Waylaid
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Post by Waylaid on Apr 3, 2004 20:22:03 GMT -5
What kind of movies Kurt should make?
I vote for
COWBOYS!
PIRATES!
GIANT ROBOTS ala Gundam!
BARBARIANS!
Games, Books, Anime, Comics etc
Devil May Cry
Gungrave
Snow Crash
What else?
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Post by MAX on Apr 3, 2004 21:15:47 GMT -5
Anything he damn well wants.  |
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Post by TheMacroprosopus on Apr 3, 2004 21:33:45 GMT -5
MAX, that was nicely put.
However, I'm not sure if y'all agree with this, but what about "the Dark Arena" by Mario Puzo? Not quite in the vein of Equilibrium or Ultraviolet (although I'm not too sure how that one's gonna turn out theme-wise just yet), but still film worthy. Check it out. Good book. Especially for his first. A little against Germans, but still cool.
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Post by MAX on Apr 4, 2004 4:55:33 GMT -5
Will do.  |
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Post by Xenia Onatopp- Bale on Apr 4, 2004 10:00:45 GMT -5
action-thrillers ala The Recruit, Jack Ryan adaptations,
Hero, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and the likes.
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Post by Xenia Onatopp- Bale on Apr 4, 2004 10:02:13 GMT -5
MAX, that was nicely put. However, I'm not sure if y'all agree with this, but what about "the Dark Arena" by Mario Puzo? Not quite in the vein of Equilibrium or Ultraviolet (although I'm not too sure how that one's gonna turn out theme-wise just yet), but still film worthy. Check it out. Good book. Especially for his first. A little against Germans, but still cool. I'm with you on that. |
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Post by aka Jack Torrence on Apr 12, 2004 10:01:49 GMT -5
He should make a film based on the popular video game Red Faction. I really think his style of directing would match it.
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Post by JenGe on Apr 12, 2004 18:04:28 GMT -5
Ever since I read that he wanted to do a musical I can't get over the idea of Wimmer helming Les Mis to the big screen.
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Post by Xenia Onatopp- Bale on Apr 13, 2004 9:49:38 GMT -5
And also Miss Saigon.......
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Post by JenGe on Apr 13, 2004 11:50:28 GMT -5
And also Miss Saigon....... I've never seen Miss Saigon...can we add Gun Kata to it?? ;D |
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Post by JenGe on Apr 13, 2004 11:52:38 GMT -5
Now there's one I hadn't thought of that could be interesting. The nice thing about Gundam Wing is that it is very "character" driven and not just mindless action. |
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Post by Xenia Onatopp- Bale on Apr 14, 2004 9:45:25 GMT -5
I've never seen Miss Saigon...can we add Gun Kata to it?? ;D What do you mean???  |
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Post by JenGe on Apr 14, 2004 11:19:02 GMT -5
What do you mean??? sorry...I was just teasing... |
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Post by Xenia Onatopp- Bale on Apr 15, 2004 11:23:17 GMT -5
Oh, I see.(ha!ha!ha!)
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Post by aka Jack Torrence on Apr 15, 2004 17:18:08 GMT -5
He should remake Mary Poppins. In the remake, Mary Poppins is an undercover government agent sent to infiltrate a rich British family to investigate rumours of sense offense. She finds Michael, the young lad, listening to Mozart secretly in his room, and as she's about to neutralise him, the disreputable vagaband Burt bursts in and pulls off a last-second rescue. Thereafter, the film portrays the violent power-struggle between these opposing forces. But a surprise twist: Mary Poppins is a secret sense offender! Burt and Poppins join together to topple the cruel tyranny of...none other than George Banks!  |
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Post by Xenia Onatopp- Bale on Apr 16, 2004 9:06:22 GMT -5
That would be a very nice project for Kurt, aka.
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Post by TheMacroprosopus on Apr 16, 2004 15:27:52 GMT -5
Agreed. I like the Red Faction idea as well. But not number 2. It was pretty much a movie in itself (Yeah, Jason Statham!).
