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Quaid On A Spaceship!! 'From The Producers Of The RESIDENT EVIL Films' Comes This PANDORUM Trailer...
Merrick here...
Paul W.S. Anderson and Jeremy Bolt are producing a new movie whose plot is described thusly by an allegedly official synopsis from Overture Films:
Two astronauts awaken in a hyper-sleep chamber aboard a seemingly abandoned spacecraft. It's pitch black, they are disoriented, and the only sound is a low rumble and creak from the belly of the spacecraft. They can't remember anything - who are they, what is their mission? The only way out of the chamber is a dark and narrow airshaft. Corporal Bower (Foster), the younger of the two, crawls inside, while the other, Lt. Payton (Quaid), stays behind for guidance on a radio transmitter. As Bower ventures deeper and deeper into the ship, he begins to uncover a terrifying reality. Slowly the spacecraft's shocking and deadly secrets come unraveled, and the astronauts realize that the survival of mankind hinges on their actions.
Here's the freshly released trailer for the movie:
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Can't believe what that fucktard did to resident evil.
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..which makes me think Dead Space would make a great movie if if wasn't a hodgepodge of sci-fi films already.
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with "...you have no memory of who you are..."? Going back to text adventure Zork maybe?
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awful title by the way. Sounds like direct to DVD.
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could have had a pretty good career, but has chosen awful roles. Dragonheart, Innerspace, Jaws 3-D, The Day After Tomorrow.
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How could I forget Enemy mine. That movie blew.
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"what if no one gave a damn about this movie...?"
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No doubt its shite upon adult viewing now. Shame.
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Mutant Zombies (Serenity)
Ghost/demons from the previous crew (Event Horizon/Sunshine)
Alien monsters (Alien)
I think that pretty much covers the possibilities -
Bah!
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I liked it to. Caught it a few years ago and realized my taste in movies as an 8 year old was shit
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Anyone else see the similarities?
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Datascream beat me to it.
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'nuff said!
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If it smells like it, tastes like it, sounds like it etc....
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Your movies will always suck.
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It had great Fantastic Voyage-like special effects, Martin Shorts best starring role, Dennis Quaid putting on the devil-may-care-grin charm, Meg Ryan at her cutest, direction by Joe Dante...I can go on.
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maybe it was just that Martin Short was in it why I have this severe dislike (won't go as far as to call it a hate) for Innerspace. I can't stand a thing the guy has done.
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I'm actually ok with that though, I guess i'm the only one who dug Event Horizon.
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A little Martin Short can go a long way.
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No pun(s) intended.
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Mar 04, 2009 11:44:58 AM CST
Get this motherfuckin' Quaid off this motherfuckin' spaceship!
by themark
Is that where the headline was going?
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http://tinyurl.com/cfmmxr
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Mar 04, 2009 11:54:01 AM CST
The "thing" In the heart of the ship is either
by shut the fuck up donny
a.) Meg Ryan post-botox; or
b.) Randy Quaid, emptying the shitter. -
But well done
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zombies/feral aliens = FAIL
THINK OF SOMETHING NEW!!! -
and i'm done.
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Ok. I honestly like that synopsis. I like the two leads as actors a lot. I could see a lot of this being a really solid horror movie... maybe not a great one, but it's pretty hard at this point to make a space horror film that has new ideas. Still, were it just two people, and they spent a long ass time trying to find out what happened with virtually no score... you know this thing would start to eat at you. But sadly, it's just in the wrong hands. The trailer just HAS TO GIVE AWAY what its all about, and then it turns into monsters in space, which can be fun, but again, I have zero faith in the... oh wait. PWSA isn't writing or directing this? Hmmm... I think everyone is stressing his involvement a bit much. I've never heard of the writer or director, so I would like to give them a shot. Still the fact that I haven't might mean old PSWA is going to have a lot of sway on this. Granted the only movie he ever made which I enjoyed (but didn't LOVE) was Event Horizon (which come one, it really gets too much hate), I just haven't sat through anything he's been involved with sense to make me optimistic. I do credit him for making the Aliens kick ass again in Aliens Vs Predator (the fight where one kills two Predators was entertaining if nothing else) he takes good ideas and again and again pisses on them. So like I said, I'd love to see a seriously unnerving slow build space mystery horror film... but I doubt this will deliver the goods and if anything might be an obstacle for such a film to come down the pipe anytime soon.
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Don't dis Innerspace!
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According to Wikipedia, this turd had a buget of $40 million, was shot in Berlin (because a big chunk of the money came from Germans). No wonder most of the scenes are too dark to see anything.... the sets are shyte.
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and wake up, it was all a dream in an asylum. The End. Produced by PWSA, aged 10.
