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Darklighter
08/11/09

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He's been attached to The Red Star since it was first optioned, and he'd rather do this? Really?
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GreyHammer
08/10/09

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wow lets rape the classics shall we?
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Bill-Lee
08/10/09

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The Moby Dick story has already inspired two science fiction films. We know them as Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek: First Contact. Khan even quotes and paraphrases the novel. In First Contact Picard is the Ahab character and the Borg take the part of the Great White Whale.
Other science fiction adaptations of Moby Dick:
A story published in Heavy Metal transferred the story to another planet and made Queequeg an alien and Ahab a cyborg.
Ray Bradbury wrote a play about it which turned the whale into a comet and made Ahab the captain of a spaceship.
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gorehound
08/10/09

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More Hollywood krap that should be boycotted.Why not just reimage everything since it is now obvious just how unoriginal you bozos of big studios truly are.
Leave Moby Dick Alone !!!!

Why Doesn't this Russian Director give us a true,factual,and epic in scope World War 2 movie that we can watch here in the US.Like A real decent film on STalingrad or Kursk ??? Why ruin Moby Dick ?
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Corvus-Corax
08/10/09

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Hey, Philip Jose Farmer already did this.
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reddingofish
08/10/09

@Corvus-Corax: So did Star Trek TNG.
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Grey_Area
08/10/09

@Corvus-Corax: I was just thinking of The Wind Whales of Ishmael!
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RandomFrequentFlierDent
08/10/09

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So supernatural whalers hunting a supernatural whale? Fine, do whatever you want. But why does it have to be "Moby Dick"? It’s obviously not going to have much to do with the book, so why not just come up a plot/story of his own? Even if he keeps the basic element of crazy, one-legged captain seeking revenge against an albino cetacean with the story chronicled by the educated sole survivor, just use another title to avoid all the nerd-rage. A little creativity isn't going to kill anyone.
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Edited by RandomFrequentFlierDent at 08/10/09 11:22 AM

tetracycloide
08/10/09

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someone should probably point out that a whale could be superpowered by whale standards and still be easily bested by 'ordinary' whalers. that sylogism assumes they began on equal footing initially which is hardly the case.
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Wookie1972
08/10/09

@tetracycloide:
The problem is that they *don't* best the whale in the book.
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tetracycloide
08/11/09

@Wookie1972: exactly, all the more reason for the whalers to be normal even if the whale is 'superpowered.'
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Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon
08/10/09

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I learned a new word yesterday; one that seemed obvious once I heard it, and one that I think applies in this situation:
Lasersharking.
Moby Dick with super powers? Really?
Seriously--the first half of Wanted was cool, but an army of rats + exploding peanut butter = stupid.
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reddingofish
08/10/09

@Anekanta: The peanut butter part scarred me but I am allergic to peanuts so I guess that makes me a little more sensitive.
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Ghost_in_the_Machine
08/10/09

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Since Moby Dick is one of those books that is referenced a lot but most people haven't actually read, a re-imagining isn't necessarily a bad way to bring the story to the big screen. Sure the purists will complain, but if it captures the spirit of the book and stands on its own as a movie, what's wrong with that?
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LilMite
08/10/09

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Let him stick to supernatural versions of Russian literature... like Crime and Punishment and Vampires.

I don't want to actually SEE Ahab throw a curving harpoon from Hell's heart at Moby Dick, while Satan's busy cracking dick jokes.
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goldfarb
08/10/09

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Bekmambetov is such a hugely overrated director...
"I don't know, they can bend bullets, whatever."
this statement pretty much sums up what is wrong with film these days.
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omgwtflolbbqbye
08/10/09

@goldfarb: My Russian friend says he's basically regarded as their equivalent to Michael Bay.
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Grey_Area
08/10/09

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At first my jaw dropped as I read this dopey idea, but now I realize it is an inevitable development of the terrible wrongness unleashed by Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.
Is Anthony Trollope next? The Martian Chronicles of Barsetshire or Plantagenet Palliser vs Godzilla?
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ManchuCandidate
08/10/09

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But will these whales be armed with lasers?
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braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
08/10/09

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I...ah...yeah, sure. Fine. What the fuck ever, man.
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tetracycloide
08/10/09

@braak: i got to that point right after i was told the contemplative and introspective tale that is moby dick was to be optioned as 'action-packed.'
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tande04
08/10/09

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Interesting concept. I can see where some would be put off by the idea of updating a classic piece of work like that but it sounds like it could be a lot of fun and visually quite stunning.
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kagekiri
08/10/09

@tande04: I dunno about "updating" as much as "taking the name and changing nearly everything else". I mean, Wanted is a lot less offensive as a movie than it's comic origin by far, but mostly because it only resembles the book in a few scenes and names.

Comic: Supervillain deconstruction
Movie: Weaving assassins working for...God?

When Moby Dick is the name of a whale-shaped space station that's going to destroy Earth, if only for the valiant superhero android team led by Captain Ahab, THAT'S the level of story distortion/irrelevance I'm expecting from this director.
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