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Post by Xenia Onatopp- Bale on Apr 17, 2004 7:39:45 GMT -5
Jason Stratham? I love him. I love to see him work with
Kurt Wimmer.
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Post by aka Jack Torrence on Apr 17, 2004 12:52:44 GMT -5
Hmm, Red Faction II was a major disappointment. Not even half as engrossing as the first game. As for Jason Stratham: He was good in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, but his recent performances have been unexceptional. For some reason he keeps landing roles of American characters-- and he just cannot do a believable American accent! Did you see him in The Transporter? I couldn't figure out if he was meant to be American or a Londoner, it was some new kind of hybrid. Just terrible . His feeble American accent was almost as bad as Dick Van Dyke's Cockney accent in Mary Poppins! |
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Post by MisterAnderson on Apr 17, 2004 19:31:58 GMT -5
I didn't mind the Transporter, it had some nice action sequences.
As for doing a film version Red Faction, it kinda has been done to a certain extent in Total Recall (Mars setting, mutants, mining).
If we are going video game tie-ins, I reckon Kurt would be awesome pick for the Devil May Cry film.
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Post by Wraith on Sept 25, 2006 10:09:45 GMT -5
I think he should do a movie about Samson. Judging by Eq, he has the goods to pull off a good Biblical epic.
Besides, I'd like to see how Wimmer does the jawbone fight.
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Post by Vespertilio on Sept 25, 2006 18:45:26 GMT -5
Hmmm...for a Biblical epic I would love to see Wimmer and Smith tackle the Angelic revolt and fall of Lucifer. Angels doing Kata would be wicked!  |
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Post by dsolidsnake on Sept 25, 2006 21:47:59 GMT -5
I am a huge asian cinema fan so I would like to see Kurt tackle a mega budget Martial Arts movie.
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Post by Aedh on Sept 26, 2006 4:00:38 GMT -5
I'd trust him with filming my novel, "Karasevdah." Or some other action/romantic tale ... I sense a capable hand there for dealing with serious but interesting relationships. A film based on E.R. Eddison's Zimiamvia trilogy, from him, could be fascinating.
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Post by AlphonseCapone on Oct 2, 2006 8:28:05 GMT -5
He should make my movie idea  Same atmosphere as Ultraviolet, only more utopian. Lots of action and gun-kata! And (for me) a kick ass story. Other than that... I would like to see some more scince fiction from him. He seems to make them like I like |
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Post by Aedh on Oct 3, 2006 0:50:05 GMT -5
...Jane Eyre! That's the story I was reaching for. I'd like to see him re-do that ... no, and I don't mean with sci-fi trappings, but straight! He could also do something, I think, with Andrei Platonov's story "This Fierce And Beautiful World," about a locomotive engineer who discovers the engineering above engineering ...
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Post by Greyflower on Oct 3, 2006 1:25:55 GMT -5
He could also do something, I think, with Andrei Platonov's story "This Fierce And Beautiful World," about a locomotive engineer who discovers the engineering above engineering ... Oh, yes! That would be really great!!! |
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Post by Aedh on Oct 3, 2006 6:31:14 GMT -5
Platonov also wrote a dystopian novel called "Chevengur" ... hitherto untranslated as far as I know ... Evgany Zamyatin's "We," like "Chevengur," is also a dystopian society ... Both might have certain interesting parallels to Libria ... though "We," I think, was already filmed, though very long ago ... time for a remake ... He might also film Austin Tappan Wright's "Islandia." I'd work up a script for that ...
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Post by Greyflower on Oct 3, 2006 10:18:04 GMT -5
Imho, Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle" would make rather a good film, too.
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Post by dsolidsnake on Oct 6, 2006 1:31:17 GMT -5
Or how about just straight out Drama. I think he should make one that has no action but just drama. What do you think?
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