будущие.фильмы о WTC."This one has it all, Titanic meets Grand Canyon meets Gladiator"
"This one has it all, Titanic meets Grand Canyon meets Gladiator.."
Тут Рустем давал ссылку на вою печальную статью о застое
кино-производства в США. Из-за событий 9\11 сняты с производства и
прпоката несколько блокбастеров, прекращено производство
фильмов-катастроф и прочих ужастиков, могущих напомнить о трагедии.
Любимого нашим зрителем Шварцнеггера даже зарезали, готовый фильм не
выйдет в прокат, он там должен был спасать заложников в захваченном
небоскребе.
Думаю, слухи о смерти амер.кино преувеличены( в отличие от нескольких
авиакомпаний). Голливуд бессмертен. Вот тут с сайта газеты "eXile".
Картина более оптимистичная. (Перевести на русский трудновато, много
жаргонизмов).
Мне особенно понравился мега-супер-фильм "WТС" с участием всех
суперзвезд Голливуда и далее де Ниро в роли Бен Ладена
Просьба американцев подсказать личности некоторых актеров и их амплуа,
если они знают. Кто такая "Наташа"из каких то"Цыплят"?Что за личности
озвучивают диснеевский мультик про историю ислама - это что, "Один дома"
что ли в роли Мухаммеда?
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Definitely Be Seeing Next Year
We at the eXile feel confident that we shared the feelings of most
Americans after the collapse of the World Trade Center three weeks ago,
when we thought to ourselves, in anguish, "Who has the film rights to
the number '9-1-1'? Quick, get an agent on the phone!" And indeed, since
then, we have in fact contacted our house film agent, just to see how
many "9/11" scripts are out there already. From what little we know of
the business, we're betting that the title has already been snapped up,
with a director and six or seven big names, plus David Caruso, already
signed to the project. Anyway, we're waiting for the report from our
agent on that one: In the meantime, we hunkered down here in Moscow to
prepare ourselves for the other War With Islam-inspired titles we're
certain to see within the next year or two. Here's a short list of
inevitable titles, along with commentary by the eXile film agent, Sidney
Rubin of the William Morris Agency:
TITLE: 9/11
CAST:
Natasha ("Chick from Species") Henstridge, Haley Joel Osment, Michael
Rooker, Toby Maguire
PLOT:
Rooker-Henstridge-Osment are a mildly dysfunctional middle class New
York family. Henstridge is a Harvard grad who drinks too much and is
losing her looks because she's unhappily married to Rooker, a macho New
York City fireman whom she found attractive ten years ago but now feels
emotionally and intellectually constricted by. But when Rooker dies
fighting the World Trade Center fire, she and her nightmare-plagued son
Osment feel a void. Enter Maguire, Rooker's effete brother-opposite, who
plays bass in a Violent Femmes-style band and writes dissidenty
anti-corporate articles for The Village Voice. Despite the fact that
they live in the same city, Maguire and Rooker hadn't talked in years
when 9/11 arrives. Guilt-plagued after Rooker's funeral, he steps into
his brother's role in the family, curing Osment's nightmares and being
the intelligent platonic companion Henstridge has needed all these
years. But when the war in Afghanistan begins, Maguire, awakened to a
new sense of patriotic duty, enlists and fights-for his brother's
memory. Featuring original songs by Hootie and the Blowfish.
SID RUBIN'S TAKE:
"Rooker's ready for this kind of move up. It took ten years of good-guy
action roles to make up for Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. Maguire'
s a hard sell to middle America."
TITLE: BUNKER BUDDIES
CAST:
Rob Schneider, Chris Tucker, Jon Voight
PLOT:
In war, all cowards are on the same side! Schneider and Tucker are both
deserters-Schneider from the 101st Airborne (where he was serving as
punishment for an excess of parking tickets), and Tucker from the
Taliban army. Before a major ground battle, the two of them by chance
choose to hide in the same deserted mountain bunker. After some initial
confrontational hilarity, the two of them decide to team up and make a
run for China together-in drag. With Jon Voight as the evil MP
commander. Jamie Farr appears in a brief cameo that is a winking nod to
both his cross-dressing Klinger in M*A*S*H and his car-happy oil sheik
in the Cannonball Run series.
SID RUBIN'S TAKE:
"A version of this script, set in the Persian gulf, was passed around
ten years ago, but it died when they couldn't get anyone to play the
Iraqi. Tucker will get $30 million to play an Afghan."
