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^ If they approach it intelligently, like the Where the Wild Things Are movie (and judging from the somewhat 'arty' choice of writer, they may indeed) then it can work. Pooh has been done in various mediums over the years, often through puppetry, so I'm not wedded to the notion that animation is the only way to do it.

Because Pooh and his friends are stuffed animals it nicely avoids the need to make the characters look creepily realistic.

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A sequel or reboot of the 1984 sci-fi cult classic has long be muddled in legal complications, but those may soon be over.

[gojira_fan]

Has anyone else heard about this and the ensuing fallout?

It's a supposed monster movie that is to star Anne Hathaway and sounds a bit too familiar.



http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/c ... sal-794762


http://www.ew.com/article/2015/05/19/an ... a-creators


***edit*** oops I see someone already started a thread in the GAMERA AND OTHER DAIKAIJU section.

viewforum.php?f=64

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Cites Studios Wanting “Cheap and Fast” Over Quality

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[MekaGojira3k]

That's sad. :/ I think his stuff is amazing. It's easily the only good thing about the 2001 Planet of the Apes.

[lhb412]

Rick Baker closing his studio is very sad, end of an era and all that... but the silver lining is that whatever smaller projects he gets involved in will likely better feature his works than the blockbusters he's participated in in the last decade or so.

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[klen7]

They meant http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3689498/ and i was picturing http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0426459/

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The studio has struck a deal for Jason Micallef's red-hot pitch set in the world of cryptozoology as a potential franchise starter.

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[The Shadow]

Sounds rather like the Sword of the Atom comic book series (which received a couple three DC Nation shorts). If Micro ever gets to theaters I'm interested enough to buy a ticket.

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[The Shadow]

Conran's JCOM sizzle reel popped up online around the same time as Disney's/Andrew Stanton's version was being released. It's a terrible shame that Paramount executives kept yanking Kerry Conran around and never gave JCoM the green light. Ultimately Conran left and Jon Favreau came on as director, who also was keen on making a true to the book adaptation and Favreau's work so impressed ERB Inc. that Paramount was given a free extension on the movie rights.

From what I can tell with from the sizzle reel, I believe Kerry Conran's adaptation would have been truer to Edgar Rice Burrough's story (the single biggest flaw in Stanton's adaptation for many an ERB fan). I still wish that Paramount would have let Kerry Conran direct JCOM, the sizzle reel is fantastic and really brings forth the ERB adventure.

I like the movie Andrew Stanton delivered, it does a lot of things well despite the "good citizen" compromises, but at the same time some of the additions & changes to ERB's story don't necessarily add anything and in some cases can even take away from the story. To sum it up I'd say that Stanton delivered a very good movie, but it's not quite the adaptation that ERB fans were hoping it would be. I do believe that if Stanton had been given the go ahead for the sequels, GODS OF MARS and WARLORD OF MARS, they would have been far more in line with ERB's novels and much more in line with what ERB fans were looking for.

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