someone should make an adaptation of Moby Dick which focuses on all those boring chapters that everyone skips over, the ones about knots and whale blubber. think of it as the Cloverfield approach, told from the perspective of one of anonymous crew of the Pequod...

A CGI Gregory Peck appears

The whale can transform itself into a gun and shoots the ship

Moby 3D Dick!

Ahab is Female

The film is made up of handheld "found" footage but the tape is recording over the heros homemade porn tape and we keep getting glimpses of him in action inbetween the whale action

Timur those ideas are all yours, a gift from me to you.

"...depict the whale’s decimation of other ships prior to its encounter with Ahab’s Pequod..."

WHAT?! So, this portion will be fabricated from the ether then?

"This is an opportunity to take a timeless classic and capitalize on the advances in visual effects..."

Sounds more like an excuse to make a movie with nothing more in mind than the special effects.

If you really want to do a movie based upon but not wholly centered on MOBY DICK, why not try adapting IN THE HEART OF THE SEA (the true story that served as Melville's inspiration) instead? Give us something worthwhile; not some graphic novel-style shorthand.

White with flames on it. To amp it up.

BTW...."Ride the Dick" made Mountain Dew spew outta my nose! Thanks, Nosferatu.

Not your grandfather's moldy dick is more like it.

Reimagining bastards.

John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Micheal Madsen, and Robert Rodriquez are joined by a cast of has-beens to, "absolutely, positively kill every motherfuckin' whale in the ocean!"

*Leaves TB quietly*

Do you feel me, Hollywood? Cause it's on like Donkey Kong.

There's the mindset...

Ahab: "Damn girl, you hot!!"

Yes, jellyfish get irate when you poke them with a stick.

The abuse of cocaine is the only answer I can come up with as to how anybody in Hollywood would think this is a good idea. What a fucking bunch of imbiciles.

In all seriousness......this probably won't be that bad. As long as they are faithful to the source material, I'm fine with a fucking CG whale. The Dark Knight had a ton of CG...that turned out alright. I don't like the director, but I've been reading some interviews with him about what he wants to do with this and his ideas actually sound interesting. Its gonna be sort of like Waterworld.

Every Moby Dick I have seen so far hasn't really been anything to write home about.

I even thought the book spent too much time muddled in metaphors and symolism.

Melville would have wanted this.

Like I said, the definitive movie already exists, so if they make another movie from a different angle, so what? As long as it is a good movie.

This site has become a 3rd grade popularity contest, it makes me sick.

A reimagined Moby Dick could be awesome!

Granted the template is flawed, but that is something I think Timur can fix.

Why not give it a chance and see before we all trash it to death.

Look at how many people are ready to crown Avatar the best film in cinematic history without seeing it.

Maybe this will be Timur's Aliens. You know the movie that truly shows what he can do, even with murky source material.

But we know that we are going to get the usual good effort from Bekmambetov and I know after he makes what will be the definitive Moby Dick film, more kids will be interested to see Melville's take on it.

Bekmambetov hasn't let me down yet.

I can only imagine that it will soon be in second place though.

I smell Oscar!

They can chase it in circles around Isle FUBAR! Ha!

Like something scared it maybe.

"Uh-Uh-Uh! You didn't say the magic word!"

That's right, just have him stand there wagging his finger back and forth.

BRING.IT.ON.

THIS. IS. MELVILLE!!!!!!!!!!

I'm surprised someone hasn't said that already.

TKD, comparing the remake of BSG to a "graphic novel-style version" of MOBY DICK is completely backwards. By that logic, the remake would have been based off the current series - not the OS.

Now the hunt is on!

Also the whale is on a collision course for the coast of Alaska and Palin is standing on the beach stomping the base of a harpoon on the ground saying "You shall not pass!!!"

She would still be pounding the beach as snot flew from her gasps of emotion, as the whalers canned up the final jar of whale oil.

The end scene would be one of the guys handing her the Dick of Moby as she slowly starts to grin...

"Look! Thar she blows!"

Also Ahab's boat could be amphibious.

In any case, if they do go through with this, I'll wish them luck. They're gonna need it.

Prick.

However, I think we all know this is gonna be nothing like that whatsoever. This will be as much Moby Dick as Underworld was Romeo and Juliet.

I've read Moby Dick. and enjoyed it, but I like sailing stories, ships and such. I found those long passages in the book about these subjects intersting. So, am I a "cunt"?

never mind answering that. I get what is behind that statement of yours.

How can we honestly say this is going to suck if we haven't seen it?

Were you aware of the homo-erotic themes all over the place in Moby Dick. I have read theories that Ishmael and Queequeg actually sleep together in the chapter titled, "Squeeze of the Hand."

For the record, I have seen the John Huston/Greg Peck version of MOBY DICK many times over the years. It used to scare me a little as a kid. But the movie brought me to the book and the book (IMHO) is the masterpiece it's lauded to be.

(Most people know the song from the final scene in HEAT.)

But seriously...you have decent taste in film. If this Moby reimagining was something on par with Jurassic Park...would you support it?

I'm not so much botherd by this or any remake/reimaging or what ever the fuck you want to call it. What bothers me is the cowardness behind the whole concept.

What I mean is this. Instead of trying a new and diffrent idea by some writer, we get remakes/sequals/reimaging.

I get that easily recognized names bring in the cash with little risk but have some balls Hollywood, take the risk. Move off of the easy button.

To quote Paul'Muad Dib from Dune, "The safe path leads ever downward into stagnation." I might of paraphrased that one, its been awhile since I read the book.