TITLE: WTC
CAST:
Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks, Kevin Kline, Heath Ledger, Jennifer Lopez,
Harrison Ford, Kevin Costner, Helen Hunt, Gregg Kinnear, Penelope Cruz,
Kate Hudson, Michael Jordan, Matthew McConaghey, Danny Glover, Kevin
Pollak, Christopher Reeve, Richard Harris, Charlton Heston
PLOT:
A sweeping, ensemble-cast epic dramatizing the terrorist attacks and the
initial aftermath. The unprecedented star-studded cast will make for an
opening credits sequence lasting in excess of 30 minutes. To make the
budget manageable, all the stars will be working for scale, which they
will donate to the World Trade Center relief fund. Way too many subplots
to go into; among others, Roberts and Hanks are reporters for rival
networks who must join forces in order to bring the story to the people
(and save a few lives in the process); Australian tourist Ledger meets
and falls in love with cleaning woman J-Lo on the 95th floor of the
North Tower after the first plane hits (when they're trapped in the
subsequent debris, he sacrifices himself so that she may survive);
President Bush (Harrison Ford) flies from Florida to Louisiana to
Nebraska on Air Force One in the aftermath of the attacks, all the while
arguing with aides Costner and Hunt that he is needed immediately back
in Washington; Reeve, a high-powered stock broker who had been paralyzed
in a cocaine-and-alcohol-fueled car crash that took three other lives
(including a 9-month-old infant), comes to terms with his guilt and
rejoins the human race as he mourns with other Americans in the wake of
the tragedy; Richard Harris, a NYC fire chief on his final day before
retiring, learns that his entire squad has been killed in the rescue
operation, etc. NY Mayor Rudi Giuliani and countless senators and former
Secretaries of State and Defense appear as themselves.
SID RUBIN'S TAKE:
"This one has it all, Titanic meets Grand Canyon meets Gladiator meets A
Bridge Too Far. Just the horde of personal assistants and hair stylists
attending to all the stars will be twice as large as the crew of an
average film. Reportedly, the studio is still in negotiations with the
National Security Administration to have George W. play himself."
TITLE: THE PROPHET
CAST:
Macaulay Culkin, Angela Bassett, Robin Williams (voices)
PLOT:
Disney's attempt to show the true, peaceful story of Islam in an
animated blockbuster. There will be some controversy when Culkin is
chosen as the voice for the teenage Mohammed. With Bassett as his mother
and Danny Glover as the archangel Gabriel. Star-studded soundtrack will
include a duet between Michael Jackson and Turkish megastar Tarkan.
SID RUBIN'S TAKE:
"P.O.E. 2? More like pee-yew, too. Bet on it, though-though nobody wants
to even take a lunch about this film, it will get made."
TITLE: FINAL SHOWDOWN
CAST:
Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers of the mid 1980s
PLOT:
Zucker brothers David and Jerry team up as co-directors for the first
time since 1986's Ruthless People in this ultra-high-concept political
thriller depicting the standoff between the U.S. administration and
Osama bin Laden. Script by Tom Clancy. The curious conceit: the two
opposing sides are played by, respectively, the classic mid-80s NBA
rivals Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar plays
bin Laden, with Magic Johnson, James Worthy, Byron Scott, Michael
Cooper, and Kurt Rambis as various of his underlings and Taliban
protectors. The American side, meanwhile, is led by Danny Ainge as
President Bush, along with Larry Bird as Vice-President Cheney, Dennis
Johnson as Secretary of State Colin Powell, Robert Parish as National
Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice, and Kevin McHale in a challenging dual
role as Defense Secretary Dick Rumsfeld and Attorney General John
Ashcroft. Timothy Hutton makes an uncredited appearance as Bush's Chief
of Staff.
SID RUBIN'S TAKE:
"This one is certainly a major risk on every conceivable level, but if
it actually works: look out!"
TITLE: MEMENTO 2
CAST:
Guy Pearce, Robert De Niro, Chris Tucker, Joan Chen, Ben Gazzara
PLOT:
Amnesiac Pearce is again manipulated, this time by Osama bin Laden (de
Niro), who calls him in his hotel room night after night, hinting that
an international financial conspiracy based in the World Trade Center
killed his wife. Thrilling sequences, in reverse time, showing Pearce's
struggle to remember what he is doing in the cabin of UA flight 11, and,
later, negotiate the metal detectors at Logan airport. The film opens
with FBI investigators finding Polaroids of box-cutters and piles of
post-it notes in Arabic in an East Boston hotel. With Chris Tucker as
Pearce's true-believing Saudi accomplice, and Chen and Gazzara as
horrified passengers who realize Pearce's problem too late.
