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MOON's Duncan Jones has picked his follow-up!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Duncan Jones' MOON was one of the big surprises of the year, a return to an old school filmmaking style ala SILENT RUNNING using great practical effects to decorate a sparse, smart script.
It seems Mr. Jones has decided on his sophomore effort, a movie at Summit called SOURCE CODE. I hadn't heard of this film before this news broke, but I know a few of my online colleagues have read the script and fawn over it. That doesn't surprise me. Jones is a smart guy and he is working on his own material, so this project would have be too good to turn down in order to pull him away from his stuff.
Jake Gyllenhaal is in talks to star according to a story at The Hollywood Reporter.
The one-liner doesn't grab me... a soldier wakes up in the body of a commuter who must solve the mystery of a train explosion... but I trust there's more to it than the AVATARy/DEJA VU hybrid sounding one-line description.
As long as Jones brings the same '70s-ish approach to the material I'm all good with him doing whatever movie he wants.
-Quint
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I thought Jones was prepping a 'Blade Runner' hommage called Mute, what happened to that?
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Can't wait, great director!
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of hearing about "great" movies that will never make it to my area. Guh.
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One of my favorites of the year. Anxious to see what else Jones will give us.
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Trailers were great.
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Does anyone have the source code script?
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Not a one-liner.
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the Suda 51 game Flower, Sun, and Rain
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Glad to see he's got it up and running. A while back I heard and interview with him (on NPR I think) where he said it'll be in the same universe as moon. Rockwell is gonna have a small part, apparently.
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You lost my interest with that, and I'm out. No matter how good Moon was, no director can save a movie from that hole. I prefer his brothers acting better.
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The one he was talking about in the same universe as Moon with a Rockwell cameo was "Mute", a Blade Runner-esque sci-fi movie set in futuristic Berlin with a mute bartender for a lead. Devin Faraci over at CHUD has covered it as much as anyone. This is the first I'm hearing of "Source Code".
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And I love Duncan Jones, he seems like such a nice guy.
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The truth will set you free! :)
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Unfortunately, even with a 10 nominee best picture category, it probably still won't get nominated. This movie had me thinking the whole time watching it, and kept me thinking after it was over. That's the sign of a good sci-fi flick.
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at least that's what was reported all over the net a few months ago. I guess the internet's (and Hollywood's) long-term memory is once again nonexistent.
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I still haven't seen Moon yet myself, but the other day I did catch Jones being the interviewee on the latest episode of this podcast I watch, Carpool. Interesting little conversation...
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Its ok. Can't wait to hear Clints score in every trailer next year though! It was probably the best part.
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"Better then" means it was improved a while ago. C'mon people!
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This isn't english class.
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You know, the one with the survivors of a downed sub trying to make the surface? I thought that was next.One thing I'll say though, is this. He looks like he's going to be a pretty good director, but a lot of his sci-fi stuff is veering way too close to his influences. Moon = Silent Running/2001. Mute = Blade Runner. A tad obvious. Blade Runner has been the standard for almost 30 years now. Where is the new Ridley Scott; where is the new bench-mark? That's what he should be aiming for. And the same with D9 - again a good film, but it wears its influences on its sleeve. I like these movies - they're engaging and smarter than the usual summer tat, but they won't go down as benchmarks like Alien/Terminator/2001/Blade Runner/Robocop, etc. because they are really just riffing off past glories, despite their other qualities.
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...look forward to on DVD. It's going to be a good winter.
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the trailer was all mysterious and shit, is it in his head, is it aliens, yadda yadda, but as soon as he woke up after the accident i thought 'ah of course, hes a fucking clone!' and then they even had the guy think he was a clone and then it turned out he was a clone and there was a RIDICULOUS number of clones in his basement?!?! then he went to earth and told everyone else he was a clone! what a waste of time.
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Nov 09, 2009 11:09:24 AM CST
when you can't hate on something you haven't seen
by player_two_has_entered_the_game
hate on eatchother's english hehe
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So you just watched it on it's simplest level then? Shame, man. You missed a great (pretty thought provoking in my opinion) movie by stripping it down to just the basics.
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Is correct.
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Nov 09, 2009 11:20:56 AM CST
one thing not being talked much about...
by player_two_has_entered_the_game
Is moon's awesome soundtrack by clint mansell. I loved it. Fitted perfectly. I thought it really gave the model work lots more scope (which were amazing! I thought it was cg!)
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...a movie I enjoyed a lot. Adrien Brody is a MUCH more interesting actor than Gyllenhaal. What's with the Gyllenhaal fest going on? Saw a trailer for "Brothers," the new Jarmusch film with Gyllenhaal, in front of "Men/Goats" this weekend... YAWN! (But Portman looks delicious.)
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Was I misinformed? Really wanted to see Duncan finish out 3 of these movies. Oh well...
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but might be wrong. Jones said it as in they would be set in the same world, but not a sequel.
