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Jul 27, 2016 - 10:35 AM
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dragon53
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 27
TIME AFTER TIME---trailer for the ABC remake of the movie that starred Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen and David Warner.
Trailer link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN4C4Ar5BLo
SPLIT---trailer for the M. Night Shyamalan horror movie.
Trailer link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUMQ9jW2qAw
STAR TREK: DISCOVERY---creator Bryan Fuller said the starship USS Discovery in the CBS All Access series might have a black female captain, “I think that STAR TREK is a show of firsts. And in researching the characters for this new iteration of STAR TREK I’ve been talking to Mae Jemison, who’s the first black woman in space, and who saw STAR TREK in the ‘60s and who saw Nichelle Nichols on the bridge of a ship and said ‘I see myself in space.’
So there’s something wonderful about the legacy that Nichelle Nichols represents as giving a gift to people who weren’t previously able to see themselves in the future. We are going to be continuing that tradition of progressive casting and progressive character work to be an inclusive world.”
THE WALKING DEAD---Jeffrey Dean Morgan, at a panel discussion with Andrew Lincoln, Steven Yeun and Norman Reedus, commented on who he killed in last season's cliffhanger, “No one sitting here.”
THE DIVISION---Jessica Chastain (ZERO DARK THIRTY) is in talks to co-star with Jake Gyllenhaal in this movie based on the Tom Clancy video game about a New York pandemic.
THE CAVES OF STEEL---movie underway based on the Isaac Asimov novel set 3,000 years in the future in which a police detective and his robot partner investigate the murder of a space ambassador. Akiva Goldsman will write the script.
FINAL SCORE---Pierce Brosnan and Dave Bautista will star in this movie about an ex-soldier battling criminals who demand a ransom after taking over a crowded London sports stadium, including the daughter of a dead comrade.
BLADE RUNNER 2---Lennie James (THE WALKING DEAD) has joined the sequel cast.
SUICIDE SQUAD---director David Ayer denied the rumor that The Joker is the adult Robin.
SHARKNADO---writer Thunder Levin commented on the future of the Syfy franchise, “As to whether we will see other creatures in ‘nados in the future, I can’t say for sure. Who knows if there will even be any more Sharknado movies? I guess it depends on the ratings. I have actually developed a story arc for Sharknado five through seven – for the next three movies – and I’ve submitted that to The Asylum and we’ll see if they want to run with it or not and we’ll see if Syfy wants to do anymore of these."
A WRINKLE IN TIME---Oprah Winfrey will star in this movie based on the novel about a girl who seeks her father who disappeared in a time travel experiment.
SANDY WEXLER---Netflix movie underway starring Adam Sandler, Jennifer Hudson, Kevin James and Rob Schneider in which a Los Angeles talent manager falls in love with one of his clients.
TURN: WASHINGTON'S SPIES---AMC said the upcoming Season 4 will be the last season.
PROJECT GREENLIGHT---HBO said Season 4 will be the last season. It will be shopped to other networks.
MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.---Lilli Birdsell (THE WALKING DEAD: WEBISODES) will have a recurring role as a character named Lucy.
VIKINGS---WWE star Adam Copeland will play Viking warrior Ketill Flatnose who will lead a journey to start a community in Iceland.
47 METERS DOWN---movie underway about two sisters who are trapped in an observation cage 47 meters underwater as they are terrorized by Great White sharks. Mandy Moore and Claire Holt star.
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Time After Time looks like it needs decent actors, not a couple of pretty boys just saying words. It looks very poor going off the trailer.
Split looks terrible, too. I just hope McAvoy gets out of it with his dignity intact.
The Ghostbusters trailer was genuinely absolutely awful but i believe the film is okay or even decent. So maybe Split won't be total garbage and Time After Time will be worth watching? Probably not, though.
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 27
TIME AFTER TIME---trailer for the ABC remake of the movie that starred Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen and David Warner.
The text underneath the YouTube clip (presumably generated by ABC's PR department) says:
Based on the novel and movie “Time After Time,” executive producer/writer Kevin Williamson (“The Vampire Diaries,” “Scream” franchise, “Dawson’s Creek”) delivers a fantastical cat and mouse adventure through time . . .
I thought Meyer wrote "Time After Time" directly for the screen, but I was obviously wrong. A glance at IMDB would have saved me some typing.
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Jul 27, 2016 - 7:22 PM
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mastadge
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Warlok, it's not about not being able to admire people of other races. It's not about people being unable to enjoy entertainments featuring other people. It's about not having role models like yourself. When the vast majority of heroes on TV, in the movies, are white men, and other people are sidekicks, villains, eye candy, comic relief -- that sends very powerful messages to the people watching that entertainment. When your whole life, almost everything you've seen has featured as the hero someone who does not look like you, it's a very powerful thing to see a hero who is like you.
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Jul 28, 2016 - 3:43 AM
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Warlok
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Mastadge, as an aryan (non-Nazi! Just regionally/culturally defining...  ) I confess I cannot *know* a minority position such as that which we speak of. I can *understand* it. It is my hope, and further my contention, that at some immediate point in Mankind`s existence we shall no longer care about that type of 'identity', that ability and character will be our important traits. In arguing concerning capacities of people to identify with others, regardless of cosmetic similarities, I would hope to point to a superior position for society to take, without minimizing any lingering interventional necessities i.e. 1960 college enrollments in southern US states.
In 2016 I earnestly hope that we are advancing along a more enlightened trajectory (!). Somewhat overdue.
Before I continue I acknowledge my own concern over Norse Gods not being of European extraction (Thor). Damn it.
I submit that there is a danger of Jormungandian logic here. If we insist upon certain inclusions based upon race and sex, do we not open the door to further quibbling on those criteria? At the moment I find myself gravitating toward the categorization of new Trek production casts as cliches of inclusiveness, the politically correct and against-odds ethnically diverse 'ensemble'. Once this group is cast (the cast is cast!) for such reasons, are we then not open to deconstructive bickering about the ratio of one over the other? Or who is actually to be Captain? If our science officer is Chinese, are we making a statement about stereotype, and should it be changed? I would prefer to utterly avoid all that.
Even from a lore perspective, by example, I would prefer the criteria for Science Officer be how many PhDs do you have, can you fix this askew warp bubble equation, how many 'i's are in Mississippi, and can you give me a full working knowledge of what all these buttons on my BluRay remote do?
Well, I guess we shall see what they do.
(for the show... not the buttons...)
I am interested in learning more about this Trek effort. I thought the teaser drydock thing was nice but obviously CG. Good that it isn`t Enterprise. Some interesting people involved in it so far. I like the ship design. Will have to sample more trailers and await the eternal BluRay if decent.
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I feel that there is something of an american Doctor Who here if Time After Time becomes a series. Less flamboyant as US series are of course, but somewhere between Sherlock, Doctor Who (including their own one-off stab in 1996) and Elementary. Can't give a totally clear picture of what I'm getting at here but it's almost as a if a pinch of each of these things would make an american Doctor Who-like series.
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