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TRON LEGACY Director Joseph Kosinsky To Direct OBLIVION From Producer David Fincher!?!?
Merrick here...
Director Joseph Kosinsky, who is currently toiling away on TRON LEGACY, may next take on OBLIVION - a film based on his own concept. David Fincehr would produce along with Barry Levine, and David Morrison. The concept would also be developed as an "illustrated novel."
OBLIVION's story...
...centers on a battle-damaged soldier who, assigned to a desolate planet after a court-martial, patrols the bleak landscape in an effort to destroy the last vestiges of a primitive alien race. When a mysterious traveler arrives unexpectedly, their lives become inextricably linked as they are forced to question everything they know about this world and themselves.,/b>
...reveals THR HERE.
If you missed the posting of TRON LEGACY's Comic-Con material over the weekend, you can find the film's mighty impressive concept reel HERE. I've watched it somewhere between 50 and 5,000 times by now and feel like Chris Rock having addiction seizures in NEW JACK CITY:
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When I saw the headline, my first thought was: wait...as in Elder Scrolls? Which would have been cool
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oh my.
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George Lucas already raped my childhood. Now don't rape my adolescence Joe Kosinsky or I'll be double fucked!
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I'm seeing it twice! Will Tron Legacy be better than Joe?... Yeah probably.
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...someone's filming an original idea?
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Almost everyday there is news of some game adapted into movie. I know, this is not based on game, but then, day's just getting started.
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...that this was gonna be a movie of the game. Still I'm sure we can rely on uwe boll to make that...
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When I saw the post's title I thought the same thing. Then I stopped to think about it. There's really nothing worth making a movie about. I liked the game and its innovative gameplay, but it's a pretty generic fantasy setting.
Fallout, on the other hand (from the same game studio), now THERE'S a movie waiting to happen.
Can we dispense with comics and toys for a while, though, and go back to the mountain of great un-cinema'd sci-fi out there? Dan Simmons' Illium/Olympos comes to mind, along with Stirling's Island In The Sea Of Time trilogy (talk about epic) among others. -
a remake of 'Enemy Mine'? Or, gulp, an original idea?
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this will tank because the two movies it steals its screenplay from both barely broke even.
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Sounds like failure. And Tron 2 will suck.
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I thought this was gonna be for an Elder Scrolls adaptation, which could've been interesting. Oh wel.
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I thought this was gonna be for an Elder Scrolls adaptation, which could've been interesting. Oh wel.
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and produced by Coppola
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It seems to me that every other science fiction movie coming down the pike is about human military imperialists are kicking the shit out of some peaceful alien race. AVATAR, some computer animated thing that came out recently, I think DISTRICT 9 veers into this territory, and now this OBLIVION thing. Jesus Christ how many times do have to see intergalactic retreads of DANCES WITH WOLVES? I get it Hollywood: We suck!
Could this be some sort of creative pressure release necessitated by the failure of so many Iraq war movies? Or just another avenue of expression that would be happening even if those films had found an audience? -
after years of superhero movies and tween bullshit.
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If you've played the game Oblivion, then you know it could make for an awesome film. Any one of the quests you go on would be amazing onscreen.
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Sign me up!
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I'm noticing this too, and honestly it's boring and predictable. Yeah, we suck, I get it. Can we just get a good story now? Pretty please?
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Sounds like a riff on Cameron's plotline.
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..easily enough for a subway. Avatar looks like some blue alien bullshit. reminds me of that shit movie where robin williams goes to heaven or whatever the fuck that was about.
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but would be a pretty generic movie.
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...mail or parcels of any kind. Also, he can't organize the peaceful locals into a spirited but ragtag fighting force...and if anyone's life is taken but not their freeeedoooom I'm out. Otherwise, cool...carry on.
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...this is as it should be. Pop culture (for lack of a better phrase) is always a pressure valve...a fever dream...working out real-life daytime anxieties with a thin yummy candy coating...
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Read the Pocket Guide to the Empire and you'll find that everyone is a decendant of the elves, even the dwarves, orcs, and humans. The cycle of the moon during conception determines how animalistic a Khajiiti will be once born, ranging from humanoid in appearance to large mounts that walk on all fours. Abandoned steam technology. The Ayleids.Does any of this sound like a Tolkein retread? Really?
