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« on: July 25, 2005, 05:16:06 am »
Has anyone here read "V For Vendetta"? It's a really, really amazing graphic novel penned by Alan Moore, who wrote "From Hell," "Watchmen," and "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen." The League movie sucked on giant donkey balls, and so when I heard that there was going to be a V movie, I wept. When I heard that those Matrix fuckers were somehow involved, I gouged my own eyes out. But then the trailer came out...and it....looks....GOOD?
Check it.
If you've read the book, you'll probably be amazed at how...accurate the movie seems. That is, that V isn't an unkillable ***** skatboarding chimp or some shit. Could this be another good comic book movie?
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« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2005, 05:25:35 am »
Yeah, well, I'm in the same boat, to an extent - A Scanner Darkly is my favorite PKD novel, and yet the trailer I've seen has actually left me optimistic.

I've read V a few times and, frankly, I don't think that the Wach(?). Bros. would intentionally do a bad job - they clearly love comics, seeing how blatantly they ripped off The Invisibles - but I would be surprised to see the series done justice, esp. since the protagonist(s) is / are terrorists and everything isn't wrapped up in neat black-and-white highly explosive smirkily sexy packages.

You'll be happy to know that a Watchmen movie has been proposed, greenlighted, and cancelled more times than Isaac Brock has said "it won't hurt, it's just like taking a big dump". I remember being like fuck[size=0] [/size]ing twelve years old and reading bits of a rumored leaked screenplay on fuck[size=0] [/size]ing Prodigy. Yeah, that Prodigy.
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« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2005, 05:26:38 am »
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« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2005, 05:49:22 am »
The whole Watchmen thing just went through another cycle like last month, right?
All I want is a fuck*ng Rorschact action figure. JESUS.
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« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2005, 06:19:28 am »
Watchmen is currently canned. Again. Shame, too, I heard they had a very good screenplay and a director who really understood and cared about the material. Oh well.
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« Reply #5 on: July 25, 2005, 06:51:45 am »
I've never read the comic, but that trailer left me utterly nonplussed.

I'm still waiting for a Sandman film - written by Neil Gaiman (otherwise there's no point).

Well, hopefully the success of Sin City will have Hollywood clamouring to make ridiculously faithful comic adaptations.  

Speaking of, I hope Rodriguez and Miller do a Dark Night Returns movie.  That would be awesome.  Think Mickey Rourke as Batman.  Scarlett Johansson as Robin.  John Malkovich as The Joker.  Sharon Stone as Catwoman.  Gary Oldman as Jim Gordon (he was great in Batman Begins).  And Branon Routh seems to be a good Superman.

Oh, how about Vin Diesel as the leader of the mutants?
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« Reply #6 on: July 25, 2005, 07:39:00 am »
The Watchmen screenplay was written by Hayter - voice for Solid Snake. He's the one, apparently, responsible for the X-Men screenplay too.

I too saw that it was the Wachowski's doing it and began to cry, but, with any luck it won't be the steaming pile of shit that the second two Matrixs (feel wrong not saying matrices, though in writing it looks more like mattresses) turned out to be.
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« Reply #7 on: July 25, 2005, 01:18:40 pm »
I'm aware of V but that's about it. I was a Marvel kid growing up. Which reminds me that I'm hearing lots of scary rumors about X-Men 3.
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« Reply #8 on: July 25, 2005, 02:52:49 pm »
The X-Men franchise is dead.  Singer is working on the new Superman which looks, well, super.  (you can watch them make it via documentaries on their web site).

I guess the only way they could have made a poorer choice for helming the new X-Men film would be to have Michael Bay direct it.   Shirts are for pussies.
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« Reply #9 on: July 25, 2005, 03:03:36 pm »
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The X-Men franchise is dead.


I've not heard this...  Just last week Hugh Jackman was doing some publicity for The Fountain and he teased X3.  (Mentioned here.)

I heard that Kelsey Grammer was signed on to play Beast.  Has the project fallen apart?
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« Reply #10 on: July 25, 2005, 04:09:36 pm »
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The X-Men franchise is dead.

I've not heard this...  Just last week Hugh Jackman was doing some publicity for The Fountain and he teased X3.  (Mentioned here.)

I heard that Kelsey Grammer was signed on to play Beast.  Has the project fallen apart?

Jough meant it's dead to him. They are making X3 but with a new director who has a different vision. One of the first announcements was that the new guy (I forget his name) is bringing in a female mutant whose power is seduction.
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« Reply #11 on: July 25, 2005, 04:44:09 pm »
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Jough meant it's dead to him. They are making X3 but with a new director who has a different vision. One of the first announcements was that the new guy (I forget his name) is bringing in a female mutant whose power is seduction.


IMDB doesn't list a director, but the writing team behind X-Men 3 has, previously, brought us films like Inspector Gadget, Elektra, and xXx: State of the Union, so hey! Those were all... movies!

Also, apparently they are making a Spy Hunter movie. With The Rock. I don't know what to think about this.
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« Reply #12 on: July 25, 2005, 04:58:03 pm »
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IMDB doesn't list a director, but the writing team behind X-Men 3 has, previously, brought us films like Inspector Gadget, Elektra, and xXx: State of the Union, so hey! Those were all... movies!


This is what I don't understand. How do these people keep getting WORK? I would assume that there are enough wannabe screenwriters that when you work on Elektra, and the movie turns out to be...ELEKTRA, for fucks sake, that you go back to waiting tables, because you suck. Why would people put these assclowns at the head of an amazing and profitable franchise?
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« Reply #13 on: July 25, 2005, 05:13:35 pm »
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IMDB doesn't list a director, but the writing team behind X-Men 3 has, previously, brought us films like Inspector Gadget, Elektra, and xXx: State of the Union, so hey! Those were all... movies!


This is what I don't understand. How do these people keep getting WORK? I would assume that there are enough wannabe screenwriters that when you work on Elektra, and the movie turns out to be...ELEKTRA, for fucks sake, that you go back to waiting tables, because you suck. Why would people put these assclowns at the head of an amazing and profitable franchise?

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« Reply #14 on: July 25, 2005, 05:15:17 pm »
Joss Whedon was talked to about making X-3. It would have been by far the best of the three were that the case, but they have a release date already so...
His run of Astonishing X-men was awesome! Looking forward to more. I can't remember who was now on to make 3, but it didn't sound promising. I still haven't seen 2 mind, and I wasn't exactly blown away by the first. It was good, just not anything special.
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