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Re: The Recent Rumored Title Change for FROM HELL
Hey folks, Harry here... Just the other day on Dark Horizons I saw a note that claimed that FROM HELL was changing its name to JACK (yes, as in Coppola's ill-begotten nightmarish hellhole of a film). Well I contacted someone at the very top of the production who told me that this rumor was completely BS... Apparently the title, FROM HELL was ok-ed by the MPAA over a year ago. So never fear... FROM HELL is a title of a film coming to theaters this year.... thank god....
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I didn't know the MPAA could approve titles two years in advance. Now if they would just back off on silly shit like censoring movie posters, etc.
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if the movie wasnt going to change why post the article??
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from hell is a cool and orginal title and they should definately keep it
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Since "From Hell" the movie has been fundamentally altered from the classic graphic novel, I was in favour of a name change. If the new title was planned to be "Jack", then so be it; it would be a crappy Ripper movie with no link to taint the original. I'm quite disturbed that they are in fact going to release this compromised pile of puke with the title "From Hell", thus forever tarnishing the reputation of a great book.
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I just want to take this opportunity to say once again how much Amy Robinson rocks. I mean, she was in MEAN STREETS, now she's producing FROM HELL, and she's helping NEVER AGAIN with distribution! Damn! That's cool.
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about this title since the MPAA will no longer allow "hell" as part of a title. So why the laxness here? I know it is best that way since that is the title of the graphic novel it comes from, but I am shocked the MPAA chose to see it that way...
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I would go see a movie about Jack the Ripper called "From Hell" any day rather than "Jack". Jack-what? Jack In the Box, Jack Mehoff? This is proof that the MPAA really has to get their act together! What about all-American, John Wayne in "Hellfighters", based on Red Adair, Clive Barker's "Hellraiser" series, "Hell Is For Heroes" with real men Steve McQueen and James Coburn, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans in "Heldorado", "Hellcats Of the Navy" with the ex-Comander-In-Chief", Ronald Reagan, ""Hell Below Zero" and "Hell On Frisco Bay" with Alan Ladd, Cy Endfield's classic all-star cast film(Every actor is this flick went on to be successful!) "Helldrivers", "Hell's Angels" with Jean Harlow, Olson and Johnson in "Hellzapoppin", Joseph Cotton in "Hellbenders" direcetd by Italian Western maestro Sergio Corbucci, "Hell In the Pacific" with the ultra cool actors Lee Marvin and Toroshio Mifune, those are just a few of the films I know and I'm sure that the list is long! The MPAA has some serious issues to deal with in their innercore because if a preacher can use the word hell in his sermon and the MPAA Nazi's won't allow it in a title, there's a major problem here!
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...which everybody in the board meeting felt was more peppy and lighthearted. They all agreed that the whole "From Hell" thing was overdone with "The Boss From Hell" "The Girlfriend From Hell" "The Pizza Guy From Hell". The suits are trying to be original, folks, and it's the damned creative types that keep giving us these cliches.
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Mar 28, 2001 11:39:46 PM CST
Also, It's Not The Word "Hell" That The MPAA Won't Allow In Titl
by buzz maverik
It's the word "fuckin'". Which is why you won't be seeing Chevy Chase in NATIONAL LAMPOON'S FUCKIN' WORKING VACATION or Mel Gibson in LETHAL FUCKIN' WEAPON. Even Ron Howard is not immune and was not allowed to go with his original title FUCKIN' DR. SUESS' HOW THE FUCKIN' GRINCH FUCKIN' STOLE FUCKIN' CHRISTMAS. They just called it THE GRINCH and it wrecked the whole thing.
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I was at the Vegas Screening. This movie was superb. Far better than "Hannibal", scarier than anything to come out in several years. I'd even go so far as to say Oscar-worthy, in my opinion at least. I am totally honored that I got to see this film before the studio ruined it with silly edits. God only knows what they'll do with it now. I'd send in a review, but I signed a non-disclosure form. All I can say is, it was Excellent...
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Maybe you should have taken a few seconds to whip out a dictionary, sound out the hard words, and try your best to read the article before posting. It clearly says, "Apparently the title, FROM HELL was ok-ed by the MPAA over a year ago." This means that the MPAA didn't have a problem with it (if what Harry was told is true.) See, now between the two of us, that's two useless posts in the talk-back just because you're an idiot (and you have issues with your innercore.)
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"FUCKIN' DR. SUESS' HOW THE FUCKIN' GRINCH FUCKIN' STOLE FUCKIN' CHRISTMAS." Now that put a big-ass grin on my face that
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Mar 29, 2001 2:39:38 AM CST
This movie is going to bear as much resemblance to the graphic n
by rhinoceros
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The Hugues Brothers better not mess this film up otherwise its back to the hood for them. The graphic Novel is amazing, and it's too bad Nigel Hawthorne isn't playing William Gull, but Ian Holm is a top actor and should pull the part off no problem.
