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Apr 25, 2014 - 10:41 AM
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fisch
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FRIDAY, APRIL 25
STAR WARS---a rumor claims a Boba Fett spin-off movie is being planned. Lucasfilm and Disney executives had a meeting and were overheard to have said, " Lucasfilm wants Boba Fett to remain menacing and scary but we have to make him the hero of the film and it is a real challenge."
TAKEN 3---Luc Besson commented on the latest movie, "TAKEN 1 and 2 is, in fact, the same film in two parts. The first act, someone is taken, and the second act is that revenge. You can see the films back to back and they go together.
The third film is another story that has nothing to do with him and his family. No one is taken. The dog is not taken. It's another story with the same characters.
t's different, but it's very good. It's probably the best of the three for me, in terms of the script. The first one was really not pretentious. It was a small film. We were surprised by the success of it because it was honest. Liam [Neeson] was not a super kick-ass actor."
Besson said a reboot of THE TRANSPORTER series is also underway with a new actor replacing Jason Statham.
PHAROAH---new HBO series underway with Ridley Scott as director/executive producer. It will focus on the extraterrestrial origins of ancient Egypt with an “alternate explanation for the foundation and ascent of the ancient Egyptian empire”.
FRIDAY THE 13Th---one-hour tv series underway based on the slasher movie franchise which focus on Jason and the Voorhees family in different time periods.
SHERLOCK---Martin Freeman said a tv special may be in the future, "Mark Gatiss may beat me up, but there is an idea for this one-off special that’s such a good idea, and as I was listening to it, I thought, ‘We’ve just got to do this’.
And I don’t know when we are going to be able to do it, unfortunately. It’s a fantastic, really mouth-watering idea, but I really don’t know when we are going to get to do it.”
BLOOD FATHER---Erin Moriarity (TRUE DETECTIVE) will co-star with Mel Gibson in this movie about an ex-con who protects his teenage daughter from drug dealers seeking to kill her.
BEN-HUR---Mark Burnett and Roma Downey (THE BIBLE) have joined the reboot movie as co-producers.
BATMAN VS. SUPERMAN---Ray Fisher will play Cyborg.
WATCH DOGS---Sony Pictures movie underway based on the video game with a script by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (ZOMBIELAND).
JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS---the Jon M. Chu movie will star Aubrey Peeples (NASHVILLE) as Jem. Stefanie Scott, Hayley Kiyoko and Aurora Perrineau will co-star.
PAN---Amanda Seyfried will play Mary. Hugh Jackman, Garrett Hedlund and Rooney Mara also star in the Peter Pan origin movie.
MPH---upcoming Mark Millar comic book whose rights were bought by producer Lorenzo di Bonaventure (HARRY POTTER, TRANSFORMERS). The comic book plot involves "...a group of hard-luck teens in Motor City stumble upon a street drug called MPH, they gain the power of super speed. Will they use it to save the world? Hell no! Not when there’s dolla, dolla bills to be had, y’all. A high-octane urban adventure, MPH brings you super speed like you’ve never seen before!"
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Re: How can a cinema-going audience get taken 3 times?
I'm not at all a fan of action films, but got so hooked on the first "Taken" that I ended up buying it on Blu-ray. And while 2 is a letdown, whenever I come across it while HD channel surfing, it's hard NOT to watch it. From what Besson has said, it looks like it's been reinvented for 3, and I'll be curious to see what they've done with it. Did feel that having everyone speaking English in 2 lost some credibility for me.
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STAR WARS---a rumor claims a Boba Fett spin-off movie is being planned. Lucasfilm and Disney executives had a meeting and were overheard to have said, " Lucasfilm wants Boba Fett to remain menacing and scary but we have to make him the hero of the film and it is a real challenge."
Leaving aside whether he was ever scary or cool or whatever, I don't understand the alleged quotation. Why do they have to make him the hero of the film? Why can't he be the protagonist without being, strictly, a hero? Make him a bad guy but with a personal/professional code, that kind of thing. Audiences love ye olde antihero who ends up doing a right thing but for the wrong reasons.
