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Jun 14, 2021 - 10:33 AM
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dragon53
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MONDAY, JUNE 14
NINE PERFECT STRANGERS---trailer released for the Hulu miniseries starring Nicole Kidman and based on the novel.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-SExOBZ1uI
THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT---Temuera Morrison commented on the upcoming Disney+ tv series, “We’re going to see his past and where he’s been since THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. Somebody pointed out he is been kind of stuck in this one place, and now’s the time to actually go back in time and check out his journey and find out more about him.
But yeah, that was the advantage for me, was that we hadn’t seen him do much. And along with Robert Rodriguez as director, we were able to sort of introduce him in a dynamic way, bring him back in a dynamic way alongside the Mandalorian. It was just an honor to be asked back.”
GREENLAND 2---Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin are returning for the sequel which will focus on the Garrity family trying to leave their Greenland bunker to search for a new home in frozen Europe.
THE TOXIC AVENGER---Kevin Bacon will play the villain in the Peter Dinklage remake of the 1984 horror movie.
JURASSIC WORLD: DOMINION---Colin Trevorrow said DOMINION will be connected to the JURASSIC WORLD: CAMP CRETACEOUS animated tv series, "It will, yeah. I’ve been lucky enough to spend a lot of time with the writers of the show and I’ve shared everything from DOMINION with them, and I’ve been pretty intimately involved in the seasons and what we’ve been building. So we wanted to make sure that when we look back on it all, that everything is going to weave together."
NIGHTWING---director Chis McKay commented on the status of the Dick Grayson superhero movie, "I hope it’s still a reality. I hope that we still get to make that movie. As far as I’m concerned, it’s not lost yet. It is obviously something that… they’ve had other priorities, they’ve had other challenges. They’d had things that they needed to do, and I think that they found their way.
I think their recent successes, and the stuff that they are planning on doing now, I think it opens the door for us to still be able to do a NIGHTWING movie. Whether you call it ‘in an alternate universe’ or you pick in their multiverse version which universe it’s part of, there are different ways into it.
But NIGHTWING is a big, action-packed, emotional movie. It may not, budgetarily, be similar to what we do with THE TOMORROW WAR. But from a scope and scale standpoint, as far as the kind of action and the kind of heart, that’s what NIGHTWING is going to be all about.”
FOE---Saoirse Ronan and LaKeith Stanfield will star in this movie based on the sci fi novel about a couple in which the husband is chosen to travel to a space station for two years and the wife will live with his biomechanical duplicate.
TRIVIA---more James Bond movie trivia.
In OCTOPUSSY, Miss Moneypenny's assistant, Penelope Smallbone, was played by Michaela Clavell, the daughter of writer/director James Clavell. His credits include 633 SQUADRON, THE GREAT ESCAPE, SHOGUN, THE FLY (original) and TO SIR, WITH LOVE.
In OCTOPUSSY, Miss Moneypenny's assistant, Penelope Smallbone, was played by Michaela Clavell, the daughter of writer/director James Clavell.
James Clavell's credits include 633 SQUADRON (the Norwegian aerial attack was the inspiration for George Lucas' "trench run" attack on the Death Star in STAR WARS),
THE GREAT ESCAPE, SHOGUN, THE FLY (original) and TO SIR, WITH LOVE.
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Boba Fett was never intended to be this great mysterious guy with his own series. His throw-away character got the throw-away death it deserved.
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Boba Fett was never intended to be this great mysterious guy with his own series. His throw-away character got the throw-away death it deserved.
Not saying he needs his own series and back story but some minor characters organically grow in popularity. He seemed like a cool villain with a menacing demeanor and fans latched onto him. I think he's a much better badie than that Halloween reject Darth Maul. Like I said, Lucas didn't read the fans and carelessly disposed of him. He could've been a good opponent for Han.
There are plenty of throw-away characters that become far more important. The cigarette smoking man from X-Files being just one example.
