.....and it's among the worst things I've ever heard. God just sat down and shat on my face.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117992634.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
QuoteUniversal Pictures has made a splashy preemptive buy of "Moby Dick," a reimagining of the Herman Melville whale tale that Timur Bekmambetov ("Wanted") will direct.
Studio paid high six figures to Adam Cooper and Bill Collage to pen the screenplay.
The writers revere Melville's original text, but their graphic novel-style version will change the structure. Gone is the first-person narration by the young seaman Ishmael, who observes how Ahab's obsession with killing the great white whale overwhelms his good judgment as captain.
This change will allow them to depict the whale's decimation of other ships prior to its encounter with Ahab's Pequod, and Ahab will be depicted more as a charismatic leader than a brooding obsessive.
"Our vision isn't your grandfather's 'Moby Dick,' " Cooper said. "This is an opportunity to take a timeless classic and capitalize on the advances in visual effects to tell what at its core is an action-adventure revenge story."
Scott Stuber is producing with Jim Lemley and Cormac and Marianne Wibberley.
Both Stuber and Bekmambetov have deals at Universal. Bekmambetov will look to apply the visual flourish he displayed on the U summer hit "Wanted."
"We wanted to take a graphic novel sensibility to a classic narrative,"
Bekmambetov is developing a sequel to the Angelina Jolie starrer and is also mobilizing and producing a slate of modestly budgeted Russian-language films for Universal's offshore distribution operations.
Cooper and Collage received credit on the comedy "Accepted" and more recently did rewrite work on the untitled Trump Heist movie, the Tom Bezucha-directed "The People's House" and the McG-helmed "Nightcrawlers."
WMA made the deal and repped the scribes, Bekmambetov and the Wibberleys.
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They're gunna turn Moby-Dick into 300!
Who cares?
Excellent.
I fail to see how this is any worse than the classic Gandhi II (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpNB2SoNfyg) which not only performed well at box offices but also drew critical praise for laying open Mahatma's inner demons.
Quote from: Queequeg on May 01, 2009, 11:17:51 PM
God just sat down and shat on my face.
You deserve it.
:rolleyes: You have major OCD. Get medicated, dude.
Is this going to be a poor man's Michael Bay Movie?
Oh, like 300? That's sad.
I was hoping it would be like Loony Toons...
Russia, Turkey, Dick, , Some stodgy old book? I thought this would up P-Spell Us' alley.
Quote from: Razgovory on May 02, 2009, 10:34:41 AM
Russia, Turkey, Dick, , Some stodgy old book? I thought this would up P-Spell Us' alley.
Spellus hates Turks. That's what all the whining over this movie is about.
Quote from: dps on May 02, 2009, 10:57:40 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on May 02, 2009, 10:34:41 AM
Russia, Turkey, Dick, , Some stodgy old book? I thought this would up P-Spell Us' alley.
Spellus hates Turks. That's what all the whining over this movie is about.
:huh:
Where did all this "I hate Turks" stuff come from? I love every non-Georgian from Greece to Afghanistan. Heck, I'm in a Turkish Language program this summer.
Quote from: Queequeg on May 02, 2009, 10:59:26 AM
Quote from: dps on May 02, 2009, 10:57:40 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on May 02, 2009, 10:34:41 AM
Russia, Turkey, Dick, , Some stodgy old book? I thought this would up P-Spell Us' alley.
Spellus hates Turks. That's what all the whining over this movie is about.
:huh:
Where did all this "I hate Turks" stuff come from? I love every non-Georgian from Greece to Afghanistan. Heck, I'm in a Turkish Language program this summer.
It's not Turkohate. We luvs our Molianolikes. It's rather a deep hatred of Russia and a deep hatred of the desecration of literature.
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/Moby-Dick-Book-Summary.id-79,pageNum-1.html
Ahab?
Is that guy muslim or jewish?
Quote from: Siege on May 05, 2009, 12:25:44 AM
Ahab?
Is that guy muslim or jewish?
You suck at Judiaism.
Quote"Our vision isn't your grandfather's 'Moby Dick,' " Cooper said. "This is an opportunity to take a timeless classic and capitalize on the advances in visual effects to tell what at its core is an action-adventure revenge story."
holy shit :bleeding:
This is quite the WTF moment. Who cares about Moby Dick but why such a weird adaption?
Quote from: Tyr on May 05, 2009, 05:45:12 AM
This is quite the WTF moment. Who cares about Moby
:yeahright: Put Spellus and his obsession aside, plenty of people care about Moby Dick.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on May 05, 2009, 05:52:59 AM
Quote from: Tyr on May 05, 2009, 05:45:12 AM
This is quite the WTF moment. Who cares about Moby
:yeahright: Put Spellus and his obsession aside, plenty of people care about Moby Dick.
Yeah. I wonder if Spellus is developing a taint of his own. :o
This truly will be craptastic. Will it be bad enough to be funny?
Hopefully they can get Nicholas Cage to play Captain Ahab.
Quote from: DisturbedPervert on May 05, 2009, 07:59:41 AM
Hopefully they can get Nicholas Cage to play Captain Ahab.
Truly, a stroke of inspired casting. :D
No. It must be Shatner.
"DIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK!!!" *clenches fist*
Quote from: Razgovory on May 05, 2009, 04:27:03 AM
Quote from: Siege on May 05, 2009, 12:25:44 AM
Ahab?
Is that guy muslim or jewish?
You suck at Judiaism.
Dude, there was an israeli general called Ahab.
There was also a King of Israel. It's the Bible. :contract:
Lots of Americans have Old Testament names (and it was even more common in the 19th century), but relatively few of them are Jewish. Seigy would know that if he actually knew anything about the United States, instead of being a third-world barbarian.