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the end of ideas
Fox, Ridley Scott Apparently Reviving 'A-Team' For Real This Time
A year after Fox inflated and mercilessly dashed a few hundred Americans' hopes of a big-screen A-Team adaptation, behold the promise of a new start — with surprisingly, almost bafflingly influential connections. More »
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By STVComment by bittergreen: Stunt Casting: Jim Carrey as Mad-DogJustin Timberlake as B.A. BaracusCilian Murphy as FaceVin Diesel as Hannibal One can only hope that we... 2 Responses | Other threads
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sienna miller
Ridley Scott finally sheds some extra Nottingham weight. [NY Post]
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'Nottingham' Star Russell Crowe Instructed to Cut Back On Black Forest Ham
With The Reader and Australia in the awards-season rearview mirror, Hollywood desperately needs a new soap opera to occupy its time. They might have it with Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott's oft-delayed Nottingham. -
sigourney weaver
Put Sigourney Weaver in 'Ghostbusters 3,' or 'Alien 5' Gets It!
Now that talk on a possible, long-gestating Ghostbusters sequel is heating up, MTV spoke to Sigourney Weaver about her potential involvement (when will someone call Peter MacNicol? We're dying over here!). Weaver admitted that she's supposed to call Bill Murray next week about the project, adding, “I would hope that my little [movie son] Oscar would be one of the Ghostbusters even if I’m not in it!” Careful, Sigourney — you're giving producers some Seth Rogen casting suggestions. Weaver also revealed that she's been talking to Ridley Scott about a potentially radical overhaul of the Alien franchise: -
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Ridley Scott Heads Back To The Future
· Ridley Scott's first sci fi film since Alien and Blade Runner will be The Forever War, a project delayed for decades over book rights. Please God let it not star Russell Crowe. [Variety] More » -
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Leonardo DiCaprio's Sinking Ship 'Body of Lies' Readies the Lifeboats
Tracking on Body of Lies isn't dazzling anyone today at Warner Bros., which has spent the last two months trying to push Ridley Scott's $100 million Leonardo DiCaprio/Russell Crowe war-on-terror thriller onto the top of this weekend's congested slate of new releases. Most forecasts place its opening gross around $17 million — likely enough to dispatch mildly aromatic new competition like Quarantine, City of Ember and The Express, but not nearly enough to guarantee a first-place finish ahead of Beverly Hills Chihuahua. Not. Acceptable. Is it too early to ask what the hell happened here? More » -
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Lost in Time, Like Tears in Rain: Yesterday, we brought you the news that the writing duo behind Eagle Eye had set their sights on Blade Runner 2 — and now, one half of that team is washing his hands of the project. Said screenwriter John Glenn to Slashfilm: "Travis [Wright] and I actually broke off as writing partners years ago - after the first draft of Eagle Eye. Due to previous commitments, I couldn’t make the screening/Q&A last week — so to be honest, I have no idea what Travis was talking about or why he brought up a project we were tooling with years ago, when we still wrote together...It never got too far off the ground because the movie is so perfect, so the more we thought about it, the more uneasy we became with the idea...My apologies to you and your readers for the confusion Travis created." [Slashfilm]
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Comment by el smrtmnky: i wonder if some nerd showed up at his house, Annie Wilkes-like, and threatened him with a large stick. or a... 1 Responses | Other threads
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'Eagle Eye' Team Hopes to Replicate Its Success With Wholly Unnecessary 'Blade Runner 2'
Sometimes the Ridley Scott sci-fi classic Blade Runner can seem like a film franchise all by itself, what with the numerous international cuts, "no, for real this time" director's cuts, and "no, for really real" final cuts the film has spawned. One thing Blade Runner has never had, though, is a sequel — and that's something the writing duo behind the Shia LeBeouf starrer Eagle Eye is working to change. Cowriters Travis Wright and John Glenn have already scripted studio updates to The Warriors and Clash of the Titans, and at a Creative Screenwriting event recently, Wright said Blade Runner is the next property on their hit list: More »
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Comment by DarkKnightShyamalan: Quit bagging on these guys. I caught Eagle Eye this weekend and it was EASILY better than 30% of... 5 Responses | Other threads
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Plump Russell Crowe, Weary Ridley Scott Implicated in 'Nottingham' Postmortem
As first noted here a few weeks back, ye olde stalled Robin Hood epic Nottingham is all but dead in the water now at Universal, where Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe and Sienna Miller were locked in to start shooting this month before a flurry of setbacks delayed it indefinitely. As presumed, labor woes and casting haggles were indeed among the pitfalls, but you have to know that an implosion of this magnitude can't simply stop there — as described after the jump, Crowe's weight, Scott's attention span, script haggles and other factors also conspired to keep Hollywood out of the forest this time around. More » -
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Trouble in 'Nottingham': Is Ridley Scott's Robin Hood on the Rocks?
