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Year: 2008
Director: John Moore
Plot: Rockstar Games' double-gunned action franchise comes to the big screen thanks to director John Moore (The Omen) and Mark Wahlberg, who embodies the title character of Max Payne, a widowed cop hell-bent on delivering justice no matter what the cost as he investigates a string of killings in his city. Mila Kunis and Chris O'Donnell head up the supporting cast, with Beau Thorne adapting the screenplay for the 20th Century Fox production. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide
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]]>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:17:15 GMTMax Payne2008John MooreRockstar Games' double-gunned action franchise comes to the big screen thanks to director John Moore (<a href="http://www.spout.com/films/267261/detail.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>The Omen</a>) and <a href="http://www.spout.com/players/P___198251/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Mark Wahlberg</a>, who embodies the title character of Max Payne, a widowed cop hell-bent on delivering justice no matter what the cost as he investigates a string of killings in his city. <a href="http://www.spout.com/players/P___215642/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Mila Kunis</a> and <a href="http://www.spout.com/players/P____53411/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Chris O'Donnell</a> head up the supporting cast, with Beau Thorne adapting the screenplay for the 20th Century Fox production. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide27Tag Target (>10)8832http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s355699.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Max_Payne/355699/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/groups/Coming_Soon/New_to_DVD_1_20_Bill_Murray_s_evil_Adam_Sandle/216/39758/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: spout
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Post Date: 1/21/2009 3:23:38 PM
Body: NEW TO DVD 1/20 1. City of Ember -- Watch the trailer. Listen to the review on FilmCouch. Bill Murray as a villain is almost enough to get me to watch. 2. You Don't Mess With the Zohan -- Watch the trailer. I was surprised by how much I liked this. Two of the writers are Robert Smigel and Judd Apatow, which couldn't hurt any comedy. 3. The Deal -- Watch the trailer. Meg Ryan and William H. Macy star in what sounds like Get Shorty meets The Producers. 4. Criteron Collection's El Norte (1983) is now on Blu-ray. When the Guatemalan government destroys a village of Quiche Indians, two teenagers trek north across Mexico and into the US. Watch th trailer. 5. Saw V -- Watch the trailer. Anyone care to bet how many more sequels will be made? 6. The Express -- Watch the trailer. The story of the Heisman-trophy winning footbal star, Ernie Davis, who was diagnosed with leukemia shortly after being drafted into the NFL. 7. Max Payne -- Watch the trailer. Mark Wahlberg is better than this movie. Hmm, what's the best video game movie ever? Is anyone looking forward to Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li? (Watch the trailer.)
]]>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:23:38 GMTspoutComing Soon1/21/2009 3:23:38 PMNEW TO DVD 1/20 1. City of Ember -- Watch the trailer. Listen to the review on FilmCouch. Bill Murray as a villain is almost enough to get me to watch. 2. You Don't Mess With the Zohan -- Watch the trailer. I was surprised by how much I liked this. Two of the writers are Robert Smigel and Judd Apatow, which couldn't hurt any comedy. 3. The Deal -- Watch the trailer. Meg Ryan and William H. Macy star in what sounds like Get Shorty meets The Producers. 4. Criteron Collection's El Norte (1983) is now on Blu-ray. When the Guatemalan government destroys a village of Quiche Indians, two teenagers trek north across Mexico and into the US. Watch th trailer. 5. Saw V -- Watch the trailer. Anyone care to bet how many more sequels will be made? 6. The Express -- Watch the trailer. The story of the Heisman-trophy winning footbal star, Ernie Davis, who was diagnosed with leukemia shortly after being drafted into the NFL. 7. Max Payne -- Watch the trailer. Mark Wahlberg is better than this movie. Hmm, what's the best video game movie ever? Is anyone looking forward to Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li? (Watch the trailer.) http://www.spout.com/blogs/mconrad3/archive/2009/1/20/39733.aspx Post By: mconrad3
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Post Date: 1/20/2009 11:10:45 PM
Body: The problems these days with video game - movie adaptations is they haven't quite figured out how to do them. If the studios started treating them the way they treat comic books and novels, things would probably be a lot better off. Unfortunately, Hollywood still thinks most video game plots are a lot like Super Mario (practically nonexistant), so they make up their own plot that kinda-sorta follows the general idea of the theme of the video game. Max Payne, which could have been a promising detective/mystery turned into another shoot-em-up. The plot generally revolves around Wahlberg's character seeking revenge on the people who killed his wife. Not that original, but they've thrown in the twist of a super-soldier drug ring that adds to the visual flare I'll talk about later. They don't really explain or show enough for you to follow the story, so if you are going to watch it, just sit back and don't think too much. The characters are pretty cardboard cut out and don't push the boundries of any of the token stereotypes you'd find in this type of flick. And for a movie that was decently cast, it wasn't very well directed. The acting is stale coming out of actors you think would actually put forward some talent, like Beau Bridges, Kunis, or Wahlberg. The only one I thought did a convincing job was Chris O'Donnell, but his ten minutes of screentime doesn't make up for the rest of the clunky lines and poor character development. What I did very much enjoy about this film was the visuals. Most if not all of the shots were compelling, dramatically lit, and almost captures the look of the video game. On the downside though, even the action scenes don't seem to pace well because of the long shots. For a movie clocking in at just over an hour and a half it sure felt longer...and not in the good way. It was like the director realized the script wasn't going to be enough to hold the audience's attention so he focused all his time on making visually interesting shots. One day they will make a video game film that faithfully adapts te original content to the big screen. On that day I will be able to look back to these days as the days like the first comic book adaptation flicks came out and Hollywood thought all you needed was the same name and face and you could make a profit. Until then, though, we're all going to have to suffer through movies that butcher what could be good stories.
]]>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:10:45 GMTmconrad3mconrad3 Blog1/20/2009 11:10:45 PMThe problems these days with video game - movie adaptations is they haven't quite figured out how to do them. If the studios started treating them the way they treat comic books and novels, things would probably be a lot better off. Unfortunately, Hollywood still thinks most video game plots are a lot like Super Mario (practically nonexistant), so they make up their own plot that kinda-sorta follows the general idea of the theme of the video game. Max Payne, which could have been a promising detective/mystery turned into another shoot-em-up. The plot generally revolves around Wahlberg's character seeking revenge on the people who killed his wife. Not that original, but they've thrown in the twist of a super-soldier drug ring that adds to the visual flare I'll talk about later. They don't really explain or show enough for you to follow the story, so if you are going to watch it, just sit back and don't think too much. The characters are pretty cardboard cut out and don't push the boundries of any of the token stereotypes you'd find in this type of flick. And for a movie that was decently cast, it wasn't very well directed. The acting is stale coming out of actors you think would actually put forward some talent, like Beau Bridges, Kunis, or Wahlberg. The only one I thought did a convincing job was Chris O'Donnell, but his ten minutes of screentime doesn't make up for the rest of the clunky lines and poor character development. What I did very much enjoy about this film was the visuals. Most if not all of the shots were compelling, dramatically lit, and almost captures the look of the video game. On the downside though, even the action scenes don't seem to pace well because of the long shots. For a movie clocking in at just over an hour and a half it sure felt longer...and not in the good way. It was like the director realized the script wasn't going to be enough to hold the audience's attention so he focused all his time on making visually interesting shots. One day they will make a video game film that faithfully adapts te original content to the big screen. On that day I will be able to look back to these days as the days like the first comic book adaptation flicks came out and Hollywood thought all you needed was the same name and face and you could make a profit. Until then, though, we're all going to have to suffer through movies that butcher what could be good stories. http://www.spout.com/groups/Worst_Movie_Ever/Re_The_Worst_of_2008/104/39585/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: ThomasJeffersonGeronimo
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Post Date: 1/16/2009 5:41:20 AM
Body: So without quoting every post in the thread, let me join the Speed Racer lovers. If you didn't like the looks of the trailers, you weren't going to like the movie. If you just sit back and let it go on it's terms, it's pretty dazzling. You can see where it's huge budget went; I think it might be too densely plotted and visually busy for kids and too off the wall for grownups. I'm also going to defend I Know Who Killed Me. I actually liked the look; sure the plot was kind of hogwash, but I have seen far less entertaining films, even if I wouldn't actually describe it as good. I may go easy on it because Art Bell cameos must be savored, but I think it came out at the height of the LiLo-bashing trend, when it could have been freaking superb and still have been dumped on like it was. Worst of '08? Mark Wahlberg had a pretty rough year; The Happening's hilarity has been well documented, and Max Payne was worse; it was boring. Have I missed Righteous Kill being mentioned? DeNiro and Pacino have both been in such a slump the last few years their collaboration meant little to me; Righteous fit right in with the subpar policiers they've both taken to. While there were probably many "worse" movies to come down the pike, were there many that were more dull or depressing?
