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Earth's convicts in a Jupiter prison? What is THE DITCH?

second by DURANGO66	May 4th, 2008 11:04:24 PM

You know how heavy the gravity is on Jupiter? by Uncapie	May 4th, 2008 11:06:30 PM
What a stupid concept! Hey, Warner Brothers; I have a cheaper idea! Its two dogs pissing against a fire hydrant...in space! Check please!
first! by nastee_flembot	May 4th, 2008 11:07:25 PM
Am I really?
No ...Not by nastee_flembot	May 4th, 2008 11:08:01 PM
First
reminds me of Space Rage by The Amazing G	May 4th, 2008 11:12:43 PM
bloody money YEAH!
hereeeeee's a little something to remember me by! by The Amazing G	May 4th, 2008 11:13:26 PM
AHHHHHHHH!!!gunfire
Sounds lame. by RetroActive	May 4th, 2008 11:14:27 PM
...probably is.
So basically it's Outland meets... by poeticwarriorII	May 4th, 2008 11:16:32 PM
Hostage? Sounds marv.
Geez I smell SciFi Channel by BetaRayBill07	May 4th, 2008 11:22:29 PM
written all over this piece of crap.
Fuck this shit by caruso_stalker217	May 4th, 2008 11:33:26 PM
My outline for MOON PRISON is about ten times better than this.
Let's See - Heavy Gravity to keep prisoners slow. by Smerdyakov	May 4th, 2008 11:38:14 PM
Methane gas to keep them docile. Works for me.
GAS giant by Stunt_Lime	May 4th, 2008 11:39:26 PM
Isn't jupiter primarily gas? I'm no astronomer, but I think that fact may make things harder than the concept originally makes it seem.
hate it when people say 'my bad' or 'i'm game' by Windowlicker74	May 4th, 2008 11:41:57 PM
learn to fucking speak man
This sounds retarded.. by beetlegeuse	May 5th, 2008 12:06:57 AM
but still sounds better than the new terminator movie. I won't see either.
Jupiter is a gas giant, not solid. by Droogie Alex	May 5th, 2008 12:10:09 AM
Try watching NOVA.
it's a gas giant, but still has a surface in there by BadMrWonka	May 5th, 2008 12:18:41 AM
it's under crazy pressure and nothing could realistically live there but it's not ALL gas, it's got lots of Rock...still makes no sense that there would ever be a jail there, but hey, whatever...
BadMrWonka by Stunt_Lime	May 5th, 2008 12:23:27 AM
Thanks for clarifying
Great! Now Blockbuster will have a run on Space Prison movies by Mace Tofu	May 5th, 2008 12:31:37 AM
filmed out in the desert or old rock quarry. Yawn! Been down this road in a 100 DTV crap fest AR epics (after Roadwarrior)
Hollywood Must Be Filled With Bad Sci-Fi Spec Scripts by TroutMaskReplicant	May 5th, 2008 12:33:31 AM
Sounds like Garbage, maybe this guy got lucky because of the strike.
Read the Variety article, lazy talkbackers. by Preacher_mg	May 5th, 2008 12:47:41 AM
It's not on Jupiter. It's on one of Jupiter's moons. But that only makes it scientifically plausible. It will still suck like all prison movies other than the Shawshank redemption.
Planetary Prison Break: This Fall On Fox by chromedome	May 5th, 2008 12:52:32 AM
YOU know Fox is gonna copy this... and, if by any remote chance it is any good, they will cancel it immediately.
That prison space station on Lost in Space by joeelliott	May 5th, 2008 12:54:11 AM
"What could be so wrong with a man who likes to play cat's cradle" Robby the Robot was the guard!
According to some theories... by drompter	May 5th, 2008 01:05:18 AM
Jupiter's core is a single giant diamond (bigger than Earth), so perhaps this project should be titled "Convicts In The Sky With Diamonds"
On A Moon! by SanityKaos	May 5th, 2008 01:17:03 AM
It would have to take place on a moon being that anything that tried to land on Jupiter would disintegrate...but then again that makes it sound like another film...Outland
Outland by SanityKaos	May 5th, 2008 01:18:35 AM
Anyone remember Outland?
Holy Shit! by Alonzo Mosely	May 5th, 2008 01:38:01 AM
It's every straight-to-video sci-fi movie from the 80s... Christopher Lambert is probably rolling over in his grave...
Isn't this the script for by Series7	May 5th, 2008 01:40:51 AM
Air Force One? Expect replace president with head guard? Wait isn't this the plot to a lot of prison movies?
caruso_stalker217 by ironic_name	May 5th, 2008 02:01:39 AM
I thought MOON PRISON was a real dtv masterpiece!
A new Fortress movie? by CuervoJones	May 5th, 2008 02:06:50 AM
Call Lambert!
Could be a solid little fun flick. Could be shit. by Mysterious Yobo	May 5th, 2008 02:44:34 AM
great observation.
Harry 20... by Turtle_Z	May 5th, 2008 02:53:29 AM
...on High Rock. I'm still waiting for someone to option this old comic strip from Brit comic 2000ad. It was a fantastic story with great Alan Davis art. If they can capture a bit of that in this film I'll be happy. Also, I know it wasn't a prison flick as such, but if it siphons off a bit of Outlands cool, it'll certainly be worth a watch. Quietly optimistic.
Harlan Ellison on prison-planet movies by No Respectable Gentleman	May 5th, 2008 03:21:01 AM
Didn't he once mock the whole concept as the ultimate pulp garbage? Welcome to Hollywood 2008.
Don't you mean "What's the sitch"? by DerLanghaarige	May 5th, 2008 03:46:17 AM
Whatever. But I wonder if one of the inmates will be called Fred (German in-joke...).
call me, beep me anytime you need me by ironic_name	May 5th, 2008 04:54:46 AM

