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Columbia wants Sam Raimi to do their Fantasy Flick! Not New Line's!!

Foist by jasper Stillwell	Apr 17th, 2007 03:22:46 AM
It'd be nuthin' without Kirsten Dunst you hear me, nuthin'!!!
Could be great by Marsellus	Apr 17th, 2007 03:22:55 AM
Sounds a bit like the unmade Terry Gilliam's "Man who killed Don Quichotte". But Sam's the man.
Sounds like the sort of idea that would.. by Boba Fat	Apr 17th, 2007 03:24:55 AM
attract Sam. Him helming the Hobbit doesn't geek me out as much as it should. A bit too traditional and safe.
"Dungeons and Dragons 2" by Mullah Omar	Apr 17th, 2007 03:29:39 AM
That's my guess. Bring on another Jeremy Irons dragon flick.
stick to Spider-Man 4 Sam by grievenom	Apr 17th, 2007 03:48:25 AM
Or do the Hobbit. This sounds sketchy.
If Jackson can't make the hobbit, I'd hope by KillaKane	Apr 17th, 2007 03:59:13 AM
someone of Cuaron or Del Torro's calibre could step up, both would be well worth anticipating.
The Hobbit doesn't need to be made by Bobo_Vision	Apr 17th, 2007 04:52:14 AM
The Hobbit was like an appetizer, with the Lord of the Rings trilogy being the three course meal. Having eaten the meal already, there's no point in cooking up the appetizer. It would be anti-climactic and pointless. I can see the studio's point of view in terms of wanting to make it, because it would be a huge cash cow, but from an audience point of view, there's nothing to be had.
Sounds like generic shit by godoffireinhell	Apr 17th, 2007 04:58:46 AM
Sorry but this sounds like one of those 1000 page fantasy books that fat, lonely chicks like to read, the kind that has no originality whatsoever and just rehashes Tolkien and Lewis with a dash of bodice ripping romance novel hackery thrown in for bad measure.
Aint it old???? by NachoNegro	Apr 17th, 2007 05:11:30 AM
Jesus - can't you guy's generate any news of your own?? Everything on this site is nicked from Hollywood Reporter or Variety. I'm not trying to be nasty, but very little bona-fide journalism actually happens here. I could start a my-space and sit all day copy pasting from Variety and Hollywood reporter with the same results. The only good side of this site is the occasional interview from the likes of Quint and Moriarty, and those are now few and far between.
fat, lonely chicks by NachoNegro	Apr 17th, 2007 05:14:49 AM
godoffireinhell, lets not bring your girlfriend into this.
Sounds familiar by lunalu	Apr 17th, 2007 05:37:19 AM
It sounds like Terry Brook's Landover series.
Sounds like Terry Brooks by Alanon328	Apr 17th, 2007 05:40:49 AM
Magic Kingdom For Sale is in the works, so that's my guess.
I was gonna say Magic Kingdom For Sale by Silverhour	Apr 17th, 2007 06:37:07 AM
But I also know that Raimi is attached to produce Terry Goodkind's Wizard's First Rule, which is what I'm excited about. He fought hard to get it, since Goodkind was reluctant to give up the rights, so he better not back out now.
Can't be "Magic Kingdom for Sale: SOLD!" by Anna Valerious	Apr 17th, 2007 07:06:11 AM
First of all, he's from Chicago and hardly cynical. Secondly, there's no princess, since his love interest is a wood nymph. Thirdly, I don't recall a village. Sommers needs to get his ass going on a lot of things...
Sounds like a Cristopher Stasheff Novel by StrokerX	Apr 17th, 2007 07:38:46 AM
Her Majesty's Wizard, Oathbound Wizard, The Secular Wizard...read them all when i was younger and really dug them. Def were the books that really introduced me to fantasy.
Sounds like Poul Anderson's.... by stludson	Apr 17th, 2007 07:40:19 AM
....Three Hearts and Three Lions to me. Though I didn't think the "hero" was cynical, he was pragmatic and somewhat skeptical of the whole affair- he is also a scientist/engineer in the "real" world. And there is a princess (who can turn into a swan) and a village to be saved. So... Maybe that's it?
So Columbia wants him to remake Army of Darkness? by The Pusher	Apr 17th, 2007 07:43:36 AM
I say go for The Hobbit.
Thomas Covenant? by malcolm_mccallum	Apr 17th, 2007 08:04:21 AM
..if one were to latch on to the 'cynic' part. Since Thomas Covenant is unfilmable and too 'cerebral' it would never be made by Hollywood, one hopes. Sam Raimi would not be the right director for it either.
"In a land untouched by modern civilization..." by Zarles	Apr 17th, 2007 08:11:35 AM
Christ, I can hear the Trailer Voice already. 50 bucks says someone has considered casting Paul Giamatti in this mess.
Isn't that just the plot from... by Childe Roland	Apr 17th, 2007 08:11:59 AM
...Army of Darkness? Let Raimi have a go at the Hobbit. That film needs making and it needs making by someone with a sense of fun and whimsy.
