WB Snags Frank Miller's 'Ronin'
Filed under: Action, Warner Brothers, Comic/Superhero/Geek
Details are pretty slim at this point, but it looks like Warner Bros. (elated and loaded after what 300 did at the box office) has just locked up the rights to another well regarded Frank Miller property. The studio has hired director Sylvain White to helm a movie version of Miller's "Ronin," which is the story of a bona-fide samurai who prowls the streets of 2064 searching for evildoers and battling a magical sword-wielding demon. Sounds pretty good to me......only ... Sylvain White? Really? The guy who made Stomp the Yard, Trois 3: The Escort and I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer? Really? OK, I guess the WB executives know something that I don't. (Well, something beyond the fact that Sylvain White won't cost as much as an established action director.) Not trying to savage the guy, but ... really? From Stomp the Yard to an action-packed Frank Miller adaptation? OK then.
Odds are we'll also have to contend with a title change, since "Ronin" is already fairly well-known as a John Frankenheimer crime thriller that stars Robert De Niro. My recommendations are: I'll Always Know Who You Decapitated in the Future, Trois 4: The Swordening and Slash the Neck.
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5-02-2007 @ 2:42PM
ThePete said...
I'm pretty sure Frankenheimer's Ronin was in fact a spy thriller, not a crime thriller.
The gist of the movie is about a former US intelligence officer who is essentially laid off after the cold war ends. What does a spy do once he's got no master? Ronin, is the Japanese word for "samurai with no master". Just an FYI.
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5-02-2007 @ 3:25PM
bgdc said...
Yeeha, another schlocky adaptation of a Miller graphic-novel. We'll be treated to more b-actors amongst CGI worlds where visuals usurp dialogue, acting and direction.
Ronin can still be the title. There's little reason to change it over a 15 year old second rate spy flick with one well known scene.
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5-02-2007 @ 4:26PM
carlos the jackal said...
Didn't Frank Miller say he would be the only one directing movies based on his works from now on?
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5-02-2007 @ 5:55PM
joe said...
whats wrong with Frank Miller's Ronin?
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5-03-2007 @ 7:25AM
Mikey said...
Batman and Ronin
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5-03-2007 @ 9:26AM
Yayaja said...
Jackal, I also remember reading a post on cinematical about Frank Miller saying only he would direct future film adaptions of his work. Well as they say money talks, bullshit walks.
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5-05-2007 @ 12:39PM
will v said...
"slash the neck" is brilliant. Now i'm hoping for a title change as well...
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5-31-2007 @ 11:08PM
anti-stream said...
im kinda geting ma at all these frank miller movies
yeah there good
yeah hes a amazeing artist
yeah his graphic novles are pretty much the only thing i like read
but fact of the matter is HOLLYWOOD KILLS
they will keep makeing movies from his book and keep cuting corners and cuting corners just so they can save a buck
they started off amazeing(sin city,300)and now with white directing it i think its the first signs of them cuting corners like they have done so meany times befor
because they know if they do good on the first 2 and get people in to them they dont have to work as hard to give frank miller (and his work)the respect they both so muchly deserve
so in my final words....
FUCK YOU HOLLYWOOD SHORT CUTTERS!!
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