barsoomcore
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This is the 413th stupidest statement ever uttered by a human being. Please, Lord, spare me more marketing-speak from movie producers.Chris Weitz said:a sort of 'Matrix' of the sword-and-sorcery genre
This is the 413th stupidest statement ever uttered by a human being. Please, Lord, spare me more marketing-speak from movie producers.Chris Weitz said:a sort of 'Matrix' of the sword-and-sorcery genre
But both actors (Ian Holms and John) aren't getting any younger. Most importantly, I don't think John wants to sign onboard if he has to wear those itchy makeups ever again.Klaus said:And then PJ pulls a "Lucas" and re-release FotR with the new actor in place of Bilbo?
j/k, I'd like a new actor to play Bilbo, and John Rhys-Davies to play that dwarf that is, iirc, Gimli's relative.
Klaus said:And then PJ pulls a "Lucas" ...
Nope, that would clutter up the scene. Just a couple of two-tons.The Grumpy Celt said:And what, put's ton-tons in the backs of shots?
Agreed.barsoomcore said:This [the 'Matrix' for Sword & Sorcery is the 413th stupidest statement ever uttered by a human being. Please, Lord, spare me more marketing-speak from movie producers.
nikolai said:I thought an interesting comment was this:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/24/film.elric.reut/
I almost like the comparison. The love story between the Warchouski siblings' 'author characters' is a big chunk of why i disliked the matrix series. To know going in a Trinity-esqe character is going to perish in the worst way in all of existence brings me great joy. I could even forgive the opening scene having the throne room magically lit in a rave-like manner to try and entertain Elric as long as they do not gloss over his depencence on the drugs. I like the series in writing and concept, but don’t forget Mr. Moorcock wrote Elric as almost a parody of Conan and other fantasy fiction.Joshua Randall said:Agreed.
I was about to make a derogatory comment about the Matrix's peurile so-called philosophizing in comparison to Elric.
Then I remembered that the Elric stories have just as much puerile so-called philosophizing. Yeah, it seemed deep and important when I was 16, but so did a lot of other crap.
So now I've decided that I would far rather see an Elric movie that dispenses with the philosophizing and just features lots of killing and a kewl uber sword.
Amano has illustrated most of the major fantasy stories by Michael Moorcock which are published in Japan - setting the standard for fantasy illustrations. Mr. Moorcock liked Amano's illustrations so much, he changed the original covers of the English translations to Amano's work.
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=products/dlacc/869900000J-Dawg said:And to be nitpicky; WotC does not supportD&DEDIT: Wow, that was a bizarre typo Dragonlance; it's still dead to them. They have licensed setting co-creator Margaret Weiss' company to produce DL material, but I doubt that there's anything to that other than 1) hey, a license. That's revenue, and 2) soft spot for Margaret Weiss.
See, NOW you're talking!Joshua Randall said:So now I've decided that I would far rather see an Elric movie that dispenses with the philosophizing and just features lots of killing and a kewl uber sword.