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The Michael Bay Produced (And Directed?) I AM NUMBER FOUR Has Writers...
Merrick here...
DreamWorks has brought in Miles Millar and Al Gough to script an adaptation of I AM NUMBER FOUR - a new title by James Frey and Jobie Hughes.
Gough and Millar come to the project having created SMALLVILLE, and scripting SPIDER-MAN 2 and THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR.
Michael Bay will produce the film, and possibly direct. All of this per Variety.
I AM NUMBER FOUR is about a group of alien teens who are living on Earth after their homeworld has been wiped out by badguy aliens...who come gunning for them here. We first heard about this project back in June; you can find a few more details HERE.
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Spiderman 2 and Mummy 3. Those are pretty opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of quality.
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not going to see this movie
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You are Number Six!
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The guy who built a writing career and reputation built on lies? And produced by Bay? Fuck this movie on principle alone.
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However, I'm sure the auteur Micheal Bay will create something touching and evocative of the refugees of Darfur or Sarajevo.
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Shitty tv show, shitty movie 'twill be. Maybe in this one, a couple of the aliens - instead of being a rascist's wet dream version of a couple of black guys - could be posing as Pakistani corner shop owners. Think of the possibilities for racial stereotypical hilarity!
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I'm glad he's gotten past Oprah's ego trip.
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Avatar tickets are on sale for opening night
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NO-ONE!!
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He wouldn't have had a career had it not been for Oprah, and he went on TV and lied for an hour about how all the things in the book really happened. After it was revealed he lied, she invited him back to explain himself, and he went voluntarily, knowing she most likely wasn't going to fluff his tush a second time. Oprah giveth, and Oprah taketh away. Don't fuck with Oprah.
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Douche baggery at its finest.
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Please!
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She was insulted. Understandably so. He stated he intended it as a novel and his publishing company insisted it be a memoir. He embellished a few things but nothing taking away the point of the story. And it's still a good read. I like it's follow up My Friend Leonard even better.
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I thought he just pointed and said "Go there and say something, the rest we'll CGI in later."
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..Does a lot of his blowing up on set. The Rock had a lot of great on set SFX going on.
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'I Am A Complete Fucking Rip Off Of Roswell And Race To Witch Mountain'... or 'I Am The Fourth...Time You Have Seen This Exact Same Movie'
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'nuff said.
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I try not to be negative about films prior to their release but in Bay's case I'll make an exception.
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Yet Michael Bay survives. There truly is no justice in the universe...
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How many Meagan Fox talk backs is this in one week?
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Fuck off.
Yours,
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I didn't know Michael Bay used writers. Huh.
Sidebar: anyone else see the faux storyboards Cracked devised for Michael Bay's take on the Great Gatsby? Comedy gold. -
I do not know if these typo's are in Jest or what, but they are annoying as hell, please EDIT your work, don't just rely on the SPELL CHECKER. "Producer" is a proper word, but not in the sentence you are using it in . . . uuhhggg
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when they no longer had sports cars to get out of at sundown; so they fled to Earth.
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just to wipe out 4 alien teenagers??
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You're absolutely right. Being too sloppy. THX a ton for the catches.
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yeah you show that turd who's boss!
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There, i just gave the whole movie away so no need to go watch it....
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Aug 27, 2009 1:18:21 PM CDT
Bay making a movie for kids? Oh wait, just like the robot movie
by sappers forward
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Aug 27, 2009 1:24:19 PM CDT
Bay: Make a small suspense script. Broaden your oeuvre...diversi
by the_genteel_gentile
Something claustrophobic and contained with long takes and no action or cars. Just to prove you can (or can't). Or maybe a light romantic comedy, or musical, or uplifting sports picture. Come on Bay, show some versatility! We've already seen teens and aliens from you man! Just some friendly advise from one of the few here who doesn't outright hate you.
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except with teens instead of 'bots.
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unoriginal.
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Please. Please.
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this project looks set to be a masterpiece of moronic shite.
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Aug 27, 2009 2:46:13 PM CDT
Anything associated with Bay these days, is not worth my preciou
by stalkeye
Hack.
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I wouldn't be suprised if Bay wrote it that way. What a fucking joke. Take your "explosion money", Michael, move out to that tropical paradise and leave the cinema world rest in peace. Bastard.
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does alot of the blowing on set."
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I am one of few fans of Michael Bay. Please don't do this movie!
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and who isn't looking forward to the alien bodily function gag? Will it be glowing green piss, or farts that only our dogs can hear?
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I am a big fan of Michael Bay's works..I loved the First Transformers Movie, The second one was...meh (Visually, it was awesome I thought) and I also liked and am not afraid to say it here too...The Island, Pearl Harbor too...
I know a lot of people are total Michael Bay Haters here, but..such is life...
"I am Number Four" sounds a lot like..Escape to Witch Mountain the remade on done recently and a lot like the old TV series "Roswell"...but, my thoughts are? lets wait and see how things develop...it may even be pretty good? Who knows..?? -
Lordy. Not seen 3 yet.
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Hell yeah, Michael Bay foo! Story? We'll bury that motherfucker in so many things happening at once with no weight behind them that the audience will have no choice but to walk into the lobby to escape it for a minute, then they'll smell the hella-fresh popcorn and buy some, then go back in the theater having spent 5 minutes away and forgotten everything that happened! It'll be Baystreme to the Baymax! And it'll immediately drain all the coffers out of Dreamworks' new financing deal, thus ensuring the company slips further into inconsequentiality.
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Nerds will inevitably attach it to the Prisoner and continue to repeatedly, and hilariously, yelled I am Number Two! You are Number Six!! But WHO is Number One?!?! The rest of the world will just think it sounds like some shit about math or something. Re-tarded.
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Or do they look like 10 feet tall blue cat people?
