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Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Reel projections
Posted by Anthony Salveggi on Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:49 AM
It’s been a few weeks since I was sitting bewildered in the Baywalk Muvico as I viewed the trailer for Watchmen. Since then, I’ve been reading a co-worker’s copy of Alan Moore’s graphic novel, and my interest in the movie has gone up considerably. But recent legal squabbles have given the film's ubiquitous tagline a rather somber twist. Who watches the Watchmen? Possibly none of us.
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Robert Downey Jr. prepares for his turn as Sherlock Holmes.
Lord of the Hellboy: Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro to cowrite The Hobbit.
Russell Crowe may portray legendary comedian Bill Hicks.
Here’s a crossover with potential: Iron Man tells the Dark Knight to go fuck himself.
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I don't know about all the talk abotu martial arts, but Downey as Holmes should be a winner in my book. Just as long as they get a really quality director … … Guy Ritchie? Really? Well, there goes that project right down the shitter. Shame, too. I was going to suggest the great grandson of Nigel Bruce. He must be around somewhere, right?
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if crowe plays Bill Hicks, the world will come to an end. i don't really see the need to do a movie on Hicks, someone just needs to put out a boxed set of work, which should be required watching in high school, and leave it at that. why tarnish his life with a crappy movie about it.
Just wait, Gabe. How long until the Carlin biopic drops? You get drugs, the 60s, the supreme court, heart attacks, and a grand comeback in later life. I can't believe someone hasn't optioned this already. I predict a Shia LaBeouf casting any second now. Then the vomiting can begin.
George Carlin was in Kevin Smith's "Dogma" And "Jersey Girl." And "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back." Hence, Kevin Smith directs the Carlin biopic. It's logic.
Please, God, please! If someone's got to do it, and I'm guessing that someone does, I'd rather it be Smith than almost anyone else I can think of. Just so long as he doesn't add "Snoochie Bootchies" to the Seven Words You Can't Say On Television.
C'mon, Joe, no Guy Ritchie? The man who gave us that laughriot, "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels"? I know, I know. He's made some questionable decisions (marrying Madonna among them(?!) but you can't say he doesn't have a distinctive voice and vision in his directorial efforts. Admittedly, "Swept Away" was one of the worst movies of all time, but both "Lock Stock" and "Snatch" are hilarious and quirky dark comedies. I, for one, will be happy to see a Ritchie-directed "Sherlock Holmes."
Franki: I like Ritchie, too. But a think a better choice would have been Matthew Vaughn, who produced Ritchie's movies and directed the excellent "Layer Cake" with Daniel Craig.
yeah, smith would do a carlin pic justice. but only if he gets jim carey to play carlin. or maybe by the time it's made, a washed up will farell.
Sal, I agree that Vaughn would also be an exciting choice for a Holmes movie. Either way, I think we're in for a kick-ass, action-packed, modernized version of everyone's favorite gumshoe--and not the staid, boring, uptight film that other directors might try to make it. My opinion: Ritchie as director is elementary, dear Sal.
Carrey? Really or is that sarcasm? I mean, I totally think you're being sarcastic, Gabe, but I feel I have to check. Guy Ritchie had one good movie in him (Lock Stock), he then remade that movie (Snatch — ha ha, get it? Snatch? Not if you like Guy Ritchie movies you don't). Since that double dose, it's been nothing but garbage. But I'm sure he can be trusted to successfully translate detective novels from the early 1900's to the 21st-century screen. Elementary my dear Guy. Elementary.
"Ritchie as director is elementary, dear Sal." You were just busting at the seams to use that one, weren't you Franki?
Smith can write, he can't direct. The man can't handle actors to save his life (or his films). Love the fat bastard and his snappy pop-dialogue to no end, but please don't let him behind the camera any more.
Oh, there's the old saw on Smith. He can't direct. Sure, he gets better with each flick, but what does that matter? He must still be judged based upon tripod shots from Clerks. Though it was universally reviled due to (not unreasonable) J.Lo-Affleck burnout, Jersey Girl easily undercuts everything you just said. And please, let's argue about Jersey Girl. It's one of my favorite pastimes.
Actually, his Affleck movies have been some of his smoothest. And Clerks is not up for debate -- it was brilliant. I'm talking Dogma, Mallrats, Clerks II, and Jay and Silent Bob. Especially Dogma. How could you have so many talented people in front of the camera sounding like a bunch of stoned high school kids at the talent show? Sometimes the old saws cut clean, Bardi.
Dogma is easily the most overrated of Smith's films (which just goes to show that angry ex-catholics carry with them the ability to blindly follow anything, even after they leave the faith), and I would agree that it is clumsy as hell. However, Jay and Bob marked a bit of a departure for Smith, at least in the sense that the movie *looks* great. (Yes, it's kind of dopey otherwise. Loved Good Will Hunting 2, though.) I'm curious to see his new one, which is called something like "Whatever Their Names Are Make A Porno." If he finds a way to balance the refined storytelling and direction of Jersey Girl with his potty-mouth past, I think we can greenlight the Carlin flick. Otherwise, who we got? Oh, I'd take Larry Charles as well. Actually, now that I think about it, he's almost as good a pick as Smith.
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