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Jul 29, 2020 - 1:22 PM
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dragon53
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 29
BACK TO THE FUTURE---Jon Cryer, who auditioned for the Marty McFly role in the classic time travel movie, gave details about the original script, "But the #BackToTheFuture script that I read before my audition was VERY DIFFERENT than what ended up on screen. It opened with Marty McFly playing the Close Encounters theme on his electric guitar while he pirated a VHS cassette of the movie. And the time machine wasn’t a Delorean that had to travel at 88 miles per hour and have 1.21 gigawatts of power but just... well... a time machine that needed nuclear fission and a secret ingredient that turned out to be Coca-Cola (swear to God)."
He added, "The final sequence didn’t involve a clock tower or a lightning bolt, but instead finds Marty sneaking onto a atom bomb test site with his time machine to be near the nuclear fission that he needs for it to work. In an eerie scene he finds...The test site is complete with exquisitely detailed suburban houses and mannequins to simulate the effects of an atomic explosion on an American town...He gets the time machine in place, the atom bomb is about to go off, he’s reaching for the Coca-Cola, the countdown is at 10, 9, 8... when he slips and drops the bottle!!
It shatters on the ground
He’s all out of Coke!
...He panics (understandably) but then remembers: he’s in the 1950’s and any self respecting American suburban home has a bottle of Coke in...
The refrigerator! He checks and sure enough, there’s one in there. He pours it in the time machine but then realizes...
Oh crap! He has to figure out how to survive an atomic explosion!
Again, he panics.
But then it dawns on him, there’s a lead-lined box nearby, otherwise known as...
A refrigerator.
He climbs in, closes the door behind him, the bomb goes off, the time machine activates, and he’s simultaneously shot #BackToTheFutur
Does this sequence sound familiar to anyone?"
LUNATIC AT LARGE---Terry Gilliam said the movie he was developing that was originally started by Stanley Kubrick has been shelved due to the coronavirus pandemic, “I was doing a film that was originally an idea by Stanley Kubrick,” Gilliam said. “There was a script and I had a cast, but the lockdown has ruined everything.” The plot involved a a group of people, one of whom is an escapee from a mental hospital.
RATCHED---photo from the Netflix prequel to ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST starring Sarah Paulson.
ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY---Brie Larson told ROGUE ONE writer Gary Whitta she auditioned for a role in the movie, but did not get it, “Oh yeah! You wrote ROGUE ONE right? I auditioned for that, I didn’t get it.”
INVASION---Riz Ahmed and Octavia Spencer will star in this Amazon Studios sci fi movie about a Marine and his two sons who flee an inhuman terror.
KLARA AND THE SUN---sci fi movie underway based on the upcoming novel about an Artificial Friend who evaluates customers in a store and hopes one of them will buy her.
LA FORTUNA---Stanley Tucci will star in this AMC six-part miniseries based on the Spanish graphic novel THE TREASURE OF THE BLACK SWAN in which a team of treasure hunters seek to recovery sunken treasure stolen by an adventurer.
MASTER OF CEREMONIES---Sony Pictures Television bought the rights to the David Henry Sterry memoir about his job as the MC of the Chippendales male strip club in Manhattan during the decadent 1980s.
TRIVIA---in the original TRUE GRIT, Elvis Presley was set to play Texas Ranger La Boeuf, but when his manager, "Colonel" Tom Parker, demanded that Elvis get top billing over John Wayne, the deal went awry. The producers then chose another hit singer, Glen Campbell, to play La Boeuf.
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Thank goodness that's not the "Back to the Future" movie we got.
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