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Cde. · #26 Post by **Cde.** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:38 am

I can't find anything about DGD and Gregg Araki working on a script, but it looks like the Suspiria remake is off.

John Cope · #27 Post by **John Cope** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:43 am

He's talking about Scott Heim, the author of the original novel, not Araki.

Cde. · #28 Post by **Cde.** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 11:00 am

exte · #29 Post by **exte** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 1:08 pm

eez28 wrote:
sidehacker wrote:Is the clip located anywhere else? YouTube took it down.
Here

How in the world is this a summer movie? Btw, Green's adaptation of Goat was garbage. And dare I say it: Seth Rogen in Kevin Smith's film will be a huge step forward for the Clerks director, and I'm sure it will be ten to 12 times funnier than this shit...

patrick · #30 Post by **patrick** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 3:46 pm

Hopefully Rogan will get some input on the script, Smith badly needs a collaborator at this point in the game.

Oedipax · #31 Post by **Oedipax** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 9:10 am

exte wrote:Btw, Green's adaptation of Goat was garbage.

Did the screenplay circulate at some point?

chaddoli · #32 Post by **chaddoli** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 6:18 pm

I read it - or half of it, at least, before I quit my job. I thought the pages I read were excellent, but I can't say how the whole thing turned out.

Cold Bishop · #33 Post by **Cold Bishop** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 12:05 am

Hmm... while the writing in that scene is painful, other than the M.M. O'Shaughnessy line which I liked. (hopefully the scene is edited down, and lets be honest, as a Malick disciple, Green's forte is in the editing process), I feel James Franco is at least doing a good job with what he's been given. Hopefully this and Harvey Milk means he finally through doing shit.

mogwai · #34 Post by **mogwai** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 12:18 pm

The trailer has been posted here. It may be pulled soon, so see it while you can.

chaddoli · #35 Post by **chaddoli** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 1:35 pm

Now that looks like a David Gordon Green film.

portnoy · #36 Post by **portnoy** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 2:21 pm

Yeah, that looks great. I'm pretty psyched.

rs98762001 · #37 Post by **rs98762001** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 4:58 pm

chaddoli wrote:Now that looks like a David Gordon Green film.

Still looks far more like a Seth Rogen/Judd Apatow film. But the trailer is at least funny.

#38 Post by **domino harvey** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 5:03 pm

Looks just as unbearable as the preview scene, and cribbing a joke the Office did way way better doesn't help anything

Antoine Doinel · #39 Post by **Antoine Doinel** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 5:46 pm

Looks ridiculously over the top, just as it should be. Cautiously optimistic, but after Walk Hard anything is possible.

John Cope · #40 Post by **John Cope** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 5:51 pm

Yeah, it looks good to me too. Let's just hope that all of what we like isn't only in the trailer.

BTW, does anybody know whatever happened to DGG's adaptation of Goat? I assume it was just never picked up to be produced? Exte seems to have read the script as well....

chaddoli · #41 Post by **chaddoli** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 5:58 pm

John Cope wrote:BTW, does anybody know whatever happened to DGG's adaptation of Goat? I assume it was just never picked up to be produced? Exte seems to have read the script as well....

As far as I know, Killer Films pretty much passed. I don't know if it's moving forward somewhere else or not.

exte · #42 Post by **exte** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 6:58 pm

I interned at Killer Films last spring/summer and read the script. It sucked. I even asked why they were making it, and got that look like, what is this intern asking? Anyway, I think they're going with someone else already... Wasn't this news a while back?

justeleblanc · #43 Post by **justeleblanc** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:26 pm

exte wrote:I interned at Killer Films last spring/summer and read the script. It sucked. I even asked why they were making it, and got that look like, what is this intern asking? Anyway, I think they're going with someone else already... Wasn't this news a while back?

I don't think a script sucking has ever stopped Killer Films in the past.

Dylan · #44 Post by **Dylan** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:14 pm

domino harvey wrote:Looks just as unbearable as the preview scene, and cribbing a joke the Office did way way better doesn't help anything

It actually looks significantly worse than I imagined after suffering through thirty seconds of the clip posted on page one. I have an extremely difficult time believing anybody here is legitimately excited about this. Snow Angels doesn't look bad, though.

Hai2u · #45 Post by **Hai2u** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 5:37 am

Here's a working Red Band trailer, I assume it's the same as the one posted earlier but now removed.

exte · #46 Post by **exte** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 5:09 pm

Now that's a trailer. And I laughed pretty hard. And I'm gonna see it too...

Cde. · #47 Post by **Cde.** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 5:12 pm

Could be great, could be terrible. That trailer still doesn't shake off bad memories of the original clip.

miless · #48 Post by **miless** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 10:52 pm

I really like that trailer, and I think that the use of Paper Planes by M.I.A. is perfect. It looks completely absurd, but there are also several shots that look as if they could have come out of any DGG film (I'm glad to see Tim Orr is the Cinematographer).

flyonthewall2983 · Sun Feb 24, 2008 10:55 pm

I say this with complete sincerity, but I think it's an intriguing idea mixing rather brutal violence (with what the trailer has shown so far) and the kind of humor from "the guys who brought us Superbad".

miless · #50 Post by **miless** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 11:24 pm

flyonthewall2983 wrote:I say this with complete sincerity, but I think it's an intriguing idea mixing rather brutal violence (with what the trailer has shown so far) and the kind of humor from "the guys who brought us Superbad".

I totally agree. It sort of looks like Up In Smoke for the post-Die-Hard/Michael Bay generation.

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