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Jerry Bruckheimer readies Derek Haas' SHAKE!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Derek Haas is on a roll. He and his screenwriting partner Michael Brandt have scripted WANTED, 3:10 TO YUMA and even have BEVERLY HILLS COP 4 in development.
What's interesting about Jerry Bruckheimer hiring Haas for another script isn't so much in the material, but in how the material was discovered. Haas started a site called Popcornfiction.com as a safe-haven for screenwriters to write short-form pulp, mostly detective fiction. Apparently, Haas' entry SHAKE caught Bruckheimer's eye and now they've closed a deal worth "over seven figures" according to Jay A. Fernandez and Borys Kit's article at Hollywood Reporter. Over seven figures? Eight figures? Probably not, probably just multiple millions. "Just." Haas must be on cloud nine about now.
The short story is still up and available on the original site and I plan to give it a read as soon as I'm done updating this morning. I did read the opening and it seems to be about an FBI agent who is showing signs Parkinson's or something very much like it. The story is about him tracking down a killer before his body makes it impossible to continue.
Who knows? Maybe this is just the excuse needed to get Michael J. Fox back to the big screen. It'd bring awareness to Parkinson's disease (if that is indeed what the main character has) and let us enjoy another Fox performance. I can speak only for myself, but I miss Michael J. Fox on the big screen... rewatched THE FRIGHTENERS a few months back and couldn't help feeling sad that we're not getting a couple Michael J. Fox flicks a year.
What do you folks think?
-Quint
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bitches and it's not herpes if it's all over you
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Thanks for posting this story. I want to be clear... the deal is for Michael Brandt and I to write the screenplay. It certainly wouldn't have happened without him. Carry on...
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God I miss him too. I last saw him in Scrubs where he played a brilliant doctor with obsessive compulsive disorder, played the part so well that I thought his character could have carried his own show.
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I loved him in this seasons rescue me. Wish he did more movies or anything. I think it is tough for him. I wish i had caught the TV stuff about his incurable optimist book. Gotta check that out. Foxman is to good for Bruckheimer.
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you know that he'd be game, and you know he'd be good enough that it wouldn't just be a caricature, or a gimmick.
I know it'd be weird, but Hollywood has done stuff like that before, and Michael J. Fox has always ben 20x better than ANYONE has ever given him credit for. he carried one of the biggest film franchises ever for 3 movies, and never faltered for one second in that character... get this made, get him an Oscar nod, he deserves it for his career as an actor, and his devotion as a human being to making the world better.oh, and I'd just LOVE for some cynical fucking prick here in the talkback to take issue with any of this. think he's bad for the role? fine. but don't try to tear him down at all as hack, he's not, nor has he ever been. -
aren't you writing like 15 other things, including A-Team? do you have 4 hands?
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What made that funny is that's a golden rule.
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anyone who has an issue with fox. DEFINED a generation. He just isn't physically up to carrying this shit. I'm pretty sure he himself has said between the medication and even the clever editing the do to work around him it is just to damn tough for him. If there is one project that it was even possible its this one. IF it is even good. That is a big fuckin IF.
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He had a charisma that many others simply don't. He made the Back To The Future movies, the fun they were. In fact, I could pretty much watch him in anything, really. The closest comparison today would probably be The Beef, but even that's stretching it. The Beef is NOWHERE near as watchable as Fox.
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He shows the kind of sleazy charisma normally reserved for much more typically sleazy actors and he does it impeccably. It's a cosmic crime that he didn't get to do more starring vehicles in films because he could have become a hell of a screen actor.
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The toll filming would take is maybe not something he would want to put himself through. Compared to the good work he puts all his energy into, not to mention his family, I don't think it would be possible. Guess depends on the script. The idea though is pretty fucking awesome!
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He was and still is a hell of a screen (ok be it now small screen) actor! The guy is not dead.
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was the shit. I saw it because of Fox and I will admit I had no idea who Peter Jackson was before that movie. When I found out LOTR was being directed by the guy who did The Frighteners I new it would be great. Thank you Michael J. Fox for showing me where the awesome is. Again.
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That's the name of a Belgian film about a hitman with Alzheimer on a revenge rampage, he must hurry before his memory plays tricks on him. Sounds familiar no?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374345/ -
Aug 31, 2009 4:25:57 AM CDT
Thanks, now I feel like watching 'The Freighteners'....
by cheyne_stoking_dms
Goddamnit.
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Jake Busey and his big ass teeth useful.
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Sounds like the recent season of 24: Jack has to get the bad guys despite the worsening symptoms of the Bio exposure disease that's killing him....Not saying it's a rip-off; i loved 3:10 To Yuma so it's hopefully an improvement (and doubtless it was an idea Haas was toying with before '24'...
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he's old enough to play a hardened detective, and yeah, i want to see that guy make a huge comeback.
