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10/06/09
Or rather, he wrote a script that the studio would refuse to invest in. Judging from the excerpts that made their way online a few years back, I don't think this is too far off.
It seemed like a great script that would have been an amazing movie. But it's a hard sell, because all that shit requires a mondo budget that I don't think the studio wants to commit to.
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Also the action scenes sucked balls. They hired the dude that choreographs the shaky cam action scenes in the Bourne movies. Like other filmmakers, they forgot the only reason people accepted shaky cam in those movies was cause it fit with the guerrilla-style tone of Greengrass's direction. And going back to Casino Royale, it was even more jarring since we were used to traditional wide angle action scenes.
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Is that what you people want? More Star Wars prequels? I think not.
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Whether or not every movie the man makes suffers from similar problems, I have no idea.
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In the conventional sense we had the hero, a villain with a convoluted/dastardly scheme, hero unraveling said scheme, dead bad guy, the end.
Obviously the stuff with the Quantum organization is still unresolved, but its not much different as the old Bond films where we knew that Spectre/Smersh was behind everything in this movie and the next.
However the more self-contained arc was supposed to be Bond's personal character development. He starts outs as a man driven by vengeance, which clashes with his personal duty to MI6, and in during his mission he has to figure out where his loyalty is going to lie- with himself or with the agency. At the end he decides that revenge for revenge sake is a pointless endeavor and self-destructive at worse so he returns to work, to the one thing he is sure in.
Of course it's easy to miss both of those things cause the movie didn't handle either plot very well.
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There was one in the cold open to Casino Royale though...
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:~/
I think you meant Bond breaks into a guy's hotel room, the guy comes at him with a knife, they fight in the bedroom/ living area, then on the balcony, then Bond stabs the guy in the leg with his own knife and waits for him to bleed out to death.
Though your bathroom/toenail clipper version of the scene sounds much better and would have been worth the price of a ticket alone...
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07/17/09
Yes, let's take the script away from a genius and give it to a hack.
By the time this comes out (if it ever does), even the general public is going to be totally over zombies and no one but a few die-hards (har!) will be watching.
07/17/09
As one guy I knew said. "Think Lord of the Rings big battles scenes but now put in zombies ripping crowds to pieces as they try to get on sinking rusted hulks to escape."
Another great scene was supposedly the protagonist in the middle of the Great Panic stuck on a freeway with his wife and child. He looks in his rear view mirror to see a wave of zombies literally engulfing every car behind him as it rolls toward where he is. If that idea doesn't cause the ass to clench in terror, I don't know what would.
Maybe MJS went too big in the industry eyes and now they are getting a second writer to tone down. If so, they are doing the supposed epic script a great disservice. MJS is the one person who I believe could put together a masterpiece for WWZ.
07/17/09
Guy's the spiritual ancestor of Joss Whedon.
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Still, I can't think of a novel I want made more right now than this. Please, please let it finally come together.
07/17/09
And as excited as I am for Yonkers, I'm equally excited to see how they handle (and keep interesting) the final battle where they just sit there and fire off a round every 2 seconds and pile body on body for days on end.
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i hope they include the ISS astronauts. hell i know it'll be cut but it would be great to see that sequence...
07/17/09
And yeah, really, is there any part of the book we don't want to see? The pilot's trek through the swamp, blind swordsman, celeb house on Long Island. AH It's all so friggin good!!!!
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Bleh. I'm so conflicted now. Okay, not really, but man I'm so tired of zombies.
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