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Man, If Only We Knew John Carpenter And Could Verify This Rumor...

First!!! by schnipple	Jul 15th, 2007 06:14:01 AM
Yes!!!
You Know... by schnipple	Jul 15th, 2007 06:14:38 AM
that actually felt better the second time tonight!!!
The Ender Smites Foes by schnipple	Jul 15th, 2007 06:15:16 AM
I can't make up my mind, is this gay???
Sounds Awesome by Captain RawBeard	Jul 15th, 2007 06:17:53 AM
Kurt Russel should play the priest. Nuff Said!
Nooooooo!!! by Monotonous Black	Jul 15th, 2007 06:20:33 AM
I was so close to being first! Your comments appeared just as I was about to log in to post! Anyway, any news about John Carpenter working again is great.
Yes! He is back! by spud mcspud	Jul 15th, 2007 06:39:58 AM
Sounds very similar to the book DEMONS by John Shirley - LA in the Apocalypse, demons running the streets and humans living un a Hell-inspired oppressive rule. If Carpenter's making it, it'll likely be a mix of inspired genius and absolute shitcake - and the balance is not going well the older JC gets... Anyway, fuck all that - WHEN DO WE GET BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE WHEREVER 2 ?!?!? >;D
Sounds kind of stupid, frankly by Drunken Rage	Jul 15th, 2007 06:50:39 AM
I'll see anything made by Carpenter, but when was the last time he did anything of any real merit? "The Thing"?
Stupid perhaps but wildy entertaining by Yeti	Jul 15th, 2007 06:55:38 AM
And isn't that what we all want?
The Thing by MatDGZ	Jul 15th, 2007 07:13:13 AM
and The Thing alone qualifies Carpenter as a genius horror filmmaker. Not to mention Halloween... I can't wait for Carpenter to find his game again and make something as kickass as The Thing.
You lost me at... by loafroaster	Jul 15th, 2007 07:16:57 AM
...Demon-possessed rock star. And seriously, what was the last good thing Carpenter did? I still believe he was kidnapped in the early 90s and Uwe Boll's been posing as him ever since.
Should have retired after 'Ghosts Of Mars' by MKiro	Jul 15th, 2007 07:31:21 AM
No, Mori. We don't get excited about any news that Carpenter is going to make a new film. After his abysmal projects over the past 10 years (and yes, I certainly include the dire 'Cigarette Burns'), I think it's a stratch for any fan to automatically assume it's going to be up there with EFNY, Halloween, The Thing or AOP13. Don't raise the expectations. Try managing them instead.
The Thing is as classic as Alien by quantize	Jul 15th, 2007 07:33:19 AM
and it was a tragedy it was recognized more at the time I must have watched it over 15 times or more The man is a genius and deserves some kick ass budget and the freedom to roll with it.
I liked Cigarette Burns, so FU MKiro by quantize	Jul 15th, 2007 07:34:55 AM
ok so Ghosts did kinda suck, still was entertaining enough...
And with your second comment, quantize... by MKiro	Jul 15th, 2007 07:47:31 AM
...you thus lost all credibility for your first.
KC + KR = by powerfuljedi	Jul 15th, 2007 08:08:47 AM
The Thing, Escape, Little China were all top notch flicks. I thought Vampires was pretty good too, well except for James Woods. He is not at all a tough guy, I didn't believe him as a slayer for one minute. But JC did Vampires really good. If you want to see some more JC great creature movies check out the The Prince of Darkness and The Fog. I hope this rumor is true, then that is all I want to hear about it. :>
Hope he has some sort of passion for this... by Datascream	Jul 15th, 2007 08:44:56 AM
unlike his recent stuff. I remember when he was on The Daily Show way back when he did Ghosts of Mars. The guy didn't even know what it was about. All he wanted was to marry some rich woman and get all her money. Either he's a total deadbeat, or a master comedian. All I'll have from him is The Thing and Escape from New York.
Let me get this straight ... by reaper28	Jul 15th, 2007 09:11:00 AM
John Carpenter. Vampires? Check. Zombies? Check. Demon-possessed rock-star? WTF, but Triple Check? My nipples have gone all tingly!
