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Kevin Costner in talks for PEARL HARBOR'
Hey folks, Harry here. The following should be considered as being rumor until otherwise clarified. I do know that some of this... specifically the bits about the Doolittle Raid and the ships that Michael was looking over are true... But we'll have to wait and see on the rest. Here ya go...
Harry,
I run a Pearl Harbor Movie fansite (http://www.cinemenium.com/pearlharbor)
and I got a bit of info on the upcoming Michael Bay film, Pearl Harbor.
I don't know if you want to post this up, but hopefully you do. Here is a
description that u can easily paste onto your news update page.
By now, we've all heard of Michael Bay's upcoming mega epic, Pearl Harbor.
What is making this film interesting right at the start is the fact that the
production didn't have any money left over (75% spent on pyrotechnics and
SFX) to hire A-list stars to play parts in the film, yet people like Kevin
Costner, Brad Pitt, Cuba Gooding Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, and Gene Hackman are
willing to take a paycut and star in a film that Costner has quoted, "a film
that will definitely stand the test of time." Studio officials have been mum
about casting though, but Bay has said he would like Wes Bentley (American
Beauty), and Jim Caviezel(The Thin Red Line). Among others mentioned as
possible cast: Ed Burns (Saving Private Ryan), Keri Russell, and Scott
Speedman (both of 'Felicity').
It is also reported that the famous 'Doolittle Tokyo raid' will be included
in the movie as the film's final climax. A Honolulu paper (The Honolulu
Advertiser) in Hawaii is whispering that Kevin Costner is interested in
playing Jimmy Doolittle's part in the film and also reports that the film's
musical score and theme song will be composed by Diane Warren, whose "Music
of My Heart" is a Grammy nominee this year. In 1977, her "Because You Loved
Me" from the movie, "Up Close and Personal" earned a Grammy; she also wrote
"Armageddon" and "Con Air" music.
In other news, a few veterans who take pride in restoring vintage planes
from World WarII have reported that several of their Japanese replica planes
have been shipped out to Hawaii last week in preparation of the big Pearl
Harbor attack that will go underway this April as principle photography
starts as well as news that Michael Bay has recently visited several World
WarII ships in Texas, most notably the Battleship Texas and the Lexington
aircraft carrier located at Corpus Christi, Texas which he is planning to
use as Second Unit photography.
Harry, I've included an image of the Costner/Doolittle crossover that I
think would help the readers see the similiarities. Let me know if you need
anything else. Thanks!
Nick Medrano
THE PEARL HARBOR MOVIE SITE!!!
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Feb 14, 2000 1:58:32 AM CST
A special Diane Warren theme song? A SPECIAL DIANE WARREN PEARL
by alexandra dupont
Well, hell. Does this make Bay's "Pearl Harbor" the "White Nights" of WWII movies? The "Dirty Dancing" of WWII movies? Guh. Will Georgio Moroder be composing the Japanase attack theme song as a B-side to the inevitable single?
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Feb 14, 2000 2:05:48 AM CST
miss alexandra dupont please lend your intelligent posts at the
by darthpsychotic
i am actually trying to refrain from posting to just trolling. kevin costner needs another bomb like al gore need another endorsement. please go to the other boards and save them. have a psychotic night.
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Feb 14, 2000 2:20:07 AM CST
I think I read this in "Entertainment Weekly" last week.
by cereal killer
Costner does bear some resemblance to Doolittle and God knows Kevin needs a hit film. But is being a small part of a large ensemble cast gonna be enough to resuscitate Costner's wheezing career? It's too bad. I used to like him and he can still be quite good in the right vehicle. I thought "Tin Cup" was excellent. The only time anything about golf ever held my interest.
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I don't care how much he looks like the real person. Costner equals disaster. The day he signs on will be a day that lives on in infamy.
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oh, come ON! Surely we all know the first commandment of film now; "Thou shalt not involve Costner in ANYTHING!" I had high hopes for this film, but if Kev is involved, then just take all the money and flush it straight down the nearest toilet right now.
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Feb 14, 2000 3:10:22 AM CST
Wouldn't a climactic Tokyo raid actually go beyond the scope of
by niiiice
Might as well throw in the rest of the war then. Yeah, the climax of Titanic should have been when the Luthanasia sank. Wouldn't Kevin Costner in a small supporting role kind of jar the audience back to reality, kind of like Ted Danson in Saving Private Ryan or George Clooney popping up for a second in The Thin Red Line? The response was never "oh, there's a captain" it was "hey, its George Clooney!"
