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Details Emerge On The Plot of Disney’s TOMORROWLAND!!
I am – Hercules!!
“Tomorrowland,” based on the parcel of Disneyland where they keep Space Mountain and Star Tours, may have been pitched as “Pirates of the Caribbean in space,” but now it’s sounding a little like Buck Rogers.
Screenwriters Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, who also scripted “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past,” talked about the plot of “Tomorrowland” today as they were promoting “The Hangover” in Las Vegas. They say the Disney film is about a present-day test pilot named Rip (Dwayne Johnson) who accidentally gets shot 350 years into the future.
“So he's a sort of a fish out of water in the future and he is sort of figuring out how everything works,” the duo told reporters. “Along the way, the people in the future don't know who he is, and they actually think he's bad guy bent on destroying the future.”
Right now the project appears to gone off any kind of fast monorail track, and I have to admit my level of excitement for it has fallen to about a two. Johnson’s last fish-out-of-water Disney sci-fi film, “Race to Witch Mountain,” was not greeted with a lot of enthusiasm. “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past” only scored 28% positive at Rotten Tomatoes. Lucas and Moore also scripted the horrible Martin Lawrence basketball comedy "Rebound." On the other hand, AICN’s Mr. Beaks deems “The Hangover,” opening June 5, “more satisfying” than “Old School,” if that’s a recommendation.
Find all of scifiwire’s story on “Tomorrowland” here.
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I mean come on, it's not like the guy's even that bad of an actor. He has potential, he just needs make a real fucking movie.
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If this was directed and written by someone good, and starring someone else (Matt Damon? Has he been in sci-fi yet? He does 'put-upon everyman' pretty well) then it might be worth thinking about.
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May 17, 2009 5:54:42 PM CDT
"I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy.
by soylentmean
I'll think about that tomorrow."
Scarlett's back, with a machette and a Gatling gun. She's going to kill a whole lot of people.
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the rock don't care since the disney money is good
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Starring Shia The Beef.
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...of his photocopied version of Schwarzenegger's career.
It's kind of a shame that I associate this guy with slapstick PG comedy rather than badass R action. So many other people could do that. -
The Rock isn't terrible. He's never been given anything to work with. He was funny in Be Cool, for what that flick was worth. Even Stone Cold had an opportunity to show some chops in The Friggin' Condemned.
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From wrestling to Disney, now hes entertaining a more mature audience. Next stop, rom-coms. Him and McConaughwhatever would make a cute couple.
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This will be shit.
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May 17, 2009 6:05:17 PM CDT
I hope they turn Main Street USA into a movie
by kevin_costners_recycled_piss
That would be awesome.
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...wouldn't it make more sense for a film called TomorrowLAND to be about a city from the future that gets sent back to our time, rather than a man sent forward?
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The problem with that is that it actually sounds like an interesting concept for a movie rather than a lame kids movie which is what they're setting out to make.
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Don't know who came up with the sterling idea of adapting theme park attractions into feature films. With the exception of the first Pirates movie, it hasn't really worked out, has it?
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sure it will need a big budget but it will end up being better than AVATAR.
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Dioxholster
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You're joking, right?
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...that came up with this one?
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do you realize that stargate already was a movie staring Kurt Russel and James Spader before it was a tv show?
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Is a Hollywood screenwriter's pay inversely proportional to his/her creativity? Seems like it.
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First The Hulkster PLayed RIP in NHB now The Rock is playing a character named RIP.I wonder if he'll make a dude crap his pants and then The Rock will say "WHATS THAT SMELL" and the guy will say "DUUUUKKKKKIIIEEEE"
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Arnie earned his part-time switch into comedies because it was incongruous with his screen persona. A decade of being Mister Violent Action on the big screen, plus his physicality and the accent - there's comic potential in subverting that. So movies like KINDERGARTEN COP and TWINS get some laughs off that - stick the big Austrian meathead in awkward situations and let the complications mount up. But Vin Diesel hasn't earned that, so he's gone back to what works, and Dwayne/Rock certainly hasn't. He's not made one balls-to-the-wall badass movie, let alone anything approximating the 80s cycle of CONAN 1 and 2 / RAW DEAL / TERMINATOR 1 and 2 / TOTAL RECALL / PREDATOR and the others, plus the movies he made in-between the comedies. You gotta build the fanbase, then earn the right.
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Hey, change it up a bit!
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I've had dumps that have been more satisfying than Old School. I didn't much care for that movie.
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May 17, 2009 6:35:37 PM CDT
Bring on SPACE MOUNTIAN - THE MOVIE
by ihaveseeneveryepisodeofprisonbreak
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is that if the movie is successful, Disney will invariably change the real-life Tomorrowland to create corporate "synergy" and a Dwayne Johnson ride will be all but guaranteed. I've grown more than accustomed to Disney making terrible live action movie, they've done it for decades, but leave that stupid shit out of the parks Tomorrowland needs a lot of work, but the last thing it needs is a bad movie tie-in. How about Disney take the budget for this bad idea of a movie and invest it instead in bringing back the people mover in Anaheim, hmm? I think anyone outside of the TDA boardroom could agree that's a reasonable proposal.
