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Elston Gunn With Josh Friedman (WAR OF THE WORLDS, THE BLACK DAHLIA And THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES)!!

Thanks, Drew by Merkin Muffley	Sep 11th, 2006 07:16:22 PM
My favorite book of yours is "Warts And All." when will we see the Lord of Eltingville movie? Wait... What?
Well, I'm glad THAT settles everything. by Nodwick	Sep 11th, 2006 07:26:11 PM
Just so long as HE thinks Terminator TV is going to be fucking cool, I'm sold!
1st? by NudeandAroused	Sep 11th, 2006 07:27:26 PM
Am I?
And on a less snarky note... by Nodwick	Sep 11th, 2006 07:28:14 PM
Adapting the Red Star? I could only get through the first trade, and that was a hard slog. A whole lot of nothing happens in there, plot-wise, and after we get this world set up in excruciating detail, WHOOPSIE! We're changing it to something involving angels or ghosts or whatever. I wish you well, and I think I'll enjoy the condensed version better than the actual comic on this one. The art is pretty, though.
FIRST by TheEngwisher	Sep 11th, 2006 07:29:18 PM
FIRST
Oh well by NudeandAroused	Sep 11th, 2006 07:29:21 PM
Maybe not. Still, I have studied the Dahlia murder for years. I have read Collins and Ellroy's novels. Both are extremely interesting and have logical theories. I can't wait for the movie on Friday.
interesting... by elkylos	Sep 11th, 2006 07:30:06 PM
Maybe I won't completely write off this Sarah Connor thing... oh, wait, already did... heh
FIRST by TheEngwisher	Sep 11th, 2006 07:30:33 PM
i cant wait to see how the chronicle's turn out
first by chiahead	Sep 11th, 2006 07:31:35 PM
yeah, i'm that guy...
Third Times A Charm by The Ender	Sep 11th, 2006 07:32:26 PM
But first is always awesome
I Would Never Own Up To Writing The Second Half by The Ender	Sep 11th, 2006 07:34:30 PM
Of War Of The Worlds. I would definetely try to pin that on someone else. Talk about a movie with wasted potential. Excellent beginning...and then...came the house...and the red good....and germs....Excitement neutralized please return to knowing this movie will suck. Bummer
Wheres my posts dammit? by The Ender	Sep 11th, 2006 07:35:41 PM
Okay I'm not liking this...
FIRST! by mrzasz	Sep 11th, 2006 07:38:12 PM
...because I can be. I think "Sarah Connors" isn't a bad idea at all...
Wow. by mrzasz	Sep 11th, 2006 07:50:16 PM
Not even CLOSE!
First! by solartaco3	Sep 11th, 2006 07:59:20 PM
Yeah!
Color me non-impressed by thebearovingian	Sep 11th, 2006 08:24:03 PM
No me gusta! I didn't read the article b/c I wanted to comment on the new log-in procedure. I like that you don't have to type in your handle and password every post. I disliked the obscene amount of time it took for Test Mode to be over and return to a properly functioning site. I had ALOT of amazing things to say... but the moment has passed. You will all have to wait for The Fountain instead. But not even The Fountain can equal my knowledge and wisdom. I know b/c it is my purpose to know.
STOP claiming FIRST! The site is still messed up! by thebearovingian	Sep 11th, 2006 08:28:23 PM
We have to leave a comment now? Can't just put a subject line? Whu? It's 9/11 and AICN is treating us like this?!
site still messed up by thebearovingian	Sep 11th, 2006 08:30:26 PM
YES IT IS! YES IT IS! YES IT IS! Why would AICN be doing this to us on 9/11?!
this site is freaking black hole! by thebearovingian	Sep 11th, 2006 08:33:54 PM
posts disappear only to show up miraculously! Harry, what's the delay time on a post? 3min? 5min? If you honestly don't know, that's cool. Don't make up shit.
strive for five.... by thebearovingian	Sep 11th, 2006 08:34:56 PM
posts in a row. where is everybody?
The Sarah Connor Chronicles by performingmonkey	Sep 11th, 2006 08:41:40 PM
OK, they should just call the pilot this then change the title to 'Sarah Connor'. Seinfeld fans will understand that reference... Seriously, 'The Sarah Connor Chronicles' doesn't sound like a good title to me. Although it's better than calling it 'Terminator - the series' or anything like that, because then people will expect Terminators to be in it, which they shouldn't be...that often...maybe in the pilot but then, like Lost, we never get the monster again. I would WELCOME the show if I knew it was going to be good, but how can it stay within T continuity? If T3 didn't exist it would be easy, but seeing as it does and it gives us a definitive conclusion to Sarah Connor's story and Judgement Day finally happening, anything else will feel like '...yeah...whatever, just bring on T4' unless they plan on a) Making this series in a 'bubble' seperate from the movies, b) Pretending that T3 doesn't exist, c) Screwing with John Connor's memory at the end of the series so he forgets all the 'Neo' Terminators and 'Dark' Terminators and all kinds of fucked up shit that have just happened over the last 100 or so episodes, d) Have Sarah Connor secretly alive during T3, she pretended to die of cancer so she could get into a morgue and blow it up...but then she somehow got transported into the future, and John meets her in T4. Oh...just make a good pilot, please.
