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Stephen Norrington & TICK TOCK & GHOST RIDER & HAMMER OF GOD - Status Report

Norrington + Lopez = Exactly what Lopez needs! by Blue Devil	Aug 1st, 2001 10:56:37 AM
Jennifer Lopez has to realize that she can't do these projects alone. She really needs to team with some great, great directors. Tarsem was awesome for The Cell, but the story was rather shallow. The Wedding Planner and Angel Eyes were both Lopez driven, but little else stood out. However, with Norrington, Lopez has a chance to not only shine dramatically, but be involved in some intense action that could really make her star explode (like she needs it). Anyway, Norrington was able to turn an okay script into the stunning Blade. Give him a good script and we're in for a helluva ride.
Will "The Last Minute" be released to the public? by Mr Bimble	Aug 1st, 2001 11:22:28 AM
Having enjoyed Blade I'm looking forward to see what other films Norrington works on. These three mentioned sounded interesting, has anyone heard about the status of "The Last Minute"? It's a smaller film that Norrington was working on in which he wore several hats. He directed, produced, shot, did the sound design, edited, and I think he wrote it. I have no idea what the plot is but I'd like to see it.
Good To Hear by Special_Ed	Aug 1st, 2001 11:26:26 AM
That's what I like to hear and especially from the director himself! Wow. So now we can all sleep soundly once again.
A couple things by Brooklyn Bred	Aug 1st, 2001 11:54:52 AM
First of all how ironic is it that the Lopez Movie is about bombs since it will do the same at the box office, and secondly how can someone with so much Hollywood power spell realized wrong?
Let me 2nd Mr. Bimble by otis von zipper	Aug 1st, 2001 11:58:36 AM
I too would like to know about The Last Minute. Seriously, how has Norrington managed to get himself involved in all these projects, but hasn't gotten his follow up to Blade in the theatres? Even the website hives no clue as to a release.
I realized that "realise" is how they spell realize in Britain by No. 41	Aug 1st, 2001 12:54:20 PM
And Norrington hails from them parts, don't he? Just wanted to say that before anyone else did.
This is just the kind of news i like to hear. by JUSTICE41	Aug 1st, 2001 03:41:16 PM
To actually hear from the director that they are having some difficulty getting things set up is good news to me. Why? Because it shows some conviction and willingness to get the right things right.Good deal Stephen....good deal. Loved Blade.
Bug on Ghost Rider by Ambush Bug	Aug 1st, 2001 05:45:47 PM
I am glad Norrington is going to stay on with Ghost Rider. I am also happy that the pic might take a while to make. I am a firm believer that AICN's Talkbacks are looked at by the filmmakers. So maybe my rants and raves about all thing's comic will be heard by the right people. Visually, Ghost Rider could be great. He is one of the most recognizable characters in Marvel's stable of heroes. Ghost Rider could be a visual masterpiece, but a diamond in a pile of shit, smells like a pile of shit. So let's surround this cool looking character with a good story. The Faustian story is good, but making Ghost Rider into a road flick is not the way to go. Look at how bad the new Ghost Rider comic is. I say set the story at the circus. A few weeks ago, I posted my rant about how a Ghost Rider flick should be handled. I posted it at the bottom of the poles after mostly everyone moved on to newer cooler news, but I'll dust this bad boy off for all of you to enjoy. Now, through the miracle of time travel, I will take you all back on that fateful day. Prepare yourselves. Start squiggly line effect now.)()()()()()()()(Ghost Rider should have the best aspects from both the 70's and 90's versions. Leather jacket instead of the jumpsuit. Chopper ride, but with flaming wheels. I actually even kind of liked the Hellfire Shotgun Blaze carried for a while. I still think the film should take place at the circus. When was the last cool circus movie? The carny lifestyle is fascinating and a perfect backdrop for an original story. I would love to see Blaze as a washed up stuntman, whose circus has lost its steam. The supporting cast could be circus folk (Stan Lee could reprise his role as the Hot Dog Vendor from the X-Men). Blaze sells his soul to Mephisto for selfish reasons; $$$, fame, and success for the circus. The tale turns into a moral one where Blaze yearns for lost glory and pays a terrible price. He sells his soul to get butts in the seats and reclaim his glory as a great stuntman, but is now cursed with a destructive demon alter ego. I want to see Ghost Rider rev it up on the open road as much as the next guy, but this is a setting that can only go so far. Sure, throw some Road Warrior fight scenes in there. I want to see Ghosty play chicken with some thug in a funny car. But set the film in the Big Top and the movie becomes about the need to be a spectacle and the foolish quest to reclaim fame. This is a realistic motivation for Blaze. I know many a high school football player who would sell their soul to hear the crowd roar for them again. Nicholas Cage plays washed up pretty good. You could believe that Cage was hot shit in his youth, but age has not been kind to him and people aren't flocking to see him and his circus anymore when they can watch Fear Factor and Jackass on TV. After selling his soul, Blaze becomes Ghost Rider and the crowds start a flockin'. Blaze thinks this flaming alter ego is the answer to his dreams at first. Things are good and Blaze has enough moolah to drown Slappy the Circus Midget, but he soon realizes that he has been having blackouts and is putting extra miles on his motorcycle at night after the show. The Ghost Rider has a mind and agenda of its own: screaming Vengeance and tearing up the road. Blaze realizes that the blessing Mephisto gave him is actually a curse and that he hasn't only lost his soul by bargaining with the devil, but the souls of the crowd are being sucked from them while watching his performances. Mephisto has been strapping on the bib and chowing down on the crowd as Ghosty jumps through flaming hoops. The film climaxes with Ghosty realizing that there is plenty of Vengeance to scream at the circus and takes on Mephisto, resulting in the firey destruction of the big top. Mephisto is seemingly defeated by his own creation. Blaze is stuck to deal with a flaming skulled alter ego. Slappy the Circus Midget is out of a job. The circus is in ashes and Blaze drives into the sunset on the open road. A somber ending where evil has been vanquished, but the hero is still cursed for making a terribly selfish mistake.()()()()()()()()Whew, what a rant. Hopefully the continuum has not been disrupted with that little jaunt. WHile they are taking their time to film Ghost Rider, why not throw another re-write in there setting the movie at a circus. Elephants. Midgets. And Motorcycles. Hoo. Bug out.
