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Re: Assorted Discussions of Films That Never Happened
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2019 9:17 pm
by DarkImbecile
The article notes that he’s editing season two now; I’ve not seen any indication whether or not there’ll be more episodes beyond that.
Re: Assorted Discussions of Films That Never Happened
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2019 9:37 pm
by Persona
miless wrote: Wed Feb 06, 2019 9:06 pm
I always wanted him to actually make Rendezvous with Rama
Agreed.
I just really don't want him down the path of Social Network, Benjamin Button, Gone Girl, Dragon Tattoo, etc. Which is why I was excited about World War Z 2, even though it was, well, World War Z 2. Really hoping Fincher's next project is something sci-fi or horror or adjacent to those genres.
I mean, he's the ideal director for procedurals, but he's kind of doing that with Mindhunter right now and he perfected the form with Zodiac, so I'd rather see something different for his next film.
Re: Assorted Discussions of Films That Never Happened
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2019 9:55 pm
by flyonthewall2983
Maybe get back to his roots and do a musical. He was almost going to direct the Motley Crue bio-pic that's on track to be released on Netflix this year.
Re: Assorted Discussions of Films That Never Happened
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2019 8:44 am
by domino harvey
Stumbled upon this in the Spring 1963 issue of
Sight and Sound and enjoyed the vintage shitposting
Re: Assorted Discussions of Films That Never Happened
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2019 1:31 pm
by swo17
I can actually see a lot of those!
Re: Assorted Discussions of Films That Never Happened
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2019 1:32 pm
by tenia
That Jean-Yves Cousteau ref is quite silly though. "Oh, there's a whale in there, put Cousteau !"
Re: New Films in Production, v.2
Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2019 4:13 pm
by Cremildo
Re: New Films in Production, v.2
Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2019 4:25 pm
by dda1996a
Re: New Films in Production, v.2
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2019 1:51 am
by DarkImbecile
Re: New Films in Production, v.2
Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 4:44 pm
by domino harvey
Re: Assorted Discussions of Films That Never Happened
Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 9:34 pm
by FrauBlucher
That really is too bad
Re: Assorted Discussions of Films That Never Happened
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 4:46 am
by flyonthewall2983
Steven Conrad on what happened to Chad Schmidt, the "
Being John Malkovich with Brad Pitt" that never got off the ground. I was a big fan of Conrad's Amazon show
Patriot, and I can see how Pitt could have been a good leading man for that kind of dry, dark humor.
Re: Assorted Discussions of Films That Never Happened
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 9:39 pm
by Oedipax
flyonthewall2983 wrote: Tue Jan 21, 2020 4:46 am
Steven Conrad on what happened to Chad Schmidt, the "
Being John Malkovich with Brad Pitt" that never got off the ground. I was a big fan of Conrad's Amazon show
Patriot, and I can see how Pitt could have been a good leading man for that kind of dry, dark humor.
I found this bit kind of strange:
We spent time getting the story together and when I felt I was happy with the tale and the way the script was articulating these themes, Brad - if I remember correctly - made a small list of names that he would work with on the project. And it was Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, the Coens, Tarantino. And when I saw that list, I knew it wasn’t going to happen. Those filmmakers are auteurs - they curate their material and generally don’t just make projects that land on their desk; they build them from scratch.
If it went down that way, it sounds more to me like Pitt's way of passing without passing - none of those filmmakers would ever even remotely consider directing someone else's script, I don't think. Pitt had to know that, right?
Re: Assorted Discussions of Films That Never Happened
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 10:01 pm
by flyonthewall2983
Maybe him feeling more comfortable having a name as a director on it, as opposed to Conrad who was just putting out his first movie as director. It is curious he didn't think of Fincher who he's had a long partnership with, and doesn't cultivate his own material either. So it is perhaps more of his long-winded way of saying no, but if they still talk about it who knows.
Re: Assorted Discussions of Films That Never Happened
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 11:32 pm
by Brian C
The acorns have directed other people’s scripts a couple of times before, although not exactly to what I’d describe as stellar results.
Re: Assorted Discussions of Films That Never Happened
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2020 5:58 am
by beamish14
Incredible oral history of
A Glimpse of Tiger, an Elliott Gould production in the midst of his astonishing run of films made between 1969 and 1971 that was shut down after less than a week's worth of filming due to Gould's erratic behavior.
Re: Assorted Discussions of Films That Never Happened
Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2020 4:12 pm
by domino harvey
Re: Assorted Discussions of Films That Never Happened
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2020 4:05 am
by beamish14
Clips from Henry Selick's
The Shadow King. More than 40% of it was in the can when
Disney decided they didn't want to support a riskier film not based on an established IP. I truly hoped that Annapurna or another company
would have purchased it, but the sets were dismantled, the production company dissolved, and the film never to be. An incredible shame.
Maybe we'll get some more insights into what happened when Selick makes the promotional rounds for his Netflix-financed film
Wendell and Wild.
More images from it and a rough synopsis.
Re: Assorted Discussions of Films That Never Happened
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2020 2:51 pm
by colinr0380
Was that from that "box office poison" period? It seems to be from around the same period as
Christopher Strong.
Re: Assorted Discussions of Films That Never Happened
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2020 4:35 pm
by The Fanciful Norwegian
Hepburn was coming right off of
Little Women when this footage was shot, which was the commercial peak of her early career. The "Box Office Poison" label dates from
1938. But all of her post-
Little Women films were either money-losers or only marginally profitable until
The Philadelphia Story, so in hindsight the studio probably wasn't too unhappy the project fell through.
Re: Assorted Discussions of Films That Never Happened
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2020 5:28 pm
by domino harvey
I do however believe this was right around the time of her first big bomb, Spitfire, that started the slide
Re: Assorted Discussions of Films That Never Happened
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2020 6:11 pm
by soundchaser
Conflicting information from the excellent (though sadly out-of-print) The Dawn of Technicolor — the Hepburn test footage was just that: a test, one of seven shot at RKO by Robert Edmund Jones for Pioneer some time before December 1933. (Another included John Barrymore as Hamlet!) I’m not sure where MoMA got their information from, but as far as I can tell this was more a camera test than anything else. I think they’re mixing up two stories (plus the chronology isn’t quite right).
Re: Assorted Discussions of Films That Never Happened
Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2021 8:22 pm
by domino harvey
Re: Assorted Discussions of Films That Never Happened
Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2021 8:37 pm
by aox
According to the employee, Disney told Blue Sky Studios the shutdown was due to the economic fallout of COVID-19.
Poor Disney. That's awful.
Re: Assorted Discussions of Films That Never Happened
Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2021 8:41 pm
by knives
Poor workers at Disney. That’s potentially hundreds of animators and other workers without an income.