John Carpenter's L.A. Gothic. The title alone is great by HarryBlackPotter	Jul 15th, 2007 09:34:11 AM
Please let this be true. We need Carpenter back on the scene. Now.
I liked this movie when it was called.... by Otter	Jul 15th, 2007 10:40:24 AM
"From Dusk Til' Dawn".
schnipple by Mr. Nice Gaius	Jul 15th, 2007 10:42:46 AM
I'll go ahead and answer that question. Yes, it is "gay". Carpenter should move in a different direction. After VAMPIRES and GHOSTS OF MARS, I'd say it's high-time he consider some new subject matter. Although, he may be doing that with PSYCHOPATH (?).
bring it on... by kung_fu_elvis	Jul 15th, 2007 10:47:35 AM
I loved the Thing, Big Trouble, Halloween, fog, and I think 'In the mouth' is still one of my favourites... Even with the occasional misses Carpenter has earned my money for this one already.
MKiro, "Cigarette Burns" was a remake of a French film. by Uncapie	Jul 15th, 2007 10:53:30 AM
Just so you know.
Demon-possessed rock-star? by zenzer	Jul 15th, 2007 10:55:54 AM
Let me guess, the Demon-possessed rock-star leads the hordes of zombies and vampires (Alice Cooper ala Prince of Darkness?, Big Daddy Ghosts of Mars?). If Carpenter isn't careful, he could be creating great tongue in cheek commentary on today's celebrity obsessed culture. Although, that cynical commentary on Hollywood worked so well for EFLA shudders
Better than Vampires? by Judge Briggs	Jul 15th, 2007 11:04:08 AM
With the head vamp trying to look like Trent Reznor. Man, that movie was a turd.
Funny, I just watched The Thing last night. by kwisatzhaderach	Jul 15th, 2007 11:11:11 AM
It was still amazing. Great John Carpenter movies: Assault on Precint 13, Halloween, The Fog, Escape From New York, The Thing, Starman, Big Trouble in Little China, Prince of Darkness, They Live, In the Mouth of Madness.
Carpenter's 80's stuff... by loafroaster	Jul 15th, 2007 11:23:00 AM
...was amazing. Absolutely fucking amazing. Even the 'bad' ones like Christine and Prince of Darkness were entertaining. But this'll be a piece of shit. He's lost it. I gave him a chance with Escape from LA, I gave him a chance with Vampires (with James Woods doing his excruiciating 'hey vampire, lick my balls, you wanna lick my balls? come on, lick my balls', etc), I gave him a chance with Ghosts of Mars...it's over.
I agree..but. by tehDude	Jul 15th, 2007 12:31:29 PM
The guy has created some of my favourite movies of all time, so I always give him a chance with every film he does. Unfortunately, since Invisible Man (I liked They Live) there has been turd after turd, with maybe Mouth a borderline exception. I have yet to see Cigarette Burns however. Come back to us John we love you!!!
Sounds lousy. by JackPumpkinhead	Jul 15th, 2007 12:34:15 PM
Still, it should be better than that horrible TV episode that he did a while ago. "Cigarette Monsters of Horror", was it? Something along those lines...
The Day Of The Beast? by tehDude	Jul 15th, 2007 12:36:42 PM
Sounds a BIT like the spanish movie The Day of The Beast from director Álex de la Iglesia. Where a priest teams up with a Death metal fan to stop satan. Class movie. I recommend it highly!
Otter by krushjudgement	Jul 15th, 2007 12:51:28 PM
Are you kidding me? Vampires was very entertaining not a four star classic, but a solid 3 star movie.
I just got off the phone with Kurt Russell... by Uncle Stan	Jul 15th, 2007 12:52:05 PM
He'll be playing the role of Jim in ACCORDING TO JIM: THE MOVIE.
Cigarette Burns is pretty good by canopus	Jul 15th, 2007 01:03:03 PM
If you imagine that the movie that they're watching at the end, that's making them rip out their eyes and kill themselves, is actually Son In Law.
