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Nov 20, 2019 - 10:34 AM
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dragon53
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20
THE CALL OF THE WILD---trailer released for the movie starring Harrison Ford.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P8R2zAhEwg
JOKER---director Todd Phillips is in talks to direct the Warner Bros. sequel. Earlier, Phillips said a sequel would be a, "wild and crazy movie about the Clown Prince of Crime." Phillips will also direct and co-write the origin movie of another DC Comics character. Speculation is the origin movie could be Lex Luthor or Darkseid. Phillips earned $100 million from JOKER.
STAR WARS---Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy said she has picked the director for a new STAR WARS movie for 2022 that is not the Rian Johnson movie. Kennedy said more details will be released in January.
Kennedy also commented on the high turnover rate of STAR WARS directors, “Every one of these movies is a particularly hard nut to crack. There’s no source material. We don’t have comic books. We don’t have 800-page novels. We don’t have anything other than passionate storytellers who get together and talk about what the next iteration might be. We go through a really normal development process that everybody else does. You start by talking to filmmakers who you think exhibit the sensibilities that you’re looking for. And I would argue that the list is very small — people who really do have the sensibilities about these kind of movies, and then the experience and the ability to handle how enormous a job these movies are. So we try to be as thoughtful as we possibly can about making those choices. I would also argue that sometimes people get involved in the normal development process, and then they realize, “Oh, my God, this is so much more than I ever imagined.” So it’s pretty common that when you’re working on movies, you’re not making choices and decisions that necessarily work out exactly the way you want from the get-go.”
She spoke about returning as the controversial head of Lucasfilm when her contract expires in 2021, “What happens in the future, and how long and how much longer I do this? I don’t know yet. I’m looking at all of that.”
STAR TREK 4---Noah Hawley (FARGO, LEGION) will direct and write the sequel with Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Zoe Saldana returning.
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 7 & 8---Christopher McQuarrie said Pom Klementieff (GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2, AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR) will co-star with Tom Cruise and Hayley Atwell in the next two sequels.
KILL SWITCH---Josh Brolin, Don Cheadle and Sebastian Stan are in negotiations to star in this Steven Soderbergh movie about three burglars who break into a home in 1950s Detroit.
CHARLIE'S ANGELS---director Elizabeth Banks made more comments on the reboot movie's box office failure, “You’ve had 37 SPIDER-MAN movies and you’re not complaining. I think women are allowed to have one or two action franchises every 17 years – I feel totally fine with that.”
She later added, “They’ll go and see a comic book movie with Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel because that’s a male genre. So even though those are movies about women, they put them in the context of feeding the larger comic book world, so it’s all about, yes, you’re watching a WONDER WOMAN movie but we’re setting up three other characters or we’re setting up JUSTICE LEAGUE.
By the way, I’m happy for those characters to have box office success, but we need more women’s voices supported with money because that’s the power. The power is in the money.”
SABAYA---Zoe Saldana will star in this movie based on the true story of a CIA agent who befriends an ISIS sex slave, who are known as a sabaya, which leads to the killing of a top ISIS leader and his subordinates.
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE---Fede Alvarez will direct the latest remake of the 1974 Tobe Hooper horror movie. Alvarez will also direct a haunted house movie set in the White House.
VALHALLA---Netflix sequel to VIKINGS is underway and is set 100 years after VIKINGS. It will feature Leif Erikson, Harold Hardrada and William the Conqueror.
THE ELRIC SAGA---tv series underway based on the fantasy novels.
TRIVIA---Sean Connery and Sam Neill starred in THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER. The two almost reunited for JURASSIC PARK when Steven Spielberg offered the John Hammond role to Connery. Spielberg and Connery worked together in INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE, and Connery was good friends with JURASSIC PARK author Michael Crichton, who directed Connery in THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY. However, Connery wanted too much money, so Richard Attenborough starred with Neill in JURASSIC PARK instead of Connery.
Sean Connery and Sam Neill starred in THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER.
JURASSIC PARK director Steven Spielberg offered the John Hammond role to Connery. Spielberg and Connery worked together in INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE.
Connery was good friends with JURASSIC PARK author Michael Crichton, who directed Connery in THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY.
However, Connery wanted too much money, so Richard Attenborough starred with Neill in JURASSIC PARK instead of Connery.
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CHARLIE'S ANGELS---director Elizabeth Banks made more comments on the reboot movie's box office failure, “You’ve had 37 SPIDER-MAN movies and you’re not complaining. I think women are allowed to have one or two action franchises every 17 years – I feel totally fine with that.”
