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Nov 27, 2018 - 11:16 AM
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dragon53
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27
I AM THE NIGHT---trailer released for the TNT/Patty Jenkins miniseries starring Chris Pine.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcxAaIfKBeI
THE PRIMEVALS---trailer released for the "lost movie" of special effects artist David Allen.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQS1ReAAIms
THE WALKING DEAD---trailer released for Season 9 mid-season premiere.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3TPXgAIAy0
Producer Greg Nicotero said he asked George A. Romero to direct an episode, "You know, we loved the idea of George coming onboard. Frank Darabont and I talked about it after the end of season 1. And I had a conversation with George and I said, 'Hey, man, would you ever want to come and direct?' This was after we’d only aired six episodes. So, the show hadn’t really even caught on. And George said, 'No, listen, you guys have your world, and I have my world' and it’s cool. I think he really was still intending on developing some other zombie stuff."
Also, the Season 9 midseason final episode drew a series low 5.1 million viewers which was down 35% from Season 8's midseason finale.
Tom Payne talked about leaving the series, “It was a mutual [decision], and I was really happy about it. I expressed unhappiness [to the producers] last season…. You can’t help but feel a little bit despondent when you’re not released to do some cool stuff. I loved the character, but there was just so much potential [based on the comic-book Jesus]… that wasn’t realized. [So] I wasn’t sad to say goodbye to that frustration. It was constant.”
STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN---Nicholas Meyer commented on the CBS tv miniseries based on his THE WRATH OF KHAN, “I was commissioned to write a 3-hour or 3-night event, and that’s what I did. It’s called CETI ALPHA V and I don’t know the current status. It’s been up in the air. Partially, there was a lot of confusion between CBS, and there were big upheavals at CBS and while they sort of didn’t know who was in charge, they also didn’t know what they were going to do with CETI ALPHA V. I’m not exactly sure what’s happened, I haven’t heard from them in some time.”
He added, “It’s very good. It’s a terrific trilogy. I think one of the things that happened is they’re not sure that a trilogy is long enough to warrant the cost of doing it. Maybe it should be something longer, or … I don’t know the details of their thinking, because I haven’t heard them.”
Meyer also commented on INTO DARKNESS, which was a loose remake of THE WRATH OF KHAN, “It is, on the one hand, nice to be so successful or beloved or however you want to describe it that somebody wants to do a homage to what you did and I was flattered and touched. But in my sort of artistic worldview, if you’re going to do an homage you have to add something. You have to put another layer on it, and they didn’t.
Just by putting the same words in different characters’ mouths didn’t add up to anything, and if you have someone dying in one scene and sort of being resurrected immediately after there’s no real drama going on. It just becomes a gimmick or gimmicky, and that’s what I found it to be ultimately.”
HELLBOY---new photo of David Harbour starring in the remake movie.
STAR WARS: EPISODE IX---a rumor claims Natalie Portman will have a non-speaking cameo as Padme Amidala with her her grandson, Kylo Ren.
AQUAMAN---producer Peter Safaran said Julie Andrews will provide the voice for the Karathen, "an undersea creature that holds the key to Arthur Curry's (Jason Momoa) quest to unite the Atlantean and surface worlds."
BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA---Kurt Russell said he, "probably won’t be" in the Dwayne Johnson reboot movie, and added, "He's just a really good guy. I like working with him and if he's going to do it, he and his crew will hopefully be able to come up with something that I guess makes the title work."
DOCTOR WHO---British sci fi magazine STARBURST claims showrunner Chris Chibnall will leave the series in 2019 because he is unhappy with how the series is being run behind the scenes. If Chibnall does leave, Jodie Whitaker will also leave as a show of loyalty.
HONEST THIEF---Robert Patrick is in talks to play a crooked FBI gent in this movie starring Liam Neeson and Kate Walsh in which a robber stashes $7 million in loot in a storage facility and falls in love with one of its employees.
MISBEHAVIOR---Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Greg Kinnear star in this movie about the true story of the Womens Liberation Movement storming the live broadcast of the 1970 Miss World pageant and the winner being the first black Miss World.
ATLANTIC CROSSING---Kyle McLachlan and Sofia Helin star in this eight-part World War II miniseries about Crown Princess Martha, who fled Norway during the Nazi invasion, and moved into the White House where she had a strong influence on Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy.
MacGYVER---George Eads is reportedly leaving the reboot series after an altercation on the set. No details were released.
TIME'S FOOL---movie underway based on the novel about a man who is cursed to be trapped in a train except one night every seven years when the train stops at his hometown where he has a few hours to break the curse. Paul King (PADDINGTON) is the director.
TRIVIA---the 1971 ABC tv movie DUEL was the full-length movie debut of Steven Spielberg. In the scene where Dennis Weaver enters the phone booth, Spielberg can be seen in his reflection on the phone booth glass.
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Tom Payne talked about leaving the series, “It was a mutual [decision], and I was really happy about it. I expressed unhappiness [to the producers] last season…. You can’t help but feel a little bit despondent when you’re not released to do some cool stuff. I loved the character, but there was just so much potential [based on the comic-book Jesus]… that wasn’t realized. [So] I wasn’t sad to say goodbye to that frustration. It was constant.”
Yah, the producers (and writers) of the walking dead made so many bad decisions episode after episode that ultimately I couldn't tolerate it any longer. Now the actors are happy to leave. Not a good sign.
BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA---Kurt Russell said: "(Dwayne Johnson)... and his crew will hopefully be able to come up with something that I guess makes the title work."
That says it all really. We have a title that people remember, now make it work!!!
HELLBOY - I'm interested to see what they come up with. I don't rate Marshall films very highly at all, though i enjoyed Centurion. Hellboy looks okay in the pic. The Del Toro ones were okay, worth a watch but pretty forgettable despite capturing some of the imagery from the comic perfectly. They had very enjoyable scores too!
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THE PRIMEVALS---trailer released for the "lost movie" of special effects artist David Allen.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQS1ReAAIms
Interesting. I wonder if a composer was ever engaged and did any demos or even some score to be used as needed.
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I have a very low opinion of STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS, such that even as a ST nut, I won't sit through it again.
It's nice to see Nicholas Meyer sharing my disdain, however tactfully.
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I have a very low opinion of STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS, such that even as a ST nut, I won't sit through it again.
It's nice to see Nicholas Meyer sharing my disdain, however tactfully.
I agree, it was a series of callbacks without reason. I did enjoy a lot of the film, though, and it was - for me - Giacchino's strongest score of the series.
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ST:ID is a truly reference quality 4K Blu Ray release, too. Particularly the IMAX scenes.
I just looked it up, and STID was shot on film. Not sure if we're at the point where digital video yields a superior look. Maybe we're in the overlap period where it's still a subjective matter, but in theory, when digital is advanced enough, then "anything film can do, it can do better."
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ST:ID is a truly reference quality 4K Blu Ray release, too. Particularly the IMAX scenes.
I just looked it up, and STID was shot on film. Not sure if we're at the point where digital video yields a superior look. Maybe we're in the overlap period where it's still a subjective matter, but in theory, when digital is advanced enough, then "anything film can do, it can do better."
We had an enlightening discussion about this topic on my "Watching DUNKIRK..." thread.
Check it out.
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