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Moriarty’s One Thing I Love Today! Brian K. Vaughan’s ROUNDTABLE Script!

First!!!! by odo19	Jun 16th, 2008 11:50:41 PM
I know it.
odo19 by MrMajestic	Jun 16th, 2008 11:58:45 PM
Damn you odo 19 !!! That was my first and I had a clever line and everything ready... /sobs
I know! Its Nicolas Cage! by Stormwatcher	Jun 17th, 2008 12:04:20 AM
Cuz it always is.
Sir Elton John! by Stormwatcher	Jun 17th, 2008 12:04:49 AM
Yes! Played by Mike Myers! Swing!
Sting! by Stormwatcher	Jun 17th, 2008 12:05:12 AM
Sting baby! That may be it. ...
Sir Edmund Hillary! No dead. Maybe Dame Edna! by Stormwatcher	Jun 17th, 2008 12:05:35 AM

Conrad Black! by Stormwatcher	Jun 17th, 2008 12:06:01 AM
Boom@ He could be the fat asshole musketeer!
Zombie Sid Vicious! by Stormwatcher	Jun 17th, 2008 12:06:25 AM

Zombie Bruce Paltrow! Cuz his daughter is nailed by a Brit by Stormwatcher	Jun 17th, 2008 12:07:09 AM
Chris, Joseph and the amazing techincolor dreamcoat, Martin
Mr. Belvedere! Is he even alive? by Stormwatcher	Jun 17th, 2008 12:07:52 AM

Ben Kingsley in Sopranos mode by Fred	Jun 17th, 2008 12:12:03 AM

B-R-I-A-N! by loodabagel	Jun 17th, 2008 12:16:15 AM
Ya know, if it's the best script ever, you think they could have at least spelt his name right.
Love Vaughan by PumpyMcAss	Jun 17th, 2008 12:31:08 AM
but this has got to be the funniest movie ever if I'm going to go along w/ it. Stardust was super lame and that is all I can think of after reading this review.
Vaughan rules by Adelai Niska	Jun 17th, 2008 12:59:15 AM
he might actually BE Merlin, 'cause the guy turns paper into gold
Thankfully, it sounds VERY INSPIRED by NoHubris	Jun 17th, 2008 01:13:44 AM
It's both refreshing and tremendous when real imagination is rewarded by the gatekeepers in Hollywood.
The script may be perfect... by Literarywanderer	Jun 17th, 2008 01:18:54 AM
But Hollywood has a way of aborting masterpieces during the production process.
SIR SEAN CONNERY!!! by TallBoy66	Jun 17th, 2008 01:21:54 AM
Well, maybe.
When was the last time a modern/historical fantasy did well by TallBoy66	Jun 17th, 2008 01:25:55 AM
Well, aside from Enchanted, but that crappy movie with Wolverine sent to the future to seduce Meg Ryan? That other movie that had Leon the Professional and the chick from Married With Children? Masters of the fuckin' Universe?! Maybe this'll buck the trend. Hopefully. (okay, what were the names of the first two historical/modern fantasy mash-up movies I mentioned. No googling allowed cause I didn't. And I genuinely can't remember what they were called.) Oh, I remember one that rocked - Army of Darkness, but that was kinda backwards.
I've got the script by Darth Fart	Jun 17th, 2008 02:14:07 AM
but I wasn't planning on reading it for a while. I guess it's my priority now :D
I saw that flick... by Literarywanderer	Jun 17th, 2008 02:30:37 AM
With Jean Reno and Christina Applegate on an Air France flight. God, that was the drunkest I have ever been on an international flight.
SPOILER - KNIGHT'S IDENTITY by baghead	Jun 17th, 2008 02:37:00 AM
It's Sir Michael Caine. In the script, Vaughn writes as an aside that he could have chosen Ian Mckellan or Anthony Hopkins but alas, who is cooler than Michael Caine?
stuck in Brooklyn apartment - sounds a bit contrived by geraldbeans	Jun 17th, 2008 02:41:13 AM
Otherwise, it sounds like a decent idea.
damm by chipps	Jun 17th, 2008 03:06:13 AM
i was gonna say michael cain then i would have looked smart. Did this one fall through the cracks with script girl or did she mention it?
and yes by chipps	Jun 17th, 2008 03:06:41 AM
I'm easily awed.
