On the musical theatre side, Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Anderson’s Sweidsh masterpiece “Kristine” is busy being translated into English for its Broadway opening. It’s only taken five years, with no opening set yet.
Hell, I can could done the translation by now.
Some years back, Schwarzenegger publicly stated that he was interested in doing a movie about the pulp magazine character, Doc Savage. IIRC, there was actually a script at one time. There are rumors that the project is still moving ahead even without Arnold, albeit slowly.
Doc Savage fans desperately want another movie, both to spark interest in the character and to erase the memory of the incredibly bad Doc Savage flick that George Pal made back in the 70’s. DS fans regard the George Pal film as a serious embarassment.
That’s what I came here to mention, but I didn’t know about the PSH rumors. Nice.
I seem to mention this film a lot here, but Miracle Mile was thought of for a long time as one of the best scripts that would never be shot, though finally it was. Um…Interview With the Vampire was like twenty years between conception and filming, I think, but I’m not sure it’s a good movie concept…no, it is. Just not a good book.
I like Miracle Mile a lot.
I’d love to see Peter Jackson make a Doc Savage movie. (Especially if somebody could get him to stop using cheesy B-movie slow-motion shots.)
“The Other Boleyn Girl,” from the book with the same name. There was a BBC mini-series a couple of years ago, but imdb had an entry a couple of months ago of a full-length feature with Keira Knightly as Anne Boleyn. Last time I looked it only had the writers in the entry.
“Confederacy of Dunces.” Last I heard, they had (gag) Will Farrell and Drew Barrymore attached. I’d like to see Phillip Seymour Hoffman or Jack Black as Ignatius.
Huh - just checked IMDB to see about “The Other Boleyn Girl,” and they have Ms. Knightly listed again. But before they had a few other cast members, too, and now they’re gone.
The I AM LEGEND script that’s been going around since Arnie was attached is esentially the same as the one that Will Smith is attached to. I’m willing to bet it was never ‘a comedy’ but that is an internet rumor started because Smith became attached around the time he did MIB. I’ve had several friends who have had to read it and write coverage for it to get assistant jobs at the studio.
I sure hope it’s “without Arnold,” unless he can learn to speak American English with no trace of accent. He would be perfect for the part otherwise – but Doc Savage is not Austrian.
I came in here just to bring this up.
I was interested in the concept from the beginning, and having seen “Lost In La Mancha,” I am even more hopeful that this film, somehow, some way, gets made.
My impression from watching Lost in La Mancha was… well… the movie doesn’t look that good. I saw it as kind of exposing Gilliam as pretty much artisticly crazy and that doesn’t mean every thing he does is wonderful.
Oh yea Gods! Don’t let this happen!!!
Good Omens is by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, my two favorite authors. A movie would only take away the great footnotes, kill the dialog and have the religious right all up in arms. (Hey, if fiction like the Da Vinci Code puts a twist in their shorts, then religious satire will really get them going. . .)
I see Gilliam as a risk-taker. That’s part of his artistic insanity, but it’s a necessary evil that sometimes he fails, and comes up with something completely inaccessable, messy, or trite. His mistakes are few and minor, especially compared to his successes, amongst which are some of the greatest films of our lifetimes.
You know who I really think deserves to be target of comments like this is Tim Burton. Goddamn, somebody needs to say no to that man.
It’s so not happening. This thing has been tied up longer than Evil Captor’s girlfriend.
See, and I once Pitted people for beating dead horses with rubber chickens, and now listen to me. I couldn’t resist, forgive me.
Anyway, it really seems unlikely the movie’s getting off the ground in the next, say, twenty years. Though I for one would love to see it, especially Gilliam’s vision, though I would also accept Singer or Fincher (think of the fun he’d have with the demons) or Shyamalan, who desperately needs to do an adaptation so nobody can bitch about the plot.
What, no mention of The Hobbit?
New Line Cinema has the rights to film it, and PJ has expressed his willingness, but they can’t get ahold of the distribution rights. Whoever owns those (and I’m too lazy to Google it right now) ain’t gonna let them go for anything less than a king’s ransom.
At least, that’s as I understand it. If I have this wrong, someone please enlighten me.
So, what’s the downside? 
Funny, I wanted to see more. It’s hard to get any impression about the film, since all you saw was a single scene and plans for some others. But the concept is wonderful and that scene showed a whole lot of promise.
:mad: It’s so ignorant to pass judgments on other people’s lifestyle choices! You’ll be hearing from our Anti-Defamation League!
Not even. Sony wouldn’t consider making it because the proposed budget was almost $100 million (which it would make back easily,) and Bill Murray didn’t want to do it.
Dan Aykroyd ended up closing his office on the Sony/Columbia lot, which he’d had for close to 20 years.
Ohhh! I’m not sure if I should laugh or be mad. 
There is part of me that would be amused by religious nuts going on about showing demons in a “positive” light and the rapture joke that’s in the novel and should be in the film.
As much as I would love, love, love to see a Good Omens movie, I remember hearing that even Terry (PTerry, not Gilliam) and Neil couldn’t agree on how to get things started. It’s a bloody shame.
It’s a real bloody shame, because all of these mentioned would be fantastic movies. 