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Wolfgang Petersen And Whitley Strieber Introduce Us To THE GRAYS!! (Gasp!) It's About Aliens!?!?

new account and FIRST!! by robo6	Sep 7th, 2007 09:13:21 AM
FIRST ! FAGGOTS!
WOLFEN? by robo6	Sep 7th, 2007 09:15:05 AM
they should remake that with really shitty CGI wolves.... personally , I fucking hate aliens. They're no good.
Anybody hear anything about by tehgreekhammer	Sep 7th, 2007 09:15:10 AM
this Hatchet movie? I hear its the greatest thing since Cabin Fever.
aliens are among us, theres one in the white house by pipergates	Sep 7th, 2007 09:16:49 AM
bush the lizardian. you can clearly see he ain't human.
Scully? by TheWalt	Sep 7th, 2007 09:25:05 AM
Didn't I see this before... as The X-Files?
10 years too late? by GCH888	Sep 7th, 2007 09:28:14 AM
Isn't the subject matter a bit 1990s?
He also wrote Cat Magic by tonagan	Sep 7th, 2007 09:33:47 AM
He's an endearing nutjob, that guy.
ENDER'S GAME and RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA... by brokentusk	Sep 7th, 2007 09:34:41 AM
Two films that will be incredibly difficult to adapt for the screen, but that SHOULD be adapted. I think, with RAMA's case - they should meld the first and the second book together (not much happened in the first book, it was a short story). With ENDER, I don't think the difficulty is in the writing (it is possible to translate the novel to the screen in a faithful manner), but more in the casting of the children. Still, it is possible to find children with enough talent to fill the roles if they throw out a large enough net, casting-wise. I wish Warner Bros. would greenlight the film already.
Communion by Boba Fat	Sep 7th, 2007 09:35:30 AM
the book, scared the be-jesus out of me but as GCH888 says, it's all a bit old hat now. Real life is more frightening than alien invaders.
Yes, GCH888, it's 10 years too late . . . by Nice Marmot	Sep 7th, 2007 09:41:43 AM
. . . and AICN has just blown the whole plot too. My interest has been anal probed. Ba-dum-bum-DSSSSH!!!
First Faggots? Way to make an impression. by liljuniorbrown	Sep 7th, 2007 09:51:42 AM
Unless you were trying to type "Fist Faggots? " either way your on the wrong website douche.
Fire in the Sky part 2: This time its personal by BMacSmith	Sep 7th, 2007 10:00:24 AM
i dont hear an interesting spin on the genre
Warren Ellis said it best in Transmetropolitan... by Mondo47	Sep 7th, 2007 10:01:04 AM
As Spider points out to a very thinly-veiled Whit Strieber, if these aliens have come thousands of light years at regular intervals to seemingly do nothing other than eccasionally impart cryptic wisdom to you and stick a prong up your ass, either you have the most beautiful asshole in existence, or there is no intelligent life in the universe. Give me a old-fashioned ray guns and lasers invasion anyday over these creepy little sods and their probes.
Says his "2012" is to be flick, as well... by Mister Man	Sep 7th, 2007 10:07:57 AM
Wonder what's causing this sudden H-wood interest in Strieber...
I can hear George Noory masturbating already by GimpInMyPants	Sep 7th, 2007 10:20:29 AM
This movie should be fun for Coast to Coast with George Noory. He and his callers still talk about Fire in the Sky and The Mothman Prophecies, for God's sake. It should be good to listen for laughs.
Ah, the Mothman Prophecies by PVIII	Sep 7th, 2007 10:24:15 AM
good little film. Spooked the hell out of me. What's that director been up to me wonders - off to imdb!
"'Ello, mistuh Gay..." by Osmosis Jones	Sep 7th, 2007 10:35:19 AM
"'Oooby 'oooby 'OOOOOOOOOOOO!"
He's a hack. You gotta be weakbrained to think by V'Shael	Sep 7th, 2007 10:40:13 AM
that "greys" are probing peoples anus cavities and so on.
Bill Cooper by Dulcebase	Sep 7th, 2007 10:40:40 AM
Bill Cooper said that Whitley Streiber is a C.I.A. agent. Now, supposing that's true, that could explain the Hollywood interest in making these movies with him - maybe some sudden need to spread disinformation through the media.
The Hunger by Shoegeezer	Sep 7th, 2007 10:42:29 AM
He wrote that too, which, it seems, is an even more forgettable fact than he wrote Wolfen.
