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    What Should the Wachowskis Do Next?

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    Image of huginn huginn
    03/13/09

    In reply to What Should the Wachowskis Do Next?
    How about there unproduced screen play Carnivore. Ranked as one of the best unproduced scripts ever made. A superb plot and the brothers could do a very dark and twisted tale of it and maybe catch the coattails of the fading Saw slasher flick fandom.


    Hell Cast My Chemical Romance and The Used as part of the hungry crowd and you already have the Emo kids helping you break even.

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    Image of scroggzilla raids again scroggzilla raids again
    03/13/09

    In reply to What Should the Wachowskis Do Next?
    What should the Wachowski Brothers do next?


    How about this?
    ...and I've got the script.

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    Image of Geoffrey Sperl Geoffrey Sperl
    03/13/09

    @Scroggzilla: But why remake it? The original stands on its own to this day. Remake any of the sequels - we all know "Godzilla Raids Again" or "King Kong vs. Godzilla" could be better - but the original? No... let's not head down that path again.
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    Image of scroggzilla raids again scroggzilla raids again
    03/17/09

    @Geoffrey Sperl: Not a remake. Just a new G-movie, with our scaly friend returned to his original, nasty, default setting. With a new foe...maybe you've heard of him...Cthulhu.
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    Image of phoenix phoenix
    03/12/09

    In reply to What Should the Wachowskis Do Next?
    Still mad that Speed Racer was SO underrated. Such a great movie.
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    Image of 4ndreVV 4ndreVV
    03/12/09

    In reply to What Should the Wachowskis Do Next?
    I'd love to see the Wachowskis team up with David Mamet and JG Ballard for an original screenplay that is neither cyber- nor steam-punk.
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    03/12/09

    @4ndreVV: L-O-G, L-Lots, O-Of, G-Guns. Lots of guns, lots of guns.
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    Image of Grand_Marquis Grand_Marquis
    03/12/09

    In reply to What Should the Wachowskis Do Next?
    Wait a second - what happened to ILM?? They seem like they're still in business to me! Right..?
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    Image of Plague Plague
    03/12/09

    @Grand_Marquis:

    Quite so.

    Lucas Arts just does the gaming, I think.
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    03/12/09

    In reply to What Should the Wachowskis Do Next?
    um...'formerly much missed ILM'?

    you mean these guys:

    [www.ilm.com] ?


    and Weta Workshop DOES NOT do VFX - they build models and armor and stuff...it's Weta Digial that does VFX.


    as for them opening up their own VFX shop...that's what Cameron did with Digital Domain - then he sold his stake...having a bunch of VFX guys around might be cool (ie me and my friends) but running a very difficult business isn't.


    as for what the Wachowskis should do next is find a producing partner who will tell them "NO" some of the time...creativity is fine, creativity + restraint is better.

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    Image of PVIII PVIII
    03/12/09

    In reply to What Should the Wachowskis Do Next?
    Uhhh, they did Ninja Assassin, and WB's sitting on it because it's supposedly so goddamn awful.
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    Image of Plague Plague
    03/12/09

    @PVIII:

    No, McTeigue did. They were just producers.
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    Image of Gann Gann
    03/12/09

    In reply to What Should the Wachowskis Do Next?
    They should have been involved in Dragonball:Evolution
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    Image of Ghede Ghede
    03/12/09

    In reply to What Should the Wachowskis Do Next?
    How about RETIRE? I hear that's a nice option for people who've made millions and are starting to suck.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/12/09

    In reply to What Should the Wachowskis Do Next?
    Altered Carbon

    Joel Schumacher has the rights to it. The Wachowskis should really be the ones to bring it to the screen.
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    Image of WiseGuy487 WiseGuy487
    03/12/09

    In reply to What Should the Wachowskis Do Next?
    Enough with the "Speed Racer" hate.


    Please, just let sleeping dogs lie.

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    Image of d_r_e d_r_e
    03/12/09

    @WiseGuy487:


    NOPE!

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/12/09

    In reply to What Should the Wachowskis Do Next?
    After Speed Racer they should be hanging their heads in shame...
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    Image of kubrickian kubrickian
    03/12/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: Why does everyone rip on Speed Racer so bad? Have you ever seen the original cartoon? I thought Speed Racer was brilliant.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/12/09

    @kubrickian: "Have you ever seen the original cartoon?"


    Yes I have.

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    Image of slaine17 slaine17
    03/12/09

    In reply to What Should the Wachowskis Do Next?
    John Gaeta handled the vfx for the Matrix films and for Speed Racer...Wachowskis had influence to be sure, but why the assumption that they did it all?
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    Image of Plague Plague
    03/12/09

    @slaine17:

    Personally, I'd give Gaeta ALL the credit, as he started doing this stuff before the bros came into the picture. He was working on these things for the crummy "What Dreams May Come".

    Too bad he can't direct, as his segment in the "Trapped Ashes" showed.
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    03/12/09

    @Plague: and thank Geof Darrow for the design.
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    Image of Plague Plague
    03/12/09

    @goldfarb:

    I give Geof Darrow thanks for many, many things!
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/12/09

    @Plague: Bourbon Thret roolz!
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    Image of hopskipper hopskipper
    03/13/09

    @Plague: Actually Gaeta rides the shoulders of others and takes credit for everyone else's hard work. I personally worked with him on the Matrix sequels and he barely has a clue what's going on. He tells FX artists to put the "whoosh" in there, use "sonic light" and " put more infinity in there" then goes back to Hollywood to act cool and trim his facial hair for the interviews. Those are direct quotes by the way.


    When he would force us in one direction, months later the brothers would hate it and he would blame the artists. Sorry but to hear someone say Gaeta deserves ALL the credit it makes me want to puke.

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/13/09

    @hopskipper: "Put more infinity in there", priceless!
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    Image of Adam Whitehead Adam Whitehead
    03/12/09

    In reply to What Should the Wachowskis Do Next?
    Didn't Matrix Reloaded do $800 million and Matrix Revolutions $400 million? I'm not sure I'd count either of them as commercial failures. In fact, there was some strong talk about a fourth movie for a while even after the critical mauling the two sequels received.


    I think what they need to do next is what George Lucas has needed ever since 1977: to do a low-budget project where the limitations encourage their creativity instead of them having enough money to simply answer every problem with, "CGI it,".

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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    03/12/09

    @Adam Whitehead: The Matrix sequels were completely critically panned, though they did well commercially.


    I'm not into having the Wachowskis do a low-budget flick without their awesome visuals. I loved Bound, but I want to see them transforming Hollywood not Sundance.

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    Image of Jacks Bloated Payroll Jacks Bloated Payroll
    03/12/09

    In reply to What Should the Wachowskis Do Next?
    There were 2, maybe three big action scenes in Watchmen, by my count. The Fight between Comedian and his attacker in the opening, and the Jailbreak scene. Both were done very well, and had great styling in my opinion. I'm not exactly sure what you think the Wacho's would have done differently in those sequences.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    03/12/09

    @Jacks Bloated Payroll: They would have made the sequences memorable. Those fights were terrible ripoffs of the Wachowski style. I would make an exception for the scenes in jail, which I thought were extremely well done and needed no help with the ruling.


    Fight scene with Ozzy at the end? Yuck and double yuck. Lack of squid fight? Well, that's not an effects question, so I won't add my QUADRUPLE YUCK. Oh wait sorry I just did.

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