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May 17, 2009 6:50:12 PM CDT
Beaks deems “The Hangover" more satisfying than “Old School”
by one_guy_from_andromeda
That's like saying a retarded three year old deems diarrhea more satisfying than regular shit.
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May 17, 2009 6:54:03 PM CDT
Will they make this movie, then completely fuck it up?
by themarinebiologist
I'm looking at you, Eisner. Fucker ruined Tomorrowland.
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... Why are people spending good money to make crappy movies from their lousy mateial?
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And Gore Verbinski! This? Sounds like it's even LESS inspired than the Eddie Murphy Haunted Mansion--which at least was a risk, though a bad one. Also, Tomorrowland ain't anywhere near as fun as Pirates. Sorry, it's is a LAME section of Disney World. It had something when they redid it in the 90s and they had the Time Keeper and Alien Encounter. Then they took both of those away for Stitch and Monsters Inc related attractions, so they've already chucked anything that wasn't a tie into a movie. What's left, fucking Carousel of progress? Coolest family of the Future ride was Horizons in Epcot and they threw that away for Barf to Mars. Just drop it, Star Wars already made the family friendly sci-fi space adventure movie. Disney isn't getting any of that pie, better to just partner with Lucas for more Clone Wars stuff.
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Hall of Presidents: The Movie
Will this crap never end? -
...if something worked with Dwayne Johnson, then everything we clone with Dwayne Johnson must work! And I happen to like Dwayne Johnson, but this formula must stop!
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These days it stinks.
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May 17, 2009 7:48:31 PM CDT
JOHN ADCOX: Sadly, your premise already exists in real life...
by alfie boy
...just look at Newark, NJ; Gary, IN; Baltimore, MD; L.A., CA; Chicago, IL; Detroit, MI and countless other places where President Johnson's liberal policy of the "war on poverty" created ghettos that socialists Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are hellbent on repeating. That's the example of TomorrowLAND coming square in the face to hit us in the nose today!
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The future looks like the 50's version of the future - all Jetson's like. Plus I like The Rock. I really do - he's got a great physical presence and a great personality. The Rundown, Walking Tall and Be Cool all worked for me. However, virtually everything else he has done has been w/ a cheesy smarmy half assed I'm just doing this for the paycheck attitude. This could be a fun movie, but probably not.
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Since when is a RT rating of any value to anything but marketing?
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got good reviews on AICN prior to its being released and now it's being dogged. Have the checks stopped coming?
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Starring Jonathan Lipnicki.
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Way to ruin a talkback with misplaced conservative ideology. Talk about having nothing to do with the topic at hand, Jesus Christ.
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Starring Bruce Campbell as Abe Lincoln...you know you want it!!!
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gonna want the Rock name-tag back.
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Not some Disney knockoff?
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Or any kind of actor at all, actually.
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"Ice Cream cart in Frontierland: The Movie." Yeah, I got nothin.
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Where the fuck is the news and reviews from cannes? Mother, antichrist, thirst etc etc already have screened. AINT IT COOL - bringing you lame news about adaptations of disney land rides and b-grade comic book characters.
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I've been thinking about that the last couple of days as well. This site loves to brag about set visits and seeing early footage screenings, but an event like Cannes comes up, a serious cinema event, and nary a word, no attempt to go, nothing. I know Cannes is damn expensive and at least somewhat exclusive, but anyone serious about film with half the chance to go should be all over it.
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You're a fuck, so really, your opinion isn't valid in anyway shape or form.
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Another career swallowed by Disney Inc.
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The T-Land Dwayne Rock Johnson visits has an even worse carbon footprint because everyone lives in houses made of plastic and completely full of plastic inside.
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...and you got yourself a CLASSIC
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Star Tours is in Hollywood Disney. That is all.
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At Disneyland. I wish I had that old House of the Future. It was indestructible. They had to use torches to cut it up piece by piece because the wrecking ball just bounced off of it. When they got to the foundation they just said "fuck it" and left it there for 40 years.
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He's Disney's bitch forever.
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Up next should be a remake of MILLION DOLLAR DUCK or if we're lucky, THE SHAGGY D.A.! But who can be his Suzanne Pleshette?
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there is a deed to the soul of Dwayne Johnson with a Disney watermark on it.
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Can't believe Dwayne Johnson is still working for Disney. (It's the one thing he and Miley Cyrus have in common.) I guess this indicates that the action movie genre, especially R-rated ones, is dead.
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Or, Indiana Jones: The Ride: The Movie?
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You stupid bitch.
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May 17, 2009 11:34:24 PM CDT
History shall henceforth be measured from 3 specific events:
by anything but tangerines
All dates will be accompanied by 3 new 2-letter epoch indicators: BR, or Before The Rock; AR, or the Age Of The Rock; DJ, after the Rock listened to some shiteating motherfucker agent and changed his name back to Dwayne buttfucking cocksucking Johnson and started doing children's movies.
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wait ...they did that.
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yeah, that would be perfect. no way they could screw that up.
