New Films in Production

[domino harvey]

Uh... he's basically saying, "This will be like Evil Dead, only not gory so we can get a PG-13"-- you're reading it so he makes a slight towards the earlier film, but he's just stating that his new film won't be gory. Big deal.

[DrewReiber]

Uh... he's basically saying, "This will be like Evil Dead, only not gory so we can get a PG-13"-- you're reading it so he makes a slight towards the earlier film, but he's just stating that his new film won't be gory. Big deal.

This is Robert Tapert. These are the same guys trying to remake Evil Dead for Ghost House, just for the marketing dollar value. If you don't think it's a big deal that they're remolding Raimi's style to fit into their production unit formula, always placing packaging over quality, then I feel sorry for you.

[domino harvey]

[DrewReiber]

=D> =D> =D> =D>

[flyonthewall2983]

Coen Brothers to Make Spaghetti Western, from imdb.com:

Filmmaking siblings Joel and Ethan Coen are set to make their goriest film ever - a Spaghetti Western featuring scenes of primitive torture methods. The brothers, whose notoriously gory new film No Country for Old Men has been tipped for Oscar glory, are desperate to make a film about the days of cowboys and Indians battling it out in the Wild West of America. But - as Joel warns - it won't be one for the faint-hearted. He says, "We've written a western with a lot of violence in it. There's scalping and hanging ... it's good. Indians torturing people with ants, cutting their eyelids off." Ethan adds, "It's a proper western, a real western, set in the 1870s. It's got a scene that no one will ever forget because of one particular chicken."

Count me in.

[Dylan]

notoriously gory

Well, I wouldn't go that far.

[Jeff]

This came up in the 2008 Top Tens thread. Discussion of upcoming films is really better suited here though. Here are some films that may or may not be released this year. I combined most of Chaddoli's list (the ones I could find info on) with some of my own. There are also several more films here that I have no interest in, but I know appeal to portions of the membership. I only listed films or directors that have been discussed here before, or ones that seemed like they might be of interest to the forum. Let me know what I've forgotten (no fanboy speculation, please).

SCHEDULED RELEASE DATE IN 2008 - These may or may not be done, but they have a scheduled release date. They are presented roughly in order of release date.
Cassandra's Dream (Woody Allen)
Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo)
Cloverfield (Matt Reeves)
Teeth (Mitchell Lichtenstein)
Be Kind, Rewind (Michel Gondry)
Rambo (Sylvester Stallone)
Still Life (Jia Zhang Ke)
Diary of the Dead (George Romero)
In Bruges (Martin McDonagh)
Jumper (Doug Liman)
My Blueberry Nights (Wong Kar-Wai)
Mother of Tears (Dario Argento)
Vantage Point (Pete Travis)
The Duchess of Langeis (Jacques Rivette)
Penelope (Mark Palanski)
The Other Boleyn Girl (Justin Chadwick)
The Bank Job (Roger Donaldson)
Funny Games (Michael Haneke)
Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant)
An American Crime (Tommy O'Haver)
Snow Angels (David Gordon Green)
Stop Loss (Kimberly Pierce)
Leatherheads (George Clooney)
Shine a Light (Martin Scorsese)
Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
The List (Marcel Langenegger)
Iron Man (Jon Favreau)
Mister Lonely (Harmony Korine)
Speed Racer (Wachowskis)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg)
The Happening (M. Night Shyamalan)
The Incredible Hulk (Louis Leterrier)
Wall-E (Andrew Stanton)
Hancock (Peter Berg)
X-Files Sequel (Chris Carter)
Son of Rambow (Garth Jennings)
The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
Blindness (Fernando Meirelles)
The Pineapple Express (David Gordon Green)
The International (Tom Tykwer)
Nothing but the Truth (Rod Lurie)
Valkyrie (Bryan Singer)
The Women (Diane English)
Scanners (Darren Lynn Bousman)
Body of Lies (Ridley Scott)
City of Ember (Gil Kenan)
James Bond 22 (Marc Forster)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (David Yates)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Scott Derrickson)
The Reader (Stephen Daldry)
Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes)
Star Trek (J.J. Abrams)

PROBABLE 2008 RELEASES - These are done, in post, or wrapping up filming, but don't have a scheduled release date. They're in roughly the order of "readiness"
Killshot (John Madden)
Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan)
A Girl Cut in Two (Claude Chabrol)
The Last Mistress (Catherine Breillat)
All In This Tea (Les Blank)
Nothing is Private (Alan Ball)
In Bloom (Vadim Perelman)
Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog)
Standard Operating Procedure (Errol Morris)
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency (Anthony Minghella)
Redbelt (David Mamet)
The Brothers Bloom (Rian Johnson)
Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
White Material (Claire Denis)
Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard)
Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
Death of the Reel (Guy Maddin)
Burn After Reading (Joel and Ethan Coen)
Appaloosa (Ed Harris)
Guerrilla (Steven Soderbergh)
The Changeling (Clint Eastwood)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen)
Red Cliff (John Woo)
Genova (Michael Winterbottom)
Australia (Baz Luhrmann)
The Argentine (Steven Soderbergh)
Defiance (Edward Zwick)
Miracle at St. Anna (Spike Lee)