Just checked with Blockbuster by Mace Tofu	May 5th, 2008 05:07:52 AM
and next year they do have some space prison movies on pre-order, the titles are: NO ESCAPE FROM MOON 44, MOON FORTRESS, MOON FORTRESS 2, 2099 THE BRONX WARRIORS ESCAPE FROM THE MOON PRISON, SPACE DITCH, THE PRISON DITCH, ESCAPE FROM THE DITCH, ALIENS FROM THE DEEP DITCH ON THE PRISON PLANET, CHAIN GANG FROM OUTER SPACE, ESCAPE FROM SPACE ALCATRAZ, ALCATRAZ IN SPACE, ALCATRAZ ON THE MOON, ALCATRAZ NASH. Those are just the January pre-orders...
No! by FILMFUNK	May 5th, 2008 05:25:55 AM
sounds like piss!
Another THE MATRIX? by The StarWolf	May 5th, 2008 06:11:59 AM
Certainly sounds like it. Neither film make the least bit of sense. Pass.
Ummmmm, I think people already mentioned this, but... by rbatty024	May 5th, 2008 06:17:15 AM
Jupiter is a gas planet. You know, it's not solid. Someone might want to tell the filmmakers this.
NEEDS CHARLIE-27 GIANT ROBOTS!!! by TomBodet	May 5th, 2008 06:21:27 AM
Little '70's Marvel humour there. Anyways. Lame idea by the sounds. Oh well.
It wouldn't be "on" Jupiter it would be on Titan or Io by Yeti	May 5th, 2008 06:42:26 AM
Doe's Jupiter even have mass or is just compressed gas?
should be flipped into a Riddick story by palewook	May 5th, 2008 06:42:28 AM

