Re: DreamMOVIE #12: The Spielberg/Lucas hit machine!
What a brilliant conception for a McFly descendant. And that he's played by Casey Affleck is just ****ing icing on the cake.
My original choice was Seth Green, but I felt he didn't synch up with the cast enough. That, and for the darker movie I wanted here, Casey could show more emotions.
Another genius idea of a descendant. How did you do this? I love it when people use Ewan McGregor the way he's supposed to be used.
What I like about that casting was the dynamic between him and Jude Law. I can visualize them being brothers, and staring at each other from their proscpetive time machines, yelling at each other complaining about which one is their Dad's favorite. Ewan spouting about how Dad doesn't want them to interfere with history, and Jude stating that if history wasn't interfered with, Dad would have died.
Ditto for Heath Ledger as the friendly Tannen.
Repeat ad infinitum ad nauseum.
I'm not kidding.
Thank you for that. That's what I wanted to know
I really wished I liked the plot more, because the cast AND the characters are just brilliantly realized and aptly casted. Also, there's a touch of inspired-ness to putting Jules & Verne against each other. I feel like doing that is also a nice little nod to the animated series, regardless of whether it's canon or not.
Thumbs up to your cast, Houde.
I never watched the animated series myself, so I have no idea what the nod is.
As for the plot, I wanted a different tone. Yeah, you can argue that it's not Back to the Future because it's not fun. But that is a subjective term, I can see the fun in it, the travelling between time periods searching for a rogue time traveler, learning about oneselves, becoming better people in the process. Each character would evolve so much in that adventure. And who says these are world shattering events going on? They could just be important events that needed to be defused. I fail to see how a rich religious cult could destroy the world, or want too? Or the economy crashing, that wouldn't destroy the world, just set back civilization. It's darker than the first three, but that was done intentionally, I wanted these three to stand out from the previous three.
And like Marvelman said, this could simply be about saving Verne from himself. That's why the McFly is there, because a McFly had saved a Brown before.
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