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Queen Latifah as Moby Dick

best movie ever

I don't find the homoerotic subtext disturbing because it was never something that stood out to me during the times I read it. But you'll find more obvious sexual themes in TYPEE (considered risque for the time) and BILLY BUDD (repressed homosexuality).

As for a MOBY DICK on par with JURASSIC PARK, I would not endorse it outright. Sounds too much like an FX filled fun ride with a surface-value only plotline. Visceral thrills notwithstanding.

West Side story (Romeo and Juliet)

Forbidden Planet (The Tempest)

Shakespeare aint exactly chopped liver, and those two reworkings are excellent.

Make it so that it has this huge gaping maw. Filled with razor-sharp teeth.

Perfect for ripping open the flesh of relaxing retirees.

"Quint is Ahab-lite"? Fuck you and the whale you rode in on. Quint was in it for the $$$ and the case of apricot brandy...the "obsession" only kicked in after he'd been bested by the beast. Only THEN was Quint getting his revenge for all those poor souls who died after the Indianapolis sunk.

Two completely different characters...two completely different kinds of obsession. Both equally kick ass. Quint was never lookin for a "white shark"...it found him.

Can't wait for McG's reimagining of "To Kill A Mockingbird."

Don't like me no Passive Ahab. Love the Gregory Peck version. Love the TV one with Capt Picard as Ahab too. Very visual that one was. This one unless Ahab is an asshole with vengence in toe. I don't care. I'll tell you what movie Uni should make..

So however they want to fuck around with it is fine with me. There's no "right" way to film the thing, so doing it wrong is no big deal.

on several occasions i and some of the other recent posters have caught people on this site doing just that - and with movies too. I find it absurd. And i feel that this is the number one book for that. One person above pointed out how many people bang on about it being only a story about obsession and that these people have obviously not read it. that is what i was getting at. Anyone who read this book that i didn't really get into (i thought i was going to like it but didn't) and liked it, well good on them i certainly wasn't criticizing people who are genuinely like that.

i actually read a survey recently (done anonymously) and it is number one on the list of books that book reviewers claim to like but secretly don't. this rings true to my experience. further more i am scratching my head because a number of people have posted comments show they have both read it an liked it. furthermore this is true of some posters whose opinion i trust. so i need to reevaluate. still, i dress as a yobo and talk like a yobo and have had several people talk down to me about this book assuming i would be too stupid to read it, only for it to turn out that they haven't read it, which is where i am coming from, that this is book that pompus people love to brag about reading. Not that i am saying anyone here is specifically like that.

I only read the book for the first time in the last year and thought it was great. It bogs down at times in the middle but it's well worth it overall.

As I said earlier, at the very least, as Alan Moore (perhaps dubiously) claims of Watchmen, it is a piece of work that really exists within and takes full advantage of the medium for which it was created. Naturally, that doesn't help the reader to enjoy it necessarily, and sometimes it's not even that enjoyable but I loved its "voice" and found it to be pretty exhilarating in all its near-chaotic ambition and energy.

"Tooooooo Sooooooooon!!!!!!"

Bonus points for kids who rent this version five years from now and write a book report on it.

I respectfully spit on your shoe, sir.

Jaws isn't about a shark...it's about the PEOPLE around the shark. THAT'S why Jaws was so damn good.

The makers of this new Moby Dick will forget this lesson, like Renny Harlin before them.

What we will get is "Deep Blue Dick"...as seen thru the filter of Frank Miller and the look of "300".

These "re-imagined" remake movies are inspired by idiots who are only motivated by how "realistic" the updated "monster" will look with the most recent CGI breakthroughs and render farms at the their disposal. What they forget is...the "monster" is just eye candy...no one can really identify with it. What audiences identify with is the CHARACTERS that inhabit the monster's world.

I applaud Peter Jackson for understanding this simple fact...by at least attempting to make the people running away from...and those trying to capture Kong...interesting and identifiable characters...I felt he STILL went a lil overboard with the WETA tools in his arsenal (the bug/ravine scene, Peter? Really?)...but he and his talented artists did a wonderful job of making Kong a character that most identified with.

But that was easy...Kong had very 'human' features...easily identifiable 'moods' and facial expressions.

With Moby...all you have is that huge eyeball...that's it. An eyeball. Well...The best CGI eyeball in the world won't make us love this movie...unless they concentrate on the HUMAN characters first and foremost.

Because Bruce was a practical effect movie monster...he failed to work properly 90% of the time while filming "Jaws". Spielberg should thank the film Gods every night for that problem. It made him make a better movie...by forcing him to shoot AROUND the shark....and focus on the people.

BTW...I think Khan may have just happen to have READ Moby Dick...and was merely "quoting" Meville...Saying ST:TWOK = Moby Dick is a huge leap, IMO.

"Well sir, what about Moby Dick"

"What, that old shit"

"Well sir, it's about Whales"

"WHALES, PHILIBRICK, WHADDAYAMEAN WHALES? THAT SHITHOLE NEAR ENGLAND"

Seriously, I'm not joking. It's got soldiers and a german in it. And everything.

Although the Leprechaun may represent a white whale representing the East Side of Kathmandu though. I'm not sure.

Anyway this is still a shit idea and I don't like the book.

However, this film sounds like shit. Ahab as a swashbuckling character? More action? Why even bother if you don't understand or even like the original? It's not like the title Moby Dick is going to really excite the preteen audience. "Fuck yeah! Moby Dick by that Melville dude! I loved it when my teacher assigned that book. I only read the first chapter but I really want to know how it ends. Fo shizzle Mo Dizzle!"

You yell "Queequeg!" People say "Wow--that's a movie I want to see!"

Lasers Head and Pants - please continue.

you will believe a whale can fly!