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Quint from the Disney Presentation! Disney's adaptation of Philip K. Dick's KING OF THE ELVES!

testing 1 2 3 by xega	Apr 8th, 2008 09:04:34 PM
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Pic's? by TRON	Apr 8th, 2008 09:05:58 PM
Its a shame theres no artwork scans to go along with the article. A can make or break anticipation.
Great short story by jeremykeijo	Apr 8th, 2008 09:11:02 PM
Let's hope they keep just a hint of how trippy it is.
What about by kolchak	Apr 8th, 2008 09:14:18 PM
Darby o'gill and the king of the little people?
tron by Quint	Apr 8th, 2008 09:21:37 PM
I asked, but they really don't want to release anything since it's so far out. I feel the same as you do, though. One of the pieces of art coming out would go a long way to getting people excited for it. What I liked about the art in the slideshow they showed was that it was very painterly and lush. The artistry was there, it wasn't some flat CG production image.
Sounds like David the Gnome from Nick... by leobloom	Apr 8th, 2008 09:30:54 PM
I don't know anything about this story, but it sounds like it might have more appeal to fans of Dick. Beat.
HELP STOP UWE BOLL!!! by The Devlinizer	Apr 8th, 2008 09:35:19 PM
He announced if the following online petition reached one million votes he'd stop making movies!!! Lets kick his ass!!! Petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/ RRH53888/petition.html Source: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStor y?cId=3167288
Funny fact: Weinsteins were executive producers of David the Gno by leobloom	Apr 8th, 2008 09:36:25 PM
Sad, but true.
Darby O' Gill!!!!! by kidicarus	Apr 8th, 2008 09:44:16 PM
The banshee!!!!! The banshee!!!
There's no hope for this. by Pariah74	Apr 8th, 2008 10:21:43 PM
Not for fans of P.K.D. anyway.
devlin by Quint	Apr 8th, 2008 10:28:37 PM
if Boll actually said he would quit, I'd post that. But he didn't. In an interview he said he wouldn't quit because of the petition with 18,000 signatures. When asked what would be enough, he said "A million." He never pledged anything, just a throwaway line in an interview. Now that the petition is up over 120,000 he's backtracking. He'll never quit and he's just using this as a way to publicize his latest shitfest (yes, I saw Postal and it's horrible, surprise surprise). I'm not helping that tool publicize his poor excuses for films anymore, which is why there's no story about the petition on the site. If he entered into a contract saying he'd quit with 1 million signatures on a petition, then I'd be pushing that petition every day until it had a million signatures, but that petition could get 10 million and he'd never stop. We're stuck with him, but as long as he goes (and stays) direct to video, he can have a long career fighting with Charles Band for rental space on fourth tier Hollywood video shelves as far as I'm concerned.
Is anyone in the film named Gandolf? by welsh12uk	Apr 8th, 2008 10:29:05 PM
That would be so cool to have Gandolf in it and the Incredible Hulk as one of the Elves-you know you want it to happen. Hulk Smash!
Unrelated, here's the leaked pics of Scarlett Johansson from the by Suki_Jonze	Apr 8th, 2008 10:44:30 PM
http://tinyurl.com/3ol6vb including the threat from lionsgate
Disney and P.K. Dick? by rbatty024	Apr 8th, 2008 10:46:29 PM
My head is about to explode. That is too fucking cool. Every since Disney acquired Pixar they've started to turn things around. No longer do I cringe when I hear about the House of Mouse's latest project.
[clears throat] Ladies and gentlemen... by Osmosis Jones	Apr 8th, 2008 10:51:08 PM
...can we have a kibosh on annoying talking banner ads?
Horray for 2D! by br1947	Apr 8th, 2008 10:57:59 PM
I actually mean that seriously. I don't know what it is about it, maybe since I grew up with the Disney classics, all the 3D stuff just doesn't seem right. It seemed like a fit with Toy Story, but ever since then, it just hasn't seemed right.
and speaking of PKD... by br1947	Apr 8th, 2008 11:00:32 PM
Disney gonna make V.A.L.I.S. too? heh, that'd be interesting to say the least...
2-D animation by Gungan Slayer	Apr 8th, 2008 11:52:20 PM
So Princess and the Frog is the currently the only announced 2-D film they have in production? Sigh. Was hoping for at least one more. Can't wait for this PKD project to materialize. Don't care much for Cars 2 though.
Hey Quint by NoahTall	Apr 8th, 2008 11:57:41 PM
How about taking a few minutes to head over to the Farrelly poster contest and update it with who won the poster and what the story was. I'm certain that you must have done like you said you would and notified the winner by the second weekend in January so how about letting everybody else know who won. Or did the Farrelly bros welch on the deal and not send you the poster on time? Those dirty welchers not following up on their promise. Boycott them I say!
They should make an all-animated Enchanted 2 by Multiplex	Apr 9th, 2008 12:30:19 AM
Like a prequel or something, maybe. The animated bits in that movie looked FANTASTIC. I'm looking forward to Princess and the Frog.
Multiplex is gay by I87D	Apr 9th, 2008 01:02:24 AM

