dean devlin Tagged Articles at Cinematical
Review: Flyboys
Filed under: Action », Drama », Independent », New Releases », MGM », Theatrical Reviews », Cinematical Indie »
Those familiar with the comic-strip Peanuts will recall that Snoopy often fantasized about being a World War I flying ace. Sitting atop his doghouse as if it were a Sopwith Camel biplane, he dreamed of being in dogfight combat with his arch nemesis The Red Baron, a real German ace (never actually depicted in the strip) who would riddle the doghouse with bullet holes. It is probably our generation's greatest association with that war, seeing as how Hollywood has pretty much ignored it for decades.
Ever since Howard Hughes lost both money and lives attempting to recreate the war's aerial combat on screen for 1930's Hell's Angels, the cost of showing another realistic dogfight just couldn't have been worth it for producers in the subsequent 75 years. The closest thing to a dogfight at the movies has been Star Wars, which modeled its space battles after WWI footage -- not using real spaceships, of course. Now, finally, there is Flyboys, a film that uses computer effects for the dogfights, making for a much safer production, and also a more artificial one.
Isobar is Back?
Filed under: Action », Sci-Fi & Fantasy », Deals », RumorMonger », Celebrities and Controversy », Scripts »
Here is a weird story direct from the files of "whaaa?" Do you remember back in the early 90s, when Isobar was supposed to be the next big sci-fi movie? That's okay, neither did I. Let me refresh your memory, just in case you, like I, have no idea what Isobar was. According to writer/producer Dean Devlin, Isobar was "the film that originally brought Roland Emmerich from Germany to the U.S." Emmerich, as you may recall, broke big with his smash hit Independence Day, after the initial deal for Isobar fell through. The contracted studio planned on a $90 million budget in 1990 for the flick, which would have starred Sylvester Stallone and Kim Basinger, with Joel Silver on board to produce.So why did the achingly major project never get a green light? Devlin says the studio didn't like his script, and hired their own ringer to write a new one. Emmerich, however, refused to use a non-Devlin script, and the whole thing fell apart, with the two going off to work together on Independence Day and several other projects. But now Isobar is back on track: It will start shooting in either October or early November, and will be directed by Emmerich's old partner Peter Winther. Mercifully, Stallone is no longer attached.
More Stargate -- And Not the MacGyver Kind
Filed under: Action », Sci-Fi & Fantasy », MGM », RumorMonger », Newsstand », Remakes and Sequels »
In the middle of what was surely a really boring roundtable about his sure-to-be really boring movie Flyboys (James Franco, I love you, but you can't act), producer Dean Devlin dropped some news that is sure to have Stargate's surprisingly large fandom doing little alternate world dances of joy. Sort of confirming earlier rumors, Devlin said that Stargate was always viewed by its creators as the opening of a trilogy, but the studio's focus back in 1994 was on the TV series, so the sequels fell by the wayside. Now that the series has been so successful and there's been some turnover at MGM, though, the studio's interest in more movies has been renewed. Interestingly, Devlin says that the film's stars (Kurt Russell and James Spader) and director (Roland Emmerich) remain interested in doing the sequels -- and claims that Stargate 2 was always supposed to take place 12 years after the first one, so the age of the actors wouldn't be a problem. Well, isn't that a nice bit of
[via RT]
New On DVD - Bee Season, Brokeback Mountain, The Chronicles Of Narnia
Filed under: New Releases », DVD Reviews », New on DVD », Home Entertainment »
• Bee Season - Richard Gere as a rough-boy sailor in An Officer and a Gentleman? OK. Richard Gere as a singing and dancing attorney in Chicago? Convincing enough. Richard Gere as a Jewish husband (of Juliette Binoche) and father exploring the mysteries of God through the flawless spelling of his daughter? Oy. Many parts of this existential drama about the ways in which a brilliant 11-year-old (Flora Cross) affects her family are sketchy, as no one of the characters is well-drawn enough for us to care about them too much. Genius was captured far better in films like Little Man Tate and Searching For Bobby Fischer.
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