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     Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.13.32 |
... and it could easily be horror, spun the right way.... -------- THE JONESES Comedy ,Drama Logline: A picture-perfect family moves into a suburban neighborhood and immediately becomes the toast of the town, loved and envied by all. In reality, though, they are a fake family put together by a marketing company as a way to introduce new luxury-level products to neighborhoods around the world. (09/19/2008) [Script ] Buyer(s): Production Company: Echo Lake, Principato-Young Producers: Doug Mankoff ,Andrew Spaulding, Peter Principato, Paul Young, Kirsti Zea Seller(s): Writer: Derrick Borte Agency: ICM, Principato-Young Stars: David Duchovny, Demi Moore, Amber Heard, Gary Cole Comments: Derrick Borte will write and direct. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.114.128 |
Sigh. The thing works in reverse, backfires Capra-style. Maybe. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 79.187.206.46 |
Sounds promising. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.0.218 |
Here's another one that really got me... I've not heard of this: sounds like it could be a great vehicle for a tale of horror... has anyone read the original novel? Is it? ------------------ CHOCKY Sci-Fi A boy has a mysterious imaginary friend with whom he frequently argues. As the boy's father gets increasingly suspicious, it becomes clear that an alien entity has taken up residence in the boy's consciousness. (09/25/2008) [Novel ] Buyer(s): Studio: DreamWorks Executives: Steven Spielberg Seller(s): Writer: John Wyndham Comments: Based on the novel by late John Wyndham. Steven Spielberg could direct. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
This was turned into a very good tv series in the 80s with 3 sequel series. All very good. (At least to my pre-teen brain at the time. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 77.86.114.169 |
HAHAH. I watched the TV show when I was a kid. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
It's a John Wyndham novel. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Ah, it already said that.  [slinks away like a div] | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
I'm a huge Wyndham fan, so yes, I gobbled up the book. It's a lovely tale. But very thin in terms of the amount of story. I can see the appeal for Spielberg, but I imagine they'll be doing some major padding to the tale. I wonder (and am afraid to know) who will be adapting it...? | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
No doubt Spielberg will cover everything in his usual sentimental icing. (Mind you, Munich was very good) | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 77.86.114.169 |
Matthew will be adapting it! | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
>>>I'm a huge Wyndham fan, so yes, I gobbled up the book Is it not a better idea to read the books rather than eat them? | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
I like the idea of returning to all the innocence and pure joy of speculative fiction from the 50 - (or basically from anytime before the moon's landing.) I have a special love for sci-fi from that time -that isn't based on hard science- instead that's built on the premise of 'if you can imagine it, it's possible' (as apposed to if you can PROVE it scientifically...) I feel such a joy and freedom when I read the works of authors like Wyndham or Finney. A freedom of imagination that gets me so excited and inspired I could burst. I wonder if in this jaded culture we can still tell those tales - make movies with that kind of simple inspired wonder... Bring the AWE back to awesome... | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
Some books are too scrumptious, Weber. There are certain writers I'd take in intravenously if I could! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Yeah, read Bodysnatchers as a book about Bodysnatchers, and not Communism or whatever... I reread Bodysnatchers last year and enjoyed it as a kind of Lovecraftian piece of pure horror without subtext. It was great. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
If you slow bake the book so it doesn't burn but disintegrates into a fine powder you should be able to mix with some liquid till you get an injectable paste. How safe it would be is a different question. | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
It is. It really is. It doesn't get much better then Finney. And Matheson doing Finney is lovely too! If you're into love stories... | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
Oh, can I just sit here and smile a second? These authors just make me so happy. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
Matheson doing Finney? Is that in the biblical sense? | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
I wish I could have them all as my grandpa. | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
"Matheson doing Finney? Is that in the biblical sense?" ha ha NO | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
But now you've got me thinking about Zed and Conrad again. Swoon. | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
I've lost it, haven't I. Sigh. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 77.86.114.169 |
Is that Atkins friendly? No. Not Peter Atkins. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.3.199 |
I'll have to go find this novel now... but I take it it's more sci-fi than horror?... And yes, Munich, best film of that year. My favorite books, I rub all over my body. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 77.86.114.169 |
My timing is awful. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 77.86.114.169 |
The problem with CHOCKY is all the flaying scenes. | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
Sometimes I think I might adapt that soft sci-fi story I wrote, Grandpa's Peephole (inspired by these guys) into a film. It's a little sentimental, I guess. But I really do miss that feeling of AWE. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 77.86.114.169 |
Make sure you spell Peephole right. | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