Saw Jupiter by Dazzler69	May 5th, 2008 06:43:20 AM
and thought Jupiter 1 from Lost in Space. I thought I might get a sequel finally.
EUROPA by Smoke Monster Loves Kate	May 5th, 2008 07:33:57 AM
is the best Jupiter moon. screw Titan and Io. and no, Jupiter's a gas giant, there's no actual 'planet' there. not to mention no people or technology would survive to get close enough to the surface were one to exist.
Talking of Riddick, Quint... by ahdvd	May 5th, 2008 08:09:32 AM
...any chance of finding out from Twohy if those other 2 Riddick movies he's penned will find their way to being made? Even an anime styled version (a la Dark Fury) would be something!
Warner Premiere by schlockthemonkey	May 5th, 2008 08:28:06 AM
Maybe this will be for their DTV subdivision?
Does it really matter? by HarrysLoveChild	May 5th, 2008 08:37:54 AM
Most of American movie goers are too lazy and ill-informed to know anything about basic astronomical knowledge. So to them, a prison on Jupiter would work just fine. FUCK! Prom Night was number 1 for what was it? Two weeks? I personally think we should get back to natural disaster movies. I want to see a volcano on the moon spewing lava at earth and it pouring over all of our major cities and landmarks. GOOD STUFF!
at least no one has made jokes about by schlockthemonkey	May 5th, 2008 08:56:49 AM
the inevitable sequel Son Of The Ditch
Meh by RogueWarrior65	May 5th, 2008 09:40:15 AM
yawn How about a multi-season mini-series of Cities In Flight?
Any relation to by MediaNerd	May 5th, 2008 10:09:11 AM
Any relation to the flick that the guys that made the "Grayson" flick are working on? Imagery seemed semi appropriate: http://www.untamedcinema.com/
Anyone remember Eagle Comics? by Napoleon Park	May 5th, 2008 10:52:57 AM
The American company that introduced the 2000 AD characters to america. Judge Dredd, Nemesis the Warlock, Strontium Dog. This project sounds kinda "Harry On The High Rock" to me.
Send them to Jupiter = Death Penalty by dtpena	May 5th, 2008 10:56:56 AM
Gravity for god's sake!
Oh anb Jupiter IS solid by dtpena	May 5th, 2008 11:03:14 AM
deep inside, otherwise it wouldn't be a planet and the gas would escape by mere centrifuge force
thats amazing... by HarrysLoveChild	May 5th, 2008 11:18:24 AM

......um, no by HarrysLoveChild	May 5th, 2008 11:21:51 AM
the only thing solid about Jupiter is its core, which is only solid because of the extreme atmospheric pressure above it. The core of jupiter lies hundreds of thousands of miles below the gas surface. If you were to actually go there, whatever was left of you after you vaporized would be crushed by the plants gravity.
Jupiter's not soild by Flying Spaghetti Monster	May 5th, 2008 11:28:02 AM
Unless you can stand on liquid metallic hydrogen...and Dtpena...according to your theory the sun is solid inside? Prison has to be on a moon
The Cast by millermeusa	May 5th, 2008 12:01:01 PM
We all know this movie will be made, my only prayer is that Beyonce won't be in it! or Dakota Fanning!!!!!
jupiter by arctor	May 5th, 2008 12:04:44 PM
gravity, shmavity....the radiation would kill you before the gravity/pressure.
Space Banditos by HarrysLoveChild	May 5th, 2008 12:18:53 PM
Every American loves Space Banditos!
It doesn't say which moon it is by judderman	May 5th, 2008 01:07:50 PM
It can only be one of four moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede or Callisto. The others aren't big enough. They may be stupid enough to set it on Io, but Io is basically a giant volcanic ball in a microwave oven; anyone standing on the surface even in a spacesuit would be sterilised within five minutes, to say nothing of covered in lava. Europa's basically a giant ice cap over a liquid ocean. Not really the sort of place you'd want to build anything long term. So I'd say either Ganymede or Callisto.
Why Not Io? by volcanopele2	May 5th, 2008 01:19:13 PM
Any culture advanced enough to be capable of affording to put a prison in the outer solar system would be able to provide shielding from the charged particle radiation at Io. Besides, that provides an additional deterrent to escaping (leave the bubble/prison), get fried. As far as lava goes, well, here is a thought: DON'T BUILD THE PRISON NEXT TO A VOLCANO! Only 10-20% of the surface is covered in Holocene-age lava flows, the rest is more like Antarctica, a flat, featureless snowfield (albeit a yellow, red-brown, or gray snow field). As long as the site is carefully chosen, the only major geologic hazard would be seismic tremors, with major quakes being more common than on Earth.
Strontium Dog! by Ultron ver 2.0	May 5th, 2008 01:48:58 PM
sigh I own a bunch of those comic books...would love to see a movie based on that. The artwork was a little bizarre, from what I remember though.
Christopher Labert is NOT dead. by dr sauch	May 5th, 2008 03:08:55 PM
True story.
*Lamber by dr sauch	May 5th, 2008 03:09:05 PM

