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Writers/Producers From DEXTER, 24, And THE SHIELD Are Scripting The HANCOCK Sequel...
Merrick here...
Last week, Peter Berg (broadly) discussed some ideas for a HANCOCK sequel (HERE).
Now we've learned the names of the writers who'll make it happen.
Columbia has hired scribes Adam Fierro and Glen Mazzara to pen the sequel to the Will Smith superhero movie, which grossed $624 million worldwide last year. The original producing team is expected to return.
..says THR HERE.
Fierro tackles HANCOCK after writing/producing stints on 24, THE SHIELD, and DEXTER -Mazzara was a writer/producer on THE SHIELD, LIFE, and CRASH television series.
An interesting array of credits that make very twisted sense for this particular project. Even though it's not popular to admit this, I love HANCOCK and am really eager to see what Adam & Glen come up with here...
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You can pretty much see the poor direction in every scene. And the script is becomes a muddled, jumbled, over-the-top, incoherent mess by the end.
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Or ripping a bag of crack from some dealers nads.
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Really? I never saw Hancock or had any real impetus too.. can't we have another Batman movie instead?
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I can see WHY people were turned off by it, but I think it's a great movie anyway. Bring on the sequel.
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I certainly wasn't bored. It just devolved into complete anti-climactic retardation. I'm not completely against a sequel though, as long as its better. Watching the disgruntled superpowered man for the first 20-30 minutes was really enjoyable.
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I await the sequel eagerly.
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No one "loves" Hancock. It was fine, could've done with more filthy humor - more filthiness in general - but is certainly not a truly wonderful bit of cinema. You can love Citizen Cane, Pulp Fiction, The Iron Giant, even District 9, but you don't love Hancock. That was silly.
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...pretty much equivalent to a sequel to my last dump. Unpleasant, but inevitable. Gee thanks, Hollywood.
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Every moment of it. Although I recognize it's dramaturgic flaws. But this time they won't re-write the script over the course of 10 year.
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Aug 25, 2009 9:56:55 AM CDT
After reading the script, Will asks "Where are the 'Aw Hell Naws
by yackbacker
Call in Robert Towne for the re-write.
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The first Hancock was deeply flawed and said all it had to say regarding the fates of its main characters, so I want to see the back story of the two gods from day one. Think about it: a sprawling epic of romance and heroic deeds that spanned world history. That would be awesome if done properly, but I very much doubt that's what we'll get. Pfooey.
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best part of the movie honestly.
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I cant believe it made that much money though, fuck!
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Because I do not remember seeing anyone get swept up in HANCOCK-mania when it was released. Even the positive reviews I read reserved a lot of criticism for the film.
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pretentious fucks who try to tell me what my opinion should be or how much I should love a film based on how THEY felt about it. That, plus the whole "If you don't agree with my opinion, then you're a fucking retard" attitude makes these boards a sociologist's/psychiatrist's wet dream for case studies. I love it. That is, if that's okay with everybody.
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You had good actors with some very middling material and what you got was about 25 minutes of strong material stretched out over the course of 2 hrs. It's a C+ movie. It's not shit, nor is it good. It glorified spaghetti and meatballs. How fucking average can you get?
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has anybody else had enough of the fresh prince?
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I liked the first half of Hancock, when he was an asshole.
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Obviously, this film made loads of money, so someone is going to want to pump out a sequel. The original had POTENTIAL to be cool. It's a cool premise, with cool possibilities and had a pretty cool cast... that all failed to deliver anything really cool at all. This WOULD have been cool if it was perhaps a little edgier, a little more coherent, a little better acted, a lot better scripted, a lot better structured and almost totally fucking different to the end result. Above all, it would have been cool if it's weird plot twists came from somewhere. It seemed like they made it up as they went along. Like half way through filming Will Smith walked on set and said "Yo, Pete! I gots me an idea. Let me rap it to you..." and Will Smith rapped the story twists and turns to Pete and Pete said "Will, if we DONT have to release a song of yours with this movie, I will do what ever the fuck you want with this script." ...Anyway, WAY off track here. This is seriously not cool news, as can be seen by the reactions of most talkbackers in this, and the previous Hancock article. Merrick, I love that you keep this site updating. Nobody else really does these days. Just a bit here and there. Which is fair enough - everybody has stuff to do, and what incentive is there to report to a bunch of rather feisty talkbackers - but really the quantity of posting, late reports and the amount of "cool" on the site is a little lacking of late. Maybe it's an end of summer lull. Merrick (and other contributors to this site) I would rather see you post a collection of funny youtube clips than more articles on Hancock.