Craig, you won't like Chocky. | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
And no, not horror. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.3.199 |
Is that pronounced "Pee-foal"? WHY won't I like Chocky, A?... Am I being stereotyped here? | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
Only by your own statements... | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.3.199 |
Well I prefer to be monotyped. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 77.86.114.169 |
They are kind of childish, your Wyndhams.(said in Mad Frankie Frazer voice) | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
And full of swamp gas. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.129.151.199 |
Jon - 'No doubt Spielberg will cover everything in his usual sentimental icing.' When did that last happen! | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
From the almost nothing I know of you, Craig, I'd be dead surprised if you got much out of the book. Also, as Albie points out, it's more of a tween book in some respects. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 77.86.114.169 |
And double exposure ghosts. HA! Suppose a double exposure ghost came to life and became a real ghost. Like in Sapphire and Steel. But not exactly like. Force meat. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.3.199 |
Full sass. ... oh, sorry! Wrong thread. | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
Craig, if you feel like reading a Wyndham, I'd recommend The Day of the Triffids to start. One of my faves... | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.3.199 |
A, I like pina-coladas and getting caught in the rain. And those little hooks that pull the skin into a sharp cone, but don't tear it or release blood. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 77.86.114.169 |
I thought it was triffic. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.3.199 |
The mis-timing of posts here is deliciously mad, isn't it?... I did like the movie-version of DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS. But I've never read it. Okay, A. | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
I haven't seen the film. Who made it??? | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 77.86.114.169 |
Matthew made it! | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 77.86.114.169 |
Don't forget the TV series. Although it could have done with less blind folk fumbling and more monster killer plants. Which seems more exciting to YOU? | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
just watched a trailer for a film called BLINDNESS. Didn't see ANY monster killer plants in that one. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.14.169 |
The one with Julianne Moore, A? The old DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS I remember being pretty creepy, weird, disturbing, and British. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 77.86.114.169 |
Salt water kills them. You would have thought the first time a dog went sniffing around them they would have figured that one out. | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
That's the one, Craig. Ah, see, I don't think that was/is available here. Sigh. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.231.91 |
DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS is a great read! "In almost every detail it was a half-size replica of a fully-grown triffid - only it didn't have a name yet, and no-one had seen one fully grown. My father inspected the straight stem, and the woody bole from which it sprang. He gave curious, if not very penetrative, attention to the three small, bare sticks which grew straight up beside the stem. He smoothed the short sprays of of leathery green leaves between his finger and thumb as if their texture might tell him something. Then he peered into the curious, funnel-like formation at the top of the stem. I remember the first time he lifted me up to look inside that conical cup and see the tightly wrapped whorl within. It looked not unlike the new, close-rolled frond of a fern, emerging a couple of inches from a sticky mess in the base of the cup. I did not touch it, but I knew the stuff must be sticky because there were flies and other small insects struggling in it. More than once my father ruminated that it was pretty queer, and observed that one of these days he really must try to find out what it was. I don't think he ever made the effort, nor, at that stage, was he likely to have learned much if he had tried. The thing would be about four feet high then. There must have been plenty of them about, growing up quietly and inoffensively, with nobody taking any particular notice of them - at least it seemed so, for if the biological or botanical experts were excited over them, no news of their interest percolated to the general public. And so the one in our garden continued its growth peacefully, as did thousands like it in neglected spots all over the world. It was some little time later that the first one picked up its roots and walked." | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.231.91 |
Interesting Wyndham documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfVJOTErHho&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLfam58phSA&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sPfwxyXtY0&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCyWBxMwtQw&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptjdJ_aHs9c&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvZLzwVOl-k&feature=related | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.8.93 |
Apparently there were plans to do DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS too, almost a decadea ago; but there's nothing in production... must have died in development... of course, it does say "miniseries"...was this done in the UK?... ---- DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS Sci-fi, Horror, Miniseries Intelligent plants threaten to take over the world. (09/22/1999) [Novel], [ Remake] Buyer(s): Studio: Preger Entertainment Executives: Michael Preger, Steven Siebert Seller(s): Writer: John Wyndham , Tom Holland Agency: Becsey, Wisdom, Kalajian Representatives: Laurence Becsey Comments: Wyndham wrote the novel, Holland will adapt and direct. |