week ending 8/21/05
Polish Brothers Given More Work
Filmmaking brothers Michael and
Mark Polish have announced their new project and somebody is allowing them
to go through with it despite their history of making movies that nobody
cares about. Not only do the Polish boys try too hard to make quirky
indies, their films make little sense, don't win over critics and never
make any money. Their latest, titled The Astronaut Farmer,
will star Billy Bob Thornton as an eccentric who builds a rocket in his
barn.
Disney and Shankman Tackle Another Tired Idea
Thanks to the success of
The Pacifier, Disney has hired Adam Shankman to direct another
of their unimaginative scripts, this one by Bill Kelly (Blast from
the Past) who seems to have ignored the Shaquille O'Neal vehicle
Kazaam by pitching the project as a modern day Aladdin.
Comic Book Adaptation: 300 – It would
be interesting, though highly redundant, for Zack Snyder to direct Frank
Miller’s graphic novel about Spartan warriors as Robert Rodriguez
did with Sin City and make it look like the comic. Actually,
a lot of the fast-motion, blood-splattering cinematography of his Dawn
of the Dead remake sometimes looked like violent splash pages. There
needs to be something done to make this from being another disappointing
historical epic. (Variety)
Novel Adaptation: A Fine Dark Line –
Did you ever wish that the dead kid at the end of Stand By Me
would begin haunting the four main characters? Well, producer/director
Adam Friedman describes the Joe R. Lansdale book he’s acquired the
rights to as like the 1986 Rob Reiner film combined with a ghost story.
Hey, as long as he also combines the adaptation with those Playboy videos
he used to shoot, he’s got my ticket already bought.
(The
Hollywood Reporter)
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