]]>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:41:20 GMTThomasJeffersonGeronimoWorst Movie Ever1/16/2009 5:41:20 AMSo without quoting every post in the thread, let me join the Speed Racer lovers. If you didn't like the looks of the trailers, you weren't going to like the movie. If you just sit back and let it go on it's terms, it's pretty dazzling. You can see where it's huge budget went; I think it might be too densely plotted and visually busy for kids and too off the wall for grownups. I'm also going to defend I Know Who Killed Me. I actually liked the look; sure the plot was kind of hogwash, but I have seen far less entertaining films, even if I wouldn't actually describe it as good. I may go easy on it because Art Bell cameos must be savored, but I think it came out at the height of the LiLo-bashing trend, when it could have been freaking superb and still have been dumped on like it was. Worst of '08? Mark Wahlberg had a pretty rough year; The Happening's hilarity has been well documented, and Max Payne was worse; it was boring. Have I missed Righteous Kill being mentioned? DeNiro and Pacino have both been in such a slump the last few years their collaboration meant little to me; Righteous fit right in with the subpar policiers they've both taken to. While there were probably many "worse" movies to come down the pike, were there many that were more dull or depressing? http://www.spout.com/blogs/rubywoo/archive/2008/11/8/37111.aspx Post By: rubywoo
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Post Date: 11/8/2008 5:02:55 PM
Body: I went to a screening of max payne a couple of weeks ago, and I found it to be almost unwatchable. There is nothing interesting about this movie, the acting is mediocre, the script is non existant, the characters are in no way engaging. The visuals are pretty good, but it is almost exactly like sitting behind your friend while they're playing the game, although when you're watching your friend play you're at least routing for the *hero*. Mark Wahlberg makes sure you're not bothered whether he lives or dies. The highlight of the movie is Chris O'Donnell, not that he's any good, but it's at least a little interesting to see what he looks like these days. This movie makes my top 25 worst movies I've had to sit through, that makes it WORSE than Vampire In Brooklyn. Uh hu. Don't go and see this movie, even if it is part of your job.
]]>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:02:55 GMTrubywoorubywoo Blog11/8/2008 5:02:55 PMI went to a screening of max payne a couple of weeks ago, and I found it to be almost unwatchable. There is nothing interesting about this movie, the acting is mediocre, the script is non existant, the characters are in no way engaging. The visuals are pretty good, but it is almost exactly like sitting behind your friend while they're playing the game, although when you're watching your friend play you're at least routing for the *hero*. Mark Wahlberg makes sure you're not bothered whether he lives or dies. The highlight of the movie is Chris O'Donnell, not that he's any good, but it's at least a little interesting to see what he looks like these days. This movie makes my top 25 worst movies I've had to sit through, that makes it WORSE than Vampire In Brooklyn. Uh hu. Don't go and see this movie, even if it is part of your job. http://www.spout.com/blogs/smooth_j/archive/2008/10/31/36861.aspx Post By: Smooth_J
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Post Date: 10/31/2008 11:08:19 PM
Body: I cannot think of a movie easier to advertise than a hardcore as shit videogame movie starring Mark Wahlberg, in which he plays a hard-boiled disillusioned cop that hunts the prowls the underworld at night, endlessly seeking revenge. How can you go wrong? Max Payne tries really, really hard to mess it up. Somehow, dark angels and some very solemn expressions get the job done. The first thing you notice about the movie is that it is depressingly bleak. Everyone is perpetually pissed off, and the sky is overcast and constantly spewing all manner of atmospheric precipitation. (find the pun!) The opening scenes are generally God-awful--I condemned the movie within the first five minutes, with the terribly contrived dialogue, played out by terribly contrived characters within an incredibly cliched precinct. Mark Wahlberg sits behind his desk, brooding under a single lamp in the "cold case" unit (which is aptly labeled with a sign the says "Cold Case Unit"...I wonder if all office labels in a police station are hung like shopping center signs). Marky Mark seems to be saying, "I can't wait to get out of this shithole and kick some ass." The viewer hopes for the same thing. Lo and behold, next thing we know Marky's framed, standing still, looking down an empty subway terminal, complete with flickering lights, dreary decors, and three strung out, sweaty druggies sitting on a bench. The movie, from then on, kicks in to gear, goes from 6 to 12, and starts busting out everything at its studio approved disposal. The movie is at its most entertaining when it is completely absurd...the viewer is never quite able to make sense of the events. Valkries fly around and send drug addicts to their deaths, but somehow they're only seen by the ones under the influence, or fiending for their next dose. Then, when the climax is building, and you think that this will be explained, it abandons it and goes for a conventional ending. While this is the most noticable, there are dozens of abandoned plot lines and continuity errors that may be pure screw-ups, but seem as though the film-makers forgot about them and moved on. It's all for the best--if the film lasted five minutes longer, it would've surpassed its barriers of escapism and become pure bombardment of Disney sequel proportions. Although it's fun, it seems as though every scene has been done before in some form. There are the jump cuts, the yellow-tinged flashbacks, the betrayals, and the eye candy of almost every recent mainstream man-flick (which is what I've taken to calling this sort of movie). Some of it even seems Guy Ritchie-esque, which was just a slap in the face considering RocknRolla was sold out...but I guess it was good to see this first, so that Ritchie's apparent triumphant return will seem all the more victorious and awesome. There's not much to say about the film, except that it's a good time, and just as fun to make fun of during the most ludicrous sequences. I just wish it had stopped brooding for a minute to laugh at itself. Suggestions: action movies in general
]]>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 03:08:19 GMTSmooth_JSmooth_J Blog10/31/2008 11:08:19 PMI cannot think of a movie easier to advertise than a hardcore as shit videogame movie starring Mark Wahlberg, in which he plays a hard-boiled disillusioned cop that hunts the prowls the underworld at night, endlessly seeking revenge. How can you go wrong? Max Payne tries really, really hard to mess it up. Somehow, dark angels and some very solemn expressions get the job done. The first thing you notice about the movie is that it is depressingly bleak. Everyone is perpetually pissed off, and the sky is overcast and constantly spewing all manner of atmospheric precipitation. (find the pun!) The opening scenes are generally God-awful--I condemned the movie within the first five minutes, with the terribly contrived dialogue, played out by terribly contrived characters within an incredibly cliched precinct. Mark Wahlberg sits behind his desk, brooding under a single lamp in the "cold case" unit (which is aptly labeled with a sign the says "Cold Case Unit"...I wonder if all office labels in a police station are hung like shopping center signs). Marky Mark seems to be saying, "I can't wait to get out of this shithole and kick some ass." The viewer hopes for the same thing. Lo and behold, next thing we know Marky's framed, standing still, looking down an empty subway terminal, complete with flickering lights, dreary decors, and three strung out, sweaty druggies sitting on a bench. The movie, from then on, kicks in to gear, goes from 6 to 12, and starts busting out everything at its studio approved disposal. The movie is at its most entertaining when it is completely absurd...the viewer is never quite able to make sense of the events. Valkries fly around and send drug addicts to their deaths, but somehow they're only seen by the ones under the influence, or fiending for their next dose. Then, when the climax is building, and you think that this will be explained, it abandons it and goes for a conventional ending. While this is the most noticable, there are dozens of abandoned plot lines and continuity errors that may be pure screw-ups, but seem as though the film-makers forgot about them and moved on. It's all for the best--if the film lasted five minutes longer, it would've surpassed its barriers of escapism and become pure bombardment of Disney sequel proportions. Although it's fun, it seems as though every scene has been done before in some form. There are the jump cuts, the yellow-tinged flashbacks, the betrayals, and the eye candy of almost every recent mainstream man-flick (which is what I've taken to calling this sort of movie). Some of it even seems Guy Ritchie-esque, which was just a slap in the face considering RocknRolla was sold out...but I guess it was good to see this first, so that Ritchie's apparent triumphant return will seem all the more victorious and awesome. There's not much to say about the film, except that it's a good time, and just as fun to make fun of during the most ludicrous sequences. I just wish it had stopped brooding for a minute to laugh at itself. Suggestions: action movies in general http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/10/10/36147.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 10/10/2008 2:01:25 PM
