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Harrison Ford is not involved in GEMINI MAN apparently
According to a source close to the production of GEMINI MAN, the report at Corona stating that Harrison Ford has signed on to or has chosen GEMINI MAN over SUM OF ALL FEARS is erroneous.
Now I don't know who Coming Attraction's source on this was, but my source is very much a part of things, and she/he/it says it's far more likely that Sean Connery would be the lead than Harrison Ford.
So that beckons the question. If you could see a young Harrison Ford or a young Sean Connery.... which would you prefer?
Personally, I just can't decide... I mean, young young Connery is probably more iconic, as Harrison Ford was 35 before he became a superstar and Connery was 32... Actually that's pretty darn close. So I guess the next thing would be... which have you longed to see more.... The Connery JAMES BOND SEAN CONNERY or the HAN SOLO era HARRISON FORD?
Personally, if Disney is able to pick up either... we should leap up and down and celebrate. This is a great script... please... one or the other, sign on!
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Sean Connery, there would be more of an age difference for you to tell them apart. Harrison Ford still looks the same.
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First he is, then he isnt, then he is, then he isnt......TWO WORDS "Fucked Up"!. Personally I dont care who is in it as long as this thing gets made and they stop fucking around.
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Can we pick Macaulay Culkin instead?
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It seems to me this is going to be a tough movie to make either way, but there's probably more footage of Connery than of Ford, which probably makes him easier to use, giving the director more options.
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OK. So the SFX gurus are going to 'de-age' Connery/Ford by a few years. In an ideal world...fucking great idea. But think about it. Look at Connery. Just how well do you think they'll be able to do this? The cynic in me says.....not very well. He's in his fucking late 60's!! You think the technology is good enough to make Harrison Ford look like Han Solo again? Twenty Three fucking years younger?? Or Connery as good as himself circa Dr. No or Darby O'Gill and the Little People? (Sorry - had to throw that in) As I said - IF they could do this - well, I'm there. But they can't folks. The technology isn't that perfect. Look at the digitized shots of Oliver Reed near the end of Gladiator. They stood out like a sore thumb. What you'll end up with is a movie that contains OBVIOUS SPECIAL EFFECTS which will detract from the story and thus the film itself. I can see them being able to do this in say...5-10 years. But not now. You're living in dream world folks.
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Don't get mad at Ford for piss poor reporting. You have to learn to read the fine print. It was a RUMOR, not fact. No one is f***ing around but the people reporting the rumors. So if you want to be mad at anyone, be mad at Harry for reporting it before it was official. I know that in Harry's report that it stated that it was unconfirmed but it really wasn't stressed. If it was stressed then people wouldn't complain so much. Look at all of the negative feedback Ford got about the Traffic role and that was never official. These are rumors people, rumors until the actor actually signs on the dotted line. I personally hope to god that Harrison does this movie, but I won't get my hopes up until it is official.
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I have been depressed about Harrison Ford aging every since the summer of '95(?) when I saw the Clear and Present Danger poster when he started to really show his age. All that sun exposure on the sets of Raiders and The Last Crusade finally caught up with his 50's something skin.
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Wait, im lost here, is this a hard news site, with double checked sources and journalistic integrity worthy of Bill Bradlee (not the basketball player, the Washington Post editor) or is it a rumor sheet, with hints and possible scoops and reviews of unfinished test screenings? Dont get me wrong, this is a great rumors site, with really interesting stuff on it, but its a rumor sheet! Rumor sheets have single sources, and often times, they get fed stories that are 50-100 percent BS....its the way the game works, kids!
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Ford would never commit to do anything so risky. Face it: he only does stale and predictable films because he knows he's ultimately just a product -- and a boring old one at that. I used to love Ford but he has no one but himself to blame for his downward spiral. I'm really surprised he even did WHAT LIES BENEATH. If the Connery RUMOR pans out then I think that'd be a more impressive CGI feat than wiping that glum senile look off Harrison's kisser. Still, are CGI effects truly at the point where this gimmick would work? I don't know. If so, then in five years time there won't be any real actors working. All "working actors" will be the bastard offspring of JarJar Binks.
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Mel Gibson...the original tests for this used Mel from Payback and Year of Living Dangerously. The reasons for not choosing Sean and Harrison are easy, Seans early roles are on very old filmstock filmed with totally different technques...they'll be hard to do. Harrison Ford wouldn't work simply because I dont think anyone will buy him as an assassin its just not him. Mel's older stuff is at least more recent using similar film stock and techniques and he can play the bastard when required.
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May 15, 2000 9:51:39 AM CDT
Well considering that Ford has been sucking since the mid 80's a
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Al Pacino.