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which all the lemmings will line up to go see, will be totally crap, will make hundreds of millions of dollars and in 3 years time here on AICN there will be an article like this one announcing Hancock 3. And so we go swimming round and round and round and round...
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I really liked the first half, with Jason Bateman's character trying to rehabilitate Hancock's image. That was an interesting and entertaining take on the superhero movie. But once Charlize Theron and the "ancient gods" crap came into play, it was over for me. As a backstory for Hancock, it would have been fine if he discovered his true identity at the end of the film and restored his faith in himself. Dedicating the last half of the movie to Charlize and Hancock as bickering gods was just silly and went a bit too far in the "fantasy" direction for me. Not interested in a sequel.
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Hancock is doing fine, staying away from Mary. Some superhuman rumors begin showing up from other parts of the world. Ray starts feeling uncomfortable around Mary, because she could tear him apart and will definitely outlive him. Mary talks about starting a family, he is hesitant to have a child with her. The superhuman rumors grow stronger, and it sounds bad. Mary, the selfish bitch, doesn't do a damn thing about it. Hancock investigates, and finds a superguy who claims to be his son. They fight, and Hancock is beat. END ACT 1.
Hancock, depressed, falls off the wagon and turns into his old self. Ray wants to go and help him. Mary wants to stay away. They argue. Ray leaves alone. He finds Hancock and interrupts one of his drunken displays. Then the son shows up and taunts him. He also drops more stupid made-up rules about the mythology, that halfbreeds can break the rules established in the first film. They don't get weak around other superguys. And they are compelled to destroy other superguys. He leaves. Ray helps Hancock, and also bitches about Mary. Hancock goes sober again and advises Ray to go back to Mary and talk things out. Ray goes back, they talk. Mary reveals that she is pregnant. END ACT 2
Ray, worried about the world getting another halfbreed, contacts Hancock. Hancock goes to them and all three argue about what to do about the baby. Then the son shows up. During the scuffle, the son seems to get weak around Mary, more specifically her fetus. It's apparent that halfbreeds weaken other halfbreeds. Now that the son is weakened, Hancock is able to kill him. Sappy drama occurs. Nine months later... Hancock, Ray, and Mary are all cooing at the newborn. They explain that since halfbreeds are compelled to destroy superguys, Mary and Hancock should always stay near each other, thereby keeping themselves from becoming super ever again.
There. I think that's just as stupid and illogical as the first one. -
"Ya'll fellas sure you wanna ride that train?"
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You forgot to add a completely random, out of no where twist type scenario like the kids aren't really Gods - That would make too much sense for a Hancock movie. They are actually Aliens. Artificially inseminated into the mothers after abductions we learn happened years ago - but we just accept it because, well, why the fuck not hey? They gave us GODS in the first one.
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*Pointing gun at head, squeezing trigger.*
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they could have done without the long lost romance storyarc. But as i have said before, the premise is new and more refreshing (A dramady involving an obnoxious Superhero who befriends a Public relations agent as he so desperatley needs to fix his image.) than say...Superman Retreads and X-lax 3.I look forward to a sequel and even a backstory prequel like one of the Tbers suggested would be good.
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Will reinvent the way movies are experienced Epic masterpiece mind-blowing Photo-realJaw-droppingCGI unlike anything you have seen before Like dreaming with your eyes open Revolutionary Cameron's Lawrence of ArabiaGame-changerThis generation's Stars Wars Unlike anything you have seen before Truly amazing Prepare to be blown away Breathtaking Like a highly addictive drug that had left my mind yearning for more Can't stop dreaming about it This movie had activated parts of my brain that were previously untouched by conventional, two-dimensional films
Does not look like shit
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...by dropping the Bateman angle. THAT is what the entire film should've been about. THAT was interesting. THAT is what was unique about the property. Now we've just got another run of the mill superhero franchise. Unless the sequel is a prequel of sorts, I don't think I'll care much. You had something good there, Will. You really did. But y'all blew it.
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Meh, I liked the first movie anyway. It did feel kinda like set up for a larger storyline in any case, especially with no real villain and no full explanation of their origins.
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It wasn't great. I enjoyed it. Was troubled by the thought they could have done it a lot better, that it was a set-up with, in many ways, a poor delivery, and so on. But, on the whole, is was a perfectly good motion picture. I bet a sequel will be as good, if not better, than the original, no matter what direction they go.
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It didn't even hit half that after DVD and Blu-ray sales. They even include the PS3 bundles and it doesn't even come close to 350m.