SID RUBIN'S TAKE:
"Typical blockbuster scenario. The first movie gets the word-of-mouth
sales, the second makes the money. Like Die Hard and First Blood. An
inspired, chilling performance snaps De Niro's losing streak. Look for a
Hollywood heavyweight like Spielberg or De Palma take over directing
reins from young turk Chris Nolan."
TITLE: AROUND THE WAY
CAST:
Ice Cube, DMX, Sean "Puffy" Combs, Salma Hayek, Craig T. Nelson, Ben
Kingsley, Chris Tucker
PLOT:
South Central LA's baddest street gang (Cube, DMX, Combs, et al) finds
out that a group of Arab terrorists, led by the diabolical bald
Kingsley, are living "around the way." When the gang finds out that the
group is plotting to blow up LAX, they take matters into their own
hands-getting help along the way from their old nemesis, retired
anti-gang cop Nelson. The film ends in a thrilling drive-by scene in
which Kingsley and his cold-blooded henchman Tucker are gunned down on
the way to the bombing.
SID RUBIN'S TAKE:
"Mario Van Peebles will want in on this movie and he won't be able to
get his foot in the door, that's how hot this script will be. There's
already talk about legal problems surrounding the soundtrack rights."
TITLE: METTLE DETECTOR
CAST:
Janeane Garofalo, Ben Affleck, Albert Finney
PLOT:
Garofalo, an ex-FBI agent who had lost her badge in disgrace through a
bureaucratic snafu that wasn't her fault, now works as a rent-a-cop
security guard at Boston's Logan Airport. After the terrorist attacks,
she thinks she recalls a passenger who had passed through her metal
detector that morning from a terrorist case she worked on back with the
bureau. She has much trouble convincing former colleague Ben Affleck-who
still blames her for the death of his partner (Matt Damon in a flashback
cameo) and is now heading the investigation-that her hunch is the key to
uncovering the roots of the terrorist groups. Her father (Finney), a
retired Pace University professor and former peace activist with whom
she has a troubled but loving relationship, provides much needed
guidance and moral support as she struggles to win her badge back and
hunt down the culprits.
SID RUBIN'S TAKE:
"I've heard Gus Van Sant and Sam Raimi's names tossed around as possible
directors for this one. Unfortunately, it could end up being trapped
somewhere between a blockbuster and a quirky independent picture-a
dangerous no-man's land in today's uncertain political and economic
climate."
TITLE: SOUL SURVIVORS
CAST:
Whoopi Goldberg, Reese Witherspoon, Ted Danson
PLOT:
Pampered, arrogant businesswoman Witherspoon and her quietly submissive
secretary (Goldberg) have never had much to say to one another-until
they find themselves trapped in the World Trade Center in this
improbable buddy picture. Witherspoon learns that her Ivy League
education and social-climbing skills are of little help in a towering
inferno just minutes away from crumbling to the ground, while Goldberg
discovers that even her instinctive street smarts will not be enough to
save her without a little from an unexpected new friend.
SID RUBIN'S TAKE:
"This was already in development prior to the attacks, although then it
was to be set in a Silicon Valley office park with the tentative title
Dot-Bomb. Look for the implied lesbian tension between Goldberg and
Witherspoon to be de-emphasized as the action is transplanted to the
World Trade Center."
TITLE: SHORT CIRCUIT 3
CAST:
Fisher Stevens, Hugh Grant, Dan Aykroyd
PLOT:
Stevens reprises his role as the Pakistani tech weenie with the
convenience store accent in this unlikely second sequel to the Steve
Guttenberg/Ally Sheedy comedy. This time around, the wisecracking Johnny
5 robot (now outfitted with a self-contained atomic device) has fallen
into the hands of Osama bin Laden and Stevens must bumble his way across
the Afghan border and infiltrate Taliban headquarters in order to avert
a nuclear catastrophe. He gets a little help along the way from a
stammering wire-service photographer (Grant) and an Afghan War-era deep
cover CIA agent (Aykroyd) who refuses to accept that the Cold War is
over.
SID RUBIN'S TAKE:
"Boy, I sure wouldn't want to be Hugh Grant's agent if this mess
actually gets released."
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- Сектантка - Леонид 12.10.2001 08:59:54 (1356 b)