2012? Isn't that when the world's going to end? by Eunuch Provocateur	Apr 9th, 2008 01:08:36 AM
Why should we even bother with these movies, we'll be dead!!
I still want a "Flow My Tears" movie by mr.underwater	Apr 9th, 2008 02:00:33 AM
It's my favorite all-around novel of his. And, I think it's very filmable. I won't bore anyone with my dream cast and director. I just hope it makes it to the screen somehow.
WED & PKD?? by Samuel Vimes	Apr 9th, 2008 02:03:16 AM
Why not: FOX/DREAMWORKS (Minority Report), WARNER BROS (Blade Runner, A Scanner Darkly), TRISTAR (Total Recall), whoever did Screamers--- they all had a crack at bringing Phil Dick'stories to the big screen, so why couldn't the company that brought you Mickey, Donald and Goofy have a stab at it? Still, this is as surreal a H'wood pairing up as having Salvador Dali working with the Mouse...
Mississippi? Ain't that where Adam & Eve are from? by newc0253	Apr 9th, 2008 02:09:46 AM
Didn't realise PKD wrote anything with elves in it but King of the Elves sounds cool. Anyone know why it is Walt Disney's King of the Elves though? What did the frozen head of Uncle Walt have to do with it?
Cars 2. by Puñeta	Apr 9th, 2008 02:15:34 AM
Couldnt help but notice Cars 2 for 2012, Yuck!
lovely. abarat? by max404	Apr 9th, 2008 03:00:41 AM
that's a lovely story. looking forward to the adaptation something else: wonder what the status is on Disney's mega adaptation of Clive Barker's 'Abarat' books which they acquired. Including gay characters
"bear and the bow" originally disney? by mansep	Apr 9th, 2008 03:28:42 AM
If you look at how the main films are staggered in the release schedule (with pixar and disney films alternating) it looks as if the bear and the bow was originally planned as a disney film (which kind of makes sense as it is a fairy tale)... so iwonder why it got turned into a pixar film... was it because the fairy tale is too obscure for disney?
I thought the DTV Tinkerbell was cancelled. by DerLanghaarige	Apr 9th, 2008 06:21:18 AM

Bear & the Bow with Pixar = Bigger Box Office by Yeti	Apr 9th, 2008 06:22:16 AM
Disney = Kids movies. Pixsr is more viable to all members of the family.
Quint... I thought RAPUNZEL was supposed by Frijole	Apr 9th, 2008 06:47:53 AM
to be 2-D cell animated as well. No?
God, they'll really suck Dick dry, won't they? by Stalin vs Predator	Apr 9th, 2008 07:41:51 AM
(And I only noticed the double entendre as I was writing it, but I kept it, anyway.) Everything Dick ever wrote will be adapted, it seems. And the reason? Executive 1: "Hey, that dead sci-fi guy they adapted a couple times recently and made good money, he wrote anything else, Bob?" And so, because the executives only learn of writers and books once they're made into movies, every good, average and awful scrap written by Dick will be adapted, while Sheckley, Kuttner, Bradbury, Aldiss, Weinbaum and hundreds of others will remain on paper (and often out of print) only.
I'd rather see Tinkerbell get it.... by Batman Begins Sucks Ass	Apr 9th, 2008 08:33:36 AM
..right in the pooper and have some dude drop the kids off right in her butt.
what is "Bear and the Bow"? by finky089	Apr 9th, 2008 10:24:03 AM

A mutherfarking Cars sequel? by Kankennon	Apr 9th, 2008 04:25:16 PM
Why not make a sequel to one of the good ones instead, like The Incredibles II? Are they getting subsidized by Nascar or something?
Stalin by Beldo84	Apr 9th, 2008 05:06:45 PM
Bradbury has at least had his day in the sun. Check his IMDb. In addition to Ray Bradbury Theater, the guy had dozens of stories turned into movies both theatrical and TV. He was in vogue in the '60s and '80s in the same way Dick is now.
All my favorite by Mockingbuddha	Apr 9th, 2008 08:13:12 PM
PKD Books are mentioned in this TB except for We Can Build You. So... Disney/PIXAR's We Can Build You would rock!!! I for one hope they keep making Phillip K Dick books and stories into movies because, a) he was a fountain of great ideas and Hollywood is a desolate wasteland of formulaic crap, and 2) I always feel just a bit superior when saying, "Yeah well you should read the book if you want the real story." Also no one mentioned Paycheck or Next, although probably for good reason. Having said that, Next is based on The Golden Man which is a fucking cool story. Go read it.

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