"Vintage" Carpenter? by Quake II	Jul 15th, 2007 01:23:57 PM
I doubt it. That Carpenter has been MIA since Big Trouble In Little China. I'm hoping for 50% of vintage Carpenter to return instead of the 15% we've been getting all these years. Carpenter was known for directing dark, moody pictures that kicked all sorts of ass.I'm beginning to think that Dean Cundy and Debra Hill were the real talent behind his early work......
It's called "L.A. Catholic" by Daddylonghead	Jul 15th, 2007 01:24:02 PM
It has vampires, monsters, and Roman Polanski.
I've often wondered about John's knowledge of Catholics by The Inspector	Jul 15th, 2007 01:44:40 PM
In THE FOG, Father Malone had a grandfather named...FATHER MALONE. Umm... In PRINCE OF DARKNESS, he has everyday parish priests being driven around town in limousines while having their messages couriered to people by nuns. I won't even get into VAMPIRES...
FX by newkie brown	Jul 15th, 2007 01:58:19 PM
I'm first in line to see any new John Carpenter movie. I just hope that if, as it says above, there are "a ton of creatures" in L.A. Gothic, that he foregoes the KNB cartoony effects and dodgy CGI that have marred his films for some time now. He needs to take a stricter hand with that stuff. As good as KNB are (and they are good - look at their work on Sin City for example; fantastic stuff), I find some of their creature work lacking, big time. Rob Bottin's work on The Thing set a high water mark for genre FX, but since then the effects work, both make-up and visual, in Carpenter films has felt phoney.
STFU Mkiro by supersize	Jul 15th, 2007 02:24:20 PM
You don't speak for me sir. Also way to lookout for the little guy mor
as much as i want to beleive it by datachasm	Jul 15th, 2007 04:29:51 PM
i dont, because ALL of Carpenters work has hit the remake circles... i just dont see how he is gonna get a new movie off the ground if they are treating his others like he is dead.
The real John Carpenter was killed in 1988 by Bass Bastardson	Jul 15th, 2007 04:50:51 PM
And replaced by a look-alike robot. While the robot has fooled many people over the years, those who look closely can tell there is one major difference between the deceased director and his replicant replacement - THE ROBOT CAN'T DIRECT HIS WAY OUT OF A WET PAPER BAG.
Read it - it's AWESOME! by Roderick Usher	Jul 15th, 2007 06:46:39 PM
Great script, great director...all it need is a kick-ass cast. KR would be brilliant in the lead.
At the End of the Thing by FILMFUNK	Jul 15th, 2007 07:28:19 PM
Kurt Russel and his friend froze to death wondering which one had become the Thing when in fact it was the director who was absorbed by the alien lifeform and returned to make really shit films like Ghosts of Mars hoping no one would realise he wasn't the real John Carpenter. . .
Lest we foget Dark Star! by Maniaq	Jul 15th, 2007 10:26:29 PM
Otherwise, totally right on the money Paul Muaddib! Did anyone else get the little reference in Sunshine? BRILLIANT!
Carpenter is my personal hero by LordSoth	Jul 16th, 2007 12:25:45 AM
No other person has made as many of my favorite movies. I know Masters of Horror is just a TV show, but I didn't sense greatness in his episodes. Ghosts of Mars also felt not as inspired as his earlier work. I hope the next thing he does really shows his passion. In the Mouth of Madness is one of my favorites.
At least by LordSoth	Jul 16th, 2007 12:28:19 AM
Ghosts of Mars was far more enjoyable than any Paul WS Anderson movie. The style was "on" even if the payoff wasn't as much as I'd expected.
If LA Gothic actually has a budget by LordSoth	Jul 16th, 2007 12:29:52 AM
I'll start salivating. The movie sounds like it could be big. p.s. James Woods wss the best part of Vampires.
JC is Back!!!!! by oducerproducer	Jul 16th, 2007 01:00:30 AM
Hopefuly this is true.