Exactly. Just the very nature of his occupation as a bounty hunter lends itself to plenty of story options that can work very well, while at the same time maintaining his status as a bad guy. Granted Fett worked for some unsavory people (Jabba and Darth Vader) but I am guessing he hunted at least a few people who did despicable things, and deserved being brought to justice.
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Apr 26, 2014 - 11:43 AM
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Octoberman
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Re Boba Fett:
I always have the suspicion that because 'Empire' was Lucas's least favourite of the Star Wars movies (by his own admission, I believe), he felt sufficiently pissed off with the fan admiration for the Boba Fett character that he decided to give Fett the most pointless and weak death in Jedi as his own 'revenge'. The same might be possible to say of Jango Fett, in that Lucas kept the weakness of the death as part of the mirroring he was doing between the original and prequel trilogies.
With all due respect, I think that's one of the more ridiculous Star Wars conspiracy theories I've ever encountered, and I've encountered quite a few.
Seriously? A random opinion, expressed in a reasonable way, now qualifies as a "ridiculous conspiracy theory"?
Come on, mate.
As for Boba Fett...
He was never menacing or cool. A very secondary character, at best. The plot would have moved forward just as it did if it had been any of those other bounty hunters that Vader gathered up. And it got even worse when his origin was revealed to be just some sadistic little kid.
However, I will say this was a very evocative and iconic shot:
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Apr 26, 2014 - 2:03 PM
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jenkwombat
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Re Boba Fett:
I always have the suspicion that because 'Empire' was Lucas's least favourite of the Star Wars movies (by his own admission, I believe), he felt sufficiently pissed off with the fan admiration for the Boba Fett character that he decided to give Fett the most pointless and weak death in Jedi as his own 'revenge'. The same might be possible to say of Jango Fett, in that Lucas kept the weakness of the death as part of the mirroring he was doing between the original and prequel trilogies.
Did Lucas really say that? I always thought he took a sort of "cop out" position when asked about which film was his favorite, always answering with something along the lines of, "To me, they're all one long movie", or "You can't pick a favorite; it's like picking one of your children as a favorite", etc....
Re: Jango's death
Didn't his rocket pack malfunction from having been damaged in his encounter with the "Reek" (the red horned creature in the arena) a moment before? It may have still been a lame death to some people, but he didn't "just stand still". And at least he was taken down by a Jedi (and the second most powerful one at that!), unlike his "son" --- wiped out on *accident* by a blind guy igniting his rocket pack. (Those Fett boys just don't have any luck with those flying contraptions, do they?)
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Apr 26, 2014 - 4:41 PM
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Joe E.
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Re Boba Fett:
I always have the suspicion that because 'Empire' was Lucas's least favourite of the Star Wars movies (by his own admission, I believe), he felt sufficiently pissed off with the fan admiration for the Boba Fett character that he decided to give Fett the most pointless and weak death in Jedi as his own 'revenge'. The same might be possible to say of Jango Fett, in that Lucas kept the weakness of the death as part of the mirroring he was doing between the original and prequel trilogies.
With all due respect, I think that's one of the more ridiculous Star Wars conspiracy theories I've ever encountered, and I've encountered quite a few.
Seriously? A random opinion, expressed in a reasonable way, now qualifies as a "ridiculous conspiracy theory"?
Come on, mate.
Apologies. I didn't mean to be rude, and should have found a better way to phrase that. I was just trying to say I find that theory pretty wildly implausible. I haven't seen anything to indicate Lucas was trying to sabotage the character (indeed, I can see Fett's "death" as being intended to be really "cool" or whatever, regardless of how "pointless and weak" some viewers might perceive it to be, and it's certainly memorable). If Lucas really felt that way about the character, I very much doubt he'd have ever allowed the character to be brought back in the numerous EU stories that feature him after the events of the movie, and I don't see why he'd be pissed off with the way the fans embraced the character in the first place.
And I think Jango's death was really intended to be pretty much the total opposite of "weak" - I mean, he's decapitated by lightsaber, for crying out loud. It's surely meant to be one of the more "badass" deaths in the whole series. I don't see how his death could be made less "weak," while still keeping it a death.
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