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Well as long as Emmerich brings his peerless historical authenticity and renowned rigorous accuracy to this film, I'm sure there can be no problem with this. Certainly nothing on the scale of the U-571 outcry, at least, since the events are so old and deal with obscure plays.

On the other hand it could just be an attempt to out sex and behead that Tudors TV series. Though I'd prefer if it turned into the British version of National Treasure or The Da Vinci Code - Derek Jacobi is breathlessly running around Statford-upon-Avon and burning down Shakespeare's birthplace to reveal a secret message and only Simon Callow has the intellectual resources to both battle the incisive questioning of BBC Breakfast reviewers and stop Jacobi in order to preserve the myth! (The climax would be a nail-bitingly tense duelling performance of their one-man plays in which each tries to personify Shakespeare more plausibly than the other. Callow gains the upper hand by throwing in his Dickens for the win!)

I feel like the entire premise for the film is from Owen Wilson's Tenenbaums character "Everyone knows Shakespeare wrote his own plays. What this film presupposes is maybe he didn't?"

I thought Shakespeare In Love proved that Ben Affleck wrote all of the plays anyway? (Or maybe not - I was only half paying attention during that film)

Here's that great Tenenbaum scene.

domino harvey wrote:What absolutely no one wished for on 11/11

Especially not George C Scott

So Stanton gets to make his little live action passion project and Bird gets the bird? Disney is obnoxious sometimes.

knives wrote:So Stanton gets to make his little live action passion project and Bird gets the bird? Disney is obnoxious sometimes.

I love Bird's work and look forward to eventually seeing 1906 too. I can't really blame Disney and Warner for not giving the reigns of a massive $200 million budgeted tentpole to someone who had never directed live action before though. I think it's good that he got the chance to cut his teeth on a Mission Impossible film where he's working with an established franchise and can study with people like Robert Elswit. The trailer for Ghost Protocol looks pretty good, and I'm hoping that will be his ticket to 1906.

I'm a little concerned that John Carter looks like something that would have aired on the USA Network in 1995.

I agree fully, but it's a more bitter pill to swallow since Stanton got just that with no effort.

knives wrote:I agree fully, but it's a more bitter pill to swallow since Stanton got just that with no effort.

I think John Carter cost "only" $100 million though, and it looks like it's been engineered to sell action figures.

Bah on action figures and buh on this liberal Zemeckis (I actually like Wall-E though).

Jeff wrote:I'm a little concerned that John Carter looks like something that would have aired on the USA Network in 1995.

Yeah, it looks pretty banal and familiar. I remember the covers of the books which I read as a kid having a more appropriately expressive and imaginative aesthetic than this. Too bad too that they couldn't get 80's era Richard Tyson for the lead (I suppose he would have been too busy playing Genghis Khan). Just grateful at this point no one has yet descrated Thomas Covenant.

I'm not so sure there are any people that like SouthPark here, but I thought this was pretty spot-on.

A bootleg of The Avengers teaser trailer has been posted on youtube. There are some spoilers and it will be probably taken down soon.

The Amazing Spider-Man teaser

Looks like a video game... ](*,)

eerik wrote:The Amazing Spider-Man teaser

Looks like a video game... ](*,)

Why bother with the reboot if the filmmakers make the whole movie look exactly like Raimi's version with that photography and production design?

eerik wrote:Looks like a video game... ](*,)

Finally, the movie version of Mirror's Edge!

Still the stupidest cinematic idea in a long time.

The prequel (more like, remake?) of The Thing. And to think I had high hopes for this...

Cameron Crowe's Pearl Jam 20.

Clooney's The Ides of March

Jeffrey Wright's in it so I'll watch. Good trailer even if it reminds me too much of the trailer for Clooney's last movie I cared about.

It looks like "Tanner 88" but not funny.