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The Director Of The NATIONAL TREASURE Films & (Possibly) The Creator Of THE WEST WING To Make A Greenpeace Movie??
Merrick here...
NATIONAL TREASURE producer/director Jon Turteltaub is pulling together a movie about the founding of Greenpeace. The project's looking for writers and early discussions have already been had with Aaron Sorkin (THE WEST WING).
Set primarily in the late 1970s and early 1980s, story will be told through the eyes of the controversial organization's charismatic founding members, Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler. The duo led an eccentric group of pacifists, ecologists, musicians, teachers, sailors, and scientists as they attempted -- often successfully -- to disrupt American and French nuclear bomb tests, Japanese and Russian whaling ships and Norwegian infant harp seal hunters. In the process, they inadvertently started a movement that is still going strong nearly four decades later.
...says Variety HERE.
they attempted -- often successfully -- to disrupt American and French nuclear bomb tests. Would an unsuccessful attempt result in the activists getting nuked? I know, I'm being too literal. Just sayin'...
Turteltaub also brought us one of my favorite TV shows...JERICHO...for which SyFy is airing a marathon as I post this piece.
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Before it goes straight to DVD.
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"This movie speaks truth to power for those with no voice." Roger Ebert
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So if he's in, I'll watch it.
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Nov 13, 2009 10:52:39 AM CST
Giving it to The Man with outboard-powered inflatables...
by harrycalder
...right up the ass. Hell yes, I want this movie.
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Nov 13, 2009 11:30:07 AM CST
this chick keeps telling me The West Wing = Best show ever...
by turketron_2
Is it any good? Never watched it.
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So I can't be shitted to trust her taste in tv.
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Maybe Bill Murray can bulk up...
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Not that interesting and not that cool. Make something cool, Sorkin. You must have one left in ya.
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Is sometimes a moral failing; but in this case, all good people should take pleasure in this film's failing. This will make Iraqi War Message Movies seem like hits in comparison. And I'll be glad.
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Nuff said
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that's like getting a blowjob with a Doritos bag on your penis.Sorkin, please hold out for someone better...
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The West Wing. Like, he's not sure!!?? :P
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....this is the worst idea ever.
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a.k.a. The Passion of the Clerks in the Obama Administration.
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the world and world govts are being brainwashed by the green movement. The green movement walks around like a bishop with crozier baning people on the head and into submission to accept their word about climate change. there is according to the green movement only one view and that is that climate change is happening and that we have to accept it and do something about in a number of years or. a gun is being put to our heads by the green. i have no problem putting garbage into a bin a number of days a week or putting things into a recyling bin. does any on that make a difference to the climate of the planet. Here then lastly is a quote from an indian delegate from 2009." how can you ask a coutry like india to cut emissions when must of its people cant even afford a lightbulb". there is an awful lot of thruth in that statement,
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no thanks
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don't forget Jon Turteltaub also directed Cool Runnings
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The green movement did not invent or discover anthropogenic climate change. It was discovered by climate scientists, who are about as unanimous about it as physicists are about relativity. Meaning that, while you can probably find someone with a PhD to come on TV and argue that the Earth is flat, most sane people without an ax to grind will accept the view of those who actually DO the RESEARCH. Greenpeace are simply the ones who, having seen the facts, decided to do something about it.
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that i have a problem with. or eco terrorists. and the live earthers..
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Nov 16, 2009 12:46:55 PM CST
Can't be as lame as Animal Planet's Whale Wars...right?
by snake foreskin
Those guys are the biggest bunch of morons I have ever seen on TV. And I've seen Jerry Springer's show, so that's really saying something.
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Have the Greenpeace fags in a cat & mouse game with the Russian or Jap whalers. They could have a big battle scene where the Greenpeace ship lets loose a bunch of silly string at close range and one of the whalers gets some in his eye and goes blind. Later on he is seen with a patch over the eye and a parrot on his shoulder. I think this will be a great success! Way to go Turtletaub & Sorkin! Nothing could possibly go wrong with this production!
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