*Lambert by dr sauch	May 5th, 2008 03:09:12 PM

I should really write this paper by dr sauch	May 5th, 2008 03:09:51 PM
and not dick around on this site.
Outside the Prison.... by Smerdyakov	May 5th, 2008 03:34:58 PM
Jupiter is populated with beaulful Amazon women who love hot dogs but have never seen one on a man.
As long as Matt LeBlanc is in it by IForgotAbout19	May 5th, 2008 03:52:38 PM

Most Hollywood Producers are in fact by Darth WickedChicken	May 5th, 2008 03:53:22 PM
Gas Giants.
Re: Outland by pumaman	May 5th, 2008 04:44:16 PM
Yesh, I have it on dvd . Sean Connery was great in it.
What a stupid premise. by Mosquito March	May 5th, 2008 05:02:57 PM
Why the fuck would anybody go to the expense of sending criminals to a prison on Jupiter? Isn't it cheaper just to kill them like we already do?
Mace Tofu, you left out... by bswise	May 5th, 2008 05:07:35 PM
...among others: BIRDMAN OF SPACE ALCATRAZ, THE SPACE ROCK, THE SPACESHANK REDEMPTION, DEAD MAN WALKING IN SPACE, and COOL HAND LUKE OF MARS.
Hey aintitcool geniuses... by Dr.DirtyD	May 5th, 2008 06:09:57 PM
...Titan is Saturn's moon.
aintitcool geniuses indeed by Vergil	May 5th, 2008 07:38:48 PM
All these wannabe Carl Sagans remind me of the Beverly Hillbillys episode when Granny was teaching the Doctors about medical practice. "Now THIS...is your gizzard!"
A Few Random Comments by volcanopele2	May 5th, 2008 07:42:06 PM
Smoke Monster Loves Kate: Europa is not the best Jupiter moon, Io is. Europa is the armpit of the solar system compared to a kickass place like Io. And you dis Titan (as Dr.DirtyD mentioned, Titan is a moon of Saturn, not Jupiter)? Wow. Viva la lunas rojas. SanityKaos: So because one film was set on Io, no more movies can ever be set on any of Jupiter's moons. So Heat is set in LA, we can check Los Angeles off the list of film settings? Been there, done that. Please.
Jupiter and its moons? Lame! by Stereotypical Evil Archer	May 5th, 2008 11:16:27 PM

Cube by Shan	May 5th, 2008 11:25:31 PM
The people trapped in the film "Cube" may be in an alien prison but those people who know for sure where the Cube is and who built it aren't telling ...
this is all too silly. by badm0j0	May 6th, 2008 04:06:09 AM
gravity, heat, atmo, all that would kill you... and even if it didnt dont they know that Jupiter is going to be infested with rectangular objects that will make ingest itself and Supernova creating a second sun for earth? Which will bring peace to mankind because we are just tenants who have just been given a new lease, and a warning from our landlord? That is.. until the heat from this second sun scorches the earth and kills every living thing on it By the year 2010--- So all of this prisoner talk on Jupiter is just kind of academic then isnt it?
Ummm... 'Outland'.... by NeilF	May 6th, 2008 08:10:34 AM
Maybe if the prison is next to a mining colony, Sean Connery could pop across and sort the prisoners out!
Billllllions and Billllllions by Flying Spaghetti Monster	May 6th, 2008 02:36:58 PM

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