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And good. Or not. Who knows? Buscemi BOTS!
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Hanz Zimmer has already sold his soul to Christopher Nolan. He is scoring Inception, that should be the final nail in the coffin that you stop making films. Thank you. -
Bay. Time for a drama, buddy.
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He doesn't give a shit about script. Really now.
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with an extra side of exploding robots - Michael Bay.
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'The Informant'
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another race of aliens who just happen to look like humans, or can shift into them. or robots resembling them. FAIL
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...and will probably have more action than BASTERDS. I say bring it.
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before the movie starts
1st guy: Who directed this
2nd guy: I dont know, didn't Michael Bay Direct this.
1st guy: God I hope not.
that was a actual conversation I he
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Fuck Oprah, Fuck her and her stupid phone call apology. She humiliated Frey on national television she should have apologized to him on national television. All memoirs are inherently unreliable.
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Seriously she got her army to make him rich based on the idea that the book was 100% truefax. If I was in her shoes, he'd be missing appendages. I don't like him now. I don't want to see this.
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this reeks of PG-13 banality. how about doing a space epic? blow up some planets and shit
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At lesat Summers is trying to learn from his mistakes. Michael Bay, he just embraces them.
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FUCK MICHAEL BAY!
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FUCK MICHAEL BAY!
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FUCK MICHAEL BAY!
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Sorry, but she's dead on right. Frey didn't write something where there was a lapse or two, here or there, and thus it was "inherently unreliable" as a memoir, as Rev. Slappy notes. The guy just outright fucking MADE UP portions of his book. And I would have no problems with that IF it had been presented that way. But CherryValance is right -- Frey pushed that things as 100% truth, Oprah backed him on that, helped him sell a zillion copies, and then once the truth came out SHE was left with egg on her face.I don't give a crap that Oprah chewed him out on national TV. Hell, I don't even really like Oprah that much, but this is one time when I could easily cheer her on. Frey walked away with alot of money, mostly due to Oprah's pushing of the book. So, the way I see it, for being the lying weasel he was...who thought he could pull one...the guy DESERVED to be humiliated on national TV. Hell, for that matter, he should have refunded some of the money by writing a BIG check to one of Oprah's favorite charities.
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Respect.
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And they will hire writter to adapt it into a movie, and yet it's not even wrote yet. I can see the meetings now. The hired movie scribe exchange scenes, characters, isms, the common love theme plot, names, dialog exchanges, and major plot points with the author of the vapor book and the author tells them how great those ideas. He steals then outright and he converts them into his novel. He should call the final book. "The book that wrote itself: or how I learned to fuck over the biggest names in the biz to write for me and call it my own"
If no one see's the huckleberry finn fence painting moral here. I got a bridge I want to sell ya. -
Aug 28th, 2009
12:14:32 AM
And they will hire writters to adapt it into a movie, and yet it's not even wrote yet. I can see the meetings now. The hired movie scribe exchange scenes, characters, isms, the common love theme plot, names, dialog exchanges, and major plot points with the author of the vapor book and the author tells them how great those ideas. He steals them outright and he converts them into his novel. He should call the final book. "The book that wrote itself: or how I learned to fuck over the biggest names in the biz to write for me and call it my own"
If no one see's the huckleberry finn fence painting moral here. I got a bridge I want to sell ya.
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"Will there be any jive talking robots in this?" Cause, obviously thats what people want. Hey studio execs, sit around talking about what made Transformers 2 worked: must've been the robots, yeah...must've. People love ghetto robots. Yeah, throw in some just for the kids...that and humping dogs, yeah. Maybe throw in an explosion or two. Genius, Bay, you know what people like! Do some more lines of coke while we jerk you off. Oh, got any more racist jokes for us today?
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... If you don't like Bay's work, THEN DON'T BUY TICKETS... That includes the lame-ass Transformer movies (even if you have to jack-off to Megan Fox). Just don't do it!
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... you're joking, right?
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One will be a 'surfer dude', one wil be 'Fonz Cool' and get all the chicks, one will be 'street' and one will be a 'nerd'.
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Speaking logically on AIC makes YOU the dumbass. So get lost, Dunce.
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'Mein Kampf' on her precious little list and people would eat it up. Hey, If I had billions and billions of dollars in my name I'd be a generous fuck as well. Too bad we can't all play fake Santa.
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Actually readers who bought the book won a class action lawsuit against Frey and his publisher allowing them to all be refunded if they bought the book before it was revealed it was all bullshit. The sale of that book was nothing more than a con job. The fact that Frey blames it all on his publisher is consistent with his behavior as a snake who takes no responsibility for his own actions.
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Aug 28, 2009 5:44:12 AM CDT
Why is your idiotic headline in the past tense Merrick?
by glory_fades_immaxfischer
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...and for peoples identities. I'd wager 99% of 'memoirs' are full of plenty of bullshit. As a reader I understand this, so a revelation of such means jack shit to me. All that's important is if it's a good read and his stuff is. I'd rather not be deprived of a talent, which there is a solid lack of, due to some misunderstandings. Apologies given on both sides, refunds given, huge career embarrassment and black mark. I think we can move on and give the guy a break.
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Aug 28, 2009 10:30:29 AM CDT
"to be directed". directed is not just past tense, genius.
by ironic_name
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Is that what people call what he does in his movies? They call that directing? I would call it something else, like, say, shitting in the lawn like how dogs do, or something to that effect.Michael Bay directs! That's a laught!
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WHEN THEY HEAR BOUT DECEPTICON BALLS. GIRLS ALL PAUSE WHEN THEY THINK OF OPTIMUS' JAWS. GIRLS ALL PAUSE........GIRLS ALL PAUSE.
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Fuck Jar Jar Abrams.
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I laughed out loud
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