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Gort & The Creature From The Black Lagoon In The Same Movie?? GO MUTANTS!!
Merrick here...
Universal has acquired the rights to Larry Doyle's novel GO MUTANTS! Imagine's Brian Grazer will produce the film from a script by Doyle; the book itself won't be published until Summer 2010.
"Go Mutants!" is a teen comedy/adventure set in a high school where all of the tropes from classic 1950s alien invasion movies came true. Years later, the children of those mutant creatures have assimilated among the other kids.
Doyle said the book and movie invites cameos from '50s fright fixtures like Gort -- the robot from "The Day the Earth Stood Still" -- and the creature from the black lagoon
...says THIS ARTICLE in Variety.
Shades of ROSWELL and BUCKAROO BANZAI I guess?
Personally, I'd rather see something like this than, say, the redux of MONSTER SQUAD we keep hearing about. This is the first I've heard of the book - cant wait to get a look at it.
Doyle said the book and movie invites cameos from '50s fright fixtures like Gort -- the robot from "The Day the Earth Stood Still" -- and the creature from the black lagoon
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There ARE new characters out there, Hollywood. New stories, even. I'm just saying.
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Why not?
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cock
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Joe Dante was born to direct this movie.I just read Doyle's first novel "I Love You Beth Cooper" a couple months ago and enjoyed it. This sounds better.
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Yeeeeehaaw!!!
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I think that some where there must be thousands of struggling film makers with really interesting ideas thinking, "Sheesh, and I can't get anyone to back my film!"
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....that shitty ass Frankenstein as Private Investigator bullshit that popped up a few months back.Character ensemble films = NO FUCKING TALENT
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DEATH.
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Another great one has left us. BTW, real clever mr_macphisto. How long did it take for you to think of that? Oh brother.
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I'd rather see Joker vs. Godzilla
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... which, in case you do not remember, sucked diarretic ass.
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But Gort isn't a monster or mutant.
And If Gort is in it, then so should "Robby the Robot". Ahh, but there are so many cool monsters, aliens, and giant mutated creatures from the 50s-60s to choose from. -
thanks for the kudos! much appreciated.
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that if you throw enough shit at a wall
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Yeah already mentioned a plot like this 3 years or so back, inspiried by the spec shot at the studios 2 years before this called Creature Features, involving a camera that brings a bunch of B movie monsters back to life. It would either require Forrest J. Ackerman or Bob Burns.. All their collectables come to life. Even Willis O'brien Tiny Kong armature and some of those aurora models. It would be much better because you would have the 50's the 30's the wax replicas and mask bust replicas of famous actors like Peter Loree and Vincent Price, and then you'd have the modern day monsters.. Oh well............
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This movie wont have Ro-Man..
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It can be alot of fun...
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I'm all for defending the best of remakes, but come on. That's like remaking Stand by Me or The Goonies, it's just not right. Monster Squad and Little Monsters were like my childhood films, please dont take them!
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Goonies does NOT suck. Goonies is the fucking end-all be-all of Kids Adventure movies. Second, Sky High was, surprisingly, not that bad. Any movie with Kurt Russell, Bruce Campbell AND two of the KITH cannot be that bad. And third, I love movies like this. I don't know why everyone's complaining about originality in this TB-It's based on a book, and it uses familiar characters and 'tropes', but it IS an original story.
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Originality arguments in talkbacks are futile. People piss and moan about remakes and there being no originality and then when a movie like this comes along they condescend themselves and say the opposite. Let them shit out of their mouths, they enjoy the taste.
I just think there will be a lot of ass kissing involved in this film, to throw in all those different movie characters is a big deal. Especially when some can come from different distributors. Creature from the Black Lagoon and The Day the Earth Stood Still will always remain 2 of my all time favorite films. -
I'm hoping to see all sorts of little nods and cameos if this movie actually happens. Kinda like the Vorhees House in Jason Goes to Hell. Can you believe I've never seen Creature from the Black Lagoon? I need to get on that, huh?
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just burn everything i've ever written - hollywood is not worthy
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Jumping onto his desk and yelling "All-American Boy!" made it worth it. Oh -- and The Bruce too.
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Jun 23, 2009 5:48:05 PM CDT
I'm looking forward to this. BTW - MOnster Squad so over rated.
by hallmitchell
I'd never seen it. Yet after rave after rave on this site.
I bought Monster Squad. Major dissapointment. -
As an adult, Monster Squad doesn't really hold up for me, much as I'd like it to. Kinda slow and boring for the most part. Wow, just admitting that makes me kinda sad.
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my copy of Monster Squad to some friends of mine so they could show their 15 y/o daughter along with both Bill and Ted movies, curious to hear her reaction--maybe you just had to be a certain age at a certain time to really love it
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Jun 24, 2009 3:41:47 AM CDT
Much like the GOJIRO book was lifted and turned into GAMERA 4
by monkey_king
Anyone ever notice how many things were lifted from that book and turned into the Tsuburiya film?
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