Body: I knew from the recent Hollywood Reporter feature on Twilight that Summit Entertainment planned to release a new trailer more geared toward a male audience, but I never would have guessed they’d do such a damn good job of it. I’ve been hating on this movie from the beginning, but now part of me is actually thinking I’d like to see it. And I bet a lot of teenage boys will be thinking the same, only more so. This is pure genius marketing, and it would have been in Summit’s favor to have gone this route all along. What with superheroes so huge right now, why hadn’t they already tried to sell this thing as being like a comic book movie rather than a sappy adaptation of goth chick lit? Wasn’t that bit of dialogue referencing Spider-Man and Superman in the film the whole time? Such a line needs to be exploited, and it’s a shame the fledgling studio took so long to employ it. This trailer is seriously what Summit should have shown at Comic-Con. Well, better late than never, right? Considering there’s more than a month left before Twilight hits theaters, it’s not too late. But since the young Stephenie Meyer fans are already sold on the film and its romantic elements, Summit should definitely concentrate on this trailer and possible TV spots cut from it. Air commercials during Smallville and Heroes (if anyone is still watching that confused and redundant mess they’ll certainly be turned on by how much cooler Twilight looks than Season 3 so far). Run the trailer ahead of male-friendly movies like Max Payne, Quantum of Solace and maybe even a football movie like The Express. Young girls are still going to be the majority of the audience for this film, and they may even be the only ones who come away satisfied with it, but don’t be surprised if you see a lot of boys in the audience (myself included), too. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:01:25 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com10/10/2008 2:01:25 PM I knew from the recent Hollywood Reporter feature on Twilight that Summit Entertainment planned to release a new trailer more geared toward a male audience, but I never would have guessed they’d do such a damn good job of it. I’ve been hating on this movie from the beginning, but now part of me is actually thinking I’d like to see it. And I bet a lot of teenage boys will be thinking the same, only more so. This is pure genius marketing, and it would have been in Summit’s favor to have gone this route all along. What with superheroes so huge right now, why hadn’t they already tried to sell this thing as being like a comic book movie rather than a sappy adaptation of goth chick lit? Wasn’t that bit of dialogue referencing Spider-Man and Superman in the film the whole time? Such a line needs to be exploited, and it’s a shame the fledgling studio took so long to employ it. This trailer is seriously what Summit should have shown at Comic-Con. Well, better late than never, right? Considering there’s more than a month left before Twilight hits theaters, it’s not too late. But since the young Stephenie Meyer fans are already sold on the film and its romantic elements, Summit should definitely concentrate on this trailer and possible TV spots cut from it. Air commercials during Smallville and Heroes (if anyone is still watching that confused and redundant mess they’ll certainly be turned on by how much cooler Twilight looks than Season 3 so far). Run the trailer ahead of male-friendly movies like Max Payne, Quantum of Solace and maybe even a football movie like The Express. Young girls are still going to be the majority of the audience for this film, and they may even be the only ones who come away satisfied with it, but don’t be surprised if you see a lot of boys in the audience (myself included), too. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/9/23/35442.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 9/23/2008 1:01:18 PM
Body: On October 28 the world will plunge into an irradiated nightmare, littered with the wreckage of civilization, overrun by savage super mutants. Or, my world will be, anyway. Next month is when the hotly anticipated new video game Fallout 3 will be released. It’s been over a decade since the first Fallout, a now classic post-apocalyptic role-playing game. How has the franchise maintained such a devoted fan base? Simple: great story, great characters, great setting, and killer cinematics. The games have always been deeply indebted to post-apocalyptic cinema. The opening sequence of the first game is almost identical to the one in The Road Warrior, and the similarities don’t end there. As the Max Payne movie is (hopefully) about to prove, there is an elegant solution to the problem of videogame movies sucking: make movies about games that are already steeped in cinematic influence. In other words, a Fallout movie would kick serious ass. It would have a similar feel to classics like The Road Warrior, but Fallout has its own brand of dark humor and retro-futurism. For the purpose of assembling a dream cast for such a film, I’m going to stick to characters from the first game, where it all began. The game follows The Vault Dweller, a young person raised in the safety of a large underground vault. The vault community intended on riding out the nuclear storm for 200 years, but their water purification chip broke, so our hero must go and seek another. The Vault Dweller The badass wanderer of the wastes could be almost anyone, as Fallout gave the player the option of creating an entirely original protagonist. The game also provided three pre-made heroes, any of which could translate well to the screen. Albert – Leonardo DiCaprio The option to play Albert lets the player capitalize on charisma, while still doing a fair amount of damage with small arms and unarmed combat. Albert’s strength is talking his way out of tough situations, but some situations require action when words fail. DiCaprio has a great way of wearing frustration on his face, which is perfect, as I imagine that killing ghouls while fighting an addiction to radiation-resisting drugs would be quite frustrating. Max Stone – Ron Perlman Max Stone is set up in the game to be a big dumb bruiser, but Perlman could give the character depth beyond that stereotype. This choice is obviously informed by Perlman’s work in Sin City and the Hellyboy movies. Also, Perlman had to be on the list somewhere, given his involvement in the games. He provided the voice-over narration for the openings of Fallout 1 and 2, and provided character voices. Natalia – Carrie-Anne Moss While we can all agree that the Marix trilogy went downhill, that shouldn’t ruin things for Ms. Moss. She has a lot of potential as an action star, and the role of Natalie, a thief/assassin daughter of KGB spies would serve her nicely. The other Vault Dweller option: use all three as a team! It would break from the lone-wanderer feel, but it would be pretty cool. Other Characters In the spirit of all great role-playing games, Fallout let the player wander around at his or her own pace, exploring, doing quests, making friends and making enemies. It wouldn’t make sense to include all the characters in the film, but here are some essentials: The Overseer – Brian Cox The Overseer is the leader of Vault 13, the hero’s home up until this point. He sends the Vault Dweller on a mission to save the vault by finding a replacement water purification chip before it’s too late. The Overseer starts out as a kindly father figure, offering advice and encouragement. But in the final scene of the game, he betrays the Vault Dweller in a way that’s so maddening, the game designers actually included a rare alternate ending in which the Vault Dweller blows the Overseer’s head off. Cox is really good at being both fatherly and a total dick, example: The Bourne Supremacy. Harold – Harry Dean Stanton Whole regions of the scarred world of Fallout are populated by ghouls, most of them mindless flesh-eaters. The Vault Dweller encounters one ghoul who’s different, who provides him with some key information. Harold was once a vault dweller like our hero, but was infected by a virus that both killed him and kept his consciousness alive in his animated corpse. That pretty much explains the choice to cast Harry Dean Stanton. Morpheus – Michael Palin Morpheus is the leader of The Children of the Cathedral, a sick cult that worships The Master (see below). Michael Palin is the natural choice, because he seems like a nice and funny guy whose religion you’d join, until you find out that he’s completely nuts. He pulls off this double role in Terry Gilliam’s dystopian masterpiece, Brazil. Also, there are only two people that could pull off that mustache, Michael Palin and Salvador Dali, and Dali is dead. General Maxson - Max von Sydow General Maxson is the leader of the Brotherhood of Steel, a league of soldiers with incredibly high-tech weapons and armor. With luck and a fair bit of skill, the Vault Dweller joins their ranks and gears up for the final confrontation. Max von Sydow is one of those actors who can bring the clout he carried in The Seventh Seal to a movie like Judge Dredd. Perfect. The Master – James Earl Jones and Angelia Jolie The Master is a pulsating mass of human flesh and machinery with the ability to capture and incorporate intruders into its body. It speaks with multiple voices, representing the unlucky souls who are now a part of its writhing conglomeration of body parts. The Master would have to be CG of course, but what better voices than Jones and Jolie for that perfect mix of ominous and seductive? Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:01:18 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com9/23/2008 1:01:18 PM On October 28 the world will plunge into an irradiated nightmare, littered with the wreckage of civilization, overrun by savage super mutants. Or, my world will be, anyway. Next month is when the hotly anticipated new video game Fallout 3 will be released. It’s been over a decade since the first Fallout, a now classic post-apocalyptic role-playing game. How has the franchise maintained such a devoted fan base? Simple: great story, great characters, great setting, and killer cinematics. The games have always been deeply indebted to post-apocalyptic cinema. The opening sequence of the first game is almost identical to the one in The Road Warrior, and the similarities don’t end there. As the Max Payne movie is (hopefully) about to prove, there is an elegant solution to the problem of videogame movies sucking: make movies about games that are already steeped in cinematic influence. In other words, a Fallout movie would kick serious ass. It would have a similar feel to classics like The Road Warrior, but Fallout has its own brand of dark humor and retro-futurism. For the purpose of assembling a dream cast for such a film, I’m going to stick to characters from the first game, where it all began. The game follows The Vault Dweller, a young person raised in the safety of a large underground vault. The vault community intended on riding out the nuclear storm for 200 years, but their water purification chip broke, so our hero must go and seek another. The Vault Dweller The badass wanderer of the wastes could be almost anyone, as Fallout gave the player the option of creating an entirely original protagonist. The game also provided three pre-made heroes, any of which could translate well to the screen. Albert – Leonardo DiCaprio The option to play Albert lets the player capitalize on charisma, while still doing a fair amount of damage with small arms and unarmed combat. Albert’s strength is talking his way out of tough situations, but some situations require action when words fail. DiCaprio has a great way of wearing frustration on his face, which is perfect, as I imagine that killing ghouls while fighting an addiction to radiation-resisting drugs would be quite frustrating. Max Stone – Ron Perlman Max Stone is set up in the game to be a big dumb bruiser, but Perlman could give the character depth beyond that stereotype. This choice is obviously informed by Perlman’s work in Sin City and the Hellyboy movies. Also, Perlman had to be on the list somewhere, given his involvement in the games. He provided the voice-over narration for the openings of Fallout 1 and 2, and provided character voices. Natalia – Carrie-Anne Moss While we can all agree that the Marix trilogy went downhill, that shouldn’t ruin things for Ms. Moss. She has a lot of potential as an action star, and the role of Natalie, a thief/assassin daughter of KGB spies would serve her nicely. The other Vault Dweller option: use all three as a team! It would break from the lone-wanderer feel, but it would be pretty cool. Other Characters In the spirit of all great role-playing games, Fallout let the player wander around at his or her own pace, exploring, doing quests, making friends and making enemies. It wouldn’t make sense to include all the characters in the film, but here are some essentials: The Overseer – Brian Cox The Overseer is the leader of Vault 13, the hero’s home up until this point. He sends the Vault Dweller on a mission to save the vault by finding a replacement water purification chip before it’s too late. The Overseer starts out as a kindly father figure, offering advice and encouragement. But in the final scene of the game, he betrays the Vault Dweller in a way that’s so maddening, the game designers actually included a rare alternate ending in which the Vault Dweller blows the Overseer’s head off. Cox is really good at being both fatherly and a total dick, example: The Bourne Supremacy. Harold – Harry Dean Stanton Whole regions of the scarred world of Fallout are populated by ghouls, most of them mindless flesh-eaters. The Vault Dweller encounters one ghoul who’s different, who provides him with some key information. Harold was once a vault dweller like our hero, but was infected by a virus that both killed him and kept his consciousness alive in his animated corpse. That pretty much explains the choice to cast Harry Dean Stanton. Morpheus – Michael Palin Morpheus is the leader of The Children of the Cathedral, a sick cult that worships The Master (see below). Michael Palin is the natural choice, because he seems like a nice and funny guy whose religion you’d join, until you find out that he’s completely nuts. He pulls off this double role in Terry Gilliam’s dystopian masterpiece, Brazil. Also, there are only two people that could pull off that mustache, Michael Palin and Salvador Dali, and Dali is dead. General Maxson - Max von Sydow General Maxson is the leader of the Brotherhood of Steel, a league of soldiers with incredibly high-tech weapons and armor. With luck and a fair bit of skill, the Vault Dweller joins their ranks and gears up for the final confrontation. Max von Sydow is one of those actors who can bring the clout he carried in The Seventh Seal to a movie like Judge Dredd. Perfect. The Master – James Earl Jones and Angelia Jolie The Master is a pulsating mass of human flesh and machinery with the ability to capture and incorporate intruders into its body. It speaks with multiple voices, representing the unlucky souls who are now a part of its writhing conglomeration of body parts. The Master would have to be CG of course, but what better voices than Jones and Jolie for that perfect mix of ominous and seductive? Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/blogs/karina/archive/2008/7/24/33045.aspx Post By: Karina
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Body: 12:59 - Mila: I got to kick ass, learn how to take apart guns, and kick some ass in 5 inch heels. I had some weapons training with the automatic, the baton, I get to beat Mark up. Mark: She enjoyed beating me up. Moderator asks Mila to say some words about John in Russian. John: “What’s Russian for “Oh fucker?” Mark starts speaking Russain. “I learned it for another movie and I didn’t get to say it. You want to hear it again?” Girls squeal. Ludacris: I don’t speak Russian. Mark: I came from the music world, so I’m always a little suspect of guys, and how much they commit, but [Ludacris] is the next big bright shining star to come out of hip hop. He’s taken on a role that was really written for an actor, and he’s done an outstanding job. Mark: Originally, his role was written for a 60 yr old white guy… John: Originally, it was Robert Downey Jr. He went the other way with Tropic Thunder. We turned a white guy into a black guy. 12:54 - First clip of Max Payne: Gang in a subway, Chicago. Max goes in the Mens room. Washes hands. Gang follows. Gang leader threatens him for his watch. Mark turns around and shows his badge. Gang leader pulls out a gun, “You a cop or something?” Mark: Not tonight. They approach Mark. He kicks their asses. One guy gets away and jumps on the subway tracks, tries to outrun the train. Mark shoots at one guy until he’s crouched by a toilet. He pulls out a photo, with a gun to the guy’s chin, “You ever see this woman?” End clip 12:51 - Director, John Moore: Isn’t that the point of playing the game — that you feel like Max Payne? So I thought, lets kick the shit out of the camera, so that you feel like the character, and that was pretty much the technique. Mark: this is like doing a concert in Japan, you dont really say anything and they’re like “Oooh.” Now I know why The New Kids wanted to go back. You start missing that kind of thing, it makes you feel warm in the pants. I read the script after doing Invincible, Lovely Bones and The Happening, and I wanted to kick some ass again. I thought, with my street cred, my arrest record I was credible enough to play this role. This guy is really one of the happiest guys in the work, he has a beautiful wife, beautiful child, and once that’s taken away he doesn’t really have any hope. It’s a dark ugly world, and I think people are going to be very happy seeing him wreck havoc. (Rolling the first clip…) 12:47 - Start of Max Payne panel: Some girl: Mark I love you! Mark Wahlberg: Thank you, I love you! The girls like him way more than Keanu, but the boys cheered more for Ludacris than Wahlberg or Mila Kunis. 