This movie wasn't a hit, and only narrowly avoided being a sucktastic flop. Even this site had mixed feelings about it, and AICN has been apologist spindoctoring entertainment industry whores for a few years now.
The movie wasn't all that bad, it just wasn't very good either. It suffered from 'WillSmithitis', the recurring condition of confusing being a wise-ass with actual acting.
I'm not saying Will Smith can't act, I'm saying he simply doesn't.
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Is uncool. And there are always contrary thinkers on all sides. Start going on about how that Justin + Kelly American Idol movie (or whatever it was called) was a complete piece of crap, someone will defend it. Praise Casablanca or Rebel Without a Cause or Raiders or Star Wars and _someone_ will show up to call it shiiite. Cuz that's just how Talkbackers roll.
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Domestic was $228 million, foreign as $396 million. Does not include DVD and Blu-Ray and Cable sales, etc. Hancock, imperfect though it was, was obviously a profitable property. I don't think they'd be making a sequel of it if the money wasn't there.
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has found the power and the glory of the cut n paste. PRAISE GLORY!!
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Not sure about this. I liked the drunken, accident-prone superhero parts of Hancock. The whole gods thing at the end and pretty much any scene with Charlize Theron were the weak points of the film. Hopefully with people who make Dexter/The Shield/24 so badass on the case the sequel will do something interesting and different.
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I mean... it's done and done, already now. But anyway, screw that prequel stuff... Do a Superman II take off, and have Will Smith kneeling before Todd(Tony, that is!) ;-) Oh, well, I only caught HANCOCK on video, so I guess I'm not that interested to begin with.
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What a lame antagonist that was. His plan was to shoot Hancock/
Really?
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A sequel oh what now is Hancock going to fight some car jackers at the end? The first film SUCKED and had no point. It randomly tried to be every superhero movie ever made. Including the end where he stands with a bird that was never exaplained and jumped off. I assumed he committed suicide but a second one will ruin that for me. Drop the God stuff all of that was stupid just totally revamp the story. Make them government projects or aliens or change the mythology so we can have an actual hero versus villain scene.
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Aug 25, 2009 12:57:51 PM CDT
You just KNOW the next one will include super kids.
by isleptwithkathybatesandallthatigotwasthi
Where do you after you've taken a grumpy, uncaring superhero and turned him into someone who cares?You give him kids.He'll find out that some woman he superfucked whilst he was drunk now has a child who can fly around or something. There will be all of this 'oh so funny' bonding between them before the kid is kidknapped by a villain and Hancock realises how much he loves the kid and goes after him.I'll drink Danny Glover's dickblood if I'm wrong on this.
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Hancock was for 12 year old boys. If you're an adult and enjoyed it, do youself a favour and seek help. You're either emotionally stunted or a stupefyingly fucking thick cunt. I'd put this shit next to 'Norbit'. RIP Hollywood...
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A sequel to an uneven pile of shit that is mostly forgotten or despised a year later? Nah, let's go and play outside instead.
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That's the direction I really wanted the movie to head in. Sadly, we got nonsense instead.
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IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. Peter Berg is a talented director but Hancock was a muddle of half-baked ideas, most of which were lame. IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. GET THE FUCK OVER IT.
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other super powered serial killers.
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DAMMIT!
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During the day, who help get rid of the evidence of his killings.
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that joke of yours is old and played out. give it up
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Just awful. I can't imagine the sequel will be any better - they sure aren't getting my money again - or about 75% of the people I know who watched it.
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therefore the studios see it as a money making franchise. when it flops the studios will be confused and decide that super hero movies are not profitable anymore. this is why studios will stop making super-hero movies. blame Handcock
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...Will Smith will get his hands on their script, and ghost rewrite it, destroying anything that may be good about it, that they may write. He does it on every film, and every script...that he comes near.
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It just happened to be a very forgettable film so I don't think a sequel would come close to that number unless it were a vastly better movie
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I'd like to see a Hancock sequel. The first movie was a bit of a let down but still entertaining overall. The nice thing about this character is that there is no canon to fuck up. They can create their own backstory. Similarly, I'd like to see a sequel to "Unbreakable" but I don't see that happening anytime soon.
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Hancock vs. Zombie Apocalypse, Hancock vs. Tremors, Hancock vs. 2012, Hancock vs. Killer Clowns from Outer Space, Hancock vs. Vampires, Hancock vs. Terminators, Hancock vs. Aliens, Hancock vs. Predators, Hancock Scared Stupid, Hancock goes to Camp, Hancock in the Forbidden Zone, etc. Make him the new Earnest and the new Godzilla. Whatever they do, just don't do it like the first movie which put me to sleep.