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As if the project could become any less appealing than it already was, Kevin Costner's name had to be dropped. I would rather watch footage from the Knowles Hidden-Toilet-Cam than imagine what this film is going to turn out like (those two images may fairly similar, come to think of it). And I SERIOUSLY doubt that either Brad Pitt or Gwyneth Paltrow would have anything to do with a film like this, let alone one directed by Michael Bay. You'd think Ben Affleck already warned Gwynnie about the perils of appearing in one of his shitstorms. I think their recent role choices has shown them to be above this low level of cinematic hackwork.
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I think it's time Kev had a break and people cut him some slack I really enjoyed Wyatt Earp and the Postman was not to bad,not the best film out there but still half decent. You never know he might surprise eveyone. I remeber seeing Kevin as a fly boy in a Speilburg half hour thing where Cassey had to draw a wheel on the plane before he was crushed to death, maybe he can pull it off.
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While his film choices have bit the big one these days, KC has been in some great movies early on in his career. JFK Bull Duraham No Way Out and Dances with Wolves off the top of my head. If he picks the right script then his career will be back on track.
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and then some. Doolittle along with Billy Mitchell were real men, not men who dress up in tights and fake a horrible english accident.
Man, at least for Patton they got a good man to portray him..this is like taking dirt, saturateing it and pretending it's freakin capachino. -
Michael Bay..seems strikingly familiar to James Cameron. Both started off making movies critics hated and ended up doing some serious shit eventually. He's good, but with the scale he plans on accomplishing...hmmm. Forget Costner, that has nothing to do with this project...this seems much too grand anyway.
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Feb 14, 2000 11:05:20 AM CST
harry and father-psychotic made alot of bulletins during the nig
by darthpsychotic
...and if you seen some of the responses, you would have said, bless darthpsychotic, he may have posted too many words in the subject line but he saved the day(actually night). ByTheWay KEVIN COSTNER'S teenage daughter is starting to look good.
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And Costner...Zeta-Jones wisely dropped out of BEYOND BORDERS with this loser. Now he jumps on this - I hope his character gets blown to smithereens by a kamikaze pilot.
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If you're going to defend Costner, don't list "Robin Hood" because it's one of his worst performances ever. I agree, it's a slightly entertaining movie, but that's because of all the other performances in it. I think the movie would have been ten times better if Costner wasn't in it. It's bad enough he didn't even TRY for an accent, he seemed so wooden and out of place as if he were trying to put bits of all his past successful characters into Robin. I was waiting for his "small of a woman's back" speech to come out of his mouth once when he was talking to Maid Marian.
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From the geek perspective, Costner should get some respect. So he made a couple of really horrid post-apocalyptic fantasy films and a bunch of cheesy sports/romance/comedys to pay the rent and save his career. My point is he likes to make post-apocalyptic fantasy action films. So much so that after the first one tanks so badly that it forever posions his career, Costner goes off and does another one. Stupid, maybe. But I kind of respect that. He wants to make cool movies. Maybe someday he will try to make another post-apocalyptic flick and it'll kick ass.
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love ms dupont's thoughts on 'a very special pearl harbor theme song' - i'm taking bets that it will be performed by either [a] celine dion, [b] bryan adams, or [c] wu-tang clan (hey, wait a minute...) as for costner, the guy needs the kind of insurance that a juicy supporting role in a middle america friendly blockbuster can provide. damn shame, because the guy does good work when he's working with writers and directors on his wavelength (reynolds in fandango and waterworld, which is actually pretty good; stone in JFK; shelton in bull durham and tin cup). shame he's signing up with the antichrist, michael 'fire and brimstone' bay.
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Gotta say it, I liked Costner when he was good (in the 80's), but now I've disappointed sooo many times that I just can't stand the guy anymore. KC is poison at the box office, SSzero had it right. No Way Out, Silverado, Bull Durham and Untouchables were good. Dances With Wolves was....okay. He just doesn't really act anymore, it just seems like Kevin Costner on the screen as the same damn character in every movie...he couldn't act himself out of a paper bag (Prince of Thieves anyone). Mr I can't fake an English accent if my life depended on it, must die now!! Or at least carve his heart out with a spoon, why? Because it would hurt, you idiot!! I wish he would just "burn out" instead of "fading away". And BTW, does this movie, Pearl Harbor seem like a "let's cash in on the WWII thing" while it's still popular type of movie? (hoping to ride on the coattails of Saving Private Ryan) It seems like there are too many "let's take historical event and make a movie/s out of it" and rake in the dough nowadays. We'll put a human story behind the history, and sucker everybody in. (Read Titanic here boyos). Red_2 will leave this one as the, "I'm to lazy/sick/don't give a ratsass/drunk out of my gord/can't find the remote to change the channel today so I'll watch it on the 'It's 3 A.M. Why the hell are you watching TV Cinema?' on the TNT network" "But it's Kevin Costner, you hate KC!" pipes in a friend. "Yeah, can't make me feel any more lazy/sick/apathetic/drunk/worse, and besides I can't reach/find/no battries the remote." Well I can't think of any more scathing remarks about Kevin (I had a stunt double for my ass in that movie) Costner. That's my 2 red scathing cents worth.