Whatever happened to Gunn's weekly reports? by BeeDub	Sep 11th, 2006 08:48:37 PM
Those were the best things on this site.
I thought WotW was KOEPP thing... by Gilkuliehe	Sep 11th, 2006 08:48:50 PM
And this new talkback mode is spawning a new generarion of annoying "first" fucks. GFY-
cool! by solartaco3	Sep 11th, 2006 09:21:38 PM
cool!
Sarah Connor Chronicles?? by Nicky Butane	Sep 11th, 2006 09:26:30 PM
Unless Sarah fights a terminator everyweek what's the point? Day 1: Sarah does her laundry. Day 2: Sarah goes to the mall. Day 3: Sarah has some soup. Yo' hollywood hacks, shitcan this piss poor idea and make T4: "The Machine War" show humanity getting the shit kicked out of it by a bunch of robots! We want ACTION not Sarah getting her nails done.
ummm by sosguy74	Sep 11th, 2006 09:30:09 PM
i rarely post but gosh darnett i just had to with all the talk of the new set-up. woot woot!!
Friedman didn't write SoaP... by Osmosis Jones	Sep 11th, 2006 09:52:37 PM
...he just mentioned it on a blog during it's pre-production, and the cult erupted from there. The Black Dahlia is one of my most anticipated films of '06.
zombiesolutions by BadMrWonka	Sep 11th, 2006 09:55:28 PM
gotta read closely if you're gonna comment, brother. he didn't write SoaP, he just started the internet frenzy about them trying to change the title and all that.
damn you osmosis by BadMrWonka	Sep 11th, 2006 09:56:24 PM
too fast. I was way more excited about this when it was Fincher...DePalma has all the subtlety of an internet talkbacker...but still, looks good.
Like De Palma needs to be "subtle" with this story? by Osmosis Jones	Sep 11th, 2006 10:04:41 PM
It's about a woman who was literally CUT IN HALF! I'd say that this plays to De Palma's particular strengths and narrative obsessions (voyeurism, doubling of characters and events) better than Fincher's. Plus, Fincher's got his own serial killer movie coming out, so everybody's happy. ;o)
Hey Nicky Butane by Happyfat73	Sep 11th, 2006 10:04:45 PM
Just because you don't have the imagination to think up an interesting story for Sarah Connor, doesn't mean the writers can't. That's why they're credited writers and you're you.
To be fair, Happyfat73... by Nodwick	Sep 11th, 2006 10:11:13 PM
...the writers of every movie that wound up on MST3K were credited. I'm sure the writers for "Homeboys from Outer Space," "Into the Night with Rick Dees," and "Happily Ever After" were credited. At best, this will be like "Highlander: The Series" in that to make a show, it would seem that you have to pretty much ignore the source materials, at least when it comes to continuity.
I dunno... by Happyfat73	Sep 11th, 2006 10:20:26 PM
I think Sarah Connor could be an inherently interesting character - even taken away from a series steeped in the Terminator Mythology. The whole paranoid, para-military, outlaw thing could sustain a compelling series. If it revolved around killing a Terminator-of-the-week then it would be weak as piss. But a series about Sarah and her paranoid, para-military, outlaw friends could be great, IMO.
I imagine that The Sarah Connor Chronicles would... by LeiaDown&FuckHer	Sep 11th, 2006 10:35:54 PM
...basically be a sci-fi spin on The Fugitive, with a lone Terminator tracking her and her brat cross country, leaving a wave of destruction in it's wake, but never quite catching her, with many a "dramatic run in and narrow escape" while token friendly guests stars get killed in the crossfire, meanwhile you'll also have some fed leading the national manhunt for america's most wanted fugitive slowly starting to wonder what the hell is going on as more and more things don't make sense or quite add up, and then you'll have your usual batch of shady government, military and cyberdyne peeps out to shut her up once and for all, or playing clean up and cover up type games. Plus there will probably be a "Dream Reese" guiding her and pushing her to keep running. And I imagine the whole thing will be set post T1 and T2, with the events of T3 not considered as part of continuity in the strictest sense of things. And you know what, it is within the bounds of possibility to make something like that work, at least for a while, but without Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor I find that I just don't give a fuck. Maybe it'll surprise, and I'm sure I'll check it out when/if it hits, but right now I find I honestly just don't care.
osmosis by BadMrWonka	Sep 11th, 2006 11:59:23 PM
like a woman being cut in half doesn't play to Fincher's strengths... ;o)
Sarah Connor Chronicles by MarkoOhNo	Sep 12th, 2006 12:14:03 AM
That must be what they're filming in New York that everyone's been rumoring to be Terminator 4. http://entertainment.webshots. com/album/554027544fxYimv Idno... might be cool. I'll definitely check it out at least once & see if it grows on me. I agree with what's been said on here, though: I'd rather see some post-apocalyptic war action.
sarah connor chronicles by pauljames33	Sep 12th, 2006 04:04:48 AM
i am thinking this will chronicle what she did after T2 and up to T3 and beyond. Maybe she didnt really die, cause in T3 john was pretty surprised not to find his mom in her coffin and weapons there instead, she knew judgment day would still happen...