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We're not talking about a remake of the old series with Ben Murphy where he was invisible when he pressed a button on his watch are we ? Please tell me we're not !
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I know we need an older actor but geeze, Connery is like 70 now! Ford would be a much better choice.
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I assume the project requires an actor who can be made to look like his younger self, but also one who can ACT LIKE his younger self, right? Are Ford or Connery up to this? I'd love to see DeNiro try to act like his Taxi Driver days... or Pacino (much more likely) act like his younger self. It's got to be somebody audiences know well enough to recognize them old and young... Wow, think about how young we could go with Kurt Russell!
Other possibilities: Jon Voight? Much as I dislike Richard Gere, I can see him playing his younger self fairly effectively. Robin Williams? Richard Dreyfuss? Ha ha ha ha ha! God forbid, John Travolta....
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HA HA HA HA HAHAH AHA HA HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Before reconstructive surgery/after reconstructive surgery... old Luke, young Luke....
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I'm thinking my man Rick Schroeder is the perfect choice here. There's plenty of Silver Spoons footage, and he looks basivcally the same now, twenty years later, on NYPD BLue....
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I was going to say that I was absolutely traumatised by Six Days Seven Night. When he start fishing about in Heche's pants I just cringed. Take a risk mate, before they stop asking...
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I think I'd prefer to see Harrison Ford in the role. He's a total action star-type, but he'd play it more for laughs than Connery would. This movie is a thriller, but the fact that he's fighting his younger self would have numerous comic possibilities. Also, this is totally irrelevant, but I know that a few of Oliver Reed's scenes late in "Gladiator" were computer generated images of his face...which scenes were those, because I seriously couldn't tell which ones were computer-enhanced.
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nuff sed
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ford used to be my god...until the shit fests of six days and random hearts (the biggest piece of shit since plan 9 from outer space).....and mephisto is right that the former-god better do a good movie quick before they STOP ASKING HIM TO, and he starts making guest appearances on Friends and Dawson's Creek.....god!
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take footage from DELIVERANCE and CANNONBALL RUN and put them against norm macdonald's impersonation when he does celebrity jeopardy on SNL....that'd be cool.
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I saw the film twice and had a hard time seeing the seams on that work! It looked to me like they used a line Reed spoke earlier in the film ("Shadows and dust"), and transplanted his face saying that onto the later scene. There was another scene where reed is at the gate during the gladiator revolt where the editing was kind of quick, but it didn't look terrible in the least. My guess is that if people didn't know Reed died during the filmmaking, they would NEVER have suspected any CGI hanky-panky. As with other things (like the ending of the Sixth Sense), some jerk offs enjoys proclaiming that they "knew" what was going on. I guess the Hollywood FX wizards can't fool you, Sherlock.
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Pick him because he is just great!
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Why do you just call this website "Wouldn't It Be Cool If News" because more than half of what I read hear is so far from the fact as to be made up. Harry is almost like Chris Farly doing the SNL skit -"...that was awesome!"
Get real. Harrison Ford has a huge amount of control over any project he does. He has final script approval. He works with any director he wants. The FX in this movie could go either way - they could rock or they could be festering shit. And there is nothing Ford can do about it. My gut tells me that makes this an unacceptable risk in his view.
Besides, Ford has spent twenty years trying to get people to leave him alone about Star Wars. Do You think he want to star in a movie opposite Han Solo?
HEY! WOULDN'T IS BE COOL IF THEY HIRED CHRISTIAN SLATER AND JACK NOCOLSEN AND SCREEW THE FX AND WROTE A STORY? -
I'll pick Connery over Ford ANYDAY!!
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If you forget about the effects approach to doing the character at two different ages, then why limit yourself to using just two actors? They could show Jake Lloyd for shots of the assassin as a child, that Christensen guy for portraits of the assassin as a young man, and then get David Prowse (dubbed by James Earl) for the old assassin. Of course, as the old assassin lies dying (he fell off a wall and broke his crown), they'd have to go with some kind of recreation of the humpty-dumpty dude from the end of JEDI.
Honestly, without being facetious, the idea of doing this with fx trickery seems shaky. If you cut and paste, you might get a workable product some of the time, but there are going to be DEAD MEN DON'T WEAR PLAID moments that don't work right, and that'll take the audience right out of the thing. Find a lookalike father-son team -- what does Josh Brolin look like, anyway? -
Please! Sean Connery would need major CGI just to appear alive! Did you see him in Entrapment? He looked like he ready to fart dust and he had huge bags under his eyes. This is not good. I do have a question though would the young Sean Connery have a sex scene with the old Sean Connery?
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