How to make Ghost Rider appeal to a larger audience. by Grimace	Aug 1st, 2001 10:50:58 PM
Ponder this, if you will, Hollywood. You've already attracted the Fanboy/sci-fi audience, but you need to appeal to a wider cross-section of America. How, you ask? I'll tell you! Not only is the Ghost Rider an almost mythic figure, and a stunning visual presence, but he could represent an untapped demographic. The Gay Community! He's flaming for God's sake! Picture this; Nic Cage, as our Hero, rides up on some sort of assault, a Mime perhaps, and through his fake tears, realizes that it's a multi-faceted hate crime. While jumping off his bike, with pink wicker-basket, he defiantly grabs said attacker and lisps, " You naughty, naughty Boy, I'll show you!" As the attacker slowly slumps to the ground, trying to rip out his own eyeballs, due to the effects of the "Effeminant Stare", cries aloud "Daddy, why didn't you love me?!!". Hollywood, you've heard my thoughts, now it's up you. Goodnight, and God Bless!
Lopez and Cop Fetishes.... by NKG	Aug 2nd, 2001 12:01:35 AM
this must be the fourth movie where lopez is a cop..after the cell , angel eyes and the one with Clooney..what's going on here????
ALL I care about is that Nicholas Cage MUST play Ghost Rider! by Mayhem Ensues	Aug 2nd, 2001 03:18:48 AM
That way he will get his "super-hero" fetish out of his sytem so he wont try take over/screw up a good chracter like SUPERMAN
whaaaaa? computers don't what-now? by johnny destructo	Aug 2nd, 2001 03:59:50 AM
computers don't render flames well? oh yeahh? well what about SPAWN?!? huh? oh wait. well, then....what about The Dead Hate The Living?? no...ok...how about Ed Gein and that burning bush scene?? that scene was..no..your right. CGI flames suck. oh well.. they'll get it eventually.
Umm, okay... by cart00n	Aug 2nd, 2001 04:28:16 AM
I understand that computers don't render fire very well (yet), and it is understandable that CGI will be used extensively in "Ghost Rider"... but pyrotechnics have been used, and quite effectively, for quite awhile. And there have been many leaps and bounds made in compositing shots. Couldn't they use some old-fashioned, tried and true methods ALONG with the CGI? I mean, let's face it. This is a movie that has been SCREAMING (pun intended) to be made into a motion picture for YEARS, and the technology has existed to make it an incredible spectacle for quite some time (at LEAST since the late eighties). All this talk about R&D and CGI needing to catch up is BULLSHIT! They just want to play with NEW toys rather than finding new and inventive ways to use some of the OLD ones. I mean, c'mon! Even LUCAS still goes with some of the old effects from time to time. Barring a good script and legal disputes, there is absolutely no LEGITIMATE excuse as to why this movie can't be made today, and made exceptionately well. The longer this film languishes unmade, the less interest there will be in making it (Hollywood's, NOT the fans). If--gods forbid--"Blade 2" and "Spiderman" tank, what chance do you think there will be of seeing ANYmore cool comic heroes making it to the silver screen? In Hollywood's current chickenshit climate, I'd put my money on that fabled snowball residing in GR's hometown...
is Tick Tock based on the Koontz novel? by Jarek	Aug 2nd, 2001 06:38:41 AM
Because there is a very cool Dean R. Koontz novel by the same name where a little voodoo doll terrorizes a man for some reason.
okay, so it isn't.... by Jarek	Aug 2nd, 2001 06:39:41 AM
...based on the Koontz novel. My bad.
Harry, get those shitty getto-ass pop up windows off your site! by Mean Ween	Aug 2nd, 2001 08:17:39 AM
low class, man. low fucking class.
Whole lotta' hackin' goin' on... by MrGrimm	Aug 2nd, 2001 08:02:37 PM
Wow...Nothington's got his next four films all lined up and ready to go, huh? Groovy...that's FOUR times the SUCKINESS! Cheers to the worst director to stumble out of the straight-to-video business...
Good! Take your time on Ghost Rider by Neosamurai85	Aug 3rd, 2001 01:49:54 AM
Do this sweet, sweet puppy right!

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