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Nov 21, 2017 - 9:53 AM
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dragon53
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21
DEATH ON THE NILE---20th Century Fox sequel to MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS is underway with Kenneth Branagh expected to return as star/director. The 1978 movie based on the Agatha Christie novel starred Peter Ustinov, Bette Davis, David Niven, Angela Lansbury, George Kennedy and Mia Farrow.
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI---director Rian Johnson confirmed that Billy Dee Williams is not in the sequel as Lando Calrissian, “No, and I don’t want fans to get their hopes up. He’s not in the film and it was never really something that came up. I mean, I loved that character. It would have been fun to see him, but it’s just not something that ever really had a place in the story.”
STAR TREK: DISCOVERY---producer Aaron Harberts said Season 2 will solve some of the canon conflicts between DISCOVERY and the Prime Universe of the original STAR TREK series, "We have ten years until the original series comes into play. It is a challenge creatively because we have lots of choices in terms of how do we reconcile this [Spore] Drive? This surrogate daughter of Sarek? How do we reconcile these things the closer we get to the original series? That’s going to be a big discussion that we have in season two.
What’s so fun about the character of Michael, just because she hasn’t been spoken about, doesn’t mean she didn’t exist. A lot of the writers on our show are deeply involved in Star Trek, their knowledge is some of the finest around, they really do help us find areas where we can steer around things. But the Spore drive? Who knows? It could be classified. There are many options.”
DEVILS UNTO DUST---movie underway based on the upcoming novel set in 1870s Texas where a viral plague has turned people into murderous "Shakes". A 17 year-old girl hires two Shake-hunters to escort her in a journey across the frontier to find her missing father.
AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON---John Landis talked about his rejected sequel script, “The movie was about the girl that the boys talk about at the beginning of the movie, Debbie Klein. She gets a job in London as a literary agent and while she’s there, starts privately investigating the circumstances surrounding the deaths of Jack and David. The conceit was that during the time in the first film where Jenny (Agutter) goes to work and David is pacing around the apartment, he actually wrote Debbie Klein a letter. It was all to do with this big secret that David had never told Jack that he had a thing with her.
She went back to the Slaughtered Lamb and everyone is still there! I think the only changes were a portrait of Charles and Diana where the five-pointed star used to be and darts arcade game instead of a board. It’s then when she speaks to Sgt McManus, the cop from the first movie who didn’t die, that she finds out that Jenny is still in London. She calls her and leaves an answer phone message, which we then reveal is being listened to by the skeletal corpses of Jack and David, watching TV in Alex’s apartment! The big surprise at the end was that Alex was the werewolf. It was pretty wild. The script had everybody in it from the first movie – including all the dead people!”
His son, Max Landis, is working on a remake of his father's classic horror movie.
ONE DAY SHE'LL DARKEN---Connie Nielsen will reunite with her WONDER WOMAN co-workers Chris Pine and Patty Jenkins in this TNT miniseries about a young girl whose secret past is connected to Hollywood gynecologist Dr. George Hodel, the lead suspect in the infamous Black Dahlia murder.
LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL---Alexander Skarsgard (TRUE BLOOD) will co-star with Florence Pugh in the six-part miniseries based on the John le Carre novel.
GAMBIT---Lizzy Caplan (MASTERS OF SEX) is in negotiations to play Bella Donna Boudreaux in the Channing Tatum X-Men spinoff movie. Caplan will replace Lea Seydoux who had schedule problems.
STRYX---tv series underway based on the French graphic novel LE CHANT des STRYGES in which a disgraced US spy and a female mercenary team up to combat a global conspiracy involving super creatures who are long time inhabitants of Earth.
HARLEY QUINN---animated, adult-oriented comedy tv series underway with Margot Robbie being the top candidate to return as the voice the title character.
GHOSTBUSTERS---director Paul Feig gave his explanation on why the all-female reboot movie wasn't a big success, “I think it kind of hampered us a little bit because the movie became so much of a cause. I think for some of our audience, they were like, ‘What the f***? We don’t wanna go to a cause. We just wanna watch a f***in’ movie.’ It was a great regret in my life that the movie didn’t do better, ’cause I really loved it. It’s not a perfect movie. None of my movies are perfect. I liked what we were doing with it. It was only supposed to be there to entertain people.”