Edmund = Eddie Izzard? by Fievel	Jun 17th, 2008 03:43:48 AM
I hope so if Pegg & Gervais were on board.
He STOLE this movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! by BrianVaughanIsAThief	Jun 17th, 2008 03:44:59 AM
For the love of God, does no one in Hollywood care? Or do their homework? This is nearly an exact rip-off of "Knights of the Roundtable" that has been pitched around town since 2001. This movie will never get made now. The 2 real writers of this are going to sue, so don't get all excited. This project is DEAD DEAD DEAD.
if anyone finds a copy of this by NedNederlander	Jun 17th, 2008 03:46:21 AM
lingering online, i'd love to give it a read, sounds great.
and... by BrianVaughanIsAThief	Jun 17th, 2008 03:51:48 AM
"Knights of the Roundtable" was written for 4 modern knights as well, all playing themselves. It was Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Anthony Hopkins and Elton John. Fountainbridge Films was on board to produce, but Sean Connery turned it down because he didn't want to play himself. Now would everyone please stop rewarding the thief.
BrianVaughanIsAThief by jopari	Jun 17th, 2008 06:27:07 AM
Haven't you ever heard of coincidences? I highly doubt Vaughn stole this script, as he's proven to be full of original ideas thus far. Okay, so one of his choices for the knights might be the same-but it's an blatantly obvious choice. Good luck with that lawsuit though, I'm sure that'll be very successful rolls eyes.
That said by jopari	Jun 17th, 2008 06:31:13 AM
The movie sounds like an interesting diversion, but it that might be better served by a different medium. The concept's a little too campy to really be a successful movie. I'd make a great graphic novel though.
Huh by jopari	Jun 17th, 2008 06:35:13 AM
Added an extra "that" there. Oh well.
Len Wiseman by Shaun of the Dead	Jun 17th, 2008 07:38:23 AM
has allegedly been signed on to make the GEARS OF WAR movie. FUCK. One of the greatest games of all time gets LEN WISEMAN??
I liked parts of DIE HARD 4 by Shaun of the Dead	Jun 17th, 2008 07:41:42 AM
but surely they'd get an awesome director for this series? When will proper big name directors start taking on projects like this. I live in hope.
Anyone have an opinion by Shaun of the Dead	Jun 17th, 2008 07:42:37 AM
on Wiseman for GEARS OF WAR?
I agree with the porn idea by Shaun of the Dead	Jun 17th, 2008 07:46:32 AM
very very much. But GEARS OF WAR could be awesome if done right. I'm sure Wiseman will make some cool action scenes but ruin it by non-existant story and casting his wife as a non-existant female character.
What doesn't Harlan Ellison growl about? by fiester	Jun 17th, 2008 07:52:43 AM
Him and Andy Rooney should team up for a reality show: Grumpy Old Men.
It does sound like a fun movie idea though.... by fiester	Jun 17th, 2008 07:57:45 AM
-but it would all be contingent upon the casting. If Pegg and Gervais were involved though, I would be there.
Pride of Baghdad by Gatsbys West Egg Omlet	Jun 17th, 2008 07:58:40 AM
was pretty bad ass. as is Y. as is Runaways. so yeah, i'll buy that this script is well done.
Anyway, by Shaun of the Dead	Jun 17th, 2008 08:00:51 AM
if Pegg and Gervais are in, I'm there NO MATTER who else is in, what the trailers look like or what the reviews say. I love those two guys UNCONDITIONALLY so my arse (I'm British, y'see) is already booking it's seat.
Super Annoying Post, WE Can't Read It by cowboyone	Jun 17th, 2008 08:04:42 AM
WTF is the point?
cowboyone by Shaun of the Dead	Jun 17th, 2008 08:11:57 AM
Do you mean me..?
British soil/Declaration of Independence by RenoNevada2000	Jun 17th, 2008 08:30:16 AM
If that is the least clever idea in the script, it will be brilliant. If that is the cleverest idea in the script, it will still be brilliant.
Get Zemeckis. by Knuckleduster	Jun 17th, 2008 08:56:13 AM
If only we can drag him away from this mo-cap obsession for a little while...
Get Keira Knightley for Morgana by CarmillaVonDoom	Jun 17th, 2008 09:15:34 AM
It would be fun to see her play a villainess
BrianVaughanIsAThief by TroutMaskReplicant	Jun 17th, 2008 10:17:09 AM
Care to fill us in with more info about the script and its writers? This could be another "Cast Of Characters" versus "League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen". Blah. The thing is, with so many people writing scripts today there is huge potential for coincidence so the proof that a writer had prior contact with another writer's script needs to be incontrovertible...
