Sounds like a good role for Ryan Reynolds.
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Sounds like a good role for Ryan Reynolds.
The Conjuring prequel is being magicked up
"My head does not look like a penis" beedy beedy beedy
Or Ben Browder
Damn. So now we know what Paramount is going to be focused on. Well... video game-based movies don't have the greatest track record to my recollection, the names attached to this project might make it an instant blockbuster. Looking forward to it.
Recently, Super Mario, Sonic and Minecraft movies have reversed this.
I haven't seen the first two, so I can't speak to that, but I would agree with Minecraft's success breaking the mold.
If you like animation, I recommend Super Mario. If you like Jim Carrey movies or live-action family movies, you can watch Sonic.
They are on the same track as superheros. A few early attempts that don't understand the source material, then a few early classics and bombs, then mainstream success until burnout. We are right around the first X-men film in the video game timeline, I estimate.
Some of those earlier video game films, it wasn't necessarily that they didn't understand the source material, but rather the director and writers had their own ideas, and the studios, too. We still have this problem today, where directors talk about what they want to do with an established superhero franchise, and instead of using the deep complex per-existing universe and characters, they want to make shit up, ignores history, make boring new characters, change characters into other things, etc. they just don't give a flip.
Plus, let's be realistic, a good amount of videos, especially the further you go back, don't really have much in the way of source material., Some character names, some places names, you run around, jump on things, bump things, maybe shoot some bad guys, maybe you are just driving and avoiding obstacles ... not a rich universe of complexities and back history.
Plus, let's be realistic, a good amount of videos, especially the further you go back, don't really have much in the way of source material., Some character names, some places names, you run around, jump on things, bump things, maybe shoot some bad guys, maybe you are just driving and avoiding obstacles ... not a rich universe of complexities and back history.
True, that's another good way to explain the concept I was going for. I was thinking specifically of the 1993 Super Mario Bros. Movie, where Nintendo wasn't really paying attention to what the filmmakers were doing, never dreaming they would go so far afield.
Latest example of this regarding video game movies is the Uncharted movie. Whatever it was, it wasn't an Uncharted movie beyond the same names, as everything else was disregarded, and don't even get me started on the casting.
Recast. The CGI "youthening" of Pacino, DeNiro and Pesci was entirely unconvincing.
This reminds me of my own interpretation/theory on the Irishman, which is that almost everything about Frank's story is basically fiction. That he never really did any of the things he said he did. Thus why everyone looks old even thought they're supposed to be way younger. Its an old man's fantasy as the FBI asks him questions and as he is reaching the end of his life.
Sounds fatfetched, I know. But the movie already makes the cardinal sin of taking this guy's word (that the Mafia was solely behind JFK's killing and that Jimmy Hoffa was killed by him) to the bank, so this tracks with the actual validity of the story.
The follow up to the rather brilliant Godzilla Minus One will be called Godzilla Minus Zero
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Japan’s Toho Studios Reveals Title for Next Godzilla Movie
Director and VFX maestro Takashi Yamazaki's follow-up to Oscar-winner 'Godzilla Minus One' was revealed Monday at this year’s “Godzilla Day 2025” event in Tokyo.
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It looks like "Goo". Double meaning, as in "Goo-goo, ga-ga?" Baby Godzilla confirmed?
Godzuki?
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