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Oct 22, 2014 - 10:30 AM
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dragon53
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22
GAME OF THRONES---spoiler alert (see below).
THE NICE GUYS---Kim Basinger will reunite with Russell Crowe, her LA CONFIDENTIAL co-star, in this Shane Black (IRON MAN 3) movie set in 1970s Los Angeles. Crowe and Ryan Gosling play an ex-fighter and a private detective who team up to solve the murder of a porn star and a missing girl. Basinger plays a corrupt chief justice.
GREEN ROOM---Patrick Stewart will play a white supremacist leader in this movie starring Anton Yelchin and Imogen Poots in which a punk band is targeted by white supremacists after they witness the supremacists commit a murder.
MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.---photo released of Adrianne Palicki in her Mockingbird suit.
INTO THE WOODS---photo released of Johnny Depp as the Wolf in the movie based on the Broadway musical. Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt and Chris Pine also star.
BACHELOR PARTY---ABC sitcom pilot underway based on the 1984 movie that starred Tom Hanks, Tawny Kitaen and Adrian Zmed.
THE FLASH---CW gave the series a full season order along with JANE THE VIRGIN.
Z NATION---Syfy renewed the series for Season 2.
THE BRIDGE---FX canceled the series due to low ratings.
BATMAN v SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE---Ray Fisher confirmed Cyborg will have a small role in the sequel which will be a prelude to a standalone movie.
JOHN CARTER---rights to the franchise have reverted from Disney to Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. whose head, James Sullos, announced future plans, "We will be seeking a new partner to help develop new adventures on film as chronicled in the eleven Mars novels Burroughs wrote...Along with a new Tarzan film in development by Warner Bros., we hope to have John Carter of Mars become another major franchise to entertain world-wide audiences of all ages."
CRITTERS---new web series based on the 1986 movie from Blue Ribbon Content, the digital production subsidiary of Warner Bros. Also underway are PLAY IT AGAIN, DICK a spin-off of VERONICA MARS and STATIC SHOT based on the DC Comic.
WHAT THE DINOSAURS DID LAST NIGHT---20th Century Fox bought the movie rights to the children's book.
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GAME OF THRONES---for Season 5, "In the fifth book "A DANCE WITH DRAGONS, Daenerys marries Meereenese noble Hizdahr zo Loraq to help quell civil unrest in Meereen. As part of the wedding celebrations, a series of gladiatorial-style games is held. Photos of those scenes being filmed in Osuna, Spain have appeared and show something unexpected - Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage) is not only involved but seemingly a personal guest of Daenerys.
In the books Tyrion and Daenerys have yet to meet in person (though they are in proximity to each other). The scene also sits around the end of 'Dragons' which would indicate the show is skipping over much of Tyrion's journey to get to that part of the world.
It also means the producers will definitely be diving into sixth book territory for the sixth season of the TV series - a book that has yet to score a release and is still being worked on by Martin. Either way, even those up to date on the books are expected to be in for some real surprises when "Game of Thrones" returns in April next year."
source-comingsoon.net
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GAME OF THRONES--Either way, even those up to date on the books are expected to be in for some real surprises when "Game of Thrones" returns in April next year."
Yeeessss. Next season will be coming the time when those of us with disposable time and the chops necessary to read novels to be put back into Completely Clueless territory with the rest of the non-Ice and Fire reading Thrones watchers. Delightful.
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Yeah. Volumes 4 and 5, I thought, were pretty tedious, all things considered. Felt very padded. As well as weird. Sort of Spoiler: Martin keeps killing off characters, then having them reappear, like in a daytime soap opera series, explaining it all by "magic." Yeah, right. Though I understand that at least one of these re-born characters is not going to be in the series.
And, please relieve us of yet other claimants to whatever throne popping up all over the place. Reminds me of sequel-itis, where it is explained that a character "didn't really die," but was switched out somehow, in any number of ways.
Thought the first 3 volumes were at least attention-getting. Then everything pretty much bogged down for me in the 2 later ones. Came to seem like some kind of smutty, grisly comic book.
As far as I'm concerned, GAME OF THRONES will never be anything like LORD OF THE RINGS; it's just too all over the place, trying to fascinate and titillate at the same time.
(And, since I've just watched the first season, and am well into the second, I'm amazed at all the gratuitous nudity bandied about, especially with the female characters. We're forever seeing bare butts and breasts, for no particular reason. There's even a scene with a lesbian sex going on, while a character delineates his innermost motives for all he does. Which was really badly presented. With the sex going on, who's paying attention to what he's saying? And, there are gay scenes in the series, while there were none in the books, at least none explicit, though perhaps some inclinations were hinted at...)
I'll watch it, because it's entertaining, but it's not the great epic it seems to think it is.
And I still think Mr. Martin will not live long enough to actually write, let alone publish, the remaining 2 volumes. He's now so caught up in being a celebrity, he's not giving himself the time.
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Yeah. Volumes 4 and 5, I thought, were pretty tedious, all things considered. Felt very padded.
I wouldn't go that far. CROWS and DRAGONS were done before the TV show began. And the "Reek" stuff from DRAGONS is some of Martin's finest stuff, in my opinion.
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Yeah. Volumes 4 and 5, I thought, were pretty tedious, all things considered. Felt very padded.
I wouldn't go that far. CROWS and DRAGONS were done before the TV show began. And the "Reek" stuff from DRAGONS is some of Martin's finest stuff, in my opinion.
I would absolutely agree with padded. I stopped reading books 4 and 5 a number of times for other things before I finally got myself to finish them. I am still surprised I ever got through Book 5 considering. But it certainly ends strong. Though with any series of books as long as this it is hard to have them completely gripping from beginning to end.
I wouldn't call CROWS and DRAGONS padded. I think Martin has as much interest in Jon Snow's relationship with the Wildlings/Free Folk, Brienne, Podrick, and Arya/? as the stuff in King's Landing. Not sexy like all the stuff flowing around Cersei, but characterization-rich (like a fine bread pudding, it is).
And as for the stuff with Jaime Lannister in the second half of CROWS, the characterization-rich appellation definitely applies, and most readers probably haven't discerned how crucial this stuff is to ICE AND FIRE's ultimate resolution.
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