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Nov 19, 2015 - 10:29 AM
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dragon53
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS---a new tv commercial was released showing new footage.
TV commercial link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN3Cl280wNM
Also, an entertainment writer commented on the future of the STAR WARS franchise at Walt Disney Pictures, "The company intends to put out a new Star Wars movie every year for as long as people will buy tickets. Let me put it another way: If everything works out for Disney, and if you are (like me) old enough to have been conscious for the first 'Star Wars' film, you will probably not live to see the last one. It's the forever franchise."
BLADE RUNNER 2---Ridley Scott revealed the sequel's opening scene, “We decided to start the film off with the original starting block of the original film. We always loved the idea of a dystopian universe, and we start off at what I describe as a ‘factory farm’ – what would be a flat land with farming. Wyoming. Flat, not rolling – you can see for 20 miles. No fences, just ploughed, dry dirt."
Scott added, “Turn around and you see a massive tree, just dead, but the tree is being supported and kept alive by wires that are holding the tree up. It’s a bit like The Grapes of Wrath; there’s dust, and the tree is still standing. By that tree is a traditional, Grapes of Wrath-type white cottage with a porch. Behind it at a distance of two miles, in the twilight, is this massive combine harvester that’s fertilizing this ground. You’ve got 16 Klieg lights on the front, and this combine is four times the size of this cottage. And now a spinner [a flying car] comes flying in, creating dust. Of course, traditionally chased by a dog that barks."
He continued, “The doors open, a guy gets out and there you’ve got Rick Deckard. He walks in to the cottage, opens the door, smells stew, sits down and waits for the guy to pull up to the house to arrive. The guy’s seen him, so the guy pulls the combine behind the cottage and it towers three stories above it, and the man climbs down from a ladder – a big man. He steps onto the balcony and he goes to Harrison [Ford]’s side. The cottage actually [creaks]; this guy’s got to be 350 pounds. I’m not going to say anything else – you’ll have to go see the movie.”
Also, Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy commented on another Harrison Ford movie franchise, "I've talked about it with everybody at Disney. Alan Horn, [chair of Walt Disney Studios] is very supportive of it [moving onto other films]. But at the same time, he's right when he says we've got a lot on our plate...And then I'll be working with them on Indiana Jones."
BATTLE OF THE SEXES---Emma Stone will co-star with Steve Carell in this movie about the nationally-televised 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs.
ALLAN QUATERMAIN---Chris Hemsworth is being sought to star in this movie based on the novel series about the famed big game hunterr. Sony Pictures is in talks to acquire the script. Other actors who have played Quatermain include Sean Connery, Stewart Granger, Richard Chamberlain and Patrick Swayze.
FAR BRIGHT STAR---Joaquin Phoenix stars in this movie based on the novel set in 1916 about the surviving leader of an Army cavalry unit that was ambushed in the desert while in pursuit of Mexican bandit Pancho Villa. Casey Affleck is the director.
LIVE BY NIGHT---Anthony Michael Hall (THE DEAD ZONE) will play a Southern bootlegger in this Ben Affleck movie about the son of a prominent Boston police captain who becomes a ruthless mobster.
CAT'S CRADLE---new FX series underway based on the Kurt Vonnegut novel. Noah Hunley (FX's FARGO) is the writer/executive producer.
CHANNEL ZERO---new Syfy horror 12-episode anthology series underway.
JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK---Ben Mendohlson is in talks to play villain Aaron Arcane.
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Part of what made Star Wars special, at least to me, was the wait for a film that would hopefully tie things up nicely. Then the prequels were shit out.
So now there is no wait -- it'll be ever year, like National Talk Like a Pirate Day, and writers will have to come up with something and something fast and hopefully make it connect to one or more of the films. That sounds like a mess waiting to happen. I suspect fans won't be buying tickets forever once some films in they realize of things are not what they are hoping for. Then will Disney blame the fans or themselves...
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The start to the new Bladerunner sounds exactly like a Atari Scott and Hampton Fancher wrote that was discarded. It's a pretty good scene. Fancher tala about it in one if the Bladerunner documentaries and I think they show storyboards of it too.
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Well said, mastadge.
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