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The only thing that held Michael J. Fox back from being bigger than a fucking mountain was his agent and his ability to pick a quality script. Seriously, Fox was in so many turds and everybody went to the theater to see him anyway. Very rarely did he appear in a good movie and in the end that held him back. Bac To The future 1 & 2, The Frighteners, Doc Hollywood (guilty pleasure, I admit it). On the other side we have Bright Lights, Big City, Greed, Secret of my Success, The Hard Way, Back to the Future 3, For Love of Money, Life With Mikey, Light of Day, Teen wolf. While some of these may hold a nostalgic place in your heart, you must admit the movies sucked. He did some good supporting work later in his career but his starring roles rival the choices that Burt Reynolds made in the 70's and 80's. Great actor, great charisma and America just fucking loved him to death, but it seems like he chose scripts based on the money being offered and not the quality and for that, he will be forgotten when our generation is gone...sad
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I can't say enough how much I like MJ Fox. I grew up on watching his movies. And Fuck Rush limbaugh for trying to denigrate him.
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I truly dislike the entirety of WANTED. I have no idea if that was Haas' doing, but as an overall show, it is a terrible example of nihilism on film.
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ShakyCam?
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Aug 31, 2009 10:14:19 AM CDT
Rush tried to denigrate him? Never heard that. How shitty.
by turketron_2
Well, fuck that blubbering idiot Rush PERIOD. I do think it's all an act and he and his other conservative talking heads probably get together and have a big fucking laugh at the ridiculous shit they get to say and have their fans eat up though.
Would love to see Fox on the big screen though. I haven't seen The Frighteners since seeing it in a theater, I need to scrounge that one up and watch it again. I remember loving it though!
Spin City was decent too, and I need to catch some of those cameos listed above, but I don't really watch Scrubs or Rescue me. -
Aug 31, 2009 1:00:24 PM CDT
Yeah, the good folks in Mizz can thank Rush for Claire McCaskill
by gqtaste
The dumbass made fun of MJ and attempted to imatate him acting all jittery and of course it backfired and put the donkey in the Senate. That just goes to show when a good person like MJ puts out a nonpartisan issue about the cure of a horrible disease and a Salesman trys to make it political and then demean the beloved celeb. It backfires and like I stated the idiot elephants of Mizz can thank their god Rush Limbugh for making it happen. You must see it to believe it: http://tinyurl.com/nekhd4
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I always wanted to see MJ fox play Spider-Man..him in that role would have been 20X times better than the "full retard" we lovingly refer to as Tobey Mcguire
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Oh wait...
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You must be missing all the Stephen Lang love on here due in large part to his role as the Party Crasher in The Hard Way(GREAT movie). The back and forth between Fox and Woods is great. Dont know your age but Secret to my Sucess and Teen Wolf help encapsulate a decade. BTTF 3, worst in the franchise but still good. Hey, I don't begrudge you your opinion, but I humbly disagree. All the other movies suck. Your right there. Limbaugh is the biggest fatest dickhole ever. Drop dead fatty fat ocicotin addicted fatty. diediediediedie!
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...and I want to know what happens. That is probably one of the better compliments that you can give to a short story. And although many of you might think that the whole "obsessed cop with family problems chasing a murderer" shtick is cliche (and it is), I thought the story was pretty entertaining, and it certainly had a lot of promise. I'm curious to see what the full-screen translation will be like.
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I get it
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I was going to give it a read, dammit. Wanted started out solid, first act worked. But the flick ran out of gas and was towed to the finish line.
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yeah his Parkinson's is truly a tragedy, but at least he's used to inspire hope in people
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that's just a very fun movie, the CGI holds up surprisingly well for a movie from 1995 too
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I'm an asshole! WITH AN UZI!
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The Hard Way is a great movie too, as MacReady452 said the interplay between Fox and Woods is great and Stephen Lang's Party Crasher is both funny and creepy (you have to love the scene where he's playing a custom made PC featuring himself while wearing a face mask and chewing bubble gum), ME TO YOU! ME TO YOU! ME TO YOU! ME TO YOU!
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would be nice if we could delete posts eh?
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I'm 33, and I gotta admit I LOVED both Success and Teen Wolf at the time....I was fucking ten years old! They not only don't hold up well, they never were good films. Like I said before, I love Fox as much the next guy, his choices were awful, though. BTTF 3? Come on, bro, it's bad on all levels.
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I'm blinded by the Fox. I'll concede. This one. BUT THE HARD WAY RULES!!! CRASHCRASHCRASHCRASH
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Basically,this guy rights a two page short story,put's it on the internet & is offered a contract of 6 figures??? Somebody make a movie about that!
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corrected:Basically,this guy writes a two page short story,put's it on the internet & is offered a contract of 7 figures??? Somebody make a movie about that!
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