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Will Audiences Flip For INVERTIGO?? D.J. Caruso, Neal Moritz, Ehren Kruger, and Bradley Cramp Hope So!!
Merrick here...
Sounds like D.J. Caruso (EAGLE EYE) is getting together with scripters Ehren Kruger and Bradley Cramp (the Executive Producer of S1MONE and LORD OF WAR) for a Sci Fi epic to be produced by Neal Moritz (THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS films, I AM LEGEND) and Executive Produced by Cramp.
THIS piece at Deadline says INVERTIGO is...
"about a NASA satellite that crash-lands in New York City, and it creates a “reverse-G vortex” where gravity is inverted. It imperils the planet if a rescue mission fails."
Caruso's most recent theatrical film was the Michael Bay produced adaptation of Pittacus Lore's I AM NUMBER FOUR. Last year, Kruger brought brought us DARK OF THE MOON, the best of the Bay-era TRANSFORMERS pictures to date.
The project is being set-up at Sony.
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more like NUMBER TWO.
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March 29, 2012, 2:06 p.m. CST
This plot sounds far fetched. Does everything start floating up?
by Tikidonkeypunch
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March 29, 2012, 2:06 p.m. CST
Let me guess.He saw the trailer from that upcoming videogame
by KilliK
with gravity manipulation and he throught it would be cool to make it into a movie.after nowadays for HW: scifi = cgi and nothing else.
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not the greatest at science but... say whaa?
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March 29, 2012, 2:19 p.m. CST
How about a movie where Z. Galifinakis plays a bi-polar man child set in the gold rush.
by Tikidonkeypunch
We can call it My Golden Buffoon. Cause there hasn't been enough movies with the word buffoon in the title.
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March 29, 2012, 2:30 p.m. CST
re: "INVERTIGO is about a NASA satellite that crash-lands in New York City...
by buggerbugger
...and it creates a “reverse-G vortex” where gravity is inverted. It imperils the planet if a rescue mission fails." Is this movie trying to out-stupid 'The Core' deliberately or...?
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March 29, 2012, 2:30 p.m. CST
uhhhh no, everone knows the first m bay Transformers was better than transformers3
by red_eddie
the 3rd had too much crap/not funny goofy human characters going on just like the 2nd...and no megan fox! Why do all the transformers movies have to explain why they exist on earth with a meteor shower arrival scene??And then interweave that with goofy sitcom humor. Very lame , the first was way less eye rolling as the third..Hope they finally do something better and different for the fourth one
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Gravity... is INVERTED. A fucking FOUR year old would find this stupid.
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Evidence shows that the word 'golden' resonates with the public, although 'buffoon' loses them somewhat. 85 per cent think it's a type of ape, while 15 per cent question how a balloon made out of gold can float.
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I had the idea for this in my mind for years. Namely what would happen to the survivors if there was suddenly no gravity? Everyone who was outside would be dead but what about the people indoors?
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...got the go-ahead before the opening numbers for lighter-than-air hero 'John Carter' came in? Marketing for this movie may have to downplay any bouncing or floating through the sky.
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Whoever wrote this ridiculous screenplay has no IDEA what gravity is. OK so does the sea stay on Earth? Or does it float out? Buildings stay tucked on the ground? Wouldn't ground itself be moved and colapse the whole planet? How abot the AIR? How could ANYONE survive? How can this be even remotely possible or credible?
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March 29, 2012, 2:43 p.m. CST
What the fuck!?! A real "Floaters"- movie! I knew King of Queens wasn't a sitcom... it was a fortune telling show!
by MariusXe
Kevin James, you smart... man.
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March 29, 2012, 2:44 p.m. CST
It's the kind of movie Karl Pilkington would suggest and be mocked about
by Ricardo
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March 29, 2012, 2:47 p.m. CST
More excited about Cuaron's Gravity than this. And it sounds exaactly like a videogame I read about
by openthepodbaydoorshal
a couple of years back.
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I see what you did there. You made it poop.
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either way, it will suck.
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Beat me to it! Was gonna say "King of Queens did it!". I wonder if Patton Oswalt stole his "Floaters" poster from the set, he's probably laughing at this right now.
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Eagle Eye was way better than I thought, and I didn't dislike Disturbia. But I Am Number 4 hurts his chances. And whomever is associated with the garbage that is Transformers loses me.
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March 29, 2012, 3:18 p.m. CST
For some reason I thought they were screening VERTIGO upside-down.
by spacehog
Which I think would likely be a much more entertaining time at the theater.
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it's "The Poseidon Adventure...on land!" Seriously, almost everyone has had an idea like this to some degree; what would happen if gravity shifted and the ground was suddenly next to me instead of beneath me, blah blah blah. These are childhood fantasies with no basis in reality, it's just pure fun speculation. Visually, this could be a very cool-looking movie. However, to try and encapsulate what visually could (and I emphasize that word) be pretty epic into a coherent plot that doesn't immediately ring absurd is next to impossible, and the blurb in the article does nothing to make me believe that they've done it successfully.
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March 29, 2012, 3:23 p.m. CST
Reverse gravity... wouldn't the suit think that sounds expensive?
by impossibledreamers
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March 29, 2012, 3:28 p.m. CST
In this movie, the early warning sign that something's wrong is...
by buggerbugger
...the world's moles dig up to the surface en masse and violently headbutt the nearest buildings.