Welcome home, Johnny by BenBraddock	Jul 16th, 2007 03:00:39 AM
OK, maybe a tad early for that...
Incidentally, Heath's Joker looks like Robert Smith by BenBraddock	Jul 16th, 2007 03:02:55 AM
If he died his hair green that is.
Actually, this sounds like a concept by ewokstew	Jul 16th, 2007 03:03:26 AM
for a Steve Niles book.
Carpenter Hasn't... by Tourist	Jul 16th, 2007 03:31:49 AM
Made anything good since Big Trouble In Little China. Portions of They Live, even Prince Of Darkness or In The Mouth Of Madness were okay, but the films overall were generally poor. Body Bags, Vampires, his Masters Of Horror output and most horrifically Ghosts Of Mars were complete and utter garbage. The worst kind of unwatchable bores, because in some of the cases, the concepts weren't half bad. Just really badly made. This project sounds pretty shitty, just from a pitch perspective, and with a naff title. I hope it isn't though, because like everyone else, when Carpenter was on form back in the day, he was the man. Cigarette Burns was a remake of a French Flick now? I thought it was a total lift of Flicker, that cool book no one seems to be able to make into a movie. As for the priest having a kid thing, are you retarded? You think thats not part of the hook? Like the writer sat down with complete ignorance to the celibacy vow? Wouldn't that be part of the dramatic conflict in the film? Did you know that a man can't leap tall buildings or run faster than a choo choo train too?
The reason Ghosts of Mars blew so horribly by Lost Prophet	Jul 16th, 2007 04:25:37 AM
Is that he was obviously bored doing it. It may as well have been called Assault on Martian Precinct. I really can ignore his track record since the 90's and pay to see any film he makes because he has made so many that I love and I want him to keep earning so he can keep making genre films. Anything other than torture porn, please god, anything other than torture porn.
I thought the first Vampires was good by bender7	Jul 16th, 2007 04:38:37 AM
But it may have been mainly James Wood. I think given the right material he could make another great one
DEAN CUNDY! by 1st and only	Jul 16th, 2007 06:54:12 AM
cundy was the best cinematographer of the 80's.if john carpenter wants to deliver a decent movie again then cundy has to be back on the team!he was the perfect foil for carpenters slower paced movies.debra hill and kurt russell co wrote/produced escape from L.A so its obviously not them who were making carpenter great.(kurt russel's best films are all carpenters!) it has to be cundy's comic frame cinematography thats been missing.it almost forces carpenter into his slow paced groove!
Priests having daughters -- it can happen w/o being by chrth	Jul 16th, 2007 08:33:29 AM
controversial -- Provided the daughter was conceived before he became a priest (which does happen, although usually the church strongly discourages fathers from becoming Fathers; however, a la Wonderfalls, if he doesn't know ... )
Carpenter by Cobbio	Jul 16th, 2007 08:48:55 AM
I'm a huge fan of "The Thing," and I respect Carpenter, but this idea sounds silly bordering on stupid. A demon-possessed rock star? What, like Justin Timberlake? Like the lead singer of "Green Day"? The term "rock star" doesn't carry nearly the allure it used to. Hell, those singers on "American Idol" are all rock stars in most people's minds, right? Demon-possessed rock star, my ass. More like demon-possessed whiny bitch with styley emo hair. Yuck. "Ghosts of Mars" was a fuck-up of classic proportions, primarily because it pushed supernatural horror into science fiction. The two genres mix like oil and water every time. Pick one or the other, not both. Yet Carpenter thought it could work, I guess. How the mighty have fallen.
Cobbio by Lost Prophet	Jul 16th, 2007 09:06:29 AM
I think supernatural horror and Sci-Fi can mix if done properly- (people cite Event Horizon as Piss Wank Stain Anderson's only decent film, but it didn't do it for me.) Although, as they are both, arguably, difficult genres to do well it raises the chance of a fuck up to epic levels. hmm, something to ponder on the way home.
mode_7 by Lost Prophet	Jul 16th, 2007 10:11:10 AM
You have to see the rest of his films to empathise with the level of hatred that people have for him. Except shopping, which is quite good despite having both Jude Law and Sadie Frost in it.
