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Wolfgang Peterson's PERFECT STORM
Well it seems ol Wolfgang "DAS BOOT" Peterson is headed back out to sea again, this time with a movie called PERFECT STORM.
It's a gigantic over the century mark budgeted film about 6 commercial fisherman thet set off from Gloucester, Mass. to catch swordfish and run into the meanest friggin storm of the century you ever did see whilst on the hunt to catch a shipload of swordfish. The wind up stranded 200 miles offshore and have to fight to stay alive. The captain (Captain Billy Tyne played by George Clooney) and his crew which includes of Bobby Shatford (played by Mark Wahlberg), Murph (John C Reilly), Sully (William Fickner) and Alfred (Allen Payne). The main thing is this is supposed to be a true story, and the truth is... it didn't end all that happily. Although one never knows how this will take it. Who knows? Also there's gonna be a lot of worrying back at home including that of Diane Lane, who plays Christina Cotter... the wife (I believe) of the Mark Wahlberg character. Interesting casting there. There's a rescue mission and all, but really... What I can't wait to see is the storm and the what Peterson and screenwriter Bill Wittliff puts these guys through.
I'm a huge fan of Peterson's work, so if any of you folks out in Nova Scotia hear anything about this film shooting... or you people out in L.A. Let me know. I want to keep close tabs on this one.
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I don't know... Clooney AND Marky Mark in the same flick? At least the director doesn't have to worry about the smugness quotient not being present. Oh, and I really didn't have much to say, but I'm glad I don't have to see I'M FIRST I'M FIRST YIPPPEEE! That drives me nuts.
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Three Kings, which also stars Clooney and Wahlberg. It's a movie about sand.
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I'm reading the book of "Perfect Storm" and it is a true story.
It get's a bit bogged down in nautical technicalities & fishing techniques, but the characters are great. Proper, hard working people who you can care about because they toil so hard and go through a lot of shit every day, just to get by.
It's going to be an excellent (dare I say it) gritty project for Mr Petersen m'thinks. -
Judging from Harry's post, it sounds like the film is being changed from a tragedy at sea to a cheesy Hollywood "fight-for-survival" story. In the book, EVERYBODY DROWNS. Therefore, in the movie, EVERYBODY DROWNS. Pure and simple. This is a true story and to change the outcome would dishonor the memory of the fisherman who died off the Grand Banks. I have faith in Wolfgang, though. "Das Boot" is brilliant and the ending shows that he can definitely do tragic. However, if I see the name "Akiva Goldsman" under "written by", I'll tie a millstone around their necks and pitch them into the ocean.
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Disappointed that clooney is cast in this movie?
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harry - if you're going to write about this stuff and claim that you have the inside word on all things Hollywood, maybe you should know the background on shit. "Perfect Storm" isn't supposedly a true story, it is a true story. The book is be Sebastian Junger and was one of the most talked about books of the last couple of years. And, although the story focuses a lot on the fishing boat that you talked about, the real thrust of the book is the culmination of three major storm systems that converge at the same time, in the same place. There were MANY ships that got caught in this and went down, including a Japanese freighter ship. Try to know a little of what you're talking about before spouting off opinions and "insider information." And I agree with the poster above - enough with the I'm first bullshit - who gives a flying fuck you lame-ass tools!
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I read the April 12th draft of the script by William D. Wittliff that they passed around for casting and boy was it dissappointing! Because the book had no real dialogue in it, they've had to invent everything that is said. The result is some of the worst, hack-TV writing I've read in a while. And while the characters who die in the book still die, they toy with the order of things, making some stories bigger - the rescue of the sailboat and the Japanese boat are bigger storylines, as well as the rescue crews involved. And of course they pumped up the love story between Marc Wahlberg's character on the doomed boat and his love at home on shore. I hope that this was just an early draft written as a guideline, knowing they'll polish it as they go along. But then I remember the crap that made it to the screen in this same writer's "Legends of the Fall" and I worry it will come of like a Movie of the Week with a big budget cast and effects. Please, please, please re-write this - the casting is perfect, the director is perfect, and I'm sure effects will be perfect, but without a new writer this movie will not be a "Perfect Storm."
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I couldn't believe it when I heard they were turning this 'book' into a movie. It was such a painful read, I only made it about halfway through. The movie adaptation can't be any worse.
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Well thanks loads Eegah, I haven't finished reading the bleedin' book yet, now it doesn't look like I'll have to.
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Too funny. I have a copy of Das Boot sitting beside me, but have not been able to yet pop it in, because I don't have time to watch the screen for the subtitles. As for the Perfect Storm, the script is no more than a couple months old, and it is my understanding that the revised version is done, or will soon be. Agree as to the previous posters assessment. I read both the book and the script in an unsuccessful attempt to get in on this project. The book was good, and held my interest, though I can see that it would be hard to adapt. The script, however, was very disappointing. A bunch of cardboard characters running around with nothing particularly intersting to say to each other until big weather hits. They're gonna have some tough work on their hands if they're gonna get this puppy watchable for the first 3/4 of the film. www.get.to/sterlingwolfe/
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Am I the only one here who still sees Mark Wahlburg as Marky Mark? Any time I see him in a movie I can't help but wonder where the funky bunch is hiding or whether he's going to butcher another Lou Reed song. And I still see Will Smith as the neon-green- shorts-wearing Fresh Prince with DJ Jazzy Jeff at his side. These men should only have had 15 minutes of fame. Instead, they've gone from talentless "musicians" to talentless acting superstars.
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Funny, while watching trailers before Eyes Wide Shut, I seem to remember a new military movie set in Iraq with Clooney and Wahlberg as soldiers trying to steal gold while being heroes at the same time. Are these two always going to act together or is this not the cast for Perfect Storm?
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Aren't they already in the upcoming Three Kings movie?
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One of the most compelling chapters in the book includes a detailed description of the physiological process of drowning. It was very difficult to read and really conveyed the peril that men face in a life spent on the sea. I don't know if that can be translated successfully on the screen.
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Hey, I warned you there were spoilers. Don't blame me if you can't read. And, by the way, the introduction of the book by the author spells out in plain English what happened to the crew. As does the back cover. It was also a major news story a few years back. It's not like I told you the friggin' secret of "The Crying Game"! Duh, some people.
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How did these guys end up in another flick after "Three Kings"? It's worse than Gere/Roberts or Hanks/Ryan -
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The book was excellent, however it does start out rather slow. Interesting male casting here. I heard Mel Gibson was first choice for role of Billy Tyne. He would have made an excellent Tyne. But Clooney?? Come on! He is such a bore. I can't see him playing a convincing Tyne at all. Frankly, he's never played a convincing anything. And Mark Wahlberg? Can't see him as anything but Marky Mark either. Corey and Corey together again! Scrap Clooney and Wahlberg then it will have a chance.
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