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Short answer... No. From Hell is impossible to film, Especially by people whose research into the Ripper killings falls short of even reading the From Hell appendix.
What we'll get is the usual Hollywood slasher garbage shorn of the complex exploration of the motives and beliefs of Gull, the historical accuracy, and presumably, the only thing that could save the movie, the extremely explicit sex.
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this film being good, and reverential to the simply stunning source material just give up now. 'From Hell' is the finest graphic novel and possibly one of the finest ever stories ever told which condemns hypocracy so cleverly yet soulfully that there isnt a studio in Hollywood that would care about making this as equally an effective movie. PLEASE CHANGE THE NAME. That way people will find the book and not have their preconceptions tainted by what is more than likely going to be a suckfest.
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this film being good, and reverential to the simply stunning source material just give up now. 'From Hell' is the finest graphic novel and possibly one of the finest ever stories ever told which condemns hypocracy so cleverly yet soulfully that there isnt a studio in Hollywood that would care about making this as equally an effective movie. PLEASE CHANGE THE NAME. That way people will find the book and not have their preconceptions tainted by what is more than likely going to be a suckfest.
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...I'm allowed to express my opinion on the subject just like everyone else on this site, so don't oppress me with your condescending attitude. To put it bluntly; go fuck yourself.
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I like the title From Hell, and I'm relieved to read that the name won't change to JACK. Even without the graphic novel, and even if they change evrything from the graphic novel, there should be no problem using From Hell as the movie title, because that phrase comes from the Ripper's note to the cops -- Alan Moore didn't think of it. *** And another thing -- notice how everybody thinks of it as "Alan Moore's From Hell", even though comics is a visual medium? That's because the art is a fucking MESS in From Hell! Eddie Campbell's scritchy-scratchy art is an acquired taste at best. Bacchus makes my head hurt, and the Birth Caul was fuckn impenetrable. That's why I never get tired of recommending Rick Geary's Treasury of Victorian Murder, for a MUCH more satisfying read about the Ripper. 'Nuff sed!
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You can dish it out, but you can't take it. What a fucking momma's boy!
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It's usually referenced as Alan Moore's work because he was the one who did the majority of the research into the Ripper killings, and the subsequent theories, stories, fictions, and debunkings that they havce spawned. The story is all his. That's why, even though Eddie Campbell did a lot of research about the appearance and state of London at the time (and I'll bet most of THAT won't make the film), the major credit is Moore.
And Campbell's style couldn't be more suited to the era, the story or the setting, the scratchy style having a similar appearance to a contemporary engraving. -
Mar 29, 2001 9:05:17 AM CST
Hey Buzz, You Ever Thought About Doing Some Writing For The Sopr
by geekbasher 3.0
Of at least a sequel to GoodFellas.
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Mar 29, 2001 9:24:21 AM CST
In Other Rumor News, Russell Crowe Has Been Tipped To Be The Nex
by geekbasher 3.0
Developing....
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Mar 29, 2001 10:35:08 AM CST
Now if they could only change "The Prophecy" back to "God's Army
by iamlegolas
In related news, they took out the "Bloodhunt" out of "Blade 2 : Bloodhunt". D'oh! =(
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Remember where the words "from hell" appeared in the book? That would make a great scene in the film, it was chilling moment in the graphic novel. Jack? That
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Mar 29, 2001 11:22:43 AM CST
For some reason I thought the name change had to do with marketi
by milktoast
Oh, yeah. I forgot I'm ignorant.
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Any word on the O Dog cameo?
"I'm Victorian England's worst nightmare. Young, Black, and don't give a fuck!!' JEah! -
"Oh you're a naughty one, Saucy Jack..." Can't believe nobody's pointed that one out yet--it's been in the works since before the Japanese tour...
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Since I never ran across the graphic novel, I was under the impression that the title came from the "return address" at the top of the letter that Jack the Ripper sent to a reporter near the end of the series of murders. Having seen an hour special on the subject recently, a few weeks after seeing a news blurb on the movie, I figured that was where they got the title.
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If the name WAS chaned to Jack it was not because of the MPAA. It's because of marketing. Most people won't know what in the hell "From Hell" has to do with Jack the ripper. Since the majority of the people will probably think "From Hell" is some film about demons the film company figured it would be a better idea to call it "Jack" since people can associate Jack with Jack the ripper.
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Yaw you struck gold again with "FUCKIN' DR. SUESS' HOW THE FUCKIN' GRINCH FUCKIN' STOLE FUCKIN' CHRISTMAS." Made this thug grin WIDE. Hey wasn't Jack already the name of the movie with that dipshit who was Mork? Shit...back to da blunt I'm rolling.
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