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May 25, 2020 - 9:35 AM
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dragon53
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MONDAY, MAY 25
INDIANA JONES 5---producer Frank Marshall said about the status of the sequel script, "It just got started." He also commented on James Mangold replacing Steven Spielberg as the director, “His love of the franchise. He’s a wonderful filmmaker. I think he also has a relationship with Harrison. It was all of the right pieces coming together, at the right time.”
Marshall also said he wants to reboot the Jason Bourne franchise, “I do like the Bourne series, and I do think that’s an opportunity for different filmmakers to come in now. So, I’m hoping that we can find a new story for Bourne and a new filmmaker. We are looking.”
STAR WARS: UNDERWORLD---Ron Moore commented on the unmade George Lucas live-action tv series that was set between the original movie and REVENGE OF THE SITH, “I was one of several, there was a bunch of international writers they assembled… we would gather up at Skywalker Ranch once every six to eight weeks, something like that. And we would break stories together, and right after we’d go off and write some drafts and bring ‘em back, and George and we would sit down and critique them, and then do another draft and break more stories…
It was great! It was a ball, it was a lot of fun. It didn’t happen ultimately, we wrote I’d say somewhere in the 40-something, 48 scripts, something like that… the theory was George wanted to write all the scripts and get ‘em all done and then he was gonna go off and figure out how to produce them, because he wanted to do a lot of cutting edge technological stuff with CG and virtual sets and so on.
And so he had a whole new thing he wanted to accomplish. And what happened was, you know, we wrote the scripts and then George said ‘OK, this is enough for now, and then I’ll get back to you. I want to look into all the production things.’ And then time went by and like a year or something after that is when he sold Lucasfilm to Disney.”
He added, “It was an extraordinary undertaking for someone to do. I don’t know anyone else that would really take that on… At the time, George just said ‘write them as big as you want, and we’ll figure it out later.’ So we really had no [budget] constraints. We were all experienced television and feature writers, so we all kind of new what was theoretically possible on a production budget. But we just went, ‘For this pass, OK let’s just take him at his word just to make it crazy and big’ and there was lots of action, lots of sets, and huge set pieces. Just much bigger than what you would normally do in a television show.”
STAR TREK---Simon Pegg said STAR TREK is better off on tv for now, “Maybe TV is a better place for [STAR TREK] now. Television has evolved so much. Its become something which is very much a contemporary, a peer of cinema. It’s simply viewed in a different way. It isn’t a reduced scope anymore. You can still do masses of interesting things, and it can still look modern and not inexpensive. Maybe television is a better format for STAR TREK. That’s where it started, you know.”
DARK ARMY---Paul Feig commented on his Universal Pictures monster movie, "I love those movies of the 30s, the James Whale movies, [and] BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN. I still think is one of the greatest films of all time. So I want that tone because those movies were very fun. They treated them seriously, but you also know they were also having a lot of fun with them, so there are a lot of extreme characters in them and funny side characters. That’s what I want, I never wanted to make a horror movie. I want to make a true monster movie.”
He added, “Universal, they’re not quite sure what they’re doing right now. Because INVISIBLE MAN did really well on a very micro budget, and my movie’s a little more expensive than that. So I’m hoping to God we get to make it, because I just absolutely love it. I’m so thrilled with it.”
BACK TO THE FUTURE---co-writer Bob Gale blamed Universal Pictures for the edited scene involving a racy magazine in Netflix's version, “The blame is on Universal who somehow furnished Netflix an edited version of the movie. I learned about it some ten days ago from an eagle-eyed fan, and had the studio rectify the error. The version now running is the uncensored, unedited, original version. Apparently, this was a foreign version which neither director Robert Zemeckis nor I even knew existed, for some country that had a problem with the Oh La La magazine cover. I asked that the studio destroy this version. FYI, Netflix does not edit films — they only run the versions that are supplied to them. So they’re blameless. You can direct your ire at Universal, but I think they will be a lot more careful in the future – and with ‘the future’.”
DENALI: A MAN, A DOG, AND THE FRIENDSHIP OF A LIFETIME---Charle Hunnam will star in this movie based on the memoir of adventure photographer Ben Moon and his dog Denali, while Moon was diagnosed with cancer.
THREE PINES---Amazon tv series underway based on the Chief Inspector Gamache novels.
WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS---FX renewed the series for Season 3.
CHUCKY---creator Don Mancini commented on the Syfy tv series based on the CHILD'S PLAY movies, “With this TV show, our mission has been to preserve the straightforward scariness of the original film or the first couple of films, but at the same time, continue on with this ever-expanding tapestry of consistent story that we’ve spun over the course of seven movies and 30-some years.
I think fans are really gonna love to see the new characters that we introduce into this realm and just to see how they came off of our classic characters. Not just Chucky, but some of the others that you may be hoping to see. There’s a good chance they may turn up."
MEMORIAL DAY MOVIE TRIVIA---Wayne Morris starred in KID GALAHAD with Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart and Bette Davis. While filming FLIGHT ANGELS, he became interested in naval aviation and joined the Navy before the US entered World War II. Morris was rejected for duty as a fighter pilot because he was too big, so he asked his uncle-in-law, Cdr. David McCampbell, the Navy's top ace and Medal of Honor recipient, for help. McCampbell arranged for Morris to be assigned to McCampbell's fighter squadron, VF-15 "McCampbell's Heroes" on the aircraft carrier USS Essex. Morris shot down seven Japanese aircraft and helped sink five enemy warships. He was awarded four Distinguished Flying Crosses and was the only Hollywood actor to achieve ace status.
One of Morris' last roles, considered to be his finest, was Lt. Roget in Stanley Kubrick's PATHS OF GLORY. In 1959 Morris suffered a fatal heart attack aboard the aircraft carrier USS Bon Homme Richard as a guest of McCampbell.
Wayne Morris starred in KID GALAHAD with Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart and Bette Davis.
In World War II, Morris shot down seven Japanese aircraft and helped sink five Japanese warships for which he was awarded four Distinguished Flying Crosses. Morris was the only Hollywood actor to achieve ace status.
One of Morris' last roles, considered to be his finest, was Lt. Roget in Stanley Kubrick's PATHS OF GLORY.
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