What the hell? by BillyPilgrim	Sep 7th, 2007 10:43:29 AM
Why does shit like this get a film and great Sci-Fi books by Gregory Benford, Greg Bear and Stephen Baxter get ignored. Shit, develop Alan Dean Fosters Flinx series for fucks sake. But no..charlatans like Strieber get handjobs from every insane radio fuck out there so they must get their books made into movies. What at bunch of bullshit.
Ah yeah... The Hunger... by Kid Z	Sep 7th, 2007 11:07:41 AM
... opening credits scored with Bauhaus' Bela Lugosi's Dead. It was cool shit in the 80s, but if we'd known it'd ultimately lead to today's goth/emo infestation, we'd've burned every friggin' copy of the thing!
The grays are has-beens... by Kid Z	Sep 7th, 2007 11:10:13 AM
... Today's aliens of note are the nastier Reptilians. Never mind the anal probes... these buggers can shape-shift and they eat people for breakfast, lunch and dinner!
Already! Another Abduction movie by yungb	Sep 7th, 2007 11:10:43 AM
I really hope this movie shows us an accurate depiction of an Alien abduction something Fire in the Sky failed to do.
Wolfen rocked my 5th grader world by ButtfuckZydeco	Sep 7th, 2007 11:22:04 AM
The book, that is. The Indian stuff from the movie was not in the book, although alternating chapters from the Wolfen point of view were.
And Strieber had 5th grade street cred by ButtfuckZydeco	Sep 7th, 2007 11:25:46 AM
for being present at the University of Texas sniper shootings. Of course I heard something since then that implied it made that up, which would seem consistent with the notion that this project is supposedly based on a nonfiction work of his.
Hatchet by mastes360	Sep 7th, 2007 11:31:12 AM
I have seen it and it blows. Well its not that bad actually and quite funny in parts but the Victor Crowley guy looks ludicrous and laughable, very gory though so i suppose its decent.
Anal Probing? by godoffireinhell	Sep 7th, 2007 11:37:16 AM
Will there be prolonged scenes of those filthy Grays shoving phallic probes into human rectums? If so, I demand that the human couple be played by Taylor Rain and Sasha Grey.
Oh God! Sasha GREY!!! by godoffireinhell	Sep 7th, 2007 11:37:50 AM
Now I'm scared...
Fuck Wolfgang Peterson, this guy hasn't made... by rbatty024	Sep 7th, 2007 11:43:47 AM
a decent film since Das Boot. For years I've been telling people to give him another chance but now he's had one too many second chances. You've made me look like and asshole Wolfgang Peterson!
Petersen is really done by Andy Warhol Jr	Sep 7th, 2007 12:01:07 PM
Nothing to discuss.
liljuniorbrown... by robo6	Sep 7th, 2007 12:29:05 PM
nice name... I use the same name for turds in the toliet. you'll never be first, cuz you're number 2 go watch a Uwe Boll movie... fucking Bollhead.
HOLD THE BUS!!!! STOP IT, RIGHT THERE!!! by L.H.Puttgrass	Sep 7th, 2007 12:56:39 PM
Did you just say,"Morgan Freeman's RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA" can't get made? No one wants to make a movie from "Rendezvous With Rama"? With THE Morgan Freeman onboard? With all of the TV shows and remakes that are being dragged through theaters these days, Rendezvous with Rama, the award winning novel by Arthur C. Clarke, can't get its orginal foot in the door? With several sequels to it already written? Ahh, Hollywood, the Cup of Stupidity overflows! Swim in it's cool and numbing waters and soak your head in it! Hey Morgan! Give the project to Michael Bay. He'll get it made! He can do EEENNNIII-THING! He da Man. I am, of course, joking. Sadly.
Christopher Walken better be in it!!!!!! by TheBaxter	Sep 7th, 2007 01:21:57 PM
i enjoyed strieber's "i was abducted by aliens" books, even if i never totally bought into them. but i read The Grays, and it sucked!
Never read Communion, but saw the movie... by Abin Sur	Sep 7th, 2007 02:13:10 PM
...and parts of it scared the crap out of me - especially the scene at the cabin where Christopher Walken looks from his bed out into the hallway - and that big eyed alien (more tan than gray) slowly peers around the doorway at him. Walken's reaction shot is what sold the whole moment, and that made it some scary shit.
If there's anything scarier than those gray aliens... by Kid Z	Sep 7th, 2007 02:33:50 PM
... it's got to be Christopher Walken... especially if he's dancing/flying in a hotel lobby.
I wish he would make Ender already by quadrupletree	Sep 7th, 2007 02:44:00 PM
I love that book and can't wait to see it on the big screen. I think they need to get a really big name person to put their name on it as producer to make it happen. I hate to say it but George Lucas, just to throw his weight behind it not to have any creative influence...
