Forum - View topicNEWS: Straight Outta Compton's Jonathan Herman to Rework Dreamworks' Ghost in the Shell Script
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Themaster20000
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Still need a better director than the one they have. I can't see it being anymore than being generic sci-fi action schlock.
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meiam
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None of these name seem to fit the project... I guess Johansson could sorta pull Motoko (ignoring the obvious non Asian part, but I'm assuming the movie is not set in japan).
How do these decision even happen? -"We need someone to touch up the script of an action heavy sci-fi with some philosophy" -"How about that guy, his last movie was about a rap band" -"Genius!" |
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leafy sea dragon
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It's more likely it's that he received a reputation for writing a well-acclaimed, high-box-office, intelligent story with a gritty setting and with hardboiled characters. That's the strongest connection I can think of.
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Beatdigga
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Yeah, say what you will, but Straight Outta Compton did very well commercially and critically.
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enurtsol
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And it became a meme!
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EricJ2
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Yep, that's how "Flavor of the Month" works. (And it seemed like such a great idea at the time when Fox wanted to hire a new indie cult-movie director to do a big-budget superhero movie, just because he'd done the big breakout critical hit of the moment...) When the GITS producers saw the Compton writer, they didn't think "Rap", they thought "Urban thriller" and "Oscar buzz...Get him now and first, while he's cheap!" (Compton's still going to be steamrollered by the Pixar movie, though.) As it is, I still see Johansson in the role, and think it was only envisioned as another generic whitewashed empowerment-fantasy "sandbox" movie for another A-list actress to spend a couple of fun weeks running around and playing badass-cops-and-robbers in. IOW, "Lucy", only less French. 
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They're STILL doing a Scarface remake? Last I'd heard of it was the previous script draft three years ago on a viewer-interest survey--which studios usually do to back off their bets on disasters-in-the-making--where it was going to bear absolutely no resemblance to the Pacino movie (except for the obvious geek-gasm refs), be reset in the Mexican drug cartels, and throw in a crazy subplot where the titular scar was some prophecy of our hero's "destiny". One can see why they're redrafting it  , but no crazy abandoned script draft is ever truly lost in the final script...Oh, and at the time, they also asked us what other 70's-80's action movies we wanted to see rebooted: Godfather, Pulp Fiction, Die Hard or Magnificent Seven?
That was literally an industry cry for help--"Help" as in "We've forgotten how to make action movies! Why don't domestic US audiences go to see action movies anymore, like they did back in the old days?" (Oh, and the Birds thing was some looney Michael Bay idea they never got around to throwing out at New Line, so it sat around, got moldy, mutated, and was picked up by Universal during one of their icon-happy moments...) {Combined serial posts. ~nobahn} |
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BadNewsBlues
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Rap band? NWA are a "rap band"? Like seriously 
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GATSU
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Beatdigga: Yeah, but it works, because it's based off a true story.
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AiddonValentine
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This is not going to end well.
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Shadowrun20XX
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When keepin it real goes wrong.
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Holo Wolfgod
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back to the depths of development hell you go!
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