Anglophile by TroutMaskReplicant	Jun 17th, 2008 10:23:21 AM
Does anyone else find the whole English angle a little worrying. It is a Hollywood film after all. If most of the central cast are English, I can imagine a studio exec trying to amp up the American angle in dodgy ways. And of course, there's probably only one person people would like to see direct this. Edgar Wright. I can sort of imagine this being quite tiresome if they got the wrong director...
Dear God I must read this by epitone	Jun 17th, 2008 10:44:04 AM
Drew, any way you could give some kind of cryptic clue as to its download location, perhaps using cockney rhyming slang or something like that?
DreamWorks: by epitone	Jun 17th, 2008 10:49:52 AM
Please get someone capable to direct this. Not Shawn Levy. Not some "he's hot this exact second" action guy like Len Wiseman. Please make it someone with actual filmmaking experience. I bet Richard Donner still has another one in him.
And one last thing... by epitone	Jun 17th, 2008 11:05:36 AM
PLEASE let the celebrity knight be Judi Dench. You know she'd do it.
SIR PAUL McCARTNEY!! by Alen Smithee	Jun 17th, 2008 11:07:32 AM
And Ringo will play his squire
Richard Donner still has another one in him... by TroutMaskReplicant	Jun 17th, 2008 11:10:04 AM
Donner, Zemeckis and such are obsolete old men. Sure, occasionally the fogies will buck the trend. But after a certain age you become too tired to force yourself to be good. I was considering that Dreamcatcher film recently, because of Kasdan and Robotech. The screenplay was written by William Goldman! He used to be great. And in many ways so was Kasdan. But not any more...
The incessant use of "amazing" is far worse than "awesome" by gruntybear	Jun 17th, 2008 12:19:42 PM
Harlan's petty rant against the word "awesome" should actually be applied to the word "amazing" instead. Fucking 20-something millenials think that their last non-fat mocha-latte, anything that passes Thom Yorke's lips, their last fourteen Twitters, callbacks referencing sucking someone else's milkshake and their daily constitutionals are all equally A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. OMG. Fuck them in the ear.
Anybody... by JustThisGuy	Jun 17th, 2008 01:02:56 PM
anybody know where to find this online? Or is it time to go trolling the profiles of imdb script traders?
zero interest by kabong	Jun 17th, 2008 03:15:19 PM
Come up with something good . . . or get out of the way.
PumpyMcAss by Alex Wilder	Jun 17th, 2008 03:18:04 PM
What does Stardust have anything to do with BKV's script? You do realize that Matthew Vaughn and Brian K. Vaughan are two different people, right? And that Stardust,the novel, (originally, before the graphic version) was written by Neil Gaiman?
This idea might of worked....if.... by football	Jun 17th, 2008 03:30:05 PM
...they hadn't lazily transported it to Manhatten. WTF!! Surely the curse stands regardless of some illegal piece of paper called the Declaration of Independence!! Surely the boat he travels in doesn't have English soil in it!! And the Americas wasn't and never has been England. Anyway, this sounds sucky.
Sounds... by SunTzu77	Jun 17th, 2008 04:40:28 PM
like an interesting idea that could make a funny movie...but... imho...it doesn't have that certain umphf that "Back to the Future" had. It might turn into a MIB...but that's about it.
Brian K. Vaughan is a God by kingben	Jun 17th, 2008 05:03:20 PM
best writer in comics right now.
This sounds... by 1st and only	Jun 17th, 2008 05:28:01 PM
too good to be true...I know you're guessing but Gervais AND pegg AND Wright will never happen in a hollywood movie(it should though...oh AND Russell Brand should have a part!)
Sounds fun. Twain-like by GazaStripper	Jun 17th, 2008 06:10:41 PM
As long as they don't market it towards twelve year olds. And I second Judy Dench as the celebrity knight. It doesn't sound as depressing as a Connecticut Yankee in King Arther's Court.
SIR MICK JAGGER by Alfred Einstein	Jun 17th, 2008 09:03:17 PM
It's pretty obvious if you think about it.
Sir My Balls of Scrotum by JimCurry	Jun 17th, 2008 11:30:14 PM
Yeah, my BALLS should be a lead character in this turkey.