The book was a complete mess by Utamoh	Sep 7th, 2007 04:15:36 PM
I read Communion when it was first published and found it well written suspense for the most part. "The "Greys was a serious dissapointment - seemed like Strieber was making shit up as it went along. Parts of it were like juvenile science fiction from the 50's, with cardboard characters (really evil government guys) and magic technology that seemed to convienently arrive to save the day whenever the plot needed a boost. This wouldn't even make for bad television. Communion -the film - was one of the worst book adaptations I've ever seen. If the adaptation of The Greys is worse than the book, it's going straight to video.
Umm, oops I meant to spell it Grays, not Greys by Utamoh	Sep 7th, 2007 04:21:23 PM
Can't knock that english spelling out of me.
Sounds boring. by Premiere Warlord Bush	Sep 7th, 2007 06:07:01 PM
And is probably already an episode of the X Files. When is the Destroy All Humans movie coming out? That'd kick ass.
Wolfen/Communion by Spartacus Hughs	Sep 7th, 2007 06:33:00 PM
Anyone else like Wolfen with Albert Finney & Gregory Hines? I've not watched it for years but I seem to remember being impressed by the ending. And Communion, "Is that someone there" deeply affected me. But maybe that's because father used to put his finger in my bumole whenever mother went to the local shops.
THE GRAYS! REPTILIANS by TheDohDoh	Sep 7th, 2007 07:09:06 PM
Hell yeah. I love this conspiracy shit. Bush is a fucking giant lizard or an underground dwelling grey. It's true!
Why do aliens love anal probing? by TallBoy66	Sep 7th, 2007 07:11:57 PM
What the hell are they looking for up there anyway?
poor impressionable famous uber rich german director by the_man_from_Rio	Sep 7th, 2007 08:41:50 PM
i guess petersen bought the whole he's a cia agent act( maybe it is, maybe it isn't). all i humbly know is that this idea sounds boring pra caralho. give Rendezvous with Rama to someone with pulse, like Fincher(wasn't he attached to that at some point?).
TallBoy66: That's easy! by Playkins	Sep 7th, 2007 09:27:20 PM
Gold. They're looking for gold.
Oh, a question for anyone that knows- by Playkins	Sep 7th, 2007 09:29:22 PM
Didn't Streiber finally admit that he made up the story he based "Communion" on to help sell his book?
Rendezvous with Rama by MaleSheep	Sep 7th, 2007 10:43:16 PM
I think I also heard that at some point Tom Hanks was working on getting a Rendezvous with Rama film made.
Sounds like a bad episode of THE X-FILES! by Bob Cryptonight	Sep 8th, 2007 12:39:52 AM
I saw Strieber give a talk and answer questions at a bookstore signing...about ten years ago or so. It was really entertaining--we asked all kinds of questions AS IF WE WERE FANS AND BELIEVED in all that UFO stuff. He ate it all up. Seems like a nice guy. Probably bi-polar.
what a great pitch by mrbong	Sep 8th, 2007 02:18:29 AM
this is such a fresh, imaginative and creative idea for a film. this notion of life existing outside of earth is new to me, and i do not recall seeing any film at all of this nature. what will make it a winner is if they get Jack Black in it to show off his acting flair once again. he could do for this what he did for King Kong, no?
Communion2 : Electric Boogaloo by NomoredirtyjokespleaseweareYanks	Sep 8th, 2007 06:49:40 AM
sorry.
He wrote The Hunger? by Maniaq	Sep 8th, 2007 07:49:34 AM
That movie rocked! mmmm... Susan Sarandon's titties... ahem.. Yeah I remember Streiber previously wrote about Roswell being real and about how it had something to do with that was where the bombers that delivered the Bomb to Japan flew from - this was a pivotal, world shaping technology at the time, remember, responsible for a Cold War that lasted half a century. Anyway, the Rama thing sounded interesting. I don't think anyone should try to blend the first and second books - the first was a good deal more than a short story. I think the second was probably the superior of the sequels so it would probably be a better film if it was a sequel, no?
Whitley Strieber by Dark Knight Lite	Sep 8th, 2007 09:14:12 AM
Is Koo Koo for Cocoa Puffs.
THIS NEWS IS FROM SEPTEMBER 2007!!! AICN has really gone to shit by Shakes The Clown	Jun 11th, 2008 10:31:18 AM
THIS NEWS IS FROM SEPTEMBER 2007!!! It was even announced in Variety back then. AICN has really gone to shit.

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