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Tron Legacy's Joseph Kosinski to direct a sci-fi action flick called Archangels for Ridley Scott!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Good ol' Borys Kit at THR's Heatvision Blog has the scoop on another future project for Joseph Kosinski, the director of the upcoming geek tentpole Tron Legacy. He's had the Black Hole remake for a little bit, but now there's a more interesting project, an original sci-fi action tale from a spec script by newbie Andrew Will called Archangels which is about an elite squad that tracks aliens who get past Earth's defense system. Sounds like it has a ring of Blade Runner, doesn't it? Scott Free's Ridley and Tony Scott are producing the picture. Kosinski doing The Black Hole is very interesting, but give me a new story any day. Thoughts? -Quint quint@aintitcool.com Follow Me On Twitter
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It looks like Hollywood does have some young talent who is willing to pick up the ball and run with it!
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It sounds very promising. Here's hoping we get some good movies for a change.
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Trailer is up for M. Nights next atrocity! <br> http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/universal/devil/
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As long as it doesn't have to do with actual angels.
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Now skip the Black Hole remake! Jesus, what's next, Condorman?
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...could be BATTLESTAR GALACTICA good! <p>The first one was sooooo serious in its visibles and pathetic flybys of the spaceships. It was almost as if they were TRYING to show how much money they spent on the special effects. <p> However, the concept of TBH was interesting...even if the overall story was boring.
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But that's more about dealing with aliens who are already living here freely, but not openly. Still, original sci-fi from the people involved sounds cool. Still not against the Black Hole remake, though (strangely).
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Men in Black meets Blade Runner.
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Imagine a movie like "Archangels" gets made, but for whatever reason, it turns out poorly. For years afterward, those who remember it recall it had an interesting enough premise, but unfortunately not much else. Now imagine if there was a chance to remake it into a good movie. That's where I am now regarding "The Black Hole." I like the idea of "The Black Hole," but I don't like the actual movie. I'm not a fan of how remake crazy Hollywood (and I suppose the general movie-going public) have become in recent years, but this is one of the few remakes I'm actually interested in on some level. So frankly, I'd rather see "The Black Hole" I wish we'd gotten back in 1979 get made first. If there's an actual chance of this happening, that is.
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I hope they pay tribute to BladeRunner with a cool 2019 setting complete with acid rain, neon umbrellas, and noir lighting. BladeRunner is a WORK OF ART. No one has come close to creating anything like it.
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Sounds interesting. But if one of the human hunters finds out he's actaually an alien himself...that would take the similarity too far. And I'd rather Scott do an original sci-fi himself and give the Alien prequel to Kosinski.
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July 13, 2010, 8:41 p.m. CST
SOUNDS LIKE A SCI-FI ADAPTATION OF SHERIFF JOE ARPAIO
by BringingSexyBack
Otherwise known as America's Sheriff.
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July 13, 2010, 8:42 p.m. CST
I'LL BET OBAMA FILES A LAWSUIT TO STOP THE ELITE SQUAD
by BringingSexyBack
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"Archangels" is one of those titles that make my ears go up. If its done thoughtfully - a smart sci-fi story - which we so desperately need - I'm all in. Track those bastards down.
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nobody should ever remake the last starfighter or starman or flight of the navigator.
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Wouldn't it be cool if the elite squad of alien hunters were actually tracking aliens, who were actually angels??? Maybe kind of homage to Evangelion!!!
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one could only hope for it to recreated the obnoxiously in your face judeo-christian overtones...like having the antagonist inside the skins of his creation Maximilian ( funny note name of the actor who plays the antagonist is also named Maximilian) in HELL. and the church stained windows when they go through the black hole...eh? come again? but i hope it's that realistic again cuz sure would be swell to cater to the delusions of some people for entertainment.
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I love the original, but I'm actually not against a remake. I want to see what a reinvisioned take on the story will look like, even more so after seeing what this dude is doing with Tron. He came in on a revisionist tab, unlike Neil Blomp, So he I have less aversions to him doing revisionist work. As long as he brings his own voice and ideas into it. You dont have to remake the same movie just because it deals with the same subject matter. If we lose him from the Black Hole flick I will be sad.