12:43 - Final reel of TDTESS presentation: FBI goes to Dr Benson’s door. Army base. Jon Hamm is an FBI guy. He shows Helen, Klatu. Voice over, Kathy Bates: The less advanced civilization is exterminated. Unfortunately, in this case, the less advanced civilization is us. Jennifer in spacesuit. Big fireball in the middle of a city. Text on screen, “The skies will go dark, the cities will go quiet, the earth will stand still.” Lots of destruction shots — blackouts, storms, fires, spacesuits. (It might be a slightly new trailer, but it doesn’t look that different from what’s been online.) 12:39 - “Keanu, what’s Klatu’s view of humanity at that point?” Keanu: He’s starting to have a little bit of a conflict about a decision that he made. He’s coming into a more human understanding, and being able to be affected. He has a little bit of ambivalence…and maybe he’s starting to think they’re not so bad as he thought they were. Moderator: What can you tell us about Gort? Scott: Somewhere along the line there developed rumors that there was no Gort — there is definitely Gort. It wouldn’t be TDTESS with no Gort. We went through various visualizations…at least 100’s of possibilities. We ended up coming back not far from the original in the concept. I began to see the simple brilliance of the human form chosen by this alien. They’re still working on him — WETA is doing it. The spaceship, Klayu’s spacesuit, Gort — the idea of them having an organic, biological base, this idea is making its way into Sci-fi cinema. This idea that advanced civilizations are not into industrialization as we are because we’ve seen the effect of that. We’ve seen that that has it’s limits. Setting up final video footage reel. They don’t come out until 12/12, so the visual effects are mostly not done. “I wanted to be able to give this audience what you’re here to see…” 12:35 - Scene w/ Jaden Smith and Keanu Reeves: They’re in the back of a pickup. Looks like Keanu hitchhiked out of the containment facility. Jaden: “You don’t look like an Alien. Why do you look human” Keanu: “So I can talk to you.” “I told Helen we should kill you. I didn’t mean it though.” “So what’s going to happen to us?” “I was just wondering the same thing.” End scene 12:33 -  Jennifer Connely plays Dr. Helen Benson (Crowd cat calls Jennifer.) Scott: “The relationship between Helen and her son is deeply explored. We talked about how we could use the relationship between the two of them to be an illustration for Klatu as to how human beings treat each other, how they treat the planet.” Jaden Smith plays her stepson. “One of the things I love about the Wise film…it’s a film about the human spirit.” Setting up scene of Jaden and Keanu together. Scott: “Well get to the big, exciting movie stuff at the end–this is a smaller scene.” 12:30 - “Keanu, talk about becoming Klatu. What was your proccess?” Keanu: “He just objectified everything he looked at…he was kind of an entity trapped in a human body. He came to see, to judge, so when he looked out, he just kind of … looked out.” In the original, Klautu was kind of warm and fuzz, more human than human… I’m not that guy. (Giggles) Scott: I watched original film quite a few times…I wanted to understand the essential things that made it work. That film really takes place in the real world, it’s not an overly fanciful movie, except for the alien elements. We tried to come up with a visual design that would support that idea, but the trick with the update was to look at the 1951 film as a product of that technological revolution. Sci-fi is now turning to higher ideas, and ecology and biology. That was very interesting to all of us. We tried to create something that was organic and paid homage to the original but wasn’t the same hard laser, spacecraft stuff that we’ve seen. 12:23 -First clip from The Day the Earth Stood Still: This is a scene where Jlatum played by Keanu (girls scream) is being brought to A compound. He wants to speak to the world leaders, but he’s been denied. And is going to be interrogated. Keanu in a wheelchair, hospital scrubs, gets strapped to the chair and sensors put on his forehead. Big, empty room… a lie detector test. Control questions: Are you currently in a seated position? Yes. Are you human? My body is. Are you aware of an impending attack on the USA? You should let me go. Keanu gives tester a massive electric shock with his brain and then hypnotizes him into telling him how to escape. Keanu steals his suit, brain numbs all the guards, and walks out the door. (Crowd goes apeshit.) 12:20 - “Why remake it, Scott?” asks moderator. “If your gonna remake a classic, you’ve got to have a good reason…for me, it was the script. When I read it, what occurred to me, the original was so a product of its time, that commented so well on that early cold war era, and the visual effects were so ahead of its time, and the idea of updating it made sense because times have changed. We have different issues. This film seemed like the perfect venue to address some of those.” He says story opened up chances to try new things with effects. “The idea of an Alien who comes to earth and assesses human nature from an outside perspective is such an interesting thing.” Scott introduces first clip… 12:18 - Moderators first qustion for Scott: First film, directed by Robert Wise, “You had a close encounter with Robert Wise, tell us about that.” He made a short film that got into a festival in Indiana, Wise was getting a Lifetime Achievement Award, he managed to get a private dinner with Wise, told him his fave films of his were The Day the Earth Stood Still and The Haunting. Wise told him that if he was into genre films, his first film should be horror. He took that advice and made The Exorcism of Emily Rose. The producer was making Speed with Keanu, and he saw a poster at FOX for The Day the Earth Stood Still. while he was waiting for the President of Production to come in, he saw it and said, “Forget what I came here to pitch to you –– we should remake DTESS with Keanu.” But that exec was soon fired. 15 years later, a draft of the script showed up on his doorstep. Keanu says he remembers that. Girls scream. 12:14 - Lights go down completely. Loud white noise on screen. Keanu Reeves comes out. Theyr’e going to show two scenes and a trailer from The Day the Earth Stood Still. Intros Scott Erickson, director, Jennifer Connely producer moderator Michael Grode (sp?). The mics arent on. Girls are yelling “Keanu, we love you!” 12:10 - Director of Programming for comic con comes out, Eddie Ibrahim. Welcomes us to Comic-Con 2008, warns us not to videotape any of the trailers, etc. Sort of threatens that if we put anything on YouTube, the studios wont come back. Everyone claps at that. (This year they have true HD in Hall H.) Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth
]]>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:02:34 GMTKarinaKarina on SpoutBlog7/24/2008 4:02:34 PM12:59 - Mila: I got to kick ass, learn how to take apart guns, and kick some ass in 5 inch heels. I had some weapons training with the automatic, the baton, I get to beat Mark up. Mark: She enjoyed beating me up. Moderator asks Mila to say some words about John in Russian. John: “What’s Russian for “Oh fucker?” Mark starts speaking Russain. “I learned it for another movie and I didn’t get to say it. You want to hear it again?” Girls squeal. Ludacris: I don’t speak Russian. Mark: I came from the music world, so I’m always a little suspect of guys, and how much they commit, but [Ludacris] is the next big bright shining star to come out of hip hop. He’s taken on a role that was really written for an actor, and he’s done an outstanding job. Mark: Originally, his role was written for a 60 yr old white guy… John: Originally, it was Robert Downey Jr. He went the other way with Tropic Thunder. We turned a white guy into a black guy. 12:54 - First clip of Max Payne: Gang in a subway, Chicago. Max goes in the Mens room. Washes hands. Gang follows. Gang leader threatens him for his watch. Mark turns around and shows his badge. Gang leader pulls out a gun, “You a cop or something?” Mark: Not tonight. They approach Mark. He kicks their asses. One guy gets away and jumps on the subway tracks, tries to outrun the train. Mark shoots at one guy until he’s crouched by a toilet. He pulls out a photo, with a gun to the guy’s chin, “You ever see this woman?” End clip 12:51 - Director, John Moore: Isn’t that the point of playing the game — that you feel like Max Payne? So I thought, lets kick the shit out of the camera, so that you feel like the character, and that was pretty much the technique. Mark: this is like doing a concert in Japan, you dont really say anything and they’re like “Oooh.” Now I know why The New Kids wanted to go back. You start missing that kind of thing, it makes you feel warm in the pants. I read the script after doing Invincible, Lovely Bones and The Happening, and I wanted to kick some ass again. I thought, with my street cred, my arrest record I was credible enough to play this role. This guy is really one of the happiest guys in the work, he has a beautiful wife, beautiful child, and once that’s taken away he doesn’t really have any hope. It’s a dark ugly world, and I think people are going to be very happy seeing him wreck havoc. (Rolling the first clip…) 12:47 - Start of Max Payne panel: Some girl: Mark I love you! Mark Wahlberg: Thank you, I love you! The girls like him way more than Keanu, but the boys cheered more for Ludacris than Wahlberg or Mila Kunis. 