ourchair
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Almost no news right now, other than the usual "D.J. Caruso directs" and that The Beef is rumored.
If something comes up, I'll be sure to post here, as I'm watching it very closely on the Hollywood Stock Exchange.
Y The Last Man: Movie news.
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If something comes up, I'll be sure to post here, as I'm watching it very closely on the Hollywood Stock Exchange.
moonmaster
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Some Y news:
I've been thinking for a while that this needs to be a trilogy.
Movie 1: "Unmanned", basically in it's entirety. "Cycles" could mostly be cut, except for the confrontation with the Amazons. (Which would actually work better at the end of the movie.) "One Small Step" could be used for the second half of the movie.
Movie 2: Skip "Safeword" begin with the crew getting to San Francisco, have Yorick recount the "Widow's Pass" story to Beth and then move on to "Ring of Truth". Have them head to Japan, skip most of "Girl on Girl" and end the movie with "Paper Dolls".
Movie 3: "Kimono Dragons", "Motherland", and "Whys and Wherefores".
All with the flashbacks for the various characters cut in.
And the movies could be titled like the "Bourne" movies: "The Last Man", "The Last ____", "The Last ____".
I've been thinking for a while that this needs to be a trilogy.
Movie 1: "Unmanned", basically in it's entirety. "Cycles" could mostly be cut, except for the confrontation with the Amazons. (Which would actually work better at the end of the movie.) "One Small Step" could be used for the second half of the movie.
Movie 2: Skip "Safeword" begin with the crew getting to San Francisco, have Yorick recount the "Widow's Pass" story to Beth and then move on to "Ring of Truth". Have them head to Japan, skip most of "Girl on Girl" and end the movie with "Paper Dolls".
Movie 3: "Kimono Dragons", "Motherland", and "Whys and Wherefores".
All with the flashbacks for the various characters cut in.
And the movies could be titled like the "Bourne" movies: "The Last Man", "The Last ____", "The Last ____".
Ice
Teh Sexy Monkey Queen
CBR:
According to UGO's movie blog, Shia Lebeouf is not confirmed as Yorick Brown, and producer JC Spink wants singer Alicia Keys to play Culper Ring agent 355. "I think Alicia Keys would be fantastic," Spink said. "Or Zoe Saldana. By then 'Star Trek' will be out and she'll be huge. I don't think Jada Pinkett Smith would be right but a lot of people like her. The truth is that it is up to DJ Caruso and the studio ... but mostly DJ. I just make suggestions. But please post this to your site to see if you can get people campaigning."
Alicia Keys as 355? NO! That's so stupid. Ugh. I don't know if Jada Smith would work better, but compared to Keys, she's leagues better.
According to UGO's movie blog, Shia Lebeouf is not confirmed as Yorick Brown, and producer JC Spink wants singer Alicia Keys to play Culper Ring agent 355. "I think Alicia Keys would be fantastic," Spink said. "Or Zoe Saldana. By then 'Star Trek' will be out and she'll be huge. I don't think Jada Pinkett Smith would be right but a lot of people like her. The truth is that it is up to DJ Caruso and the studio ... but mostly DJ. I just make suggestions. But please post this to your site to see if you can get people campaigning."
Alicia Keys as 355? NO! That's so stupid. Ugh. I don't know if Jada Smith would work better, but compared to Keys, she's leagues better.
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DIrishB
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Alicia Keys? You have to be kidding me. Even Jada Pinkett Smith is a poor choice. I'd prefer more of a no-name who actually has acting chops, though I know the studios feel compelled to make ****ty casting choices like this to bring in key teen demographics...I guess? Why else would anyone want to cast Alicia Keys? That guy JC Spink is an idiot.
Ice
Teh Sexy Monkey Queen
CBR:
Director DJ Caruso told FirstShowing.net how things are proceeding on the Vertigo adaptation. "I turned in the script last week, about five days ago," Caruso said. "I actually have the notes. It got turned into New Line. Things have changed. I don't know if you know, but New Line barely exists anymore. So now, New Line is going to work on it and Warner Brothers wants to make the movie. They obviously are excited that Shia is interested in making the movie, being Yorick Brown and all that stuff. But, it's my job to get the script right first. Then once we get the script right, which we're getting close, then it could potentially be the next movie. Warner Brothers is light on movies for 2010. They're pushing hard to get it going, but we gotta get the script right and we're getting close. If you know the series at all, there's a lot to choose from, but it's also -- you want to make a movie that stands alone. But I keep telling them I can't fit it all into one movie. God wiling, if it's successful enough, there has to be another movie, but we're working really hard and I would like to get that movie going."
Director DJ Caruso told FirstShowing.net how things are proceeding on the Vertigo adaptation. "I turned in the script last week, about five days ago," Caruso said. "I actually have the notes. It got turned into New Line. Things have changed. I don't know if you know, but New Line barely exists anymore. So now, New Line is going to work on it and Warner Brothers wants to make the movie. They obviously are excited that Shia is interested in making the movie, being Yorick Brown and all that stuff. But, it's my job to get the script right first. Then once we get the script right, which we're getting close, then it could potentially be the next movie. Warner Brothers is light on movies for 2010. They're pushing hard to get it going, but we gotta get the script right and we're getting close. If you know the series at all, there's a lot to choose from, but it's also -- you want to make a movie that stands alone. But I keep telling them I can't fit it all into one movie. God wiling, if it's successful enough, there has to be another movie, but we're working really hard and I would like to get that movie going."
