in so many b-grade materials.
him and mcg will be perfect for each other. -
Can't wait for the inevitable hip-hop version of "Whale of a Tale." Fuck THIS.
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EXACTLY like what they did to the memory of I ROBOT with that Hollywood abomination.
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This is going to be terrible.
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Will Smith plays an Indian adventurer named Nemo when suddenly he loses a precious talking jewel (voice by Robin Williams) down a drain. He stumbles upon a secret lab where the Nautilus is being tested for miniaturization to be injected into chimps. He steals the miniature sub, shrinks himself and travels through the drain system in search of the talking jewel. Chased by angry miniature chimps, mutant drain-fish and the King of the Sewage System (a CGI Donald Pleasance), Nemo escapes into New York city, where his sub crashes into the Statue of Liberty. The talking jewel takes over the statue and evolves all the chimps and gorillas into talking apes, preparing us for the sequel Nemo vs the Planet of the Apes in 3D.
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Look up the term "negative externalities."
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James Mason was Nemo, and Peter Lorre was the world's fattest sailor.
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Spot ON! That is what I was thinking and was going to post before I saw that you beat me to it. That part (Douglas' part) would be great for Smith. And vice versa.
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Verne gave Disney its first live action hit -- why desecrate his legacy this way?
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Are we going to see:
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Ned Land
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: The Squid Strikes Back
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Wrath of the Narwhal
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Specimens in a Jar
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Return of the Nautalis
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Kneel Before Zod
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: The Legend of Curly's Gold
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McG must give some AMAZING fucking head. Because how the fuck can he get shit fast track like the worlds on fire, while decent directors sit around with there thumb in their ass trying to get there dreams made?
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No matter how much a project is obviously destined to suck, it'll get nowhere near the venom the talkbackers show towards a Quentin Tarantino film. I guess what I'm saying is all of you assholes have made me very, very bitter.
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Will Smith as Captain Nemo.....Hollywood has officially been declared clinically brain dead. Someone pull the plug.
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It's got shitfest written all over it.
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Frak yeah!
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ordered that the character he plays in the movie gets hyped all the way.
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It seems like McG is getting as much cash as possible locked up in development before anybody sees his TERMINATOR film. This reminds me of Boll reaping the German tax law windfall before they closed the loophole - the guy is making the big cash-in before anybody notices the quality of his films and shuts him down on the merits. Maybe one of them will be a hit for McG and save his career. Pricey gamble, though...
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an indian genius that worships shiva and knows karate - hard to top that
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at leading man status.
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not nemo - and is this a period movie? - didnt the original take place around the civil war?
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Why is Hollywood so obsessed with explaining away mysteries? We don't need "origin stories" for everyone. Just make a sweet movie with sweet effects that stays true to the spirit and the story. Oh, and cast an Indian as Nemo. It's 2009. We can handle it. Really.
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*gets jiggy with it*
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http://scriptshadow.blogspot.com/2009/02/20000-leagues-under-sea.html
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Feb 13, 2009 4:36:40 AM CST
If this is a hit, next= VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA!
by bob cryptonight
With Nick Nolte as Admiral Nelson because he has a big drinking problem just like Basehart did. And Ashton Kutchner as Crane.
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And it had futuristic shit, like giant steampunk spiders, and he was totally miscast, and it was a huge piece of shit with Kevin Kline and Kenneth Branagh... c'mon, y'all remember it!
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea remake could kickass if done right, please don't screw this up Disney!
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Will Smith is gonna be David Freeman in Flight Of The Navigat2r
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So basically this will be Wild Wild West underwater.
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I GOTS to get me one of these!
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I've been wanting to see a film adaptation of this character since the success of the Bat films from the early 90's. The fanmade trailer from a few years back proved it can be done.One hope I have... please go for the costume with the hood and please make the goatee a part of the costume!
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