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Archive for November 8, 2011
Saunders Pens An "Absolutely Fabulous" Film
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by Dark Horizons
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Jennifer Saunders is planning a feature film version of classic BBC TV sitcom "Absolutely Fabulous" reports Deadline.
The show ran from 1992 until 1995, and was revived in 2001 for three more years before wrapping with a New Year's special in 2004. Three more special episodes have been filmed to celebrate the show's 20th anniversary with the first to air in the UK at Christmas.
Saunders hopes to pen the feature film next year once she wraps work on the Spice Girls London stage musical Viva Forever. There's already a brief synopsis as well with the setup being eccentric best friends Edina and Patsy wake up hungover in the empty drifting yacht of an oligarch in the middle of the ocean. Even worse, their cellphones can’t get a signal.
An Update On "Mad Max: Fury Road"
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by Dark Horizons
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George Miller has been out doing the promotional rounds for the "Happy Feet" sequel and gave an update (via Coming Soon) about the progress of "Mad Max: Fury Road".
“Theoretically, it’s next year. We have 150 big vehicles built and so on. [W]e were all geared up for that. We were all set to shoot in the Australian desert and then unprecedented rain came and what was the wasteland — completely flat, red earth — is now a flower garden. The big massive salt flats in the center of Australia where they do record speed trials and stuff is now full of pelicans and fish… We sort of lost the wasteland” says Miller, speaking about the cancelled Broken Hill shoot.
At last report Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron remain attached should it go ahead. In one bit of irony though, The Daily Telegraph reports that the production's back-up desert locations in the southwest African country of Namibia are experiencing their heaviest rainfall in 120 years.
Joss Whedon Discusses His Defunct ‘Wonder Woman’ Movie
0560 days
by Screen Rant
in TV News
Numerous DC comics fans have expressed their frustration about how superhero staples like Batman and Superman have long thrived in cinematic form, while classic Amazonian warrior Wonder Woman cannot seem to catch a break – as far as (good) contemporary television or film adaptations go.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon was attached to bring Diana of Themyscira to the big screen back in 2007, but that film project ultimately fell by the wayside. That didn’t exactly hurt Whedon, though, seeing how he would go on to write and direct The Avengers; all the same, a Wonder Woman movie (sadly) still only exists in theoretical form today.
Whedon is no slouch when it comes to creating strong and varied female characters, be it Buffy, Zoë Washburne on Firefly, Adelle DeWitt on Dollhouse, Kitty Pryde ...
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Joss Whedon Discusses His Defunct ‘Wonder Woman’ Movie
0560 days
by Screen Rant
in TV News
Numerous DC comics fans have expressed their frustration about how superhero staples like Batman and Superman have long thrived in cinematic form, while classic Amazonian warrior Wonder Woman cannot seem to catch a break – as far as (good) contemporary television or film adaptations go.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon was attached to bring Diana of Themyscira to the big screen back in 2007, but that film project ultimately fell by the wayside. That didn’t exactly hurt Whedon, though, seeing how he would go on to write and direct The Avengers; all the same, a Wonder Woman movie (sadly) still only exists in theoretical form today.
Whedon is no slouch when it comes to creating strong and varied female characters, be it Buffy, Zoë Washburne on Firefly, Adelle DeWitt on Dollhouse, Kitty Pryde ...
Click to continue reading Joss Whedon Discusses His Defunct ‘Wonder Woman’ Movie
Padhila Talks More About His "Robocop"
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by Dark Horizons
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José Padilha has told STYD that his upcoming reboot of the "Robocop" franchise will explore in detail a part of the story that Paul Verhoeven's previous first film only scratched upon - the actual transition from man to machine.
"In the first 'RoboCop' when Alex Murphy is shot, gunned down, then you see some hospitals and stuff and then you cut to him as RoboCop. My movie is between those two cuts. How do you make RoboCop? How do you slowly bring a guy to be a robot? How do you actually take humanity out of someone and how do you program a brain, so to speak, and how does that affect an individual?" says Padilha who hopes to begin shooting early next year.
He's a big fan of the character and added a quick quote about why he likes the property "RoboCop' the first movie was fantastic, but even if there was no movie, the concept of 'RoboCop' is brilliant, first because it lends itself to a lot of social criticism, but also because it poses a question, 'To when do you lose you humanity?' The way it does that is by replacing body parts with machine parts, and that's very smart because guess what? It's going to happen!"