Ice
Teh Sexy Monkey Queen
CBR:
Sci Fi Wire has quotes from director DJ Caruso, discussing the possibility his favorite actor could play Yorick Brown. "Shia and I talk all the time, and when I feel it's right, I'll show him the script," Caruso said. "He's definitely interested. We came up with some really cool things that would enhance act three and be close to what is happening in the series of books. It was a ground-breaking idea. I know [the rewriting] is taking longer than I thought, but it's a really great project, and it's important that you focus on the story and get it right.
Sci Fi Wire has quotes from director DJ Caruso, discussing the possibility his favorite actor could play Yorick Brown. "Shia and I talk all the time, and when I feel it's right, I'll show him the script," Caruso said. "He's definitely interested. We came up with some really cool things that would enhance act three and be close to what is happening in the series of books. It was a ground-breaking idea. I know [the rewriting] is taking longer than I thought, but it's a really great project, and it's important that you focus on the story and get it right.
ultimatedjf
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So, Shia LaBeouf is officially not doing "Y: The Last Man" (Woo-hoo!). Who should replace him? A lot of people on the interwebz are suggesting Bret Harrison (Reaper), and I think that's a pretty good choice. Maybe not actingwise, but he looks astonishingly like Yorick does on the cover of the Volume 1 paperback. Great pick if you ask me.
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ultimatedjf
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Haha, wow! I guess he really should play him, then! I really wish executives looked on the internet for these kinds of things, as Bret just said in a Newsarama interview that he's pretty much unemployed now that Reaper's finished.
Seriously, he'd be the perfect choice.
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Sine Shia's out, I'll nominate Anton Yelchin for Yorick. He was better than Bale and Sam Worthington in Terminator and is getting all sorts of awesome roles in Hollywood.
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McCheese
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Alright, no Shia!
Now if only Keanu Reeves would remove himself from the Cowboy Bebop movie...
Now if only Keanu Reeves would remove himself from the Cowboy Bebop movie...
Ice
Teh Sexy Monkey Queen
I've heard that Shia isn't playing Yorick, but he's in talks for 355 because 355 is black and all.
thee great one
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Sine Shia's out, I'll nominate Anton Yelchin for Yorick. He was better than Bale and Sam Worthington in Terminator and is getting all sorts of awesome roles in Hollywood.
I agree with this.
Iceshadow
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Ugh, I had repressed that. Thanks for bringing it back up.
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Sine Shia's out, I'll nominate Anton Yelchin for Yorick. He was better than Bale and Sam Worthington in Terminator and is getting all sorts of awesome roles in Hollywood.
I've only seen him play dramatic roles so far. Does he have the wit they were hoping to get with Shia?
DisorderInTheHouse
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He was pretty funny in Star Trek and Charlie Bartlett.
Ice
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CBR:
CBR's old friend, Rich Johnston laid his hands on a copy of Brian K. Vaughn's draft of the script. His review is up over at Bleeding Cool. Clearly, the spoiler warning on this is super nova. This draft is now some four years out of date, but Rich says it got him the job on lost. "This movie is not so much an adaption of the comic book," he says "Instead it's Ultimate Y The Last Man, taking all the things Brian had learned while writing the comic and applying them to its very beginning. It's more focused. Characters who grow and develop, who we first met as the comic progressed are there right at the beginning, following their own parallel lives that we only get to understand in the comic in flashback or exposition."
CBR's old friend, Rich Johnston laid his hands on a copy of Brian K. Vaughn's draft of the script. His review is up over at Bleeding Cool. Clearly, the spoiler warning on this is super nova. This draft is now some four years out of date, but Rich says it got him the job on lost. "This movie is not so much an adaption of the comic book," he says "Instead it's Ultimate Y The Last Man, taking all the things Brian had learned while writing the comic and applying them to its very beginning. It's more focused. Characters who grow and develop, who we first met as the comic progressed are there right at the beginning, following their own parallel lives that we only get to understand in the comic in flashback or exposition."
DIrishB
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It will absolutely break my heart if Y doesn't make it to the big screen (or at least the small screen--HBO series baby!).
Ice
Teh Sexy Monkey Queen
CBR:
DJ Caruso tells Latino Review he's off the project. "I think the biggest problem for me was I saw it as a trilogy. I didn't think that you could take Yorick's story and put it in to a two-hour movie and do it justice. That was sort of the difference. I think that New Line, working with Warner Bros. in their new relationship, just felt reluctant thinking that we can't leave this thing open," he says. "It was like you had to convince the studio that this movie could stand alone on its own. But at the same time there would be unresolved issues ultimately with what happens to Yorick and how it all ties together. It's really tough."
DJ Caruso tells Latino Review he's off the project. "I think the biggest problem for me was I saw it as a trilogy. I didn't think that you could take Yorick's story and put it in to a two-hour movie and do it justice. That was sort of the difference. I think that New Line, working with Warner Bros. in their new relationship, just felt reluctant thinking that we can't leave this thing open," he says. "It was like you had to convince the studio that this movie could stand alone on its own. But at the same time there would be unresolved issues ultimately with what happens to Yorick and how it all ties together. It's really tough."