D.Vader by epitone	Jun 18th, 2008 12:30:16 AM
If you think that a single major spec script sale EVER happens in Hollywood without a dozen guys claiming that their idea was stolen, then you are hilariously naive about how things work in this town.
D.Vader... by TheRealMoriarty	Jun 18th, 2008 12:37:48 AM
... it's not Sean Connery, and sorry I chapped your ass. No matter what I do, someone shows up to cry about it, so pardon me if I'm no longer concerned with making every single person happy, since it's impossible. If I err on the side of caution occasionally, then so be it. You calling me "lame" isn't going to affect that decision making process, cuddles.
D.Vader... by TheRealMoriarty	Jun 18th, 2008 01:00:29 AM
... sorry, but unless (A) I read this other alleged script, which I haven't and (B) this turns into an actual issue and not just one more case out of ten million of similar concepts getting one writer's panties in a bunch when another writer sticks the landing, I won't be following up on it. Like Epitone said, it's easy to make these accusations, and it happens with EVERYTHING. But nine-point-nine times out of ten, it turns out that there's no chain of custody that would have made it possible for any theft, and what you're dealing with are two writers with similar ideas. Happens constantly. It's happened to me. I just didn't throw a tantrum and sue someone over it.
Mori's right by the podosphere	Jun 18th, 2008 02:09:17 AM
There's something about story ideas being in the ether.... Merlin's pretty well-mined territory. Bringing magic into the present is a rather common plot device. The idea of actors getting stuck doing the real thing - Galaxy Quest, Tropic Thunder - has been done. For it to be a ripoff, there would have to be apparent wholesale lifting. If someone around here has a copy of the other script maybe they should drop a copy to Mori. A regular on this board keeps repeating that Diablo Cody ripped off some Korean movie. I checked the imdb for the plot of the supposedly wronged film, and it's different enough that Diablo was most definitely not ripping it off. Anyone can pen a script about a pregnant teenager, so the question has to be, is the execution here different? Just from the basic outline of the plot, it most definitely was. The Korean film was about a girl and her boyfriend trying to hide a pregnancy. Diablo's Juno most definitely did not try to do that. Scripts can be copyrighted. Titles and undeveloped ideas cannot be defensibly copyrighted. So unless the first set of writers wants to take it to court, there's really no issue here.
when you he msg'd you by kungfuhustler84	Jun 18th, 2008 11:48:13 AM
my first thought was "sorry about that diarrhea"
Is it Elton John? by kungfuhustler84	Jun 18th, 2008 11:56:13 AM
that would be cool.
Wilson by PumpyMcAss	Jun 19th, 2008 03:41:23 PM
Stardust - from this brief description provided by Moriarty - in my opinion has a lot to do with this Merlin-movie-with-a-self-consc ious-twist movie. Hmmmm...sounds kind of like a Princess Bride-y/Stardust-y kind of movie, wouldn't you say? It had nothing to do w/ fucking up names. B Vaughan is the amazing Ex and Y: guy and M Vaughan is the guy who made that piece of shit called Stardust that was ever so adoragay.
It's MICHAEL CAINE by baghead	Jun 19th, 2008 08:53:21 PM
I already posted that for crying out loud.
The Cast/Director by Cobb05	Jun 21st, 2008 05:44:03 PM
Well, if we have Simon Pegg, Ricky Gervais and Michael Caine, who would the 4th Knight be? Also I think Edgar Wright would be a good choice, but I also think that Gore Verbinski, Sam Raimi or Peter Jackson would be great choices too. Or maybe the director of Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy. He did a good job on that and also Son of Rambow.
I figured out the cast! by Cobb05	Jun 22nd, 2008 04:54:46 PM
Obviously Sir Simon and Sir Ricky were named after the actors who would play them. Edmund through me off. The only funny English guy I could think of with Ed in his name is Eddie Izzard and with the rest of the knights, he fits perfectly. And you could really see him playing a billionaire who never had to work for anything. So the knights are: Sir Simon = Simon Pegg Sir Ricky = Ricky Gervais Sir Edmund = Eddie Izzard Sir Michael Caine = Himself That's possibly one of the best casts in movie history. Eddie Izzard hasn't really shined in many comedies, but the guy is hysterical. If the script is as good as the cast, this could be amazing. My choice for Merlin, John Cleese or Eric Idol. And depending on how old they want Morgana to be, I'd go with Cate Blanchette.

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