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Waterworld witch was OK????? I can't believe I read that. That movie was the worst rip off piece of shit I have ever seen. How did it suck??? Let me count the ways. 1 We are shown that tankers cigerettes and jet skis are new enough to still be around yet we are also shown that KC is evolving into fish boy. Somthing that would take 1000 of years to start happening. 2 It is a total story lift of the road warrior. Watch the two and look for the simmalarities. 3 What a waste of Dennis Hopper. His campy over the top Joe Hazelwood worship act was pathetic. To think that this was the guy who brought us Frank Boothe and he turns in this piece of shit performance. blech 4 The cute for six months kid who hummed for the entire movie. If I was stuck on that boat with them I would have flung her overboard myself. 5 No Jean Tripplehorn nudity. I had to rent basic instinct again!!!!! 6 Costner dives in to the water gets swallowed by a huge fish. Later on he goes to dive into the ocean. The hummy girl says No dont go the monsters are down there. Costner replies Oh they dont come out at night. ITS A FUCKING FISH!!!!!!! It dosent know from night and day!!!!! This is from memory. If I ever get caught behind enemy lines and am forced to watch this piece of shit again, I am sure I could list more!!!!!!!!
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But I seem to remember reading about this a week or so ago in Entertainment Weekly and/or Variety. There's nothing worse than star-cameos, they do nothing but distract the audience. Remember Travolta in The Thin Red Line?
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Kevin Costner's career will never recover from The Postman. The only thing that he could do to redeem himself for that cheesy piece of God-Bless-America schlock is die slowly and painfully, prefferably watching his performance in Robin Hood.
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Kevin Costner in a Michael Bay movie? Costner is the only reason I would ever sit through another Bay movie. I believe Costner would be believable as Doolittle. He sure looked good as a pilot in Revenge.
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Jimmy Doolittle is one of the most amazing heroes in the history of the United States. He was also 5' 4" tall, was built like a tank and was bald. I have been waiting for a long time for someone to tell a little bit of his story if not the whole thing for a long time. If anyone should play Jimmy it's Ed Harris. He's perfect. If anyone wants to know anything about Jimmy you can email me or read his autobiography "I Could Never Be So Lucky Again". I hope someone is listening. Don Doolittle
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Take a look at that photo and then think of Modine in Memphis Belle - much closer than that damn Costner
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It is this new Hollywood mentality that the more $$$ that goes into the film, the "better" the film will be that is the source of my fire-breathing ire. Look at the stats. All big budget films are merely summer fare, i.e. lacking in substance but sometimes making up for it with visual panache. Phantom Menace anyone? How come GREAT films never have huge ass budgets? And I do refer only to modern films. Notice war movies nowadays are not ever about ONE thing, such as the war, but instead use it as a backdrop to contrived fiction, such as Saving Private Ryan . It's not just limited to war, as historical events such as the Titanic disaster get the fiction injection. I hope that movie about that one-on-one sniper duel between that German and that Russian remain pure historical non-fiction because that story does NOT require any kind of made up love crap to rope in the average Joe Idiot filmgoer that wants to bring his whore girlfriend so he can get some afterwards...
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If Costner is in this film...I won't even watch it on network TV. The only performance he has ever given that was the least bit believable, was in Silverado.
His performance in Robin Hood was laughable. He should have left that role to an actor who could keep up the accent. In my humble opinion, this film might be good...provided they leave Costner out of it.
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I'm just glad Kevin doesn't allow his mindless, shrill, non-sensical critics to guide his career. If Kevin is eyeing Pearl Harbor, I'm behind him and the project all the way.
These people that are still screaming about his lack of accent in "Robin Hood" really need to get a life! He was romantic, adventurous, soulful.
Kevin treat the film-going public with respect and reaches for our high ground. I think that's why so many of you just don't get him. -
David Suchet [Hecule Poirot] would make a terrific Doolitle.
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I dont know about you ppl but I think its gonna be awesome watchin bay and costner work together. I dont care what anyone says, Kevin Costner is the most underrated,orignal and the most talented actor in Hollywood. No other actor has the balls to do what he does. How many actors do you know do epics like he does. He is an entertainer. I so far have like every movie he has done. I am surprised Michael Bay didnt cast him for Armageddon. Every producer and director in hollywood see that talent in Costner, that's why they all want to work with him.
I would rather watch one of his home videos than a movie made by John Woo.
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