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    McG's 20,000 Leagues Gets A Rewrite, Luckily Not By Christian Bale
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    Image of hopskipper hopskipper
    07/08/09

    In reply to McG's 20,000 Leagues Gets A Rewrite, Luckily Not By Christian Bale
    I bet money he'll find a way to put in a chase scene involving steam punk motocross bikes. I'm not joking.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    07/08/09

    @hopskipper: Or steampunk jet-skis! That will make the trailer AWESOME!! The movie itself will probably be unwatchable.
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    Image of SnehalMarten SnehalMarten
    07/08/09

    In reply to McG's 20,000 Leagues Gets A Rewrite, Luckily Not By Christian Bale
    Wouldn't Naveen Andrew be a vastly better choice, considering the fact that he can actually ACT?
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    07/08/09

    @SnehalMarten:


    I would LOVE to see Naveen Andrew playing Nemo!

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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    07/08/09

    @SnehalMarten: That's who I've been campaigning for!


    He can act (does great as guy with mysterious tragic past), is easy on the eyes, and is actually Indian.

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    Image of spiritkittykat spiritkittykat
    07/08/09

    @SnehalMarten:


    I agree. Naveen Andrews would be SOOO much better. He is a good actor and he is good to look at. No offense to Will Smith, but he's becoming a little tired to me. He's getting the 'Denzel Washington Syndrome' wherein he plays the same character in everything no matter who the character is...

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    Image of d_r_e d_r_e
    07/08/09

    @spiritkittykat:


    Truly, Will Smith is a one trick pony. I wish he would go away, and take his son with him as well.

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    Image of d_r_e d_r_e
    07/08/09

    In reply to McG's 20,000 Leagues Gets A Rewrite, Luckily Not By Christian Bale
    Will Smith playing Nemo is just as wrong as his little spoiled brat of a son playing Ralph Macchio's character in the Karate Kid.
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    07/08/09

    In reply to McG's 20,000 Leagues Gets A Rewrite, Luckily Not By Christian Bale
    McG is a fucking terrible director, and it really bums me out to hear that he's the one remaking 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. The guy needs to go back to directing shitty rock videos. Goddamn you McG.


    Will Smith is definitely capable of playing in comedies, but anything else ... he's complete shit (I Am Legend for example).

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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/08/09

    In reply to McG's 20,000 Leagues Gets A Rewrite, Luckily Not By Christian Bale
    I thought Will Smith already played a fish in a previous movie.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    07/08/09

    @crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: that was just will smith playing will smith in a fish costume.
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    Image of demonbaby demonbaby
    07/08/09

    In reply to McG's 20,000 Leagues Gets A Rewrite, Luckily Not By Christian Bale
    I wish someone would take this out of McG's hands after seeing what happened with Terminator. This guy has all the directing talent of my butthole, and somehow he keeps getting these big properties that could be really great in the hands of someone with even a vague sense of taste. My only hope is that this film becomes the horrendous disaster that finally gets McG blacklisted from Hollywood.
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    07/08/09

    @demonbaby: what big property did het get other than terminator? and don't say 20,000 leagues, that's not set in stone at this point.
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    Image of PVIII PVIII
    07/08/09

    In reply to McG's 20,000 Leagues Gets A Rewrite, Luckily Not By Christian Bale
    God this sounds like a terrible idea. But I guess if Pirates of the Caribbean worked (at least monetarily, and I thought that idea sounded horrific), what the hell do I know.
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    Image of Mr.HandsomePrettyFace Mr.HandsomePrettyFace
    07/08/09

    @PVIII: Personally, I thought the last Pirates movie was 10 times worse than the Transformers 2 that everyone here seems to hate.
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    Image of d_r_e d_r_e
    07/08/09

    @Mr.HandsomePrettyFace:


    Actually I thought that the last Pirates movie was right on par with Transformers 2. And by that, I mean they're both shit.

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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    07/08/09

    In reply to McG's 20,000 Leagues Gets A Rewrite, Luckily Not By Christian Bale
    What has McG ever done that should make me interested in this?


    And I like "Chuck."

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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    07/08/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: *sheepishly
    full throttle?
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    Image of Srynerson Srynerson
    07/08/09

    In reply to McG's 20,000 Leagues Gets A Rewrite, Luckily Not By Christian Bale
    Plus, isn't Captain Nemo usually depicted as either a Hindu or a Sikh?


    In The Mysterious Island, yes. In 20,000 Leagues, his ethnicity wasn't explicitly mentioned, but Verne's intention at that point was reportedly to have the character be Polish.

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    Image of Idaan Idaan
    07/08/09

    In "20000 Leagues" Verne meant him to be Polish because the French were largely sympathetic to the Polish fight against Russian occupants. However by the time "The Mysterious Island" was finished, the public opinion turned against the Poles due to their involvement in Commune of Paris, and the publisher forced Verne to change Nemo's nationality.@Srynerson:
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    Image of Meredith Woerner Meredith Woerner
    07/08/09

    @Srynerson: thanks guys!
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    07/08/09

    @Idaan: so his nationality should really be non-american but something americans sympathize with.


    i've got nothing...

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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/08/09

    @tetracycloide: How about Tibetan?
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    07/08/09

    @crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: americans that aren't hippies and actually watch movies...
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    07/08/09

    @tetracycloide: But there are all those big-time Hollywood types who get all moony over Tibetan Buddhisim. "See it's nothing at all like the ___ Church I was raised in, it's so...so Other! And isn't the Dalaii Lama so well-spoken? Look, he gave me a scarf!!"

    Sheesh.
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    07/08/09

    @Grey_Area: Shuddup, Richard Gere.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    07/08/09

    @crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: "But all of the world's problems can be solved by following the Tibetan's example. Free Tibet! The future is in feudal theocracy!"


    Sorry, what was the topic agin? Oh yeah, McG directing a Captain Nemo movie.

    No thank you.

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    07/08/09

    @crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: A-hole Hollywood types aside, not a bad idea.


    I'm still hoping for Naveen Andrews. Indian, hunky, does good with the mysterious thing.

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