It's a Go: Drew Barrymore's Barbarella Finds Funding, Director...

[bridgit]

http://www.hollywood.com/news/Its_a_Go_Drew_Barrymores_Barbarella_Finds_Funding_Director/313065

[judaspriestess]

1. drew barrymore as Barbarella?

no thanks

[bridgit]

2. i'm ready...

[LostInAnomie]

3. HOORAY! That Hollywood is always coming up with fresh, innovative ideas.

:thumbsdown:

[bridgit]

4. i'm still ready...

[pokerfan]

5. Remakes. We get lots of remakes.

Well, I guess they're gonna need a new orgasmotron or are they going to use a Sybian?

Aren't we due for another "Cape Fear" by now?

[bridgit]

6. it's CGI, directors are not able to resist CGI: King Kong, Phantom of the Opera...

Batman Begins, you name it; we're prolly overdue for a remake of Blazing Saddles for that matter

[pokerfan]

7. CGI doesn't 'splain the Cape Fear remake

which was completely unnecessary.

[bridgit]

8. are you talking Scorsese?

[pokerfan]

9. Oh, I'm not saying that it wasn't well done

but it did get a little silly towards the end.

[bridgit]

10. Cartoon'y imo...

[pokerfan]

11. exactly

I thought the original King Kong was perfectly fine (a classic) even given its limited FX.

Now LOTR, that deserved a remake, over and over until someone finally got it right, which Jackson did, more or less.

Psycho was painstakingly remade shot by shot, only in color. As if Hitchcock was not aware of color film in 1960.

How soon before we get a Jaws remake? Not another sequel, but a remake of the original, because the animatronic shark sucked so bad. Well, that crappy prop shark actually forced Spielberg into making a much more suspenseful film than he might have otherwise made, by keeping 'Bruce' (named for his attorney) hidden from view most of the time.

I can't wait until a fifty year old Keanu Reeves (only eight years from now) reprises Robert Shaw's monologue on the sinking of the Indianapolis:

"Dude! A Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, dude! It was like comin' back, from the like the island of Tinian Delady, just delivered the bomb, dude!"

But the CGI shark will be spectacular!

[bridgit]

13. oh hell yes the orig Kong was better, can you imagine how torn apart...

what's her name would have been being thrashed hither & yon in the course of being 'saved' from T-rex' and what have you, the G-force alone would have been unsustainable, talk about radical chiropractic x(

sadly the CGI allure isn't seen only in re-release', I Robot was cool, but it wasn't enough to have maybe 100/200/300 nasty-ass robots all getting funky...

in a copy/paste Maya software environ it's like 1,000's & 1,000's i mean really, we get the point already sheesh!

"I can't wait until a fifty year old Keanu Reeves (only eight years from now) reprises Robert Shaw's monologue on the sinking of the Indianapolis:

"Dude! A Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, dude! It was like comin' back, from the like the island of Tinian Delady, just delivered the bomb, dude!""

:thumbsup: :rofl: :toast:

[pokerfan]

15. Don't get me started on I Robot

Asimov must be turning about 7200 RPM in his grave right now. I hope they never try to film Niven's Ringworld.

When King Kong was searching for Fay Wray and climbing the Empire State building, there's a scene where Kong reaches into a room, grabs some random woman, sniffs her and then casually tosses her to her death. Now that's true love! Was that in the remake? I could never finish it.

The f/x must be there to service the story. Never the other way around.

[bridgit]

16. hahahahaha, thunk! That's part of what i'm saying once it gets round some...

mahogany boardroom table, swimming pool, or hot-tub in Hollywood circa now: the skies the limit; then we see all that "Based on a novel by (fill in the blank)" so hear you on the Asimov, their renderings of Philip K. Dick come to mind as well

I do like the new Batman franchise though :bounce:

[pokerfan]

18. I like the reboot of the James Bond series too

[bridgit]

20. oh...as do I, see?

that franchise was imo born again, liked the piece very much :bounce:

[pokerfan]

21. And here I thought you'd being going in this direction

Note to the directors of the next one. Equal time for female nudity.

[bridgit]

22. Oh I looked for a pic from that scene of him strapped to a chair naked...

while being rather harshly interrogated but haven't found it yet :(

[pokerfan]

23. Now why do I have to do your dirty work?

Now you gotta do something for me in return. Something in the Eva Green variety, please.

[bridgit]

24. weeeeeeeeeeeeee!

that's the stuff :bounce:

[bridgit]

25. You Got It! Eva Green - Queen Sibylla, Kingdom of Heaven...

Eva Green

Eva Green - Interview

Eva Green -- "The Dreamers" Trailer

Kingdom of Heaven Director's Cut scene

[pokerfan]

28. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.......

"I feel dizzy."
(Forrest Gump)

[Jade Fox]

30. Remakes are marketable.....

and capture big audiences during the all important first few weeks in theaters when most ticket sales money goes to the studios. After that, the studios don't give a damn about how well a movie does because they're making a lot less money off ticket sales. Since original, innovative movies take time to build an audience, they don't get made much anymore, except as low-budget indies. That's my understanding, anyway.

Sucks.

[Jamastiene]

12. Drew is cool.

Love her movies.

[bridgit]

14. i think she'll do fine...

:)

[MonkeyFunk]

17. Cool..

I love Drew, and she'll be great in that.

I don't understand why people hate remakes. Some of Hollywood's greatest movies are remakes. "The Man Who Knew Too Much", "A Star is Born", "The Wizard of Oz"...

A remake doesn't in any way detract from the original film - it's not like it replaces it.

[bridgit]

19. That sounds right, I'm willing to wait and see what she's able to bring to it...

there's no mistaking her understanding of just what that roll entails; even beyond Jane, the Barbarella character is iconic, a goodly portion/if not all of France will be watching, and I should think that all involved would be willing to show up and put in some good days work so as to suggest, especially Drew who is very able to roll quite a range of emotions across her face one to the next...very talented :hi:

[Deja Q]

26. Oh boy. How will she outdo Jane Fonda's nude scene?

It won't look like this:






Mind you,

Representatives for the project, attempting to describe the storyline, call the upcoming film a cross between "sci-fi and Woody Allen sex comedies."

I loved Woody Allens' earlier works, up to and including "Annie Hall", but he became psycho after that. So the movie may be hit or miss...

[bridgit]

31. I know I saw that 'sci fi/Allen' ref and I am left unsatisfied in a pre-state...

brought to mind some of what Allen did to Casino Royale :(

[edbermac]

27. WTF?? Why not remake Citizen Kane??

The original Barbarella was about as perfect as you can get.

[judaspriestess]

29. hmmmm,

although I like Drew Barrymore, she is not in any way shape or form a sex kitten type woman to me. To me, lets me make that very clear, to me, to someone else great. Just like whoever the hell is portraying Princess Aura on the new Flash Gordon series, what an insult. Ornela Muti is an exotic beauty, why not continue with the spirit of what she originally created. Same for Barbarella. That is a hot ass pic of Jane Fonda btw :)

[WinkyDink]

32. I don't know of any 1990's-now re-make that held a candle to the original,

whatever medium the original was in (e.g., "Wild, Wild West"; "Charlie's Angels").

[mitchum]

33. Cocaine is a serious problem in Hollywood