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I wish someone would make a Space: 1999 film, maybe retitled Space: 2199? I understand that a UFO film is being made, my favorite of the two related series. Hope they stay faithful to UFO, as it is the greatest science fiction series, second only to the original Twilight Zone.
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I'd love to see it remade... that's what we always are asking for isn't it? Remake the flawed films, not the great ones?
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NO - It sounds like it has a ring of Men in Black, actually.
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I really like what I've seen from Kosinski, so this guy directing an original science fiction story?<p> Hell yes. I'm already way interested. Can't wait to see where this goes.
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Set on earth, starring aliens in disguise as humans. Where technology is so advanced they can make the world look however they want, and the world looks like 2010 shitsville present-day. <p>Twunt sharts!
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Which I always thought could make a pretty kick-ass movie. God, I loved that game.
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Damn, I was hoping for another remake, prequel or sequel.
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The truth is coming! ;-)
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The original had an interresting look, and a great theme...Oh, and Anthony Perkins. Otherwise, it was fairly weak. I'd love to see it remade. The premise (essentially 20,000 leagues under the sea in space) was actually pretty good. It just didn't get executed very well. Well worth being reworked into something more substantial. Like somebody else here said, remake the flawed movies - I can't think of a better example.
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The original also had Ernest Borgnine blowing up. That was cool.
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Yawn.
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ya shithead!
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Between this and 'The Forever War' which, Ridley Scott himself is scheduled to do using some of the virtual camera technology that Cameron developed for Avatar, there seems to be a good slate of stuff to look forward to from Scott Free productions.
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July 14, 2010, 6:07 a.m. CST
I don't think Quint has seen Blade Runner.
by OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUTTTTTLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWW
He might even think it's a dramedy.
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...one of the strangest shits that Disney ever took. It was as if they took two diametrically opposed movies, one a cutesy space adventure straight out of the 50's with hick-accented robots and the shiny form-fitting jumpsuits, and then bent it over and jammed a post-"2001 - A Space Odyssey", pseudo-"heavy", babbling-stoner-shit-philosophy "message" movie up it's ass. <p>Result: A fascinatingly schizophrenic mess. An under-thought, over-cooked script, hammy acting passed off as profundity, wildly unpredictable shifts in tone and some pretty nifty matte screens mashed together with Krofft-level puppet madness. <p>It's such a mess that I'd kinda hate to see anybody try to clean it up. It should stand alone, unrevised and pure, a lonely, windswept highway-gravemarker of what happens when two utterly incompatible movies head-on at ninety miles an hour. "Archangels" - ? We'll just see, won't we? 'Way too early to be forming any opinions just yet....
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Ridley, or some director he hand-picks, should just get a Warhammer 40k film into production. It'll cost a fortune, and will probably be too dark for the studios, but space hulks, terminator marines and chaos warps would look fantastic in the cinema. The Horus Heresy would make Avatar look like Tellytubbies.
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Blade Runner? Try Men In Black.
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go for it
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Men in Black's SWAT team, huh? AWESOMELY ORIGINAL!!!!!
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Along with Rendezvous With Rama and Childhood's End, this is the film I most want to see. Ridley Scott would be the ideal director of course - but I wouldn't mind Nolan or Cameron taking a stab at it.
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Sounds like there premise. Government military organization tasked with intercepting alien threats that breach our skys and deploy to downed enemy craft and neutralise the menace.
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"An elite squad that tracks aliens who get past Earth's defense system." Sounds promising. Will it have a moonbase, interceptors, and maybe...Sky One?
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...Ridley Scott should be concentrating on The Forever War, which he was linked to a while back. Handled right, Forever War would be fu**ing brilliant.
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...isn't Scott also linked with 'Ion', another large-scale science fiction script?
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Exactly what I was thinking. http://tinyurl.com/2fxlz39
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