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May 17, 2009 11:58:58 PM CDT
Thunder Mountain Railroad.... The movie... Directed by Michael B
by ass clown
Hulk Hogan is the king of Disney not Dwayne Johnson. What kind of a man wants to be called Dwayne over the Rock anyway. At least the Hulk never caved in and went with his real name Terry Bollea. Yeah, I know Hulks real name, Im awesome. And Old School is so overrated, it hurts. It has moments of humor but overall its aweful. The greatest comedy ever is the Cable Guy with Jim Carrey.
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... and call it "Song of the South"!
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..should be next..that ride was trippy (in a proper state of mind)
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..with the warning that some parts could be too scary for little children..(it was a bit creepy for kids)..this was back in the '70's
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Not Pinocchio or Dumbo or Alice or Sleeping Beauty or
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Is the young lady with the glasses and the cleavage who reads the newspaper taking a week off? Or isn't she being posted here on a weekly basis any more?
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Same shit. Different fascist regime.
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In which, the presidents are like The A-Team.
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"Please stand clear of the doors".
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May 18, 2009 12:49:50 AM CDT
I honestly cant think of anything i hate more than 'fish out of
by benlovescoolnews
fuck those hacks
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should be Disney's next movie.
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Who names their kid rip?
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During this movie, remain seated please. (With spanish subtitles)...
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More scary that "The Birds"
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Think "Speed Racer," but slower.
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I mean, for all you silly little space opera aficionados who think we're actually going to be flying around in spaceships fighting bumpy-headed alien guys amongst the stars in a couple of hundred years?
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back when it was called Demolition Man!
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best makeout ride ever created btw, during the entire history of disneyland, at least half of the rides in tomorrowland were on the fritz on any given day....so this is serious bad karma
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is the funniest film I've seen in ages, mostly down to Zach Galafianakis - can't imagine much of his stuff was scripted though.
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can't wait to see it...it looks good
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2 hours of that song over and over and over and over again.
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Srsly.
Does anyone else see the ridiculousness in the name "Rip" for a lead character? Really?
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Starring Little Richard, Li'l Abner and Rich Little. Cameos by Spencer Tracy, Phil Silvers and Sid Caesar turning in their graves.
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The title says it all.
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Nothing says fun like a 6-foot rabbit's testicles in your face.
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We guarantee your dinner won't be leaving with you.
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May 18, 2009 3:54:39 AM CDT
Sorry, I just fucking hate the shitty hacks that have taken over
by red giant
Not a creative fucking bone in their collective bodies. All they do is recycle and embarass their classics more every year.
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would be a better choice for a movie.
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Dwayne Johnson spends 100 bucks to eat a hot dog and gets diarrhea.
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I need to see this guy in a fucking R-rated, borderline NC-17, movie where he just fucking rips a guys face off. He needs to be a badass. The only movie worth watching The Rock in is that movie with Sean William-Scott and Christopher Walken (the films name escapes me).
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Those hacky fucking writers are really a pair we can have faith in to do anything potentially cool with this idea. They won't because they're retards who can't write an actual story to save their lives. Everything disney does will be pirates meets what the fuck ever because they're too pussy to try any other formula.
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The Hangover sold as a spec for 2 million dollars and was one of the best scripts of 2008 -- so at least these hacks have some, albeit sporadic, writing ability. I like the Rock and hope this isn't a huge turdball but I'm sure Disney won't let them write it like Hangover, so we're probably shit out of luck...
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starring Mike Meyers and Dax Sheppard, along with Rock the Dawyne Johnson
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SERIOUSLY - You are tossing this shit to our kids. Take it back and serve it at your house Disney.
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He may never make any more movies, but he's still stealing oxygen from the rest of us.
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Or maybe it was a jungle cruise flick, I can't remember. it's the one they announced sometime in early'08 (maybe?) that sounded like Indiana jones (at least in spirit). And yeah, this movie, if made, should really be based around Space Mountain. Not only because it makes a good name for a porno parody, but because Space Mountain IS Tomorrowland and the story prospects are much wider. Calling it "Tomorrowland" is just kind of boring, unless you make it about the "future that never was"- i.e. the future as envisioned by 1950's and 60's USA, that perhaps exists in some parallel dimension and THAT'S where your test pilot goes. ....or something
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I want my air back!
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I was gonna mention the same thing
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...."Planet 51", where he's an astronaut who lands on a peaceful alien planet, but the inhabitants think he's a monster?
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just 1 immoral step away from being in the same political spectrum as the Nazis?
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stupid. Enough of The Rock.
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Just as I have said for years about Tomorrowland--Disney needs to make this part of the themepark into an alternate take on what the future was going to be based on the dreams of the forties and fifties. That was the charm of Tomorrowland, not that it was ever meant to actually presage the future, but that it was the future that we once thought would be. Rides like the Mission to the Moon and Mars, the Molecule Ride and even the House of the Future were awesome because they were a fantasy view of the future--made perfect because it was based on desire--not on reality. I know I'm talking more about the park than the movie--but the movie sounds like it, like the Tomorrowland of so many years lacked a heart--that heart has always been and always will the TWA Rocket-Ship. The future of Tomorrwland and the movie of the same name can and should be found in that red and white rocket.
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