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It was like a movie that did not know what it wanted to be... a drama? a comedy? a superhero movie?
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new Dexter begins? With guest John Lithgow all season?
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Will Smith needs to star in more movies like 'Enemy Of The State'. That was the perfect action/thriller. 'Hancock' was not only a breath-takingly bad film, the CGI was terrible. I can't believe this isn't mentioned more. It's so jarring; more so than even 'Die Another Day'. Why is Hollywood so short of good ideas?
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Wouldn't 'Funny People' have been much better with funny people acting in it?
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I honestly don't get what's his appeal.
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should stay out of movies.
They distort the movies: first by rewriting the scripts so they get all the screen time and then by appearing on the screen, getting all the screen time.
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the first episode of dexter leaked, you can find it online if you are an unscroupulous fellow who doesn't have a moral dilemma with that sort of thing.
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There was nothing at all worth revisiting about that movie. I'd rather see them dig up Men in Black again or hell, give us a sequel to I, Robot before another Hancock. And in the realm of super hero movies, I'd rather see a sequel to that take off Super Hero Movie with Drake Bell. I can't believe they're spending money on more of this shit.
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Now here's a movie that cries out for a sequel! FUCK D9! Right? RIGHT MUTHA' FUCKERS?
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Its a very nice superhero film --
I think that's why a lot of reviewers got weird on it-- they were kinda caught flat-footed when it became a real superhero film.
Yeah flawed... deeply flawed, but so is the graphic novel Watchmen or the novel Moby Dick (not that Hancock is threatening either with its awesomeness)
I enjoy it and have re-watched the DVD several times
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Make that much money? WTF?
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He doesn't have to keep calling himself "Hancock" now that his identity has been revealed. Unless this is now a matter of branding, as his PR guy will tell him...
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DONT WANT A FUCKING "HANCOCK" SEQUEL!!!
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You've reminded us of this a million times, so since you've 'grown up in the business' howabout you write one of your famous and flawless 'script treatments' and use those 'people in the business' to get you a sit down with Will Smith. But knowing you, Will Smith and/or Peter Berg are on this talkback waiting and ready to steal any bit of an idea you'll put up here... although you've made it clear that you are allowing 'no more freebies' here. ...But if you have an apple tree in your front yard, and nobody is snatching the apples, does that mean you've been giving those apples away as freebies? and would making a sign saying 'don't steal my apples' make any tiny bit of a difference? cause nobody was eating them already.., Seems like making that sign would be a big waste of time.
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so how do you like them apples
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So anything slightly connected/related to Dexter pwns "almost everything" ;).
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so the circle of shit can be complete
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That was the good part.
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In bygone era, a successful movie would spawn imitations.
Now the producers of the original spawn the imitations.
Why does no one produce something similar, say, to Star Trek only different?
The "only different" part is important for avoiding lawsuits.
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when a movie is 80 minutes long and feels like 280 it NEEDS TO BE THROWN INTO A BLAZING HELLFIRE.
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Big Lob: My man, let's talk about that 'super' suit....
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Aug 25, 2009 10:50:29 PM CDT
This should be a prequel where Hancock is a bum.....
by gibsonusa returns
...and underappreciated...but doesnt give a crap.
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...his relation to that girl, and some random comic supervillan, then it will suck ass. Hancock being a bum on the bench that did it his own fn way is what made him stand out.
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Absofuckinglutely. A sequel to Unbreakable is what I really want to see. I'd love to see Mr. Glass breaking out of an insane asylum and Bruce Willis hunting down serial killers, using his teenage son to lure them in. If they think Hancock is going to make them mint, imagine how much money they could REALLY make if they made Unbreakable 2. I'm finally convinced Hollywood doesn't want to make money.
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Yeah man, i'll second that shitty CGI. Unfuckingbelievable. I saw that shit on a big LCD screen on Blu-Ray. NOT A GOOD IDEA. That fucking photoshop Will Smith was god awful and distracting in 1080i. What the hell happened to Apogee? Is John Dykstra even there anymore? If he is, he's fucking high to think that slipshod work in a major motion picture is even close to acceptable. Oh yeah, and the story sucked too. There gods? That's the big reveal? Sounds like a half baked Star Trek episode. Who Mourns For Peter Bergs' Career? Not me. I wish he would just stop making movies and stay the fuck away from Dune.
