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Jul 30, 2014 - 9:54 AM
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 30
DRAGONRIDERS OF PERN---new film franchise underway with Warner Bros. buying the film rights to the 22-book fantasy novel series.
THE DAM BUSTERS---Peter Jackson commented on the status of the remake of the 1955 World War II movie, "It's a very beloved story. I've had so many people the last five years come and ask, 'When are you going to make The Dam Busters? When are you going to make The Dam Busters?' Honestly, you ask me what I got out of five years of making The Hobbit? It was me feeling like I have to make The Dam Busters, because of the endless people asking, 'When are you going to make The Dam Busters?'
We still have the rights...We don't have a next movie nailed down, but certainly 'The Dam Busters 'is one of them. There is only a limited span I can abide, of people driving me nuts asking me when I'm going to do that project. So I'll have to do it. I want to, actually, it's one of the truly great true stories of the Second World War, a wonderful, wonderful story.”
GAME OF THRONES---Billy Bob Thornton was asked what series he'd like to appear on since he's not returning to FARGO, "SAVED BY THE BELL isn't on anymore, so I think I missed my chance. There's so much good stuff on tv. Maybe I can play what's his name? Hoder on GAME OF THRONES, the guy who only says, 'Hoder.' Maybe I could be his cousin or something, his long lost cousin."
PETER PAN LIVE!---Allison Williams (GIRLS), daughter of NBC news anchor Brian Williams, will star in the NBC live musical which airs on December 4. Christopher Walken stars as Captain Hook.
GRASSHOPPER JUNGLE---Sony Pictures movie underway based on the novel in which teenage boys accidentally create a genetically-engineered plague of giant mantises. Edgar wright is the director.
THE LIBRARY---movie underway based on the graphic novel in which a teenage girl and her brother cast a spell which unleashes all the heroes and villains from books in a library.
STAR WARS: EPISODE VII---Simon Pegg was asked if he's in the movie, "Well, J.J. [Abrams] uses me in different roles, and we're good friends. I feel like my face in Star Wars would pop people out of the movie. Look, I love Star Wars, and I don't want people to watch and go, 'Oh, there's Simon Pegg's face.' The film is cleverly cast with these amazing, unknown actors."
When asked if he definitely was not in the movie, he smiled and said, "Of course I visited the set. It's amazing, and I love Star Wars. I want to see everything happening. It looks wonderful, and you need to believe those characters. Any type of stunt casting might just pop you out of the movie."
THE FLASH---Kelly Frye will play villainess Plastique.
MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.---Simon Kassianides will play Bakshi, an agent "who's not afraid to do the dirty work".
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"Although the Jackson-produced NZ$52-million movie about 617 Squadron's famous dam assault was announced to the world in 2006, little has been said until now about its progress other than confirmation that British writer and comedian Stephen Fry would write the script.
The film is being directed by Kiwi first-time director Christian Rivers.
It has also emerged that Fry was asked to come up with alternative names for squadron leader Guy Gibson's dog, Nigger, but that executive producer Sir David Frost rejected them all."
Dear help us. Dear help us. Stephen Fry, the one-stop-shop for reconstructions of Boy's Own 1940s/50s dialogue. Isn't that awfully whizzer? Top hole, eh? Stephen will identify with the cameraderie of the young men, tearfully, won't he?
Look, okay, it's a book by Brickhill, it can be remade ad infinitum, but the original is a classic. Also, in the UK there's been a lot of revisionism for a long time now about the Ruhr Dam raids and their effectiveness. A lot of civilians and many slave-labourers were massacred and drowned in that attack (Gaza anyone? ... 'funny how the mess is never on our OWN doorstep) and production was back up within a coupla' weeks anyway.
Recently there's been a lot of revisionism re the work of Bomber Command. For years they were quietly not highlighted, because of Harris, and the fire-bombing etc., etc.. Yes, they were brave, no-one will deny that, and they deserve celebration, but it's a funny time to be remaking this film. It doesn't NEED it anyway. I'm sure, without being catty, that Fry feels deeply for young men shot out of the sky. Why I even don't doubt he also feels for the thousands of civilians killed in that raid. Probably not as much though if you get my drift. DO I sound catty? Well, Stephen likes that doesn't he, a bit of Wildean cattiness, he'll understand.
Why not make Brickhill's 'Reach for the Sky'. a universal story that still works?
I dunno, it seems not quite right, though it'll be successful.
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