Now to the true horror - where is the Lost TB? -
Mar 04, 2009 1:09:55 PM CST
A Robot Renegade Cop in a Land Before Time on the Edge of Space
by squashua
Blech.
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Don't they have lights in the future?
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dude, that was hilarious
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Dear Hollywood production designers - when making a science fiction film, please remember that Ridley Scott's "Alien" does not need to be referenced anymore.
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Mar 04, 2009 1:39:58 PM CST
Derivative as hell. But someone else could run with the idea.
by royston lodge
Judging from the trailer, this is just way too derivative of flicks like Soderberg's Solaris, or Pitch Black, or Event Horizon, or even 2001. Yawn. On the other hand, I actually like the premise as a way to create a whole NEW fantasy space opera franchise, borrowing more from Buck Rogers, Lexx, Red Dwarf, Firefly, and J.J. Abrams than from those "horror in space" flicks. Imagine this scenario: Two guys wake up on a derelict spaceship. They cannot remember their own identities. They don't know what year it is. They don't know anything about what planet they're from or who they work for. They ARE alone on the ship, but they aren't alone in the universe. They learn as much as they can from the ship, but much of the information in the computer's been corrupted. There is a hell of a lot of potential with this idea to play with the audience. Are they soldiers? Are they miners? Maybe they were only passengers, on their way to a sunny vacation spot! Are these guys from Earth and they've been in space for centuries and the Galaxy has changed around them? Or maybe humans left Earth centuries ago and these guys have only been asleep for a short period of time? Or maybe this whole story takes place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away and these guys aren't from Earth at all. Maybe there's no horror involved. Maybe there's no war involved. Maybe the ship stumbles across a space station and they discover that the galaxy is a vibrant community of planets and species, and these guys have to figure out how to create a new life for themselves? Or maybe they panic at the first sight of a non-human, shoot first and ask questions later, and end up as intergalactic fugitives because of their mistake. You could run with this idea and make a really interesting, dramatic space opera with a few hints of Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy without it ending up as a full-blown comedy.
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An interesting payoff would be to have two guys wake up in space with no memory... and 2 hours later we all find out they were artificially created "test tube" babies who grew to maturity in sleep pods either as part of an experiment or because the doctors/scientists/crew on the ship all died.
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Mr. Apple Pie? Mr. Baseball? Mr. 'Gee Don't I have a big charming smile and you love me'?
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Somebody had to do it!
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if the story was told from a surviver's recovered shaky-cam footage.
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and he's put them in a death torture trap ala Saw
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Henson was a prophet
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ben foster is class but it looks like its event horison 2
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Did you not see The Flight Of The Phoenix remake?
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The title made me think it was a sequel to TOTAL RECALL. Anyone remember DREAMSCAPE? Not really a Dennis Quaid horror movie, but it had its moments, such as with the snakeman.
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But I sure don't love PWSA. Everyone involved with EH talks about how they were fucked by the studio, so maybe this is PWSA's attempt to make the movie EH was supposed to be?
Despite the crap space-cenobite ending, I truly do love EH. The production design alone is reason enough to revisit it over and over again. It's also genuinely creepy at times, a quality which is in short supply these days. -
You guys hate on B movies so much, it's pathetic. The same people who gush about Hammer films, and the Shaw brothers can't stomach a modern film unless it's a flawless masterpiece. B movies still have their place, and Anderson is a great B movie director. I know not to expect The Godfather or Citizen Kane from him, but those movies didn't have Mila Jovovich fighting zombies or cars covered in machine guns, either. I simply expect an entertaining cheese-fest when I watch his films, and he delivers. Steak for every dinner gets boring, too. Sometimes you just crave some meatloaf and mac 'n cheese.
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And yes, I read Aintitcool. I like this site. So there.
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There are no good movies with these elements. None. There will never be. Besides, spaceship movies where everything happens inside the ship just scream, "TIGHT BUDGET, BITCHES!"
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I am torn on Paul Anderson, its weird, he can take a property that should be utter shit and make a decent movie out of it (in a guilty pleasure kind of way), then he can take properties that should be easy home run's and turn them into trainwrecks (see AvP franchise and Soldier). But I will say this...he is one of the only directors out there that seems dedicated to making sci fi/genre films, and for the most part he keeps them a hard R - a rarity these days.
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a couple nights ago - hasn't held up well. soon to be remade, no doubt. INNERSPACE is still watchable, tho i generally can't stand MARTIN SHORT either. i'll watch this, if only because it's a space movie
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am i the only one who thinks this looks good?
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Mar 04, 2009 4:46:30 PM CST
Is this seriously not a remake, sequel, or adaptation?
by dapper swindler
How often does that happen?