12:43 - Final reel of TDTESS presentation: FBI goes to Dr Benson’s door. Army base. Jon Hamm is an FBI guy. He shows Helen, Klatu. Voice over, Kathy Bates: The less advanced civilization is exterminated. Unfortunately, in this case, the less advanced civilization is us. Jennifer in spacesuit. Big fireball in the middle of a city. Text on screen, “The skies will go dark, the cities will go quiet, the earth will stand still.” Lots of destruction shots — blackouts, storms, fires, spacesuits. (It might be a slightly new trailer, but it doesn’t look that different from what’s been online.) 12:39 - “Keanu, what’s Klatu’s view of humanity at that point?” Keanu: He’s starting to have a little bit of a conflict about a decision that he made. He’s coming into a more human understanding, and being able to be affected. He has a little bit of ambivalence…and maybe he’s starting to think they’re not so bad as he thought they were. Moderator: What can you tell us about Gort? Scott: Somewhere along the line there developed rumors that there was no Gort — there is definitely Gort. It wouldn’t be TDTESS with no Gort. We went through various visualizations…at least 100’s of possibilities. We ended up coming back not far from the original in the concept. I began to see the simple brilliance of the human form chosen by this alien. They’re still working on him — WETA is doing it. The spaceship, Klayu’s spacesuit, Gort — the idea of them having an organic, biological base, this idea is making its way into Sci-fi cinema. This idea that advanced civilizations are not into industrialization as we are because we’ve seen the effect of that. We’ve seen that that has it’s limits. Setting up final video footage reel. They don’t come out until 12/12, so the visual effects are mostly not done. “I wanted to be able to give this audience what you’re here to see…” 12:35 - Scene w/ Jaden Smith and Keanu Reeves: They’re in the back of a pickup. Looks like Keanu hitchhiked out of the containment facility. Jaden: “You don’t look like an Alien. Why do you look human” Keanu: “So I can talk to you.” “I told Helen we should kill you. I didn’t mean it though.” “So what’s going to happen to us?” “I was just wondering the same thing.” End scene 12:33 -  Jennifer Connely plays Dr. Helen Benson (Crowd cat calls Jennifer.) Scott: “The relationship between Helen and her son is deeply explored. We talked about how we could use the relationship between the two of them to be an illustration for Klatu as to how human beings treat each other, how they treat the planet.” Jaden Smith plays her stepson. “One of the things I love about the Wise film…it’s a film about the human spirit.” Setting up scene of Jaden and Keanu together. Scott: “Well get to the big, exciting movie stuff at the end–this is a smaller scene.” 12:30 - “Keanu, talk about becoming Klatu. What was your proccess?” Keanu: “He just objectified everything he looked at…he was kind of an entity trapped in a human body. He came to see, to judge, so when he looked out, he just kind of … looked out.” In the original, Klautu was kind of warm and fuzz, more human than human… I’m not that guy. (Giggles) Scott: I watched original film quite a few times…I wanted to understand the essential things that made it work. That film really takes place in the real world, it’s not an overly fanciful movie, except for the alien elements. We tried to come up with a visual design that would support that idea, but the trick with the update was to look at the 1951 film as a product of that technological revolution. Sci-fi is now turning to higher ideas, and ecology and biology. That was very interesting to all of us. We tried to create something that was organic and paid homage to the original but wasn’t the same hard laser, spacecraft stuff that we’ve seen. 12:23 -First clip from The Day the Earth Stood Still: This is a scene where Jlatum played by Keanu (girls scream) is being brought to A compound. He wants to speak to the world leaders, but he’s been denied. And is going to be interrogated. Keanu in a wheelchair, hospital scrubs, gets strapped to the chair and sensors put on his forehead. Big, empty room… a lie detector test. Control questions: Are you currently in a seated position? Yes. Are you human? My body is. Are you aware of an impending attack on the USA? You should let me go. Keanu gives tester a massive electric shock with his brain and then hypnotizes him into telling him how to escape. Keanu steals his suit, brain numbs all the guards, and walks out the door. (Crowd goes apeshit.) 12:20 - “Why remake it, Scott?” asks moderator. “If your gonna remake a classic, you’ve got to have a good reason…for me, it was the script. When I read it, what occurred to me, the original was so a product of its time, that commented so well on that early cold war era, and the visual effects were so ahead of its time, and the idea of updating it made sense because times have changed. We have different issues. This film seemed like the perfect venue to address some of those.” He says story opened up chances to try new things with effects. “The idea of an Alien who comes to earth and assesses human nature from an outside perspective is such an interesting thing.” Scott introduces first clip… 12:18 - Moderators first qustion for Scott: First film, directed by Robert Wise, “You had a close encounter with Robert Wise, tell us about that.” He made a short film that got into a festival in Indiana, Wise was getting a Lifetime Achievement Award, he managed to get a private dinner with Wise, told him his fave films of his were The Day the Earth Stood Still and The Haunting. Wise told him that if he was into genre films, his first film should be horror. He took that advice and made The Exorcism of Emily Rose. The producer was making Speed with Keanu, and he saw a poster at FOX for The Day the Earth Stood Still. while he was waiting for the President of Production to come in, he saw it and said, “Forget what I came here to pitch to you –– we should remake DTESS with Keanu.” But that exec was soon fired. 15 years later, a draft of the script showed up on his doorstep. Keanu says he remembers that. Girls scream. 12:14 - Lights go down completely. Loud white noise on screen. Keanu Reeves comes out. Theyr’e going to show two scenes and a trailer from The Day the Earth Stood Still. Intros Scott Erickson, director, Jennifer Connely producer moderator Michael Grode (sp?). The mics arent on. Girls are yelling “Keanu, we love you!” 12:10 - Director of Programming for comic con comes out, Eddie Ibrahim. Welcomes us to Comic-Con 2008, warns us not to videotape any of the trailers, etc. Sort of threatens that if we put anything on YouTube, the studios wont come back. Everyone claps at that. (This year they have true HD in Hall H.) Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/7/24/33044.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Body: 12:59 - Mila: I got to kick ass, learn how to take apart guns, and kick some ass in 5 inch heels. I had some weapons training with the automatic, the baton, I get to beat Mark up. Mark: She enjoyed beating me up. Moderator asks Mila to say some words about John in Russian. John: “What’s Russian for “Oh fucker?” Mark starts speaking Russain. “I learned it for another movie and I didn’t get to say it. You want to hear it again?” Girls squeal. Ludacris: I don’t speak Russian. Mark: I came from the music world, so I’m always a little suspect of guys, and how much they commit, but [Ludacris] is the next big bright shining star to come out of hip hop. He’s taken on a role that was really written for an actor, and he’s done an outstanding job. Mark: Originally, his role was written for a 60 yr old white guy… John: Originally, it was Robert Downey Jr. He went the other way with Tropic Thunder. We turned a white guy into a black guy. 12:54 - First clip of Max Payne: Gang in a subway, Chicago. Max goes in the Mens room. Washes hands. Gang follows. Gang leader threatens him for his watch. Mark turns around and shows his badge. Gang leader pulls out a gun, “You a cop or something?” Mark: Not tonight. They approach Mark. He kicks their asses. One guy gets away and jumps on the subway tracks, tries to outrun the train. Mark shoots at one guy until he’s crouched by a toilet. He pulls out a photo, with a gun to the guy’s chin, “You ever see this woman?” End clip 12:51 - Director, John Moore: Isn’t that the point of playing the game — that you feel like Max Payne? So I thought, lets kick the shit out of the camera, so that you feel like the character, and that was pretty much the technique. Mark: this is like doing a concert in Japan, you dont really say anything and they’re like “Oooh.” Now I know why The New Kids wanted to go back. You start missing that kind of thing, it makes you feel warm in the pants. I read the script after doing Invincible, Lovely Bones and The Happening, and I wanted to kick some ass again. I thought, with my street cred, my arrest record I was credible enough to play this role. This guy is really one of the happiest guys in the work, he has a beautiful wife, beautiful child, and once that’s taken away he doesn’t really have any hope. It’s a dark ugly world, and I think people are going to be very happy seeing him wreck havoc. (Rolling the first clip…) 12:47 - Start of Max Payne panel: Some girl: Mark I love you! Mark Wahlberg: Thank you, I love you! The girls like him way more than Keanu, but the boys cheered more for Ludacris than Wahlberg or Mila Kunis. 