I'll watch "Soldier" over "Ghosts of Mars" any day. by Movietool	Jul 16th, 2007 11:04:20 AM
Sorry, LordSoth. Same goes for "Resident Evil" over "Vampires," or "Event Horizon" over "The Mouth of Madness." Paul WS hasn't made the classics that Carpenter has, but he sure as hell is making better movies right now.
No waaaaay movietool by Lost Prophet	Jul 16th, 2007 11:11:15 AM
I'll take Event Horizon over Ghosts of mars, but the rest of them are all equally awful and I would much rather watch MAdness over Soldier and Resident Evil, i would also watch all of them from both directors rather than Alien v Predator.
Well, we agree on AvP by Movietool	Jul 16th, 2007 11:14:17 AM
What a piece of crap.
Does he still get his name in the title? by Spandau Belly	Jul 16th, 2007 12:29:27 PM
After his bad run in the 90s I'm sure he's lost rights to possesive titles. Are his kids named John Carpenter's Sally Carpenter and John Carpenter's Jimmy Carpenter? I wonder if he talks like the protagonist in Fight Club? "I am John Carpenter's complete lack fo surprise." Now that I think of it, I would actually go see a movie called John Carpenter's Complete Lack of Surprise, but only if it had Ice Cube playing a priest and Kurt Russel as his son and the two have go to a maximim security prision that used to be South America and spring Michael Meyers so that three of them can travel to Antartica and kill Da Thing (played by 50 Cent).
So what did I miss in Alien Versus Predator? by Spandau Belly	Jul 16th, 2007 12:47:03 PM
I never saw it, but you guys are complaining about years after its release so it must be something incredibly awful. Anybody who wants to give me a well thought out critique of this film's flaws and what you would've liked to have seen instead, I would really like to hear it. P.S. I do like the first three Alien movies and both Predator films. I just have no interest these franchise showdown films on general principle.
Paul WS Anderson vs Carpenter? Nah... by Jack Burton	Jul 16th, 2007 05:17:37 PM
more like Paul WS vs Brett Ratner. Both are utterly devoid of style and responsible for trashing what were/could have been good franchises. But I would rather watch Anderson's entire filmography than anything from Brett Ratner again. Ratner is a hack to the extreme. I just do not get why his movies are successful. He doesn't make good movies, he makes "ok" movies at best.
This is happening... by Paulseta	Jul 16th, 2007 08:26:26 PM
...the guy writing it was posting about the development meetings with Carpenter and was told to shut up. He was a little overexcited. In any case, it is definitely in active development and in all likelyhood will be the next Carpenter film, unless Psychopath goes first. You know, aside from the lack of Dean Cundy - which is really, really important in terms of what happened to the great visuals of early Carpenter - the lack of Alan Howarth in the music really bites too. Howarth did a lot to make Carpenter's earlier soundtracks shine - witness the dropoff in soundtrack quality after Prince of Darkness.
Piss Weak Script Anderson is Uwe Boll In disguise by Lost Prophet	Jul 17th, 2007 04:13:15 AM
Except even more annoying as Shopping and Event Horizon are actually quite good- It is the dizzying drop in quality afterwards that is truly, truly scarring. He's never to be forgiven for fucking up Resident Evil- which I honestly believed was the Game franchise begging for film treatment. Seriously, what did the prick turn out? He took basically a haunted house/ zombie premise and gave us hologrammatic computers, stupid tacked on romance, pathetic Amnesia script, shitty surprise ending and a banal thrashy soundtrack. AWFUL. As for AvP if you haven't seen it, don't. Unless you really want to see some classy actors drowned in a mire of unremmitting stupidity, and not in a fun "Leprechaun" or Flash Gordon type of way.
The pitch alone sounds brilliant by liljuniorbrown	Jul 20th, 2007 01:36:12 PM
I mean just based on the premise I would and the idea of Carpenter directing with Kurt Russell staring as a kick as priest is just a killer movie that will probably never get made.

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