(HOW COULD I NOT???)
Look, Angel, I know you've been out of the loop for a while, but I'm still evil. I don't do errands...unless they're evil errands.
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§ ita § - Jan 28, 2008 5:51:53 am PST #3768 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Dana - Jan 28, 2008 5:53:15 am PST #3769 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
That's what she said.
Steph L. - Jan 28, 2008 5:56:19 am PST #3770 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
In your pants!
Frankenbuddha - Jan 28, 2008 5:59:10 am PST #3771 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Tonight, on Single Entendre Playhouse...
Jessica - Jan 28, 2008 5:59:21 am PST #3772 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Guillermo del Toro is in talks to direct back-to-back installments of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit," which is being co-financed by New Line and MGM.
Squee!
(This seems firmer than the previous reports of "Hey, Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro know each other, right?" Of course, everything's on hold until the strike ends...)
Tom Scola - Jan 28, 2008 6:04:59 am PST #3773 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Of course, everything's on hold until the strike ends...
They could use the Rankin-Bass script!
beekaytee - Jan 28, 2008 6:08:20 am PST #3774 of 10000
Compassionately intolerant
Having just rewatched ROTK, it's hard to imagine anyone else bringing me to Middle Earth, but Del Toro is a good choice I suppose.
Watching all the special features and seeing the PJ/New Line love makes me so sad to think of the eventual goings on. It's like watching your two best friends break up in high school. Tragic.
Miracleman - Jan 28, 2008 6:15:18 am PST #3775 of 10000
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
This reminds me of The Simpsons last night. There was one moment that had me rollin'.
It's a "flashback to the '90s" ep and at one point they pan across a college campus chock full of slightly younger versions of the characters and for a second you see Comic Book Guy surrounded by other nerds saying "...and that is why The Lord of The Rings can never be filmed!"
beekaytee - Jan 28, 2008 6:17:55 am PST #3776 of 10000
Compassionately intolerant
Bwah.
I was intrigued by the doc on JRRT when he was quoted as saying he thought the trilogy was 'unsuitable' for the screen. He's right, of course, the world as he saw it would be impossible to replicate. Still, PJ did a good enough job for me.
tommyrot - Jan 28, 2008 7:15:41 am PST #3777 of 10000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Hey ita - we may have talked about this years ago, but did Linda Hamilton study Krav for her role in Terminator 2? The commentary for the DVD talks about her being taught self defense and guns by an Israeli instructor.
Linda also insisted on actually doing a lot of the stuff in the movie. For example, in the scene of her picking the lock, she actually is picking the lock. She also got very good at target shooting.
One weird thing - in the scene in the elevator, she forgot to put her earplugs in before one of the takes. As a result, she suffered permanent hearing loss in one ear as a result of Arnold firing the shotgun near her. But she kept right on with the scene, and that's the take that ended up in the movie.