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Some Inspiration from Director Terry Gilliam
Filed under: Fandom », DIY/Filmmaking », Steven Spielberg », Lists », Trailers and Clips »
"I was 64-years-old when I made this film, and I think I finally discovered the child within me. It turned out to be ... a little girl." Man, I love Terry Gilliam. The above video is his introduction to the film Tideland, and I found it on a new Cracked list which covers 9 Awesome Directors Who Temporarily Lost Their Mind. Basically, the list is pretty much that: directors who are primarily known for their awesome films, but for some reason slipped in a few random duds that seemingly came from left field. Tideland is Gilliam's dud, according to them, and since I still haven't seen the film, I can't say whether they are right. But I can tell you that I absolutely love this video intro from the director, and it makes me want to see the film even more.
Also on their list are Francis Ford Coppola (Jack), Steven Spielberg (Hook, though he should've been on there for 1941), Spike Lee (She Hate Me), Guy Ritchie (Swept Away), M. Night Shyamalan (Lady in the Water), Sidney Lumet (The Wiz), Ridley Scott (A Good Year) and Clint Eastwood (the years 1996-2002). Some of these films were loved by many, so I could see this list potentially rubbing people the wrong way. What do you think of it? And what other directors surprised you with a random crappy film mixed in with an otherwise spotless record?
New Line grabs Pan
Filed under: Horror », Independent », Deals », New Line », Newsstand », Remakes and Sequels », Cinematical Indie »
We all love to talk about how Hollywood never
has any new ideas, and the folks there rarely do anything to change our minds, churning out crappy sequel after crappy
sequel, and endlessly remaking and tweaking old ideas. Among those poor, abused old ideas is that of a little,
green-clad boy named Peter Pan. From a silent
adaptation in 1924 to the retina-scarring image of a fully-Naired Robin Williams as a grown-up Peter in Hook; from the 1950s cartoon
version to Johnny Depp's J.M. Barrie in Finding Neverland, Hollywood just cannot get enough of that flying
kid. And now, just in case you were worried a whole three years might pass without another Peter Pan flick, New Line has
bought a pitch that approaches the story from a rather promising horror angle.Blandly-but-cleverly entitled Pan, first-time writer Ben Magid's pitch has a supernatural twist, and depicts Peter as "a villain tracked by police captain named Hook"; New Line paid for the pitch and then set the film up to be developed through the recently-founded Energy Entertainment management group. Because I'm a whore for dark detective stories, I think this approach has a ton of potential. The more rational among you, however, will probably say that it's going to be a crappy, gimmicky mess with a throwaway story that probably won't be able to sustain 90 minutes of film. Sigh. Dammit, why can't you just let me dream for a few minutes?
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