On Jun 1, 2005, at 3:54 PM, Leonard Matusik wrote:
God Warren; THAT sucks....
Look what BBC did with Adam's "Hitchhicker", :D
Not the Beeb. I was thinking more along the lines of the folks who did
the *Brit* version of _War of the Worlds_ recently.
And the Beeb TV version was still a damn sight better than the farce
recently reeking up cinemas.
But Uplift WARS! (see even the name sounds movie-ish)
That couldn't be a whole lot harder to do than "Planet of the Apes",
could it?
Which version do you mean? The Heston one with the goofy unlifelike
masks, or the Burton one that was a variant of the first one, which
was
almost wholly unrelated to Boulle's book?
***well, the second one of course Warren, I was speaking from a purely
technical perspective. My KID could do better than the first
one these days>
Heck, a seventh grader with a flip pad and set of colored pencils
could've done better.
(OK, not fair. I guess the FX were *tolerable* in context in the Heston
film ... but when you compare PotA's "apes" to the pre-humans in
_2001_, well...)
There's no opportunity for Coke or Nike product placement and no role
for a "dynamic ethnic talent" such as Will Smith or Chris Rock. None
of
the movies would be a "buddy picture" nor a "special effects
extravaganza", and unfortunately there's a waft of Costner stank
hovering about the name "Brin" in certain parts of this universe.
Now wait a minute here, Will Smith might be able to play Uthacalthing,
the Tymbrini ambassidor and Danny Devito would be great as Gubru
Suzerain of Beam and Talon...............But, I'm sorry; you're
absolutely right about the rest of it..... I shouldn't have brought
it up.
Danny DeVito as a Gubru? Hmm, you thinkin' of his role in _Batman_?
Will Smith as an antenna'd alien. Huh.
--
Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books
http://books.nightwares.com/
Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror"
http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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