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Apr 14, 2021 - 10:24 AM
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dragon53
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14
MORTAL KOMBAT---featurette released on the movie's fight scenes.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P7HmEtywHo
STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS---co-creator Akiva Goldsman commented on the new series, “'It’s unlike the other shows in that it’s really episodic. If you think back to THE ORIGINAL SERIES, it was a tonally more liberal – I don’t mean in terms of politics, but it could sort of be more fluid. Like sometimes Robert Bloch would write a horror episode. Or Harlan Ellison would have “City on the Edge of Forever,” which is hard sci-fi. Then there would be comedic episodes, like “Shore Leave” or “The Trouble With Tribbles.” So [co-showrunner] Henry Alonso Myers and myself are trying to serve that. We’ve all become very enamored, myself included, with serialized storytelling. And I’m talking to you from behind the stage where we’re shooting PICARD, which is deeply serialized. But STRANGE NEW WORLDS is very much adventure-of-the-week but with serialized character arcs… you can drop in, watch one, drop out, then watch another one later.”'
He added, “It’s a fine line because obviously, we want to keep continuity with the storytelling and the style, but we also want STRANGE NEW WORLDS to be a different show. It’s not DISCOVERY. There are a few more reach-backs (to THE ORIGINAL SERIES) and the uniforms have been adjusted slightly, the sets are slightly different. Remember the Enterprise existed as a little piece of [the show DISCOVERY], but now it’s its own object. When you close your eyes and think of the key sets and situations that you think of THE ORIGINAL SERIES, that’s what we’re looking to do.”
STAR TREK: PICARD---co-creator Akiva Goldsman commented on fan complaints that PICARD is too complicated, “I think where our storytelling is complicated, if it is frustratingly so, it’s just our own fault for not doing it well enough. The great thing about plot complication and character excellence is they shouldn’t be mutually exclusive.
Even a really complicated plot should ultimately become invisible, that’s sort of the job of it. CHINATOWN being the example that we all endlessly lean on in our imaginations. [It’s] really complex and complicated, yet at the end of the day you just remember it’s about water. There’s this elegant disappearing act so the characters can shine”
Goldsman also commented on Q returning, “[We] don’t pretend that the interstitial years didn’t happen. No, obviously, chronological time is less relevant to Q… We’re now talking about the issues that come up in the last [stage] of your life. We wanted a Q that could play in that arena with Picard.
There are a lot of people who think of Q as a trickster god, right? And he is. But he’s also a profoundly significant relationship in Picard’s life. There’s a lot of discussion in PICARD Season 2 about the nature of connectedness. Q’s kind of a great lightning rod for that because in some ways he’s one of Picard’s deepest – not deep in the same way that Riker is or Beverly Crusher was – but in its own uniquely, profoundly deep relationship.”
RENFIELD---Universal Pictures movie underway based on a Robert Kirkman idea about Dracula's henchman, Renfield, that is set in the present. Chris McKay is the director.
THE SEARCH FOR THE LOST PRINT: THE MAKING OF ORSON WELLES' THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS---documentary underway about the Turner Classic Movies-funded expedition to Brazil to find the missing 43 minutes of THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS. During World War II, Welles was in Rio de Janeiro working for the US Office of the Coordinator for Inter-American Affairs when RKO sent Welles a print of the movie to edit. The expedition hopes the print with the original 43 minutes are still there and can be found.
THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE---the Shout! Studios reboot of the 1982 slasher movie will premiere on SYFY.
ARLINGTON ROAD---Paramount+ is reportedly developing a tv series based on the 1990 movie starring Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins and Joan Cusack in which a college professor seeks to stop his neighbors who are planning a terrorist attack.
THE SPACE BETWEEN---Kelsey Grammer and William Fichtner star in this movie about a has-been rock star who befriends a mailroom employee who is supposed to get him to end his contract.
THE SON---Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern will star in the Florian Zeller movie based on his play.
TRIVIA---character actor Warren Kemmerling appeared in two movies in which he played a government official who dealt with important people leaving in a helicopter. In Alfred Hitchcock's FAMILY PLOT, Kemmerling played FBI agent Grandison as he dealt with jewel thief/kidnapper Fran (Karen Black) as she flew off in a police helicopter. In CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, Kemmerling played Major "Wild Bill" Walsh as he dealt with gas mask-wearing UFO seekers being evacuated in an Army helicopter from Devils Tower, Wyoming.
In Alfred Hitchcock's FAMILY PLOT, Kemmerling (center) played FBI agent Grandison as he dealt with jewel thief/kidnapper Fran (Karen Black) as she flew off in a police helicopter.
In CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, Kemmerling played Major "Wild Bill" Walsh as he dealt with gas mask-wearing UFO seekers being evacuated in an Army helicopter from Devils Tower, Wyoming.
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THE SEARCH FOR THE LOST PRINT: THE MAKING OF ORSON WELLES' THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS---documentary underway about the Turner Classic Movies-funded expedition to Brazil to find the missing 43 minutes of THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS. During World War II, Welles was in Rio de Janeiro working for the US Office of the Coordinator for Inter-American Affairs when RKO sent Welles a print of the movie to edit. The expedition hopes the print with the original 43 minutes are still there and can be found.
I’m very much looking forward to this. Considering the lost Ambersons footage is one of the holy grails of cinema, it’s surprising that no one’s attempted a documentary on the search before now. I’m still a bit concerned about how the animated “reconstruction” reported a few months back will turn out.
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