NOT LIKELY UNTIL 2009 - These are either former 2008 releases that have been pushed to 2009, or films that are in a very early stage of production and may not make it out this year.
The Lovely Bones (Peter Jackson)
Where the Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze)
Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch)
Duplicity (Tony Gilroy)
State of Play (Kevin Macdonald)
Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese)
Public Enemies (Michael Mann)
Nailed (David O. Russell)
Milk (Gus Van Sant)
Dali & I: The Surreal Story (Andrew Niccol)
Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)

[DrewReiber]

Cowboys for Christ (Robin Hardy)
The Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles)
Bad Biology (Frank Henenlotter)
Trailer Trash (Eli Roth)
Starship Troopers: Marauder (Ed Neumeier)
The Embodiment of Evil (Jose Mojica Marins)
The Informers (Gregor Jordan)
Sex and Death 101 (Dan Waters)
Trapped Ashes (Joe Dante, Monte Hellman, Ken Russell, Sean Cunningham & John Gaeta)
Trail of the Screaming Forehead (Larry Blamire)
Doomsday (Neil Marshall)
Trick 'r Treat (Michael Dougherty)
Religulous (Larry Charles)
ADDED:
Catacombs Club (Michele Soavi)

[flyonthewall2983]

Baron Cohen Signs With Spielberg, from imdb.com:

Movie funnyman Sacha Baron Cohen has discovered there is life after his comic creation Borat - he has landed a starring role in a Steven Spielberg movie. Just a week after Cohen announced he had retired Borat - following the success of 2006 movie Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan - he has been signed to star as 60s hippie satirist Abbie Hoffman in The Trial of the Chicago Seven. Hoffman found fame during the Vietnam War by playing pranks to campaign against the conflict. The movie is slated for release in 2010. Vincent D'Onofrio previously played Hoffman in 2000 film Steal This Movie, which was based on a screenplay written by Hoffman and his wife Anita.

[Antoine Doinel]

In 2008, it will be "...interesting to see how creativity sells."

[Barmy]

Fahrenheit 451, directed by Darabont

[tavernier]

It's great how you can tie anything to Bush.....

[Barmy]

Yeah, Darabont says "George Bush has made this the most relevant piece of literature ever written." #-o

In any event, when/if this movie comes out in 2009, I doubt that will be a selling point, since President Huckabee will change peoples' perceptions of the Republican Party.

[miless]

Yeah, Darabont says "George Bush has made this the most relevant piece of literature ever written." #-o

In any event, when/if this movie comes out in 2009, I doubt that will be a selling point, since President Huckabee will change peoples' perceptions of the Republican Party.

hahahahahaha... that's hillarious. President Huckabee, hahahaha.

[tavernier]

You may be laughing now, but you'll be crying in '09 when it actually happens. :-k [-o< 8-[

[colinr0380]

Teaser for the upcoming remake of The Hidden Fortress (found through Twitch) - not that think it will surpass the Kurosawa film but thought it might be worth noting.

On that note Mark Schilling's review of a recent Sanjuro remake.

[Slothrop]

Yeah, Darabont says "George Bush has made this the most relevant piece of literature ever written." #-o

In any event, when/if this movie comes out in 2009, I doubt that will be a selling point, since President Huckabee will change peoples' perceptions of the Republican Party.

Ahhhhhhhhhh...isn't that cute?!

[domino harvey]

Not every Republican is an Evangelical Christian, Huckabee will never make it far enough to be the nominee much less President. It's scary that he's so affable and sharp because if you look at his record, he's the most terrifying candidate-- I mean, if you want the next Reagan in terms of not caring about AIDS, here's your man.

[Barmy]

Tarantino to remake "Faster Pussycat Kill Kill"? I wouldn't put it past him.

[David Ehrenstein]

Bad filmmakers frequently have bad ideas. Go figure.

[domino harvey]

Bad filmmakers frequently have bad ideas. Go figure.

lol

[chaddoli]

Tarantino to remake "Faster Pussycat Kill Kill"? I wouldn't put it past him.

This obviously sounds like a stupid idea, but I doubt it will actually happen. Tarantino is insisting on trying to appeal to his lowbrow audience (or just his normal audience, as some would say). But I don't know, last time he tried to make a bad film he made Death Proof, which I thought was spectacular, nearly as good as Jackie Brown but for completely different reasons.

[David Ehrenstein]

Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill! is not a bad film in any way shape or form.
As a work of pure montage it rivals Battleship Potemkin. Tarantino would be hard-pressed to find women like Tura Satana and Hajii
these days. Hajii could eat Rose McGowan for lunch.

[miless]

Hajii could eat Rose McGowan for lunch.

for a second there I thought you wrote
Hajii could eat Rose McGowan out for lunch.

oh boy.

[David Ehrenstein]

That too.

But Radley Metzger should direct.