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Nov 11, 2014 - 10:04 AM
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fisch
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11
ASH VS. EVIL DEAD---Starz sequel series underway based on the movie with Bruce Campbell returning as Ash, "I'm really excited to bring this series to the Evil Dead fans worldwide - it's going to be everything they have been clamoring for: serious deadite ass-kicking and plenty of outrageous humor." The ten-episode series will premiere in 2015 with Sam Raimi directing the first episode.
QUENTIN TARANTINO---said he plans to retire after his tenth movie, "I don't believe you should stay on stage until people are begging you to get off...I like that I will leave a ten-film filmography, and so I've got two more to go after this.
It's not etched in stone, but that is the plan. If I get to the tenth, do a good job and don't screw it up, well that sounds like a good way to end the old career. If, later on, I come across a good movie, I won't not do it just because I said I wouldn't. But ten and done, leaving them wanting more, that sounds right."
PLANET OF THE APES---director Matt Reeves commented on the third movie in the reboot franchise, "The first one is sort of how [Caesar] goes from humble beginnings to becoming a revolutionary. In 'Dawn,' he really rose to occasion of becoming a leader in really challenging and difficult times. The notion of what we're after with the third is to sort of continue that trajectory and see how he becomes a seminal figure in ape history. He almost becomes sort of like an ape Moses. A mythic status... We're trying to play out those themes and continue to sort of explore it in this universe. Exploring human nature under the guise of apes."
CREED---ROCKY spin-off movie underway with Apollo Creed's grandson being trained by Rocky Balboa to take on star boxer Pretty Ricky Porter. Michael B. Jordan and Sylvester Stallone star. Boxers Andre Ward and Tony Bellew are in negotiations to co-star.
FOUNDATION---HBO sci fi series underway based on the Isaac Asimov novel series with Jonathan Nolan (INTERSTELLAR, THE DARK KNIGHT) as writer/producer.
THE FANTASTIC FOUR---Toby Kebbell said his character of Doctor Doom is not Victor Von Doom but is Victor Domashev, an "anti-social programmer" who posts under the online handle "Doom."
THREE MIRACLES FROM HEAVEN---Sony Pictures movie underway from the producers of HEAVEN IS FOR REAL based on Christy Beam's memoir about her daughter who suffered from an incurable digestive disorder. When her daughter was injured after falling several stories, she experienced a near-death experience set in Heaven which cured her disorder. The script is by Randy Brown (TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE).
SPIDER-MAN---a rumor claims Sony Pictures is considering an Aunt May prequel movie in her younger days with an espionage plot. Other rumors say Sony might put Spider-Man on hiatus for several years, find a new actor to replace Andrew Garfield and put Spider-Man in Marvel's Cinematic Universe.
SHOWTIME---renewed HOMELAND and THE AFFAIR.
COMMUNITY---Paget Brewster (CRIMINAL MINDS) and Keith David (THE THING) have joined the cast.
EDWARD SNOWDEN---Joseph Gordon-Levitt will star in this untitled Oliver Stone movie about the NSA leaker.
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Oh Quent, why dintcha quit at 1 and a half?
To be honest, his third was his best. In 'Jackie Brown', all elements fall in place.
It was downhill after that.
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Hes bluffing!! its just too good to be true?? stopping?? Hes just toying with us for publicity. Cruel U-turns are his middle name. Bit like the news that he was definitely abandoning the Hateful 8 project not so long ago.
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Nov 12, 2014 - 6:45 AM
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Joe E.
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I have to suspect the Aunt May rumor is the result of a misunderstanding on the part of the reporter. In the comics, Peter Parker's long-dead parents actually were spies, killed on a mission and leaving Peter to be reared by his aunt and uncle. If Sony's desperate to try to spin their own whole Marvel Cinematic Universe-style shared-universe megafranchise out of the sliver of the Marvel Comics Universe to which they have the rights (that is, anything and everything principally pertaining to Spider-Man, but nothing else), the adventures of Peter's spy parents actually do make sense to include, and presumably wouldn't strike so many people as being quite so ridiculous as those of Aunt May when she was young, who as far as I know has never been portrayed as having had exciting adventures pre-Spidey, whether in the comics or any other incarnation, though there's a lot of character history I don't know about.
That said, I'd like to see Sony just give up on Spidey and let the rights go back to Marvel, who could then bring the character back as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe after enough time has passed for it not to seem like the character is being run into the ground.
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Nov 12, 2014 - 6:54 AM
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Tall Guy
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Oh Quent, why dintcha quit at 1 and a half?
To be honest, his third was his best. In 'Jackie Brown', all elements fall in place.
It was downhill after that.
Yes. I enjoyed his first two, but Jackie Brown is the best thing he has ever done, an excellent movie. Maybe very telling that he had Leonard's wonderful book to work from.
I hated, hated, hated ( thank you Roger  ) Kill Bill Vol 1 and could not subject myself to Vol. 2. Inglorious Basterds was truly bad...just awful. So far I haven't had the ill to even try to watch the Django film.
He needs to go back and pick another Elmore Leonard book.
Oh well, there you go... I loved Kill Bill, especially volume one. Ain't life grand?
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Nov 12, 2014 - 7:57 AM
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Solium
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To me, Victor Von Doom has always been an arrogant version of Tony Stark, whose genius matches that arrogance. He *is* more ingenius. Doom always struck me as a driven Napoleon type who *could* wipe the floor with Iron Man if he truly wished to. It simply does not adequately serve his ends to do so.
I`m not a 'fan' of the character in that I have not read many stories featuring him, but I have always liked what he seemingly turned into - a lonely king in a vulnerable tiny country, who eventually, though he may never admit it, to some small extent values the fortunes of his subjects, if they show him loyalty. Be an interesting bit of theater for Doom to encounter unfettered kindness from one of them.
Thats the kind of "imperial" villain I always thought him to be. Megalomaniacal but with a buried nobility. Sort of.
And did I mention his tech is Stark equivalent, but unfettered. Destructive blasting rather than mere 'repulsing'. An Evil Iron Man... .
Why would that not be sufficient to inspire good theater effort? I don`t get it... . Kind of like how they insist on f***ing with Spiderman`s origins.
(shrug shoulder voice)
Because they got to make it relevant for today's audiences and this is how they think that is accomplished. So it's all about computer hacking, viruses, and terrorists. If Star Wars was remade today I'm sure it would have the same themes. I agree there is nothing wrong with the classic interpretation of Doom.
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