Three Hearts and Three Lions by 13th Librarian	Apr 17th, 2007 08:32:20 AM
Would be nice to see that great book on film.. but it would need a lot of work to translate though.. and Carahue (A Saracen converted to Christianity) would have go or be changed completely, or maybe become a pagan converted.. eh either way.. it'd be a hard one to do.. personally even with all the zillions of great fantasy books based on this premise.. my money says its a whole new story...
Sounds like.............. by liljuniorbrown	Apr 17th, 2007 09:11:57 AM
Everyone here has read to many fantasy books. Either that or every fantasy book ever written has this same premise. Might be a touch of both though.
Maybe he'd actually make a decent "Hobbit" for a change by JackPumpkinhead	Apr 17th, 2007 09:20:48 AM
One without "maiden warriors", revisionist characters and insulting changes to major sections of the novel?
Raimi Hobbit by Cobbio	Apr 17th, 2007 09:34:30 AM
I loathe the "real-world cynic who enters a fantasy land and becomes a hero" plotline of crap. Thomas Covenant notwithstanding, every other attempt I've read (Brooks, et al) by an author using this plotline has failed miserably in capturing my attention. The reason "The Lord of the Rings" and "A Song of Ice and Fire" (by George RR Martin) work so well is because they're created worlds. They occasionally bear a resemblance to Earth as it exists for us, but the rules, politics, geography, and history aren't remotely Earthlike. You don't find yourself wondering how a person from New York City, circa 2007, would fare in such a world. This is the appeal of created worlds and the appeal of fantasy in general. Therefore I want Sam Raimi to direct "The Hobbit" and not that other poorly conceived, formulaic bullshit property that would insult Raimi's intelligence. If Jackson is out, and in my opinion he is, let another fabulously talented director take the chair and let rip. I hope it happens before Ian McKellan is too old to play Gandalf again.
"modern heroes in fantasy world" by ZeroCorpse	Apr 17th, 2007 09:47:43 AM
The best of these by far was Joel Rosenberg's "Guardians of the Flame" series. (not to be confused with Joel C. Rosenberg, who is kind of a jerk). In the GotF series, the world is HARSH and the fantasy is tinged with tragedy. The characters learn the hard way that being in a fantasy realm is not fun. I'd love to see that put to film. Think "Dungeons & Dragons the Cartoon" but with Diana and Sheila getting captured, sold into slavery, and brutally gang raped multiple times before being liberated from their captors. Rosenberg's story is actually compelling and makes you feel for the heroes, who were just innocent college kids before being sent into a fantasy realm.
I know what the movie is going to be.... by Masked Avenger	Apr 17th, 2007 10:02:57 AM
Three words, "Super Mario Bros.", it's painfully obvious. Masked Avenger rides again!
In a world... by gengrievous82	Apr 17th, 2007 10:17:14 AM
where New York cynics are forced to go lands untouched by modern civilizations, one man will become a reluctant hero, saving a village and a princess from fairy tale creatures.
Romero's Knightriders, The Road Warrior = awesome! by Spandau Belly	Apr 17th, 2007 10:37:07 AM
I prefer movies about modern warriors using old fashioned types of war more than modern heroes going into the past like Timeline or Timecop.
Maybe a change of director wouldent hurt by Chiziola79	Apr 17th, 2007 11:04:27 AM
I love the lord of the rings trilogy but after the mess jackson made of King Kong I think he`s went off the boil, cant wait to see Biblo with a chainsaw for a hand fighting wolves and smaug
i want raimi by maluquiro	Apr 17th, 2007 12:38:11 PM
to do something horror again...
Flight of Dragons? by DannyOcean01	Apr 17th, 2007 12:57:41 PM
Haven't read the rest of the TB, but this sounds a wee bit like that...
Raimi Mario? by UltimaRex	Apr 17th, 2007 01:10:46 PM
Hate to say it, but I actually like that idea. Peter Jackson for JLA!
Magic Kingdom for Sale....Sold? by cerebulon	Apr 17th, 2007 01:29:27 PM
Oh please, oh please, oh please, oh please.
Fuck The Hobbit give us Wizard's First Rule by antonphd	Apr 17th, 2007 01:43:14 PM
Sorry, but Raimi is one of the less than a handful of directors trustworthy enough to do adult fantasy right and I would hate to see him trade a whole series for one single movie. Wizard's First Rule could make 300 look like Puff the Magic Dragon and I wants it.
Think "Dungeons & Dragons the Cartoon" by EdRyder	Apr 17th, 2007 02:07:29 PM
Im trying to forget about that bullshit animated Dragonlance thats being thrown together, thank you.Startin to understand where those Transformers psychos are coming from
NachoNegro by godoffireinhell	Apr 17th, 2007 03:03:42 PM
I don't have a girlfriend, fat or slim. Haven't had one since 1999. Why the hell else would I troll AICN talkbacks?!
Wnanahara7...thats funny by slappy jones	Apr 17th, 2007 03:27:02 PM
you called jackson hackson. fuck thats some original shit. you just took the J out and put in an H!!!comedy gold....and you are the first person to ever have done it too so you should be extra proud of having that type of creative genius....romero..the most fucking over rated direcotr in the history of film.its even funnier when two posts above you mention loving romero. theres a real film maker....land of the dead wasn't at all a slap in the face and a stark remindeer that the guy is fucking terrible.