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Man I like Salton Sea a whole bunch, but since then his output quality has been steadily declining. <p><p> Still it pulls in the big bucks way more than an artsy thriller so I can't discredit him for the cash grab.
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at least in terms of basic visual potential. Coming soon: Sidewayson (2014) - not an interesting character study of mid-life and merlot; instead a satellite crashes and suddenly gravity goes sideways!
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March 29, 2012, 4:25 p.m. CST
make it a comedy, where girls skirts fly up from the reverse gravity before they start getting pulled up themselves, and all the guys float up following. Then the movie turns into a hooror/drama as they start getting closer to the sun. but it'll be like
by ChiefChirpa3000
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March 29, 2012, 5:22 p.m. CST
The first Transformers was the best, and even that was average.
by Kill List Hammertime
I am Number Four was wank, so this can fuck off.
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March 29, 2012, 5:29 p.m. CST
WHATTHEFUCKISTHISSHIT! & why does New York always get fucked in the ass by what ever disaster is happening in movie land! Go pick on Seattle for a change!!......
by cameron
BTW JIMBE CAMERON SAYS THAT DOWN IS THE NEW UP!! SO FUCK YOUR STOOPID GRAVITY MOVIE; FUCK IT UP ITS STOOPID INVERTED AXIS ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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"Real Genius" Chris Knight would be prepared for this exact scenario.
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Because, to me, an "inversion" of gravity suggests a repellent force instead of an attractive force. Seems like an area of inverted G-force would be like an inside-out black hole.
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I had it once.
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Now how I can a create a reverse facepalm?
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How is this even exciting? Oooh, no gravity. Scaaary. How stupid can you get. It's even stupider than that 2012 movie. It's not even plausible. And you'd expect them to include a funny scene of people trying to pee and shit in zero gravity, people trying to have sex in 0 g, etc. I cannot imagine how stupider it can get than this.
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March 29, 2012, 7:22 p.m. CST
I immediately thought it would be an urban/hip-hop take-off on Vertigo
by Crimson Dynamo
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Sounds like a minor character from Game of Thrones...
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What the fuck is going on in hollywood? So as long as you can pitch a movie with crazy effects, it doesn't matter how fucking stupid the plot is?
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It must be the 80's again. Problem is the people green lighting things aren't as smart as the people back in the 80's. I think the idea started like this... "A movie about gravity just leaving and people dealing with that"... "Why would gravity fail?"... "Um a satelite crash?"... "That doesn't make sense"... "Well will you green light it?"... "Yes". A satelite? Why not just fucking have an alien force show up and use alien magic to reverse gravity. Makes just as much sense.
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March 29, 2012, 10:23 p.m. CST
Guaranteed -- this idea was spawned from the hallway scene in Inception.
by Skraggo
And yes... a lot of cocaine.
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March 30, 2012, 1:16 a.m. CST
Even if you could anchor yourself to the ground with no gravity wouldn't all the air float into space suffocating everyone immediately?
by atlatl
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March 30, 2012, 8:40 a.m. CST
An antigravity field-generating satellite falls to Earth. What's wrong with this picture?
by spacehog
And exactly how long does it stay on the ground?
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the man rips off Hitchcock in concept [Rear Window], and now in a title? Whatever man...and I thought M. Night touted his connections to Hitchcock too close to the chest...
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that would even remotely be able to cause something like this. I mean, even if there was some substance or technology that could cause this zero-g vortex thing, why would they put something that volatile in a freaking satellite? This is dumb on multiple levels. At least be smart enough to have it be aliens that are causing the gravity problems. Sure that is still silly stupid, but not as bad as it being caused by a NASA satellite!
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March 30, 2012, 2:29 p.m. CST
In a world where gravity is inverted... only one man can keep the shit from hitting the fan (literally)
by lv_426
There's the opening line to the trailer. The rest pretty much writes itself. -- hero's (Bruce Willis) kids are trapped in New York -- hero is an ex-astronaut that left NASA after his last mission. His tortured backstory is that his wife died in a car crash while he was up in space, and his kids are all he has left but he doesn't have the best relationship with them nowadays -- hero has to save the only scientist who knows how to reverse the inverted gravity effect, who is also trapped in New York (Elizabeth Banks or Radha Mitchell) -- ex-astronaut dude is the only one who can lead the rescue team into inverted New York, since he has spent extensive time in zero-g environments like the space station and shuttle, as well as flying with the Russians after the US ended the shuttle program -- also, the inverted gravity has a strange effect on some people, causing them to act violently irrational. This causes more problems for the hero and the rescue team, as they are attacked by crazed New Yorkers -- eventually, the entire rescue team is killed except for Bruce Willis, the hot female scientist, and the kids -- they make their way out of New York after doing some technobabble bullshit to the crashed NASA satellite -- the big climax setpiece is Willis and company hauling ass out if NY as the place comes crashing down due to the gravity being reset -- epilogue: New York is rebuilt as Neo New York The sequel is AKIRA American style. The invertigo effect caused some latent telekinetic power to awaken in certain children. There, I saved you all some cash. Just substitute your action movie star of choice in place of Bruce Willis if you don't agree with my casting choices.
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