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Oct 27, 2021 - 9:19 AM
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dragon53
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27
DUNE: PART TWO---Legendary Pictures posted that PART TWO is underway, “Thank you to those who have experienced @dunemovie so far, and those who are going in the days and weeks ahead. We’re excited to continue the journey.” PART TWO will be released only in theaters in October, 2023.
STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER---STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER was chosen as the best sci fi movie of 2020 at the 46th annual Saturn Awards. The other nominees were TENET, AD ASTRA, GEMINI MAN, LUCY IN THE SKY and TERMINATOR: DARK FATE.
PLANET OF THE DEAD---Zack Snyder commented on the sequel to ARMY OF THE DEAD and the fate of Dieter, “But the real adventure would be to see what happened to him [Dieter] when that safe door closed. Did he get killed by Zeus or not? What happened? We don’t see him die on camera, and there’s still some time left. I won’t tell you what happens in ARMY OF THE DEAD 2 – aka PLANET OF THE DEAD – but let’s just say that there’s a chance Dieter survives. And there’s a chance that brush with death would have caused him to want to find a jailed Gwendoline."
WOLFMAN---Derek Cianfrance is in talks to reunite with his THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES star, Ryan Gosling, as the writer/director of the Universal Pictures remake of WOLFMAN.
ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA---Bill Murray said he has a role in a Marvel Studios movie which indicated the movie is director Peyton Reed's ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA, “I recently made a Marvel movie. I probably can’t tell you about it, but it doesn’t matter. In any case, some people were quite surprised why I decided on such a project of all things. But for me it was very clear: I got to know the director – and I really liked him a lot. He was funny, humble, everything you want from a director.
And with the cheerleading story BRING IT ON-GIRLS UNITED he made a film years ago that I think is damn good. So I accepted, even though I’m not otherwise interested in these huge comic book adaptations as an actor.”
He added, “Let’s put it this way: the director is a good guy, and now I’ve at least tried what it’s like to make a Marvel movie. But I don’t think I need this experience a second time.”
THE EXPENDABLES 4---Iko Uwais (THE RAID) is the sequel's villain, a “former military officer turned arms dealer with his own private army."
BETH AND DON---Julia Louis-Dreyfus will star in this comedy movie about a New York novelist whose marriage crumbles after she hears her husband's candid comments about her work.
DONNIE DARKO---writer/director Richard Kelly commented on a possible sequel to the Jake Gyllenhaal movie, "There’s so much information in DONNIE DARKO, I’ve been processing it for two decades, but I think really in the past five years or so, since Trump was elected, I’ve been really digging into it and working to see what the bigger world of the film could look like."
TRIVIA---countdown to Halloween.
Joe Dante's MATINEE was a tribute to the 1950s B sci fi monster movies. In MATINEE, Cathy Moriarity played B sci fi movie star Ruth Corday, who was Dante's tribute to Mara Corday, who starred in three 1950s B sci fi movies: TARANTULA!, THE GIANT CLAW and THE BLACK SCORPION.
After her three sci fi movies, Corday was featured in the October, 1958 issue of PLAYBOY.
In Joe Dante's MATINEE, Cathy Moriarity played sci fi B movie star Ruth Corday, who was Dante's tribute to Mara Corday.
Mara Corday starred in three 1950s sci fi B movies: TARANTULA!, THE GIANT CLAW and THE BLACK SCORPION
Corday in TARANTULA!
While filming TARANTULA!, Corday became friends with the uncredited actor who played the US Air Force squadron leader who finally killed the giant Tarantula. The actor was then-unknown Clint Eastwood. Years later when Eastwood was an international star, he used Corday in his movies THE GAUNTLET, SUDDEN IMPACT, PINK CADILLAC and THE ROOKIE.
Corday in THE GIANT CLAW.
Corday in THE BLACK SCORPION.
After her three sci fi movies, Corday was featured in the October, 1958 issue of PLAYBOY.
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I'm rarely one to harp on films, but I agree, Rise of Skywalker was just crap. Lazy writing permeated the movie.
Having said that, I don't remember seeing a GOOD sci-fil film in 2020...
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It looks like the eligibility period for those awards was July 15, 2019 – November 15, 2020 due to the pandemic.
That said, to give it to STAR WARS over TENET or AD ASTRA is mind boggling.
To give it to any one of these three would have been mind-boggling. They should have just said, "Sci-fi, in a time when we needed you the most, you failed us. None of you get the award."
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Rise Of Skywalker... ugh. I don't know if First Man qualified, but I'd easily say that should have won.
Ad Astra was a good film. Depressing, yet possessed of a great deal of regrettable potential to be true... it was a practical look forward at the possibility of commercialization of space.
It sounds like First Man was a biopic (and also released outside the time frame for consideration).
Ad Astra is just the kind of film I should have been really into: gorgeous to look at, slow-moving and introspective, thematically ambitious. But that film was a labor to watch. Tonally inconsistent action sequences, long stretches with nothing of much importance going on, confusing message. This one sure tried but in my opinion did not hit the mark.
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Rise Of Skywalker... ugh. I don't know if First Man qualified, but I'd easily say that should have won.
Ad Astra was a good film. Depressing, yet possessed of a great deal of regrettable potential to be true... it was a practical look forward at the possibility of commercialization of space.
It sounds like First Man was a biopic (and also released outside the time frame for consideration).
Yeah, I suppose it was a sci-fi non-fiction chronicle.
It's doubtful there are any biopics that don't in some way fall under the category of fiction!
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