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It's damn good. Think of it like sci-fi style "Groundhog Day"
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It had a slow-burn type of build to the poignant conclusion. Jones should be proud of his first effort. The film could use a little editing to tighten things up a bit, but I enjoyed it. As for the new project, not enuf to make any comment really. I am looking forward to what he does next, I like his attitude and film-making philosophy.
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Also love the soundtrack, although it almost feels like Clint toned it down this time around so that it can't be used so easily as trailer fodder. It's subtle, very Brian Eno. And hopeful as opposed to his usual grim sound.
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I just hope they don't mess with it too much.
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They'll use it in trailers, they did in the Moon trailer. If he scores it, they will find a way.
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Can you send me the script please?
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Both achieved what they set out to accomplish: "Moon" a slow-burning cerebral film, "D9" an action oriented doc style film. Both shared some elements but I don't see them as comparable.
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I'm just saying D9 was better. Thats all.
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He's been saying this at many of the hosted Q&A here at the Arclight many months ago. It will be more in the vein of BLADERUNNER much like how MOON was like A L I E N.
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This is a different film he's making before he does that one.
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now Moon is where it's at. I'm all for Zowie Bowie's next film.
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kinda means the exact opposite of what you think it means. Is English not your first language? THAN, retards. Otherwise you are saying Moon was good, then became better (magically?), then District 9 came along so Moon became worse.
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If only more directors had a clarity of vision and an equal amount of talent as this guy. I'll be watching out for his next project with eager eyes.
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Damn my useless mastery of grammar. And this site's lack of an edit button.
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It was not very good. Of course, Sam Rockwell is very solid. He's always good, no matter what. And yes, the Kevin Spacey robot was cute. But the plot was not "mind bending." I saw it coming a mile away, and it totally ruined the film, because all that movie had going was a twist ending, and it didn't deliver.
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They're not really comperable though, totally different films. Just because space is tangentially involved in both plots does not make them comperable.
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Shane Abbess (Gabriel) was pencilled in to direct this... so something has changed along the way. Maybe he's still doing Dark Crystal reboot?
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Read that the director wanted a trilogy of sci-fi films in that universe, so let's see where it can go. But I'll take whatever he wants to do. Moon fucking rocked.
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I do think it wears its influences on its sleeve just a bit too much. My wife had never actually sat down to watch 2001, and when we did a few nights ago, her virgin opinion (with no coaxing) - 'holy shit, Moon took a lot from this movie.' Take of that what you will... Anyway, I think that some of these new directors like Jones and Blomkamp are awesome, but they need to learn ways of tackling the subject matter they want to tackle, yet move away from all those influences and make it their own. So that you see it if you're really looking, but it still feels fresh. I LOVED Moon and D9, but I still feel like I was watching an excellent pastiche of the best tropes of sci-fi films from the last 40 years. To anyone even remotely familiar with Alien Nation, Silent Running, 2001, Blade Runner, etc., it's almost like walking through a museum made to those films. But maybe that's not even their fault, I mean... if you're going to make a new movie about cloning or farming on the moon, how do you NOT wind up with designs that look like 2001? If you make a talking computer, how do you NOT make it like HAL or keep people from thinking that you TRIED to make it different from HAL? Same with Blade Runner... if you do a movie about clones and A.I., or a dystopic future, Blade Runner hangs over your entire film pointing out its influence and your inadequacies to the point where you have to make decisions based on, "Do we just wear this influence on our sleeve or is it even more disingenuous to change it and make it our own... and what if we do that and fail?" It's kind of the same with The Godfather. How do you make an epic mafia movie after that? How do you make a movie about demonic possession after The Exorcist? When there's a definitive statement on a certain subject, you always have to find something that hasn't been said about it, otherwise the movie's inferiority to the classic on the subject becomes all the more obvious. Food for thought!
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Jake? Why?
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he's a great composer...but if you haven't heard mogwai, you should check them out...stunning soundtrack music without the movie! (they have worked with him before, i believe) --sam--
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Look at "Top 25 Scripts" to the right side. http://scriptshadow.blogspot.com/
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It was basically a well-made Twilight Zone episode with a solid lead performance.
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aesthetic. We needed to be reminded of how these used to be done, how they were better than the blockbuster-y nonsense we get now. Now that our memory have been rebooted, we can get stuff with more director control and less studio meddling.
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visually reminiscent of the S&S of the 80's, but taking the pulp source material seriously.
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But people here will. Not sure why myself. Seems lazy, odd and kinda childish. oh well guess just leave them to it if nothing better to say I guess. They like to limit their enjoyment of two great films down to one. I'm having both!
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I thought Genndy Tartakovsky was hard at work on that right now?
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The most overrated and overhyped movie ever at AICN is STINO, aka, Jar Jar Abrams makes a Star Wars movie with parodies of Star Trek characters.But District 9 is the real deal. But i say, because D9 is a good movie doesn't make Moon any less good. Two good movies to not a bad one make.
