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James Mangold goes for sci-fi social commentary with his next flick, CYCLOPS! No, not the X-Man...

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I'm a big, big fan of James Mangold's 3:10 TO YUMA remake. Loved it, the first real deal entertaining western in quite a while.

He's now finally lined up his next project, an adaptation of the graphic novel CYCLOPS by Alexis Nolent. It's set in a near future where soldiers wear helmets with a single camera lens that feeds back to central command and TV sets in living rooms all across America. One particular hardass squad leader begins to question if the war they're fighting is really for freedom or a sick kind of commerce-driven entertainment.

Sounds like an '80s movie to me... kind of a RUNNING MAN vibe. That's not a bad thing, by the way. A part of me hopes they fast track this and have a trailer to run on WOLVERINE just to fuck with the fans a little.

They're going out to screenwriters now and Warner Bros will back the flick.


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Sounds worth checking out
by MaxG
Mar 18th, 2008
01:33:16 AM
Done before
by Mezzanine
Mar 18th, 2008
01:33:53 AM
could be cool
by mmaddox3
Mar 18th, 2008
01:40:08 AM
mangold can be hit or miss
by mmaddox3
Mar 18th, 2008
01:41:47 AM
i will give the guy some props....
by mmaddox3
Mar 18th, 2008
01:42:49 AM
Well..
by Tourist
Mar 18th, 2008
01:47:27 AM
could be worth seeing
by otm shank
Mar 18th, 2008
01:52:52 AM
Sounds like Ghost Hunters
by skywalkerfamily
Mar 18th, 2008
02:15:20 AM
I WISH we'd get a Cyclops movie.
by Shermdawg
Mar 18th, 2008
03:11:13 AM
"the first real deal entertaining western in quite a while"
by Shermdawg
Mar 18th, 2008
03:13:25 AM
Mangold's good.
by TattooedBillionaire
Mar 18th, 2008
03:22:18 AM
re: Oliver and Company
by beamish13
Mar 18th, 2008
03:53:52 AM
Shermdawg: Did Open Range have a dude on horseback
by CreasyBear
Mar 18th, 2008
06:24:37 AM
3:10
by MC-909
Mar 18th, 2008
06:36:59 AM
wait a minute
by waggy
Mar 18th, 2008
07:02:40 AM
Cool
by Cobbio
Mar 18th, 2008
07:59:29 AM
Sounds like a Charlton Heston flick
by donwillymo
Mar 18th, 2008
08:05:26 AM
Anthony Mingella has died...
by gobofraggleuk
Mar 18th, 2008
08:30:53 AM
Damn, I was hoping this would be a Turanga Leela movie
by Osmosis Jones
Mar 18th, 2008
08:37:45 AM
Re: Anthony Mingella has died...
by The Grug
Mar 18th, 2008
09:00:32 AM
ehhhh 3:10 sucked
by Series7
Mar 18th, 2008
09:18:56 AM
Waggy,
by raw_bean
Mar 18th, 2008
09:35:03 AM
This movie
by Series7
Mar 18th, 2008
09:36:04 AM
Put your face on my lap and meet cyclops!
by donwillymo
Mar 18th, 2008
10:15:37 AM
Running Man???
by bobinnova
Mar 18th, 2008
10:19:59 AM
I'm sorry Van Damme...even though
by Reel American Hero
Mar 18th, 2008
10:46:50 AM
X-Man sounds like something a mother would say
by Lefty Lefterson
Mar 18th, 2008
11:41:03 AM
Ha! Nice one, Lefty.
by JTStarkiller
Mar 18th, 2008
12:06:00 PM
I'M INTRIGUED BY THIS MOVIE
by BringingSexyBack
Mar 18th, 2008
01:06:07 PM
hepatitus
by lucky slevin
Mar 18th, 2008
01:31:11 PM
hey watch ur fuckin mouth quint
by donwillymo
Mar 18th, 2008
02:01:40 PM
my team is the goonies, they call me one eyed willy
by donwillymo
Mar 18th, 2008
02:40:47 PM
Shermdawg "That'd be Open Range, not 3:10."
by DDodge
Mar 18th, 2008
02:50:50 PM
3:10 to Yuma was better than I expected.
by Rakafraker
Mar 18th, 2008
02:55:54 PM
3:10 was cool. The orginal was cool, too
by skywalkerfamily
Mar 18th, 2008
03:12:04 PM
3:10 To Yuma was a dissapointing...
by poeticwarriorII
Mar 18th, 2008
04:38:13 PM
he graduated from my high school
by livahd
Mar 18th, 2008
04:40:26 PM
Very good comic-book ! Could make a helluva movie !!
by Bellock
Mar 18th, 2008
08:02:15 PM

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