SEX SCANDALS---Melissa Gilbert accused Oliver Stone of sexually harassing her when she auditioned for a role in THE DOORS, “Oh, f*ck it, it was Oliver Stone, and it was THE DOORS.” Gilbert said Stone wanted her to audition in a scene written just for her in which she said, "Do me, baby" while on her hands and knees. She added, “It was humiliating, it was horrifying, and he got me", and she left the room in tears. Meg Ryan got the role Gilbert auditioned for.
Brigitte Nielsen, ex-wife of Sylvester Stallone, said a then-16 year-old girl's accusations that Stallone forced her to perform oral sex on him and his bodyguard are not true because she was with him when the alleged incident occurred, "During the summer of 1986 we were newlyweds. I was inseparable with Sylvester when OVER THE TOP was being shot in Las Vegas. The story claims that at approximately 8:30 in the evening during the shoot of the movie the person claims she was in our suite at the Hilton Hotel."
CBS suspended Charlie Rose after eight women accused him of sexual assault while they were professionally associated with Rose from the 1990s to 2011. Rose allegedly groped their breasts, buttocks and genitals, walked nude in their presence and made lewd phone calls to them. Rose apologized for his behavior.
SHAFT---Alexandra Shipp (X-MEN: APOCALYPSE) is in talks to co-star in the sequel movie which stars Samuel L. Jackson, Richard Roundtree and Jesse T. Usher.
GANGS OF LONDON---Cinemax/Sky Atlantic/Gareth Edwards (ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY) tv series underway described as, “set in contemporary London as it is becoming torn apart by power struggles involving a number of international gangs. The series begins as the head of one criminal gang is assassinated and the power vacuum threatens the fragile peace between the other underworld organisations.”
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One supposed rumor is that Discovery is an alternate timeline that will merge with the Prime timeline. They basically wanted to have their J.J.-cake and TOS-cake merged into one, to force-cram the ideas together, if true, to I suspect draw in new viewers.
Another way to solve the problem -- if this is true -- is to NOT have done this shit to begin with.
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Paul Feig seems unaware that the writing, ad-libbing, and aesthetic of Ghostbusters was all awful.
I never liked John Landis's sequel idea but it's still better than An American Werewolf in Paris.
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Nov 21, 2017 - 11:39 AM
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Last Child
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AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON---John Landis talked about his rejected sequel script, “The movie was about the girl that the boys talk about at the beginning of the movie, Debbie Klein. She gets a job in London as a literary agent and while she’s there, starts privately investigating the circumstances surrounding the deaths of Jack and David. The conceit was that during the time in the first film where Jenny (Agutter) goes to work and David is pacing around the apartment, he actually wrote Debbie Klein a letter. It was all to do with this big secret that David had never told Jack that he had a thing with her.
She went back to the Slaughtered Lamb and everyone is still there! I think the only changes were a portrait of Charles and Diana where the five-pointed star used to be and darts arcade game instead of a board. It’s then when she speaks to Sgt McManus, the cop from the first movie who didn’t die, that she finds out that Jenny is still in London. She calls her and leaves an answer phone message, which we then reveal is being listened to by the skeletal corpses of Jack and David, watching TV in Alex’s apartment! The big surprise at the end was that Alex was the werewolf. It was pretty wild. The script had everybody in it from the first movie – including all the dead people!”
Confusing bit in there - Alex is the nurse played by Jenny Agutter. It's not a big surprise to think she might have gotten "infected" by David somehow (bodily fluids?), although he was never a werewolf in her presence. Unless you count the end when he's killed.
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There wasn't a vision, there wasn't a real drive to create something and tell a story -- it was a "cause", as he said. Ultimately it failed because the film was built not on a foundation, but social agenda.
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Confusing bit in there - Alex is the nurse played by Jenny Agutter. It's not a big surprise to think she might have gotten "infected" by David somehow (bodily fluids?), although he was never a werewolf in her presence. Unless you count the end when he's killed.
I'll try and find my old Fangoria copy where Landis explains it more fully. Like he mdntionsthe clumsy detective is insane in an asylum because he saw his boss's head bitten off. I'm sure it was a bit more detailed.
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Nov 29, 2017 - 2:08 AM
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AWIL original was fine, it wasn't over cooked when viewing the Werewolf, I like to keep it that way, this sequel will fail, lots of CGI, an over dramatized Werewolf, & that's with-out actors, its doomed.
Just to clarify: not a sequel, a remake.
OMG, just shut down movie directing altogether. I didn't bother reading Landis quotes or his son directing, it sounds awful, definitely swerving this tripe.
American Werewolf in London will be bad, maybe worst than Wicker-Man reboot, horrible movies, remakes.
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