12:43 - Final reel of TDTESS presentation: FBI goes to Dr Benson’s door. Army base. Jon Hamm is an FBI guy. He shows Helen, Klatu. Voice over, Kathy Bates: The less advanced civilization is exterminated. Unfortunately, in this case, the less advanced civilization is us. Jennifer in spacesuit. Big fireball in the middle of a city. Text on screen, “The skies will go dark, the cities will go quiet, the earth will stand still.” Lots of destruction shots — blackouts, storms, fires, spacesuits. (It might be a slightly new trailer, but it doesn’t look that different from what’s been online.) 12:39 - “Keanu, what’s Klatu’s view of humanity at that point?” Keanu: He’s starting to have a little bit of a conflict about a decision that he made. He’s coming into a more human understanding, and being able to be affected. He has a little bit of ambivalence…and maybe he’s starting to think they’re not so bad as he thought they were. Moderator: What can you tell us about Gort? Scott: Somewhere along the line there developed rumors that there was no Gort — there is definitely Gort. It wouldn’t be TDTESS with no Gort. We went through various visualizations…at least 100’s of possibilities. We ended up coming back not far from the original in the concept. I began to see the simple brilliance of the human form chosen by this alien. They’re still working on him — WETA is doing it. The spaceship, Klayu’s spacesuit, Gort — the idea of them having an organic, biological base, this idea is making its way into Sci-fi cinema. This idea that advanced civilizations are not into industrialization as we are because we’ve seen the effect of that. We’ve seen that that has it’s limits. Setting up final video footage reel. They don’t come out until 12/12, so the visual effects are mostly not done. “I wanted to be able to give this audience what you’re here to see…” 12:35 - Scene w/ Jaden Smith and Keanu Reeves: They’re in the back of a pickup. Looks like Keanu hitchhiked out of the containment facility. Jaden: “You don’t look like an Alien. Why do you look human” Keanu: “So I can talk to you.” “I told Helen we should kill you. I didn’t mean it though.” “So what’s going to happen to us?” “I was just wondering the same thing.” End scene 12:33 -  Jennifer Connely plays Dr. Helen Benson (Crowd cat calls Jennifer.) Scott: “The relationship between Helen and her son is deeply explored. We talked about how we could use the relationship between the two of them to be an illustration for Klatu as to how human beings treat each other, how they treat the planet.” Jaden Smith plays her stepson. “One of the things I love about the Wise film…it’s a film about the human spirit.” Setting up scene of Jaden and Keanu together. Scott: “Well get to the big, exciting movie stuff at the end–this is a smaller scene.” 12:30 - “Keanu, talk about becoming Klatu. What was your proccess?” Keanu: “He just objectified everything he looked at…he was kind of an entity trapped in a human body. He came to see, to judge, so when he looked out, he just kind of … looked out.” In the original, Klautu was kind of warm and fuzz, more human than human… I’m not that guy. (Giggles) Scott: I watched original film quite a few times…I wanted to understand the essential things that made it work. That film really takes place in the real world, it’s not an overly fanciful movie, except for the alien elements. We tried to come up with a visual design that would support that idea, but the trick with the update was to look at the 1951 film as a product of that technological revolution. Sci-fi is now turning to higher ideas, and ecology and biology. That was very interesting to all of us. We tried to create something that was organic and paid homage to the original but wasn’t the same hard laser, spacecraft stuff that we’ve seen. 12:23 -First clip from The Day the Earth Stood Still: This is a scene where Jlatum played by Keanu (girls scream) is being brought to A compound. He wants to speak to the world leaders, but he’s been denied. And is going to be interrogated. Keanu in a wheelchair, hospital scrubs, gets strapped to the chair and sensors put on his forehead. Big, empty room… a lie detector test. Control questions: Are you currently in a seated position? Yes. Are you human? My body is. Are you aware of an impending attack on the USA? You should let me go. Keanu gives tester a massive electric shock with his brain and then hypnotizes him into telling him how to escape. Keanu steals his suit, brain numbs all the guards, and walks out the door. (Crowd goes apeshit.) 12:20 - “Why remake it, Scott?” asks moderator. “If your gonna remake a classic, you’ve got to have a good reason…for me, it was the script. When I read it, what occurred to me, the original was so a product of its time, that commented so well on that early cold war era, and the visual effects were so ahead of its time, and the idea of updating it made sense because times have changed. We have different issues. This film seemed like the perfect venue to address some of those.” He says story opened up chances to try new things with effects. “The idea of an Alien who comes to earth and assesses human nature from an outside perspective is such an interesting thing.” Scott introduces first clip… 12:18 - Moderators first qustion for Scott: First film, directed by Robert Wise, “You had a close encounter with Robert Wise, tell us about that.” He made a short film that got into a festival in Indiana, Wise was getting a Lifetime Achievement Award, he managed to get a private dinner with Wise, told him his fave films of his were The Day the Earth Stood Still and The Haunting. Wise told him that if he was into genre films, his first film should be horror. He took that advice and made The Exorcism of Emily Rose. The producer was making Speed with Keanu, and he saw a poster at FOX for The Day the Earth Stood Still. while he was waiting for the President of Production to come in, he saw it and said, “Forget what I came here to pitch to you –– we should remake DTESS with Keanu.” But that exec was soon fired. 15 years later, a draft of the script showed up on his doorstep. Keanu says he remembers that. Girls scream. 12:14 - Lights go down completely. Loud white noise on screen. Keanu Reeves comes out. Theyr’e going to show two scenes and a trailer from The Day the Earth Stood Still. Intros Scott Erickson, director, Jennifer Connely producer moderator Michael Grode (sp?). The mics arent on. Girls are yelling “Keanu, we love you!” 12:10 - Director of Programming for comic con comes out, Eddie Ibrahim. Welcomes us to Comic-Con 2008, warns us not to videotape any of the trailers, etc. Sort of threatens that if we put anything on YouTube, the studios wont come back. Everyone claps at that. (This year they have true HD in Hall H.) Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:02:24 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com7/24/2008 4:02:24 PM12:59 - Mila: I got to kick ass, learn how to take apart guns, and kick some ass in 5 inch heels. I had some weapons training with the automatic, the baton, I get to beat Mark up. Mark: She enjoyed beating me up. Moderator asks Mila to say some words about John in Russian. John: “What’s Russian for “Oh fucker?” Mark starts speaking Russain. “I learned it for another movie and I didn’t get to say it. You want to hear it again?” Girls squeal. Ludacris: I don’t speak Russian. Mark: I came from the music world, so I’m always a little suspect of guys, and how much they commit, but [Ludacris] is the next big bright shining star to come out of hip hop. He’s taken on a role that was really written for an actor, and he’s done an outstanding job. Mark: Originally, his role was written for a 60 yr old white guy… John: Originally, it was Robert Downey Jr. He went the other way with Tropic Thunder. We turned a white guy into a black guy. 12:54 - First clip of Max Payne: Gang in a subway, Chicago. Max goes in the Mens room. Washes hands. Gang follows. Gang leader threatens him for his watch. Mark turns around and shows his badge. Gang leader pulls out a gun, “You a cop or something?” Mark: Not tonight. They approach Mark. He kicks their asses. One guy gets away and jumps on the subway tracks, tries to outrun the train. Mark shoots at one guy until he’s crouched by a toilet. He pulls out a photo, with a gun to the guy’s chin, “You ever see this woman?” End clip 12:51 - Director, John Moore: Isn’t that the point of playing the game — that you feel like Max Payne? So I thought, lets kick the shit out of the camera, so that you feel like the character, and that was pretty much the technique. Mark: this is like doing a concert in Japan, you dont really say anything and they’re like “Oooh.” Now I know why The New Kids wanted to go back. You start missing that kind of thing, it makes you feel warm in the pants. I read the script after doing Invincible, Lovely Bones and The Happening, and I wanted to kick some ass again. I thought, with my street cred, my arrest record I was credible enough to play this role. This guy is really one of the happiest guys in the work, he has a beautiful wife, beautiful child, and once that’s taken away he doesn’t really have any hope. It’s a dark ugly world, and I think people are going to be very happy seeing him wreck havoc. (Rolling the first clip…) 12:47 - Start of Max Payne panel: Some girl: Mark I love you! Mark Wahlberg: Thank you, I love you! The girls like him way more than Keanu, but the boys cheered more for Ludacris than Wahlberg or Mila Kunis. 