Boba Fett's popularity has always been larger than he may deserve, starting with being the only reason anyone has anything nice to say about The Star Wars Holiday Special and his being available as a mail-order figure before The Empire Strikes Back was released. Although I thought what happened to him was lame, I get that Lucas wanted to give Han something to do during the Sarlacc pit battle despite Han not being able to see. Plus, given that Boba Fett was responsible for Han's capture, I can see the poetic justice in Han being responsible (albeit indirectly) for Boba's demise. I do wish they had been a bit more creative. I appreciate what they were trying to do even though it was very poorly executed.
I don't think Lucas appreciated Boba Fett's popularity until after Return of the Jedi. Merchandise sales probably had a lot to do with that. But he did finally get the character's popularity by the time the Special Editions were released, as he inserted Boba into Star Wars and gave him extra scenes in Return of the Jedi.
I think Lucasfilm tried to make it up to the fans by having Boba Fett escape the Sarlacc and have continued adventures. I do hope that the Boba Fett series explains how he escaped from the Sarlacc.
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Jun 17, 2021 - 1:25 AM
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Thor
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THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT---Temuera Morrison commented on the upcoming Disney+ tv series, “We’re going to see his past and where he’s been since THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.
He means RETURN OF THE JEDI, right? The big question is how he survives the Sarlacc pit, although there's one episode of THE MANDALORIAN that at least hints at how it's possible to escape.
I love the fact that such a marginal character has become a fan favourite. There are definitely aspects to his portrayal in the OT that lay the ground for his -- more screen time, more resourceful than the other bounty hunters, more mysterious, more human. So I'm quite excited about the show. And for my own continuity OCD, great that Morrison has entered the role again. Loved his brief appearance in MANDO. Ties everything together from the OT to the prequels to this.
GREENLAND 2---Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin are returning for the sequel which will focus on the Garrity family trying to leave their Greenland bunker to search for a new home in frozen Europe.
Cool. I liked the film, and would love to explore more of this universe. Bring it on!
JURASSIC WORLD: DOMINION---Colin Trevorrow said DOMINION will be connected to the JURASSIC WORLD: CAMP CRETACEOUS animated tv series, "It will, yeah. I’ve been lucky enough to spend a lot of time with the writers of the show and I’ve shared everything from DOMINION with them, and I’ve been pretty intimately involved in the seasons and what we’ve been building. So we wanted to make sure that when we look back on it all, that everything is going to weave together."
Although I dislike Trevorrow with a passion (I think he's a hack), I have to give him props for tying it all together. My continuity OCD kicks in again. CAMP CRETACEOUS is a little too kiddie for me, but I've enjoyed the series. Perhaps even moreso than the two WORLD movies.
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That would imply he's not only been the only one swallowed with a blaster, but the only one who had the piece-of-cake idea to use it once inside.
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Boba Freaking Fett???
What's next, those little tiny Death Star floor robots in STAR WARS get their own trilogy???
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Well, we had "Wall-E", so it's feasible...
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Well, we had "Wall-E", so it's feasible...
Oh, please, JB, don't ENCOURAGE them... 
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James Clavell also wrote & directed one of my favourite films, The Last Valley (1971) which has a luminous John Barry score. The film is now owned by Disney & apparently the film elements are in bad shape, so it probably won't be seen looking good anymore.
I'll make sure you're aware, Rameau, that Kino Lorber recently issued THE LAST VALLEY on Blu-ray, and it looks quite good from the little I've seen of it. From what I've heard, the film's 65mm elements were troublesome only in spots, not throughout; but for such sections Joe Dante's 35mm print served as a replacement source.
VALLEY is also an endeared, secondary favorite of mine (containing my personal favorite Barry score as well as one of my two favorite performances by Michael Caine). I didn't need the Blu-ray because unlike Dante, I own only a beautiful 16mm print in Technicolor; but I bought the disc for its audio commentary... which turns out a disappointment, with three Barry fans spouting a lot of trivia.
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