A note slipped over the Defamer transom this afternoon hints that all is not well in Nottingham, Ridley Scott's reimagining of the Robin Hood legend which was set to begin shooting with Russell Crowe and a really, really, really excited Sienna Miller sometime next month. But we're hearing now that the film — which twists Crowe's Sheriff of Nottingham as the hero against Robin Hood's ruthless thief — is postponed indefinitely. SAG strike fears, as Miller alluded to in June? Unavailable historical background on Maid Marian's merkin? Inquiries to Universal (which last year paid seven figures for the script) and Scott's pals at Imagine Entertainment weren't immediately returned, leaving us in the lurch for a long weekend to come. Alas, we'll always have Costner.
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By STVComment by GuntherLinglewood: Russell Crowe's accent seems to already resemble something that would fit in a new Robin Hood movie... though he'll probably... more » | Other threads
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Revisionist 'Robin Hood' Adds Sienna Miller to His Stash For the Poor
Announced in April as approximately the 20th collaboration in development between Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott, Nottingham promises the duo's stylish, "revisionist" take on the Robin Hood legend — produced by Brian Grazer, natch, thus establishing the film as a sure-fire front-runner for the 2011 Oscars among people who keep track of these things. They're out there, and we hear them twittering a little louder this morning as Sienna Miller is officially so! thrilled! to be attached to portray Maid Marian: More »
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By STVComment by gwendemarco: I thought we'd run out of bogus, junior high school, pulled out of fissured asses, lost-a-bet-playing-quarters-at-Evans'-ho... to-make-it-now ideas last year,... more » | Other threads
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DiCaprio/Crowe/Scott Thriller Promises Hours of Shouty Man-on-Man Action
With Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe working in the service of a screenplay by William Monahan (The Departed), the CIA-vs.-terrorist thriller Body of Lies is roughly what you get when Warner Bros. throws a platinum-plated kitchen sink at Ridley Scott's Oscar curse. Except rough is only the half of it, according to a script review published Monday: More »
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By STVComment by Leviticus_71: I wish he was re-doing legend. Tim Curry haunts my wet dreams in a giant Devil suit. Back when Tom... more » | Other threads
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dark nights of the producing soul
Brian Grazer Puts 'American Gangster' On His Back, Carries It Into Theaters Himself
When roughly $22 million worth of Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington fans show up at the multiplex on long-gestating, twice-aborted Universal feature American Gangster's opening weekend, not even the succession of credits reading "Produced by Brian Grazer," "Based On An Idea By Brian Grazer To Do A Movie About A Magazine Article About A Drug Kingpin From The 70s" and "A Ridley Scott Film Shepherded By Imagine Entertainment's Brian Grazer, Who Simply Refused To Let This Crazy Dream Die" will give moviegoers an adequate appreciation of the Herculean efforts undertaken by the spikey-haired superproducer to finally bring his passion project to the screen. The LAT chronicles the mogul's heroism in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles (budget overruns! eight-figure kill fees! cost-controlling script rewrites that ripped the very soul out of the story!), here recounting the dark moment when a momentarily defeated Grazer had to tell original director Antoine Fuqua that Gangster had been shelved: More » -
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Encyclopedia Brown And The Case Of The Opportunistic Hollywood Producers
Today's NY Times presents Encyclopedia Brown and the Case Of The Guy Who Wrote the Books and the Producers Looking to Get Filthy Rich from the Somewhat Disputed Movie Rights; if our obvious riff on the titles of the storied children's detective series hasn't given you enough of a summary of the fight to bring the books to the big screen, give the article a read. But what's all the fuss about? Producers Howard Deutsch and Ridley Scott realize that with just a few minor tweaks, they can smell the sweet stink of Harry Potter money all over the franchise: More »
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