lol at casting Antonio Banderas as a charismatic swashbuckling rogue. Dude is a block of wood.
Also, Anthony Hopkins?
I couldn’t say exactly why, but I liked him in Desperado.
I think Oscar Isaac would be great as Zorro, but he’d have a challenge putting butts in the seats. Get someone like Cuaron or del Toro to direct it, maybe it would have a good shot at making a reboot/origin story/sequel spawner. Some white guy doing it would probably make it suck, and someone like Robert Rodriguez doing it would probably make it too violent.
The story has appeal overseas, but I think it’s hard to get a movie like that going if you can’t guarantee $300m to $400m worldwide. If the rights are an issue, that could also present problems but if someone just went by the history they could avoid almost all of those. The character hasn’t been done in the HD era (2005 was right at the beginning of that so it was probably still done on film), so that also presents an opportunity.
The budget for the one in 1998 was $95m and it made $250m worldwide. That’s a slight success, but isn’t a good performer. The one in 20015 was budgeted at $75m and it made $142m worldwide, a loss.
If you got the right people behind it, had the right kind of script, lead(s), humor, etc. it could be a winner but I think it would be in a long development process. The kind that makes the good people walk away.
I would also want my story so original it can’t go inside Sony as a studio. They would eff it up in this era. Lionsgate would probably be a really good studio for this, and I think the budget would probably be best served in the $50-60m range to give it scope and keep grittiness for what you’re hoping to do. There you go, run with it.
It’s the greatest story of all time.
I mean, I don’t care if your super power is laser swords and telekinesis, loving your sister, following the directions of how to put Lego bricks together, thunder and a cool hammer, reeling in a fish, being a literal emotion, gunslinging in the old west, or wealth and a lot of toys, that story is going to keep getting told
I mean, a monotony of monomyths has been a feature of storytelling since long before and entirely through Hollywood. Disney successfully putting together a polyphony of monomyths that themselves coalesce into a meta-monomyth is at least relatively novel to cinema (albeit not to print media), even if it’s only in scale.
Hollywood fought comic book movies for a long long time, and now it’s almost all they care about.
Slow down there Jordan Schlansky
Definitely appreciate the authentic pronunciation of Van Gogh in that diatribe.
Turns out thoughts and prayers work, occasionally.
I don’t vape, but I know some people do, and it seems useful that they be aware of the apparent issue that’s been killing people is basically coating lungs with a grease derived from Vitamin E that’s been found in some THC/cannabis cartridges. Best advice for now is not to vape pot/THC.
https://twitter.com/RubrDuckyUrThe1/status/1169699763819671552
https://twitter.com/politico/status/1169720643681755136
"Vitamin E acetate is basically grease, said Michelle Francl, a chemistry professor at Bryn Mawr College. Its molecular structure means that “you have to heat it up pretty hot” for it to vaporize. Its boiling point is 363 degrees Fahrenheit, which is well above the 212 degrees F boiling point for water, and nearly four times higher than normal human body temperature.
Once the oil is heated hot enough to vaporize, it can potentially decompose, and “now you’re breathing in who-knows-what,” Francl said.
When that vapor cools down in the lungs, it returns to its original state at that temperature and pressure, she said, which means “it has now coated the inside of your lungs with that oil,” she said.
In Utah, clinicians have treated several patients with acute lung injuries who were diagnosed with a rare condition known as lipoid pneumonia, with symptoms including chest pain and difficulty breathing. Those patients had abnormal immune cells filled with lipids, doctors said.
Unlike the human digestive tract, which can break down and get rid of foreign substances, the lungs aren’t designed to handle anything except gases, experts said."
Mugabe dead
If we could do it again, I don’t think we would cut down near as much.
Also there was this which is overripe for a remake
Finding a decent flat in Prague is a motherfucker of a task.
Honestly the place I’m staying in now is a total shithole. Need to gtfo ASAP
But Jewish people should vote GOP something
https://twitter.com/hatewatch/status/1169988715223179265?s=21
This is legit horrifying.
I mean is there any way to combat this? You know it’s only going to be harder and harder to detect over time.