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Posted: **Thu Sep 25, 2008 6:20 pm**

This is like the real-life version of that Old Man and the Sea adaptation from Arrested Development

Posted: **Thu Sep 25, 2008 7:28 pm**

"Our vision isn’t your grandfather’s ‘Moby Dick,’ " Cooper said.

I guess we're all Melville's grandchildren. I wish nothing but the worst for this film and the people working on it

Posted: **Thu Sep 25, 2008 7:30 pm**

This is so depressing even Domino's jokes can't lift the gloom.

Posted: **Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:10 pm**

If they give this a happy, whale-dying ending, there will be hell to pay. The aforementioned roommate and I identified Moby-Dick as this book which follows a very slow-paced, immersive course for the bulk of the narrative and ends in a clusterfuck shitfest all of a sudden in the last five pages. So we've taken to calling that a Moby-Dick Ending, where nothing happens for the entire story until the very end, and then it all happens at once and you're left exhausted by the sheer intensity, not knowing how everything went so wrong so quickly.

Bridge on the River Kwai would be an excellent example of a film with a Moby-Dick Ending.

Posted: **Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:11 pm**

I hope that Will Smith plays Ishmael, and they change the ending so that Ishmael takes down Moby Dick with an RPG after uttering the line "Call me Ishmael, motherfucker!"

Posted: **Fri Sep 26, 2008 1:46 pm**

Jeff wrote:I hope that Will Smith plays Ishmael, and they change the ending so that Ishmael takes down Moby Dick with an RPG after uttering the line "Call me Ishmael, motherfucker!"

I'd go with that only if the whale was played by Martin Lawrence in a fat suit.

Posted: **Fri Sep 26, 2008 1:57 pm**

Or by Jack Black with no suit.

Posted: **Fri Sep 26, 2008 3:01 pm**

Studio paid high six figures to Adam Cooper and Bill Collage to pen the screenplay.

Their body of work consist of The Olsen Twins's New York Minute and Accepted.

That's the only thing you need to get six figure salaries in Hollywood. I'm picturing Shia Lebouf, Justin Long and Jonah Hill being cast in the movie and the whale will look like this

[img]http://big_game.at.infoseek.co.jp/whale/MobyDick.jpg[/img]

With the voice of Sam Jackson, of course.

Posted: **Fri Sep 26, 2008 3:53 pm**

I just realized they don't actually want to adapt Mob Dick, they want to remake the last half of Jaws.

Posted: **Fri Sep 26, 2008 5:37 pm**

Mr_sausage wrote:they want to remake the last half of Jaws.

....or the entirety of this.

Posted: **Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:52 pm**

Sometimes I get so damn upset.

What makes Moby Dick great is this:

There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.

Also, don't know if this has been posted yet, but: Blade Runner 2!

“I recently attended a Q&A session with one of the writers of ‘Eagle Eye’ after a free screening organized by the magazine Creative Screenwriting. During the Q&A, the writer said that he and whomever it was that helped him co-write the ‘Eagle Eye’ screenplay were in the process of writing a sequel to Blade Runner, and had already contacted the producers of the original, etc., etc. This is probably a load of empty words/wishful thinking on his part, but I for one am appalled by just the notion of a Blade Runner sequel, and thought you’d be as well, so I thought perhaps you’d like to look into this yourself and perhaps use your soapbox to get some fanboys a little pissed, as well. If not, then at least you have a scoop.”

Posted: **Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:35 pm**

Who here feels that an unnecessary sequel can, by association, diminish the power and quality of a good original feature?

I can usually ignore them, but I'm inevitably reminded at some point and get a bad taste in my mouth for a few minutes. It goes without saying that I hope this sequel falls through.

Reading that excerpt from Moby-Dick gives me chills. Goddamn, Herman Melville. Goddamn.

Posted: **Thu Oct 02, 2008 5:23 am**

James Cameron would write one killer sequel to this film, and I would pay twice to see it. Just saying...

Posted: **Thu Oct 02, 2008 6:37 am**

Jesus, this really is the most depressing thread in the entire forum. Hopefully every thing mentioned in the past couple of pages (with the exception of the Arrested Development movie) will end up in development hell.

Posted: **Thu Oct 02, 2008 2:24 pm**

Production on Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes film begins.

Posted: **Thu Oct 02, 2008 6:23 pm**

Adam 'LOL@Melville' Cooper wrote:"Our vision isn’t your grandfather’s ‘Moby Dick’"

I know the people involved in this are total morons and it's silly to let any of it bother you, but the cuntishness of that remark is quite enraging.

Posted: **Tue Oct 07, 2008 8:41 pm**

Ridley and Leo team up again, this time for Brave New World.

Posted: **Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:30 pm**

I hope this means that Ridley is off of Blood Meridian.

Posted: **Wed Oct 08, 2008 2:36 am**

Isn't Todd Fields on it now?

Posted: **Wed Oct 08, 2008 2:44 am**

Regardless of who's on it, I hope Ridley can get to do a Western sometime down the road.

Posted: **Wed Oct 08, 2008 2:47 am**

Cold Bishop wrote:Isn't Todd Fields on it now?

Yep.

Posted: **Wed Oct 08, 2008 6:00 am**

at least someone with an interesting sensibility is heading the project now.

Posted: **Wed Oct 08, 2008 3:24 pm**

Field replacing Ridley Scott on this film [Blood Meridian] was a godsend. I am actually looking forward to this adaptation of one of my favorite books now; I was dreading the harm that Ridley would have done to McCarthy. Now Field has to take the chilling starkness of the last 5 minutes of In the Bedroom and stretch that out to a full length feature.

Posted: **Wed Oct 08, 2008 3:40 pm**

No doubt he'll add a plate-breaking scene.

Posted: **Wed Oct 08, 2008 3:51 pm**

Yeah, let's not overstate the differences here. I don't really see the distinction other than that Field is perceived as the more serious filmmaker, which is purely a product of his recognizably familiar art house pretensions. I recently rewatched Little Children and it doesn't hold up at all.

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