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Jul 9, 2014 - 10:43 AM
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fisch
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 9
GAME OF THRONES---George RR Martin replied to fans who think he's writing too slowly to complete the novel series and will die before it's finished, “I find that question pretty offensive, people speculating about my death and my health. I say f*ck you to those people.”
Martin said he has had talks to end the tv series with a theatrical movie, "I would love that... If we go seven or eight seasons and then the show is still big enough that we can get the $200 million to finance a huge epic movie to end it...but that doesn’t mean it has been approved. Some people like the idea. Other people don’t like the idea."
The tv series costs $60 million to $70 million per season, but Martin said that's, "still nothing to what Peter Jackson spends on a LORD OF THE RINGS movie or what any of these big, epic science fiction or fantasy movies have to spend. To go out with something big like that would be amazing... The show looks great on a big screen, I mean a really big screen. It has cinematic values already."
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY---photo released of Michael Rooker (THE WALKING DEAD) as Yondu.
THE INCREDIBLE MR. LIMPET---live-action/CGI remake underway of the 1964 Don Knotts movie. The original movie has a man who turns into a fish and helps save the US from Nazi U-boats. The remake is set in the present with Mr. Limpet helping save sea life from an evil industrialist. Zach Galifianakis stars with Jon Hamm, Sarah Silverman, Danny McBride, Kevin Hart and Josh Gad in talks to co-star.
THE JANSON DIRECTIVE---Dwayne Johnson is in talks to star/produce in the first of the Universal Pictures franchise based on the Robert Ludlum novel. Johnson would play an ex-SEAL who becomes a private security consultant. He is targeted after a failed rescue mission and discovers a deadly conspiracy.
SONS OF ANARCHY---Courtney Love will guest star in a "pivotal, multi-episode arc" as a "straight-shooting preschool teacher."
DUMBO---Disney live-action/CGI remake underway of the 1941 animated movie. Ehren Kruger (TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION) will write the script.
DAVID---untitled movie underway from Ridley Scott/20th Century Fox about the man who killed Goliath and became king of Israel.
THE LAST KINGDOM---BBC America/BBC Two/Carnival Films (DOWNTON ABBEY) eight-part miniseries underway based on the Viking novel series THE SAXON STORIES.
VALENCIA---microbudget movie underway in which a girl wakes up after a car accident in a cellar and is told by a man that they are the sole survivors of a nuclear war. John Goodman is in talks to star.
THE GOLDFINCH---Warner Bros. movie underway based on the novel about a man's obsession with a mysterious painting.
DEATH NOTICE---movie underway based on the manga with Gus Van Sant (GOOD WILL HUNTING) as director. He replaces Shane Black (IRON MAN 3) who left due to creative differences.
POWERS---Sony PlayStation Network series based on the graphic novel about two homicide detectives who investigate cases involving people with special powers. David Slade (HANNIBAL, 30 DAYS OF NIGHT) is the director/executive producer.
SHARP OBJECTS---eOne tv series underway based on Gillian Flynn's first novel in which a female journalist, just out of a psychiatric hospital, returns to her hometown to investigate the murders of two young girls. Marti Noxon (BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER) is the writer/showrunner.
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: FREAK SHOW---Wes Bentley (THE HUNGER GAMES, AMERICAN BEAUTY) will guest star on the two-part Halloween episode.
XMOOR---British horror movie in which a beautiful girl, her boyfriend and a veteran hunter journey to the English countryside to investigate missing girls and the legendary Beast of Xmoor.
SUPERBAGO---movie underway at Sony Pictures Animation about two superhero wannabes.
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Jul 9, 2014 - 3:52 PM
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Joe E.
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GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY - turd of the year.
LOL. I was going to do a movie review because I've seen enough in the extended trailer. What a loud obnoxious piece of...
Starlord is like that moron at work or school who keeps making jokes, but has no idea he isn't the least bit funny. Then that raccoon whom does its Baby Herman impersonation- obnoxious. Yeah it sucks.
Yeah, I might be off on this one, but I am usually pretty accurate in my guess on the quality and success of these things. This movie looks like a mess, and too obnoxious and odd to be popular.
It might be too odd to be popular, but I for one am delighted Marvel isn't just going the safe route and giving us more of the regular superheroes, but is instead taking a risk on a bent, offbeat title like this one. To me, this sort of thing is the best way to expand the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the sort of thing that's ideal for keeping things fresh and creative.
I love the oddity and quirkiness and defiant, anarchic audacity of actually devoting one of their precious summer tentpole production/release slots to something like this. Moreover, given the way people at this forum take such pains to clamor for movies that aren't just the same-old, same-old, I'm frankly a little surprised so many of you are clearly rooting for it to fail. At least it looks creative and daring. Of course, I'm also aware that at the end of the day it is still an expensive! effects-filled popcorn spectacle and that's exactly the sort of thing so many here love to draw their knives for, with little regard for whether a movie might at least be one of the better examples of such, but still.
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God! Ridley Scott's gone Biblical! (Well, let's just see how well his EXODUS does, before we jump the gun, and make yet another David movie...)
As for George R. R. Martin, well, if you don't want people to speculate about whether or not you'll die before finishing the damn thing, then just finish the damn thing, and get it over with. But, he seems to be more interested in writing scripts and managing production, and being a celebrity. But, especially considering what appears to be him appearing in his photos as overweight bordering on obese, the people speculating about his longevity may have a point... A point I may tend to agree with, especially considering there have been years in between the previous installments, despite repeated grandiose announcements about imminent publication. We shall see....
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Jul 9, 2014 - 5:31 PM
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Solium
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I love the oddity and quirkiness and defiant, anarchic audacity of actually devoting one of their precious summer tentpole production/release slots to something like this. Moreover, given the way people at this forum take such pains to clamor for movies that aren't just the same-old, same-old, I'm frankly a little surprised so many of you are clearly rooting for it to fail. At least it looks creative and daring. Of course, I'm also aware that at the end of the day it is still an expensive! effects-filled popcorn spectacle and that's exactly the sort of thing so many here love to draw their knives for, with little regard for whether a movie might at least be one of the better examples of such, but still.
I'm not rooting for its failure, it's just my expectations. I don't think there's anything original about it. A walking talking tree (LOTRs) An anthropomorphic talking animal, (POTA's) A space cowboy, (Star Wars) a few nondescript super hero types, (Any of the recent 15 superhero films released) Aliens, (Star Wars/Star Trek). It looks like Star Wars, Star Trek, Avengers, Planet Of the Apes, Firefly, Lord of the Rings all rolled up into one. But if ppl enjoy that's fine. 
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