Your lack of faith is disturbing THE MOVIE by drjones	Sep 12th, 2006 06:50:28 AM
Someone should actually turn his blog into a film. I'd go see it. Everyone who doesn't know his blog should go visit it under hucksblog.blogspot.com
regarding war of the worlds by drjones	Sep 12th, 2006 06:54:24 AM
http://hucksblog.blogspot.com/ 2005_08_01_hucksblog_archive.h tml
The Red Star!!! by Bill Brasky	Sep 12th, 2006 07:43:55 AM
Holy shinola Batman, the freaking RED STAR into a movie? Timour Bekmambetov's movies aren't what I would call high-end cinima, but he really captures that bankrupt, cold, giant Soviet style very well with his films. I think that if the fanboys can wrap thier heads around the fact that it won't be EXACTLY like the comics, then it will be a nice, early spring, late summer style hit. You know what I mean by fanboys wrapping thier heads around changes..."But Jean Grey was supposed to have killed herself on the moon!" What a bunch of geek-ass losers.
That was hilarious! Conversation crashing, bail out! by brycemonkey	Sep 12th, 2006 08:22:43 AM
From Fincher and Dhalia: to Second half of WOTW: to SOAP: to Conner Chronic-what-cles! "Yeah the TBs were pretty harsh on my idea." thats all the time we have for today, thanks. Dodge. Sidestep. "I'm sorry my phone is ringing, I have to take this." "Really? I don't hear anything. I wanted to talk more about your site trashing my idea. Wait. Come back..."
Damn you Michael Bay by MCMLXXVI	Sep 12th, 2006 08:24:46 AM
Damn You Michael Bay
Actually by MarkoOhNo	Sep 12th, 2006 02:12:34 PM
What LeiaDown&FuckHer described sounded pretty cool. I'd watch that. Although, instead of a "dream Reese" motivating her, it would probably be dreams of the post-apocalyptic war. Since there's such a huge chunk of her life missing between the original Terminator and T2, my bet is that it takes place between those two flicks. It would be about her learning to fight, making connections, teaching/raising her son, being on the road, tryin' to stick it to the man & Bill Gates, gradually growing crazier & crazier, etc. The series finale would end in her capture and committal & John being placed in foster care.
Yo' ,Happy Fat! by Nicky Butane	Sep 12th, 2006 03:44:12 PM
Perhaps you should be a "credited" writer on the S.C.C. The crux of the franchise is the fucking "Terminators", hence the title of films which was TERMINATORS! The fucking Sarah Connor Chronicles makes as much sense as a T.V. show about Jim Gordon sans Batman. I'm sure a "credited' writer could make that work too. Just in case you lack the imagination to understand my post removing the central theme from a movie franchise and making a T.V. show with the leftovers isn't imaginative it's LAZY.
The Terminator Wasn't About Terminators by MarkoOhNo	Sep 13th, 2006 12:45:58 AM
It was about survival. Preservation of the species. Human will. Blah blah blah. All those good cliches. The Terminators were just the motivational factors. I'm sure there'll still be a Terminator popping up every so often. This would merely be a change of focus from one aspect (don't stop moving or you'll die) to another (run, hit, hide, prepare for armageddon). That's my prediction, anyway. Y'know, it makes no sense to bash on a show when you don't even have any details on it yet. :P
It's about the Terminators by Nicky Butane	Sep 13th, 2006 10:31:41 AM
If you want to make a show about survival, human will and all those other cliches why bother with the terminator connection at all? You want real survival show a single mother trying to raise her son in Iraq or gang torn parts of L.A. Sarah Connor without Terminators is like Star Wars with out Jedi. Could it be done sure, but why bother. Beside's who's the target demographic for a show that presumably won't have or reallly need to have any action. If there are no robots, androids or whatever this show won't work. Sarah Connor training for Armegeddon? Are you kidding me? How much more traing would she need at this point? If this show works get ready for the "New Ripley Adventures (without Aliens)" and the "Jimmy Olson Files". MarjoOhno, you're telling me you've never heard of a new show and said "That's stupid" and never watched it?
Damn you Michael Bay by MCMLXXVI	Oct 11th, 2006 07:57:23 AM
Damn you Michael Bay
Elston Gunn Gotta Eat by The_Jack_Sack	Feb 4th, 2007 06:28:00 PM
Don't we all?
The Admiral was called to the bridge by The_Jack_Sack	Feb 5th, 2007 10:06:11 AM
So I'm here in his stead...
The Jack Sack is willing by The_Jack_Sack	Feb 5th, 2007 11:18:00 AM
to be a sacrificial lamb to keep the Admiral safe... Uwe B@lls is another protector of the Admiral...

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