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And yet still people bitch. Apparently, the only movies actually enjoyed by talkbackers are completely faithfull comic book adaptations that are original masterpieces; so the Dark Knight was the only good movie to be released in the last year. Anything less is just trash. This has become a site more for people who hate movies that for movie buffs.
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National Lampoon's: Space Vacation
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He's a dynamite actor.
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Hahaha. I just wanted to point out who the director of this film was, that I kinda liked "Antikörper", how Christian Alvart appears to be quite the geek himself and that it's nice to see him helm a project like that (which looks really cool, btw.) with Foster and Quaid. And ...oops ...there he is. On the talkbacks. Cut the guy some slack and shut up about P.W.S. Anderson! This trailer looks pretty sweet. And the fact that Ben Foster (oh, he was fantastic on Six Feet Under)is in this only makes this more interesting to me.
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Just...wow.
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...but I fucking loved DEATH RACE.
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What if you awoke with no memory? What if the world you knew was gone? Hmmm, well there's a flaw - if you've got no memory then you're not going to remember a world are you?!
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After all I am now an expert on this movie after watching a 2 minute trailer!
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Also Anderson, I still owe you a punch in the sternum for AVP.
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yeah, we've seen some of these elements before, but if you saw the trailer with no pre-formed Anderson bias, it doesn't look half-bad. I'm somewhat interested.
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sounds like a ripoff of Dead Space which was a ripoff of Event horizon. Think Paul Anderson is trying to bank on only movie of his that gets some respect from movie fans.
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That's the vibe the trailer burns off...
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looks very similar to Event Horizon, Dead Space, and Alien. I'm tired of so many superhero films, so some more sci-fi this year is good.
A good space/horror/mystery novel that should be adapted to film is Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo.
http://tinyurl.com/bom6t6
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wait i have no memory- i dont know what eggs r- ugh. whats a ship? ugh. wait- whats memory? ugh. what am i talking about! ugh.
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More scared of him, and the idea of more NBC Heroes, than the trailer's visuals.
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dont really know the plot, but its def compelling imho
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Mar 05, 2009 4:23:41 AM CST
Quaid + Innerspace = Lifetime pass
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
That is all.
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2/3rd's excellent. Ruined by Space Cenobites. Aside from that Andersen is a cunt and needs a kicking for what he did to Resident Evil.
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I thought Quaid was great in that movie. All the Martin Short hating? How many movies was he in? I can only remember Innerspace, Mars Attacks and Three Amigos, all of which I would happily watch again (but ok, not for him). Lasty, alice 13, you're hilarious.
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Dennis Quaid is all ready in G.I. Joe. I haven't seen Randy Quaid in any movie for a while now. Is he still alive?
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Breaking Away..the first movie I recall seeing him in, with Dennis Christopher, Jackie Earl Haley, and Daniel Stern. Excellent feel good sports movie. The Right Stuff..stood out in an ensemble cast as the cockiest of the cockiest. Classic flick. The Big Easy.."did it" with Ellen Barkin at her young looking Angie Dickenson best.
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then the writeup about Quaid on the other end of a radio made me think Frequency, and finally the trailer makes me think Event Horizon. But also that Twilight Zone ep with the astronaut finding himself alone in a town with no recollection. Also, the narrator said the word "gone" weird.
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Is hollywood really that unoriginal? Yeah, thats a stupid question. I hope that the planned Dead Space film is better than this. They even used the Dead Space lettering.
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Just hope it's not space zombies. Zombie movies bore me to tears.
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I liked "Curiosity & The Cat" and I LOVED "Antikörper", so I for one am really looking forward to "Pandorum". And although I´ve only seen the trailer I already know that this film will be way more intelligent than anything Paul Anderson has ever done.
What I`m REALLY looking forward to though is your other upcoming film, "Case 39" (not so much because of Renée Zellweger but because of the great Jodelle Ferland). -
Thanks. Where do you live? If in Germany: Case 39 opens there Septemer 17th, 2 weeks before Pandorum. And you are right: Jodelle Ferland is awesome. We were casting hundreds of girls (some very big names) and she blew everybody out of the water. Plenty of Jodelle in Case 39!
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Couldn´t you tell from my nick? ;-)
If not, I´ll give you a hint: It´s from a certain SF anime series that was more successful in Germany than in any other country (probably because of the awesome score by Christian Bruhn). -
ben foster is the man quite the scene stealer tho
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Can you say free screening mf’s??! haha – checked this flick out tonight for a test or something. F’ing rocked.– the crazy meth dude from alpa dog that dukes on the carpet and Dennis Quaid on a scary ass spaceship. Plus some sexy dark haired broad kicking some serious ass. I mean I dug Event Horizon but this aint no Event part deux. I can’t wait to check it again. Anybody know when this drops?
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