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failures of cinema
It's happened to all of us. We read a novel that blows us away, and a few years later its title appears on posters underneath the face of Harrison Ford or Natalie Portman. But at some inevitable point in that darkened theater, the movie takes a turn we didn't expect. Our eyebrows go up, our lips turn down, and the disappointment begins. Maybe the wrong director or writer can curse an otherwise excellent project — or maybe some things were just never meant to be filmed. Here are 10 books that we think should never have been committed to celluloid.
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10 Books That Were Better Off on Paper
It's happened to all of us. We read a novel that blows us away, and a few years later its title appears on posters underneath the face of Harrison Ford or Natalie Portman. But at some inevitable point in that darkened theater, the movie takes a turn we didn't expect. Our eyebrows go up, our lips turn down, and the disappointment begins. Maybe the wrong director or writer can curse an otherwise excellent project — or maybe some things were just never meant to be filmed. Here are 10 books that we think should never have been committed to celluloid.
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Vendetta Director To Work On Alien Conspiracies
James McTeigue (V For Vendetta) is set bring his flair for darkness to the science fiction movie Revelation. It's his first non-Wachowskis-produced project (he's also directing their Ninja Assassin movie.) And it has everything: ritual murders, alien abductions and weird conspiracies. More »
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Owen Paterson designed the bleak cityscapes of the Matrix movies and V For Vendetta, and now he's creating the candy-colored neopolises of Speed Racer. Not to mention concept cars with wheels that can turn a full 180 degrees. We tracked him down in Sydney, Australia and asked him about the visual influences behind Cosmopolis, the city where Speed races, and the cars which Speed and his opponents drive. Along the way, he dropped a surprising amount of backstory about the alternate world of the Wachowski's Speed Racer, coming in May.
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Speed Racer Designer Explains Future City's "Carchitecture"
Owen Paterson designed the bleak cityscapes of the Matrix movies and V For Vendetta, and now he's creating the candy-colored neopolises of Speed Racer. Not to mention concept cars with wheels that can turn a full 180 degrees. We tracked him down in Sydney, Australia and asked him about the visual influences behind Cosmopolis, the city where Speed races, and the cars which Speed and his opponents drive. Along the way, he dropped a surprising amount of backstory about the alternate world of the Wachowski's Speed Racer, coming in May.
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alan moore
Alan Moore Documentary Will Melt Your Eyes And Ears
You may have read Alan Moore's work in Watchmen, Swamp Thing, V For Vendetta, or The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but do you know much about the guy behind some of the greatest comics of the turn of the millennium? AlterTube has posted a 2003 documentary about him, which you can watch after the jump. If you haven't seen or heard Moore before, you might be in for a bit of a shock. Or, he might be exactly what you were expecting. More »
v for vendetta
Must Read: V For Vendetta
Must-read graphic novels are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale.Title: V For Vendetta
Date: 1982-1988
Vitals: It's fascist future England time! Only a carnival-masked psychopath can save us from the heavy hand of an Orwellian uber-state. But can terrorism, however jolly, ever be justified? (Answer: yes.) More »
