Here are some other movies related stories floating around the web that you might find interesting:
– Jennifer Aniston tunes up for “Girls” musical A movie about singing prisoners. I wonder if Paris Hilton has a role?
– “Eagle vs. Shark” nothing but a Napoleon Dynamite rip off?
– Whatever happened to Highlander : The Source? I was hoping it just crawled under a rock and died someplace.
– Danny Glover, Gael Garcia Bernal and Alice Braga Join ‘Blindness’
– Punisher 2 gets Director Is anyone still paying attention to this project since Thomas Jane walked off it?
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I saw Eagle vs Shark at a screening a month ago and I really liked it. I hated Napoleon Dynamite, but I liked this. Yeah, it is a similar movie, with quirky people and weird shit going on, but ND is so fucking overrated. Ugh, fuck that movie.
On Highlander: it seems to be a common mis-step in franchises that “we must go back and explore the origins” and erase any thought, mystery, and perhaps even a few things which nobody really gave any care about in the first place. I don’t mind a story in Highlander dealing with cannibals either. Seriously. But from what I hear on the pic, it sounds like any other Highlander sequel.
* nobody is satisfied. Check.
* continutity is a problem. Check.
* always trying to fix something that isn’t broken. Check.
* all cool gags is deleted from film and never heard from again. Check.
* the re-redits and re-dubs make any random actor in film look somewhat campy. If the actor played it that way, it’s worse than intended. Except Peter Wingfield (Methos) of course. Check.
* when finished no one sees it, and once again, it is “the studio’s” fault, the “investors” fault, “somebody” is at fault. It just won’t be the producers, the lousy script (usually in place of and/or watered down from a better one) the actors or the director who takes the heat. Because it is Highlander tradition- to release the R rated special edition director’s cut on DVD after the film tanks.
That’s pending, of course, but it’s a given.
@Punisher.
Good choice for director- but I heard she was in talks, and not actually signed yet. I think Cinemablend reported it a bit too eagerly. I do agree Lexi Alexander, if directing Punisher 2, deserves a better fate if LGF decides to put this straight to DVD shelves, which would be a shame.
I wonder about LGF sometimes. They will totally back “Saw” and co-distribute the “Hostel” films; but put the films in the “After Dark Screamfest” in theatres for a few days one week (see “Gravedancers” directed by Mike Mendez)…they might consider putting “Punisher” sequels DTV, but still entertain the theatrical release of an uneeded “Highlander” sequel (see above). In fact, I’m being too nice. They almost put the first “Saw:” DTV until fought tooth and nail on it. Now it is thier bread n butter. They **almost** put “Cabin Fever” DTV as well.
Go to itunes, find the Creative Screenwriting podcast with Eli Roth and Hostel. Roth reveals LGF subjected “Fever” to a focus group who didn’t get horror fans and how LGF execs listened to them until Roth directly asked the audience if, if they had friends who liked horror films, would they mention it to those friends. According to Roth, nearly every hand went up. The focus group was first only counting reaction from non-horror fans.