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Nov 18, 2014 - 10:08 AM
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fisch
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18
THE FANTASTIC FOUR---the reboot movie's unconfirmed plot was leaked online. Spoiler alert (see below).
THE RUNNING MAN---Arnold Schwarzenegger hinted he's returning for a sequel to his 1987 movie that was based on the Stephen King novel, "There's rumblings of a new RUNNING MAN movie, so it's a great honor to be asked back." He said his other movie projects are sequels to TERMINATOR, CONAN THE BARBARIAN sequel and TWINS, "They're doing a TWINS sequel, to be called TRIPLETS. I've read the first draft. It's an honor to be asked back after all these years, back to the franchise. This is really wild. Harrison Ford was recently asked to get back to STAR WARS, but it's very rare to come back [after so many years]."
WESTWORLD---HBO ordered the series remake of the 1973 Michael Crichton movie that starred Yul Brynner, James Brolin and Richard Benjamin. The miniseries stars Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, Evan Rachel Wood, James Marsden and Jeffrey Wright. Jonathan Nolan (INTERSTELLAR, THE DARK KNIGHT) is the writer/director/co-producer. The premiere is in 2015.
FROM HELL---Fox miniseries underway based on the Jack the Ripper graphic novel which was made into a 2001 movie starring Johnny Depp. The miniseries producer is Don Murphy (TRANSFORMERS). The script is by David Arata (CHILDREN OF GOD).
THE GREATEST SHOWMAN ON EARTH---Hugh Jackman stars in this 20th Century Fox movie musical about PT Barnum and his circus.
DOCTOR WHO---Steven Moffat confirmed Peter Capaldi is returning for Seasons 9 and 10, but Jenna Coleman has not been signed yet. Coleman commented on rumors that she's leaving the series, "There's lots of rumors. We've sat down with Steven Moffat and we've all decided we don't want anyone to know which way it's going. If you know I'm in the next series - or if you know I'm off - you'll know how the story ends."
Capaldi said he wants a redesigned Tardis for the new season, "I have to say, the BBC are very responsible with license payer’s money. So they feel if they’ve spent a certain amount of money on a certain amount of props, then they won’t get rid of those props until they’ve been used. This applies equally to the TARDIS. It’s essentially Matt’s.
Roundels. I like the old Sixties roundels. That was the coolest look and I think it's also appropriate for the way this Doctor dresses. It's got a sort of Edwardian look about it – not the actual console – it's the bits and pieces lying around. Cricket bats, maps and odds and ends and things. There's a Jules Verne quality to it – I would like to make it more Bauhaus."
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THE FANTASTIC FOUR---"Reed is a genius convenience store clerk with Ben. Reed's parents don't care about him, and Ben's dad is abusive. They're good friends and have each other's backs. Reed writes a paper for community college on teleportation that attracts the attention of Dr. Franklin Storm, CEO of the Baxter Building research center.
Storm has a son, Johnny, and an adoptive daughter, Sue, whose father, Storm's old partner, died in an experiment gone wrong. Johnny and Sue are party kids, and Sue is particularly disdainful of science. Reed and Sue don't get along at first.
Victor Doomashev is an anti-social Eastern European computer programmer and hacktivist who calls himself "Doom". He hates the 1%, particularly Storm, whom he claims corrupts science for profit.
Storm uses Reed's paper to complete some equations on a machine to access another dimension, the N-Zone. Reed invites Ben to watch the machine being turned on. Sue and Johnny are also there. Doom manages to hack into the Baxter Building's servers and use a computer virus to damage the machine, which explodes. Reed, Sue, Johnny and Ben are exposed to otherwordly energy and become mutants with powers that they can't control.
Storm takes them to the Baxter Building and creates containment suits for their powers. They begin to train. Reed and Storm also begin developing a way to revert the accident. Sue blames Reed for everything, but they eventually become friends and then a couple. Ben can switch off his powers when he's not in danger. Johnny changes colors based on heat intensity, and Sue has some borderline telekinetic thing. Reed is pretty much Reed.
Doom finds out that the four have acquired powers and becomes angry it's not him, so he comes up with a plan to break into the Baxter Building to access the N-Zone through the rebuild machine. As a distraction, he reprograms a bunch of stolen military drones, the "Doombots", to attack the building. The four come together as a team for the first time and save people.
Doom activates the machine and gets technopathy powers or something, basically energy blasts and making machines obey to him, and a fight ensues. The machine goes critical, and, in order to prevent it from exploding and destroying the city, the four push into it and Storm shuts it off.
There's a countdown before it reaches critical mass. Inside the N-Zone, the four battle Doom again, and manage to leave him trapped there after he disfigures himself soaking up too much power. The Four manage to escape, but Ben gets the blunt of it to protect Reed and can't switch back.
The machine is destroyed, Doom is gone, the four have learned to work as a team, and Reed vows to find a cure for Ben. And it ends there."
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I still can't believe the "Twins" sequel hasn't been cancelled.
I saw it once a long time ago. That was more than enough. The film is ripe for a Nostalgia Critic review.
Man has Arnold's career fallen. I've not seen "Eraser", but it appears the last good action thing he was in was back in 1994, over twenty years ago. Sequels, more sequels, planned sequels, and stuff nobody saw inbetween (except "Collateral").
That reminded me of the soon-to-be released sequel, "Jingle All the Way 2". Yes, a sequel to a terrible film, and it appears to have nothing to do with the original.
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Nov 18, 2014 - 7:30 PM
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DeputyRiley
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THE RUNNING MAN---Arnold Schwarzenegger hinted he's returning for a sequel to his 1987 movie that was based on the Stephen King novel, "There's rumblings of a new RUNNING MAN movie, so it's a great honor to be asked back."
I love The Running Man. Have a soft spot for it. Great year for Arnold sci-fi action between that and Predator. Still funny that The Running Man was directed by Starsky from Starsky and Hutch. What a strange combo of talent. I feel somewhat cynical though in thinking that any kind of return to the '87 Running Man will fall flat; that early film was very '80s-action-movie and entertaining but I can't imagine that spirit of fun being captured again.
However, given the monolithic glut of reality TV that has invaded our society since The Running Man came out in '87, I would imagine there would be quite a bit of material to work with in that regard, an updated version of the games with parody of modern reality TV and bloodthirsty audiences...that's why the original was special and ahead of its time. Eerily prescient and we as a society have become dangerously close to a fight-to-the-death Running Man game. Piggyback the new sequel off of the Hunger Games success and there might be something to work with...as long as Arnold indeed does return and it's not handed to an inferior director...although who knew Paul Michael Glaser had a fun and irreverent 80's sci-fi film for Arnold in him?
Would love to see a new Running Man sequel featuring a maniacally sadistic Alex Trebek or Pat Sajak replacing the late Richard Dawson. "What is, it's time to start running Alex?"
Love that Arnold still says "[insert phrase] is wild." That guy has been saying "this is wild," "that is wild" for decades. It's just funny, it seems to be one of his favorite expressions, something he latched onto in American culture and he's used it in describing a new movie of his or something he's excited about for decades. Amuses me!
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