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They are completely different films, but I will say this, both are excellent pices of intelligent Sci Fi which is remarkable in the world where Transformers 2 was released. I think Moon has the edge over D9, for one reason, Moon stays true to itself till the conclusion, wheras D9 gives in to Hollywood stereotypes towards the action filled climax.
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Brtter to see this two new directors Neil Blomkamp and Duncan Jones being derivative of really good classic movies like Blade Runner, 2001, Silent Running and Robocop, then to have literally dozens of other newbies which movies they make are derivative of shit like The Rock, Bad Boys, top Gun and Armageddon, to namea few.Even if you are derivative, there's an art to be derivative which most new directors don't have. Therefore, i very well welcome Moon and District 9. It's as what Francis Ford Coppola once said, paraphrasing his own old man, "if you got to steal, steal from the best".And by the way, you cana ccuse any movie, LITERALLY ANY MOVIE, from being derivative of something else that went before. If you ar well versed enough in movies, you will always find a previous reference. Blade Runner, for instanc,e wears on it's sleeve the influences from Metropolis and Citizen Kane, while the colour palete is taken form Barry Lyndon. But it doesn't make it any lesser for that. And this could be said about every movie. In the end, all that mattersis, is the story good? Is the movie good? Deos the mvoie show a director which knows the difference between stealing fromthe classics and ripping them off? Those are the real important questions, and the answers are the real difference between a good movie from a bad one.
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But he is completely right on that post.All movies steal some aspect however small from those that have gone before, often it is unintentional. D9 and Moon were bothe great, people should be rejoicing that two new sci fi flicks came out at all that actually had a brain!
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Blade Runner's palette comes from Barry Lyndon? Huh? Mind explaining that one, Asimov? Otherwise I agree with you...
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Nov 10, 2009 10:01:02 AM CST
Gwai Lo, make him shut up about star trek
by player_two_has_entered_the_game
and explain how bladerunner is like Citizen Kane first please.
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Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon is the movie that most influenced Ridley Scott for the look of his earlier work. not just him but also his brother Tony Scott. Kubrick used a combination of film stock, camera lenses, zooms and filters which made his Barry Lyndon look like nothing else that bad been done before. It made a tremendous impact on the Two Scott Brothers, to the pointthey started to imitate. Ridley Scott and Tony Scott say so themselves in the audio comentary for the DVD of, respectively, The Duelists and The Hunger, both their first movies.
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Not even a nuclear powered Jack Bauer warhead could stop Him going on about Star Trek!
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Well, not just the fact that Ridley Scott himself says so, and that Citizen Kane is his favorite movie. but you wouldn't even need that to notice. If you ever saw Citizen Kane, there's many uses of light and shadows and smoke that you can see where many shots of Blade Runner took their direct inspiration. Only Scott did it using colour photography.
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And another thing: this other guy above accused Moon of being the most overhyped movie since ever at AICN. Well, he's wrong, and i said which was the real movie which had been the most overhyped and over-rated in the history of AICN. There's a problem with that?
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Someone has to stop him dammnit! We can't go on like this any longer, maaaaaan! Seriously I'll take 10 lockesbrokenleg's trolling every film and thing here than take any more of his Star Trek rants. HARRY! Help us obi won keknowlesy. you're our only hope!
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I never noticed we had ever been on disagreement before. Is there something i'm not remembering?
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Yeah usually we agree on stuff, but its the Star Trek hatred, I just cant get on board with any of it.
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Nov 10, 2009 10:41:27 AM CST
AsimovLives, yeah big problem with it
by player_two_has_entered_the_game
because it's not the "most overhyped and over-rated in the history of AICN". You don't seem to like the fact that more people liked it than hated it. Anyway this is not the talkback for that, so please don't bring it up anymore. There is a new talkback for your hate if you must continue that boring shit.
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Explain Barry Lyndon? What you mean by that?
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Nov 10, 2009 11:48:06 AM CST
District 9 wasn't intelligent...it turned stupid 35 minutes in..
by thewaqman
All I saw was a crappy homage to Aliens and other sci-fi action films after the 30 minute mark. It really didn't have enough substance to be more than a 15 minute you-tube video at best. Calling Moon the most over-hyped film on AICN is a huge overstatement. That was obviously District 9 since every shithead here keeps throwing Blomkamp's name into every film talkback.
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You said about bladerunner "the colour palete is taken form Barry Lyndon". So what do YOU mean by that? Blade Runner is Dark, full of neon, set in an urban setting and noir style lighitng. Barry Lydon is bright, set mostly in the countryside and has natural lighting. The two palettes couldn't be more different. Jesus! keep up, man!
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Beautiful movie.Asimov, finally caught The Quiet Earth. I liked it. Well, until the chick showed up (search prisons and hospitals, my god you fickle woman). Depending on ones interpretation, not really an 'end of the world' flick. I kept thinking that one of Stephen King's short stories The Langoliers was influenced by The Quiet Earth.
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