Sucky McSuckerson by Darkwolf9x	Apr 17th, 2007 03:50:41 PM
thats it...
Rather see The Shadow/Doc Savage by Davis of Texas	Apr 17th, 2007 04:21:43 PM
Every wannabe-nerd director on the planet wants The Hobbit. Only Raimi can get the pulp heroes on the screen.
This is going to flop without Kirstin Dunst by Mike_D	Apr 17th, 2007 04:28:58 PM
mark my words.
antonphd by ManosTHOF	Apr 17th, 2007 05:01:25 PM
I'm down with that. Great book and series.
RAIMI DOESN'T NEED APPROVAL TO DIRECT by livingwater	Apr 17th, 2007 05:08:49 PM
Do the directors of future Potter's need the approval of the previous directors? What is the difference? It is wrong to take away the importance of the author and the Tolkien Estate. These books were very popular before the films were made, especially in the 60's. In all fairness, it is the Tolkien Estate who Sam Raimi should look for approval towards.
Sword of Truth by Shadowss	Apr 17th, 2007 07:37:28 PM
I seem to remember a story about 6 months ago that Sam's production company had signed a deal with Terry Goodkind to develope his 'Sword of Truth' novels into a miniseries, and preduction of it would beging after Sam had finished all the post production stuff with SpiderMan 3 ... anyone know of any updates to that story or if it's still a go? ...
I don't know what to think of this movie... by hadez	Apr 17th, 2007 08:08:33 PM
because when I turned around Kurt Russell went out to buy a burger.
Doc Sidh? Was that the book? by Doctor_Sin	Apr 17th, 2007 09:10:43 PM
The retro-Doc Savage type story with fairies and elves. Time portals and assorted crap. This sounds about as interesting.
Sounds to me like "A New by vaterite	Apr 17th, 2007 11:25:45 PM
Sounds to me like "A New York Yankee, in King Arthur's Court." Maybe starring that girl from the Cosby Show?
What about the "new" middle earth book? by Christopher3	Apr 17th, 2007 11:51:59 PM
"Children of Hurin"? Did New Line get that one as well?
Into the pit with those bloody-thirsty sons of whores! by CuervoJones	Apr 18th, 2007 06:32:52 AM
The Army of Darkness Strikes Back
The Hobbit should be directed by someone new by LightninBolt	Apr 18th, 2007 08:25:09 AM
http://www.solaceincinema.com/ 2006/12/01/why-i-dont-give-a-f uck-if-peter-jackson-directs-t he-hobbit/ And Kirsten Dunst is seriously seriously hot.
Wrong article by LightninBolt	Apr 18th, 2007 08:28:59 AM
But I stand by it!
RE Christopher3 by morGoth	Apr 18th, 2007 12:00:13 PM
Christopher Tolkien hasn't sold any film rights to 'The Silmarillion' (maybe after he's gone and others in the Tolkien estate see fit to do so...we can only hope). I'm sure Children of Hurin falls under that category. It would make one hell of a movie though...it's got everything. A dragon (make Harry happy), incest, murder and everyones favorite character, Morgoth. Yeah, give Raimi some other fantasy story and let Jackson direct the Hobbit. I don't care if it gives the complete back-story of the White Council or even how Gandalf came to meet Thorin Oakenshield...a chance meeting, as they say in Middle-earth.
Only Jackson by darthbandon99	Apr 18th, 2007 12:07:44 PM
No no no Mr Spiderman!!! If anyone disagrees, just look back at LOTR and see how f**king fantastic they are. Nobody can emulate that level of brilliance. People knock Jackson, but I bet if Raimi makes a Hobit movie it will be a Return of the Jedi compare to the Empire Strikes Back of Jackson
Wizard's First Rule - Raimi bought the rights by PornKing	Apr 18th, 2007 12:27:57 PM
Antonphd is correct. WFR would be awesome to see. Raimi has already bought/optioned the rights from terry goodkind per terry goodkind's website. THAT would be a sweet movie.
What this is really about... by Bruno Diaz	Apr 18th, 2007 06:21:12 PM
is Sam Raimi trying to bilk more money out of Columbia/Sony. Same thing goes for the recent comments from Tobey Maguire/Kirsten Dunst I'm betting. They're probably negotiating contracts for Spider Man 4 right now and this is a good way for them to try and get more money. I for one am hoping Raimi and the rest of them make like ten movies together. Absolutely no reason a comic book franchise with as many great story lines as Spider Man 3 should ever stop really.
Guys, this movie is going to be by Mr Bonefish	Apr 18th, 2007 08:25:03 PM
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant...or based on it, probably.
Hahaha! Fat lonely chicks indeed. by heywood jablomie	Apr 19th, 2007 01:01:45 AM
You know the classic of the fat-lonely-chick genre? THE MISTS OF AVALON. Blecch!
Yeah, I'd say Thomas Covenant... by Killah_Mate	Apr 21st, 2007 06:27:43 PM
...fits pretty good, but I never thought they'd make a movie out of that...

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