What planet do these nuts live on?
Good lord.
You know, pre all this bullshit, when your film bombed, you were lucky if the studio hired you again any time soon. And other studios were not all too quick to hire you either. You didn't try to use Star Trek sequels as a bizarre false comparison.
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Lost total interest in JP after the third one.
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Nov 20, 2019 - 11:05 AM
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Octoberman
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Kennedy also commented on the high turnover rate of STAR WARS directors, “Every one of these movies is a particularly hard nut to crack. There’s no source material. We don’t have comic books. We don’t have 800-page novels. We don’t have anything other than passionate storytellers who get together and talk about what the next iteration might be. We go through a really normal development process that everybody else does. You start by talking to filmmakers who you think exhibit the sensibilities that you’re looking for. And I would argue that the list is very small — people who really do have the sensibilities about these kind of movies, and then the experience and the ability to handle how enormous a job these movies are.
Hi Kathleen. Big fan.
Of movies you had nothing to do with. 
I think I can shed some light on why you are having problems.
Mainly, you are letting the tail wag the dog--despite what you said in your quote.
You rush movies into production when you don't even have the story nailed down.
Ideally, the written word is the foundation upon which the rest of the "storyteller's" art is based.
Without that, you have nothing and anything you try to build on that foundation will crumble.
But your template seems to be, start filming the movie and let's hope a coherent, cohesive story will just magically appear.
In the short term, sure, the punters will rush out to see your movies and subsequently line your pockets, but you will not have created anything that will stand the test of time (but again, maybe they are never meant to and the cruel joke is on us).
So if you want to create something that will become beloved in the generations to come, throw out your template.
It's not designed for the long game.
Start with a bulletproof story and go from there.
Oh, and get out of that chair.
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Weren't there.successful.movies based on ANGELS ....LARA CROFT...?
Sex is irrelevant it seems.to me.
But what do I KNOW(
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CHARLIE'S ANGELS: Better casting would have gotten me more interested. I really dislike Kristen Stewart as a performer. Honestly, just a vapid presence. So no sale for me based on her being the lead. So, Ms. Banks, maybe don't cast the lead of the awful Twilight series as you main attraction.
STAR WARS: I really, really hate that there is no plan or vision for these films. Just "we have to make them up each time." You have a successful property, how's about mapping out the saga and making it richer and less hit or miss?
STAR TREK: YES! Yes YES YES!!! Full of yes!
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Kennedy also commented on the high turnover rate of STAR WARS directors, “Every one of these movies is a particularly hard nut to crack. There’s no source material. We don’t have comic books. We don’t have 800-page novels. We don’t have anything other than passionate storytellers who get together and talk about what the next iteration might be.
And you never had George Lucas's drafts for the final trilogy. Oh wait you did!
This is probably the dumbest thing KK has said thus far.
And in fact, they did have 100s of Star Wars comic books, at least 100 Star Wars novels, numerous video games, and much more to reference. Admittedly, none of these qualify as "source material" but it is a ton of R&D that explored what can and can't work in the Star Wars universe. The pre-Disney expanded universe had its faults, but at least the people involved thought about where to take the universe, and more or less kept things consistent. Even though it makes sense that they did a reboot, there was plenty they could have referenced when moving forward post-ROTJ.
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TRIVIA---Sean Connery and Sam Neill starred in THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER. The two almost reunited for JURASSIC PARK when Steven Spielberg offered the John Hammond role to Connery.
"I'd like to get a wife and raise raptors in Montana."
" Montana"
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Wasn't Sam Neill's character working on an excavation in Montana when Hammond recruits him and Laura Dern's character to inspect Jurassic Park? So at least one of the characters Sam Neill played made it to Montana.
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I have to say that you're missing out. I quite liked the film and she was a big part. Who knew that she could be so loose and goofy?
I'll keep that in mind when it hits whatever streaming media it lands on. Thanks!
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And in fact, they did have 100s of Star Wars comic books, at least 100 Star Wars novels, numerous video games, and much more to reference. Admittedly, none of these qualify as "source material" but it is a ton of R&D that explored what can and can't work in the Star Wars universe. The pre-Disney expanded universe had its faults, but at least the people involved thought about where to take the universe, and more or less kept things consistent. Even though it makes sense that they did a reboot, there was plenty they could have referenced when moving forward post-ROTJ.
Hell, the Thrawn trilogy would have made a great series of films alone...
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