12:43 - Final reel of TDTESS presentation: FBI goes to Dr Benson’s door. Army base. Jon Hamm is an FBI guy. He shows Helen, Klatu. Voice over, Kathy Bates: The less advanced civilization is exterminated. Unfortunately, in this case, the less advanced civilization is us. Jennifer in spacesuit. Big fireball in the middle of a city. Text on screen, “The skies will go dark, the cities will go quiet, the earth will stand still.” Lots of destruction shots — blackouts, storms, fires, spacesuits. (It might be a slightly new trailer, but it doesn’t look that different from what’s been online.) 12:39 - “Keanu, what’s Klatu’s view of humanity at that point?” Keanu: He’s starting to have a little bit of a conflict about a decision that he made. He’s coming into a more human understanding, and being able to be affected. He has a little bit of ambivalence…and maybe he’s starting to think they’re not so bad as he thought they were. Moderator: What can you tell us about Gort? Scott: Somewhere along the line there developed rumors that there was no Gort — there is definitely Gort. It wouldn’t be TDTESS with no Gort. We went through various visualizations…at least 100’s of possibilities. We ended up coming back not far from the original in the concept. I began to see the simple brilliance of the human form chosen by this alien. They’re still working on him — WETA is doing it. The spaceship, Klayu’s spacesuit, Gort — the idea of them having an organic, biological base, this idea is making its way into Sci-fi cinema. This idea that advanced civilizations are not into industrialization as we are because we’ve seen the effect of that. We’ve seen that that has it’s limits. Setting up final video footage reel. They don’t come out until 12/12, so the visual effects are mostly not done. “I wanted to be able to give this audience what you’re here to see…” 12:35 - Scene w/ Jaden Smith and Keanu Reeves: They’re in the back of a pickup. Looks like Keanu hitchhiked out of the containment facility. Jaden: “You don’t look like an Alien. Why do you look human” Keanu: “So I can talk to you.” “I told Helen we should kill you. I didn’t mean it though.” “So what’s going to happen to us?” “I was just wondering the same thing.” End scene 12:33 -  Jennifer Connely plays Dr. Helen Benson (Crowd cat calls Jennifer.) Scott: “The relationship between Helen and her son is deeply explored. We talked about how we could use the relationship between the two of them to be an illustration for Klatu as to how human beings treat each other, how they treat the planet.” Jaden Smith plays her stepson. “One of the things I love about the Wise film…it’s a film about the human spirit.” Setting up scene of Jaden and Keanu together. Scott: “Well get to the big, exciting movie stuff at the end–this is a smaller scene.” 12:30 - “Keanu, talk about becoming Klatu. What was your proccess?” Keanu: “He just objectified everything he looked at…he was kind of an entity trapped in a human body. He came to see, to judge, so when he looked out, he just kind of … looked out.” In the original, Klautu was kind of warm and fuzz, more human than human… I’m not that guy. (Giggles) Scott: I watched original film quite a few times…I wanted to understand the essential things that made it work. That film really takes place in the real world, it’s not an overly fanciful movie, except for the alien elements. We tried to come up with a visual design that would support that idea, but the trick with the update was to look at the 1951 film as a product of that technological revolution. Sci-fi is now turning to higher ideas, and ecology and biology. That was very interesting to all of us. We tried to create something that was organic and paid homage to the original but wasn’t the same hard laser, spacecraft stuff that we’ve seen. 12:23 -First clip from The Day the Earth Stood Still: This is a scene where Jlatum played by Keanu (girls scream) is being brought to A compound. He wants to speak to the world leaders, but he’s been denied. And is going to be interrogated. Keanu in a wheelchair, hospital scrubs, gets strapped to the chair and sensors put on his forehead. Big, empty room… a lie detector test. Control questions: Are you currently in a seated position? Yes. Are you human? My body is. Are you aware of an impending attack on the USA? You should let me go. Keanu gives tester a massive electric shock with his brain and then hypnotizes him into telling him how to escape. Keanu steals his suit, brain numbs all the guards, and walks out the door. (Crowd goes apeshit.) 12:20 - “Why remake it, Scott?” asks moderator. “If your gonna remake a classic, you’ve got to have a good reason…for me, it was the script. When I read it, what occurred to me, the original was so a product of its time, that commented so well on that early cold war era, and the visual effects were so ahead of its time, and the idea of updating it made sense because times have changed. We have different issues. This film seemed like the perfect venue to address some of those.” He says story opened up chances to try new things with effects. “The idea of an Alien who comes to earth and assesses human nature from an outside perspective is such an interesting thing.” Scott introduces first clip… 12:18 - Moderators first qustion for Scott: First film, directed by Robert Wise, “You had a close encounter with Robert Wise, tell us about that.” He made a short film that got into a festival in Indiana, Wise was getting a Lifetime Achievement Award, he managed to get a private dinner with Wise, told him his fave films of his were The Day the Earth Stood Still and The Haunting. Wise told him that if he was into genre films, his first film should be horror. He took that advice and made The Exorcism of Emily Rose. The producer was making Speed with Keanu, and he saw a poster at FOX for The Day the Earth Stood Still. while he was waiting for the President of Production to come in, he saw it and said, “Forget what I came here to pitch to you –– we should remake DTESS with Keanu.” But that exec was soon fired. 15 years later, a draft of the script showed up on his doorstep. Keanu says he remembers that. Girls scream. 12:14 - Lights go down completely. Loud white noise on screen. Keanu Reeves comes out. Theyr’e going to show two scenes and a trailer from The Day the Earth Stood Still. Intros Scott Erickson, director, Jennifer Connely producer moderator Michael Grode (sp?). The mics arent on. Girls are yelling “Keanu, we love you!” 12:10 - Director of Programming for comic con comes out, Eddie Ibrahim. Welcomes us to Comic-Con 2008, warns us not to videotape any of the trailers, etc. Sort of threatens that if we put anything on YouTube, the studios wont come back. Everyone claps at that. (This year they have true HD in Hall H.) Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/blogs/aidanbrack/archive/2008/7/18/32736.aspx Post By: aidanbrack
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Post Date: 7/18/2008 3:23:26 PM
Body: Today I'm mostly loving the new Star Trek movie teaser posters. Apparently J. J. Abrams has come to ComicCon pretty well empty handed this year as far as the Trek movie is concerned (with the movie a good 10 months away it's far too early to expect a trailer or even a good teaser) - what we do have are four posters which, when combined, make up a Trek logo. Interesting that Uhura's one of the three crew characters shown (bottom-left is obviously Spock, right is a slightly disturbing Kirk, Uhura top-right and Eric Bana's unidentified bad guy in the top-left). Maybe she'll have a bigger part in this than her predecessor ever managed. Oh, and apparently we're getting some cool stuff from the movie Max Payne (a trailer and some scenes) which stars Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis. As someone who played the first game the day it was released and loved it, I'm pretty well guaranteed to make my way to a cinema to catch this. However dumb it will inevitably turn out to be. Now, if only there was a Deus Ex movie...
]]>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:23:26 GMTaidanbrackThe Bigger Picture7/18/2008 3:23:26 PMToday I'm mostly loving the new Star Trek movie teaser posters. Apparently J. J. Abrams has come to ComicCon pretty well empty handed this year as far as the Trek movie is concerned (with the movie a good 10 months away it's far too early to expect a trailer or even a good teaser) - what we do have are four posters which, when combined, make up a Trek logo. Interesting that Uhura's one of the three crew characters shown (bottom-left is obviously Spock, right is a slightly disturbing Kirk, Uhura top-right and Eric Bana's unidentified bad guy in the top-left). Maybe she'll have a bigger part in this than her predecessor ever managed. Oh, and apparently we're getting some cool stuff from the movie Max Payne (a trailer and some scenes) which stars Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis. As someone who played the first game the day it was released and loved it, I'm pretty well guaranteed to make my way to a cinema to catch this. However dumb it will inevitably turn out to be. Now, if only there was a Deus Ex movie... http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/family/MemberTagFilms.aspxfamily
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