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Jul 30, 2009 11:31:48 AM CDT
Meant Elder Scrolls, not Oblivion in that subject line
by immortal_fish
Damned lack of an edit button.
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That's the vibe that description gives me.
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Fallout already has a movie coming out. It's called "The Book of Eli".
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Merrick, you WRITE for a living. Please learn how to use spellcheck.
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Time for a rewrite, fellas!!!
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text-based computer adventure games that were popular in the mid '80s.
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Avatar meets Soldier. How about some fresh ideas people.
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Jul 30, 2009 1:31:34 PM CDT
still sounds better than half of the crap that comes out!
by h_woodexecmakingstupiddecisions
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Jul 30, 2009 1:51:12 PM CDT
The planet is imaginary, or one or both characters are robots/cl
by duck of death
Whenever I read something like "they are forced to question everything they know about this world and themselves" in a plot synopsis, it seems like a clear indication that we can expect something along the lines of "they're in a virtual world" or "everyone is robots."
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I wonder if he'll question why the world is covered with lice, why anybody would pay to fly him out to and send supplies to this crappy plaent, or why the mysterious stranger Ripley can run around the planet with an alien bun in the oven without being cocooned up.
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because its story sounds like something that has already been told.
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will rape my childhood via my ocular cavities
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it looks very nice, but the animation could be much much better.
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It will happen eventually. All I have to say about it is that if the protagonist doesn't begin the movie in a cell then it's not Elder Scrolls.
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Yeah it's got some originality, but they'd have to create some interesting central characters. None of the characters in Oblivion really did much for me... except that mad king dude from Shivering Isles. He was hilarious.
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a major component of the plot of Outlander, which is an excellent sci-fi action flick by the way. Still though, it could be really good. It all comes down to the actual execution of the idea.
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I mean that Tron trailer thing was cool and all, and it definitely has my curiosity piqued, but it's still just a couple of neon bikes.
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then you can bet your ass,that all the wrpgs/jrpgs/mmorpgs are going to take turn.
I dont have any problem with that,as long as they are made with respect and vision.(yeah right).i lived the end of the golden era of adventures/rpg videogames,and their fantasy worlds have nothing to be jealous of the fantasy worlds of other mediums.
btw Secret of Monkey Island has been upgraded and releashed for Steam and xbox2.the other episodes are following soon.go get them. -
That was a weirdass movie. Kustom BRRRRR!
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The trailer for Fantastic Mr. Fox just got released and there's nothing on here about it. What the hell has happened to this site?
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we're getting something original and we're complaining? I'm not usually one to complain about the complain, but geez this sounds cool and nothinggg Avatar and slight resemblances to Soldier with the trash planet ( never seen Enemy-Mine). But, guys, really ORIGINAL and you're whining.. That's why studios come out with nonsense caz when they actually do give some fella a chance at his own idea, those below are quick to bash.... oh yea produce by a dude named Fincher, so that has to be some reassurance.
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nothing like Avatar*...man there's more spelling errors up the anus. I apologize :/
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Soldier marooned on planet meets old warrior?
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The Daft Punk Tron theme leaked. Its the song that was playing in the lightcycle room at comic con. I properly added the music to the trailer. I mixed in the TRON theme by DAFT PUNK to the trailer here. Kept trailer audio in it.
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Are (mostly) always better than hollywood generated fantasy. Anybody see Dragonheart? Or Eragon?
Bleh...I'll take a Thundercats movie or a Gears of war movie ANYDAY. -
in shows clearly why daft punk is a wise choise for the music of the film
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Yeah, THAT'S why Hollywood makes unoriginal movies: because of whiny TalkBackers. So what was their excuse the other 80 years?
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But I'm not gonna get all wet in the crutch just yet. The Tron footage didn't exactly set my world on fire.
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But I thought that pressure would be relieved, and we'd see a whole new era of humanist sci-fi films once Obama got into office. I mean, that was the *whole reason* why I voted for him. Time for some dividends.
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A new science fiction film produced by David Fincher? My feeling is: right on. Fucking go for it. And make it balls to the wall R-rated.
I'm very interested. -
these 2 new directors show way too much promise. waaaay too much talents than the hack pack we have today - sommers/ratner/bay.
just look at some of the commercials these guys have done. i think it's about time for another david fincher to emerge.
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