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Nice. Fucking sweet burn, dude. Booyah.
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Aug 26, 2009 1:31:39 AM CDT
Ryanbraun14: I Didn't Pitch A Script Idea On This Talkback
by media messiah
Besides, if I did, and let's say Peter Berg was crazy enough, or insightful enough, or daring enough, to go for it, Will Smith would simply rewrite it...and destroy it. He does it with every film that he stars in.
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on BD. The extended version. After much of the hate aimed at it, I wasn't expecting much. However, I did find myself enjoying it. The end wasn't predictable. Sure it had a few problems, but I didn't find it anywhere near as bad as yak-backers had said it was. Would I see a sequel? yeah. Would I watch it in the cinema? depends on the trailers and premise. But overall, I'm glad we'll see more from thisi character.
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We as viewers have been screaming to the sky about how much we hate sequels, money grabs and milking of franchises and "producing" unoriginal material... but everything released these days are these things we hate.
I have a theory that says while we hate bad movies, the familiar and comfy styling of what "we know" is easier and safer for us than something edgy, new and out of left field, say, like DISTRICT 9 or WORLD'S GREATEST DAD. The truly original, fun films out there never get seen by the mass collective of goo out there, because the goo doesn't like new things. they want their Coke and Big Mac and Adam Sandler with a football to the crotch. If its something foreign, they instantly hate it and you spend the whole movie fighting for them to get on your side. This is why only a handful of directors are considered "Great" when in reality, they're only great because they're given a chance, succeed, and are still riding the coat tails of movies long ago even though other directors could do just the same quality work, but without the big name attached. -
With nothing else to go by but the use of Eagle, I'd say Zeus. though it was Charlize who summoned thunder and stuff.
And that brings to the key problem with Hancock. It worked as long as it was about a 'Bad Santa'sque superhero. But the moment they threw in Charlize's powers and the whole 'mythology', it went downhill. Not to mention, a really really REALLY lame finale [more like final act]. -
is perhaps wipe his own ass. Or maybe wrap fish with it. Now go home and get your shine box...
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mostly due to being due to be tonally schitzo. Trying to be a comedy an epic tragedy and mixing greek mythology into it? If the movie was did not fein being a slly comedy for the first half hour maybe it had a chance. anyway despite hancock being shit a sequel will be interesting due to the mythological aspect. I just dont to see a jane austen movie mixed with a wayans brother movie in one!!!
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mostly due to being due to be tonally schitzo. Trying to be a comedy an epic tragedy and mixing greek mythology into it? If the movie was did not fein being a slly comedy for the first half hour maybe it had a chance. anyway despite hancock being shit a sequel will be interesting due to the mythological aspect. I just dont to see a jane austen movie mixed with a wayans brother movie in one!!!
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im surprised it made as much as it did, considering it completely lacked a storyline, i did watch it and in all honestly completely forgot about it
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The second half was fucking awful and the backstory makes zero fucking sense if you think about it for more than 7 seconds. That being said, it's miles better than the steaming load of overrated horseshit that was the original script.
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you know the "producer" credit is just given to tv writers because that qualifys them for more emmy categories, right? they don't "produce" shit (whatever that means, what the fuck do producers do anyway?)
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God Gawd!!
Say it ain't so!! A sequel to "Hancok"!?!? I thought the first one was a MAJOR disappointment! Thank god the summer wasn't an entire wash out back when that movie was released! Thankfully we had Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk and Dark Knight to enjoy and forget about how bad this film was!!
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Cause Hancock, was great. Riiiiight. Why would AICN fools post this? Hopefully to let us flame it and show mofos the light.
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Is what Princess Leia be gettin' every night.
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Cock Harder
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Aug 26, 2009 2:48:07 PM CDT
Sincce I Didn't Offer To Write An Outline On This Talkback...
by media messiah
...why the obsession with me??? The two guys that they picked to write ths film, sound like great writers to me, but my point is, which you guys seem to be mssing, is the fact that...Will Smith will greatly alter their work, no matter what it is, or how good, or great it may be, to the point of being completely unrecognizable--he always does it???
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Before you write an outline you should first learn to write a coherent sentence. One that doesn't include several commas and a question mark when you aren't asking a question. Also, you don't need software to write an outline - a pad of paper and a pen will do just fine. You should also learn to appreciate great films like 2001: A Space Odyssey.
No go home and get your %$^*%# shine box! -
I can count on at AICN. 1. BIG LOB rules. 2. Trannyformers reviews are dead on. 3. Hancock blows (fact)
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