One consequence of the writer’s strike may be that the studios begin shooting movies without a writer on board. From Variety:
"There’s no such thing as a locked script," says one Sony-based producer who has a go project.
"How can you make a movie without a writer?" asks manager Patty Detroit. "You can’t!"
Sony, for example, has at least two big-budget, high-profile "go" films that may have incomplete scripts and/or major casting holes. Paul Haggis admitted while walking the strike line last week that his script for "Bond 22," which is skedded to shoot in December, is not locked. Similarly, the script for "Angels & Demons," was rushed to meet the Nov. 1 deadline.
Major tentpoles are the most vulnerable should the strike drag on. Warner Bros. execs are nervous about how to proceed with "Justice League of America," which is still uncast and is a crucial potential franchise boasting popular DC Comics characters. "Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins" will face issues if the strike goes past April. "The Jetsons" has a locked script, but it is uncast.
Does “tentpole” mean “piece of shit”? It must. Wow, not only are they dumb enough to actually make a JLA, Jetsons, and fourth Terminator movie, they might shoot them without writers. That will be interesting. [picture courtesy of Box Office Psychics]
Paramount, on the other hand, threw four pricey A-list scribes at would-be $100-million franchise "G.I. Joe," which is scheduled to start shooting in February, and swears that the move paid off. Stuart Beattie ("3:10 to Yuma"), John Lee Hancock ("A Perfect World") and Brian Koppleman and David Levien ("Ocean’s Thirteen") teamed up in an intense collaboration that yielded, according to di Bonaventura, a shootable script.
Shootable, now that’s high praise. I try to give my girlfriend the same kind of encouragement. Whenever she gives me a blow job and then asks me how it was, I shrug my shoulders and go, "Meh." Girls go crazy for that lovey dovey shit.
Fox is moving full speed ahead with its "X-Men" spinoff "Wolverine," even though many roles are still uncast. Unlike "X-Men," "Wolverine" rests solidly on Hugh Jackman’s shoulders.
On "X-Men" pics, Parker admits, writers Simon Kinberg and Zak Penn were making adjustments throughout production. "Wolverine" will have no such luxury. Most action sequences will be handled in f/x animation.
Ugh… Let’s follow up a Brett Ratner abortion with an FX-heavy, writer-free romp. Sounds promising.
"The X-Files" sequel, while casting supporting roles, is to start in December, Parker says. Pulling the plug now would be prohibitively expensive.
Well, they’ve already pissed away millions, no choice but to piss away more, right? Nevermind that the show went off the air five years ago, or that the first movie was a turd anyway. It’s like Speed 4: Script of Doom!
Check out this even doomier and gloomier article in the NYTimes.
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they would suck anyway, shitty writers or not
Wait, they’re actually making a Jetsons movie? I made a joke about that last week. I think that Hollywood has officially started reading and stealing from this site, Lance.
damn you guys, where did you go? maybe I should go change into my funny pants?
Keanu Reeves will have the last laugh. When the strike drags on they’ll turn back to silent films and, we all know, that walking around looking hot and brooding is what Keanu does best. And without having to speak with his weird Canuck/Califonia accent, he’s sure to take home all the major prizes.
Producers are people who hate everyone and are confident that they are geniuses and everyone else are complete idiots. That’s why I think I would make a pretty good producer.
I have an idea for a movie starring that little girl from Little Miss Sunshine as an unstoppable killing machine.
I totally joked about a Jetsons movie last week. They’re stealing my ideas!
If this strike drags on I might go outside and talk to people.
I knew someone was going to to the question mark thing. I honestly thought about registering it so no one else could.
"Yeah, so let’s move forward on the G.I. Joe project. No, we don’t need fucking writers-it’s about playing with fucking dolls. Just film my nephew and his little friends playing with their stupid army dolls and we’ll CG their hands out later. Joe Dumbfuck in Texas won’t ever even know the difference".
Oh, and by "someone", I meant "Nominus".
I was 100% sure someone was going to be unoriginal and do the exclamation point thing. I was going to register it, but I’m lazy.
The best episodes of G.I. Joe were made in my backyard and included Star Wars figures.
Good one, Nom.
Nice one, yourself, Nom.
I had a major tent pole when I woke up. It must have been 3 to 4 inches high!
They should film all these movies without a script. The Director can say action! And tell the actors to just to get on with it, until you have a finished 2 hour movie. Simple!
bryce – isn’t that what Christopher Guest does?
Or action? For that matter…
They should get Guest 4 JLA then. It’s like I am the guru for Hollywood…
Ummm, jack, I just got back, and thats not me. Sorry dude. Now, TRUE STORY! THiS SUCKED!! I was on my way back from lunch just now, and was on the highway. I was through smoking my cigarette, and dropped it out the window. The fucking thing blows back into the car, and somehow falls down the collar of my shirt. On the highway. I think I did some manuevers that fighter pilots couldn’t pull off.
Oh, erswi, I just realized that earlier when we were talking about Frank Lloyd Wright, I was thinking of Frank Gehry. Luckily, no one noticed my ignoramousness.
Nominus, you were able to give yourself a two fisted handjob while driving?
bryce – that’s what Christopher Guest does.
Lance – help a brother out?
ahh, yes. i have seen some Gehry works as well. his new millenium park and amphitheater in Chi-town and the EMP in Seattle.
CRAP! ALL CRAP! GEHRY SHITS IN A BOX AND HANDS IT TO HIS MINIONS TO WORK OUT!
Joe Dumbfuck in Texas won’t ever even know the difference".
It’s funny that The Duke brought that up, it made me remember a funny story from this time I was visiting my friend who was attending college in Norman, OK. We went to a Blockbuster to pick up a a flick, and there is this gigantic sasquatch of a man and his fat ugly inbred wife fumbling through some movies. Then we heard:
"Widescreen? Whuddahz dat mean, Jimmy Joe Bob?"
"God dammit, dat’s when dey cut da top n bottom off da movie ta make it look like da moovie theeter, I hate it!"
That actually damaged my genetic structure.
Good luck Jaction! I’m going surfing. Seacrest, OUT!!!
Flux: I wish. I bet my car looked like Raul Dukes car in the opening desert scene, with an absence of Toby Macguire hanging off the back, of course.
Lance – help a sister out.
Fuck, I’ve been had!
Ignore the man behind the curtain!
Nominus, that has happened to nearly every cig smoker I’ve known. I once had a boomerang cigarette land in the back seat, which wouldn’t have been a problem had I not had three weeks worth of old newspapers back there.
AHA? UNMASKED?
i can’t wait for the day that you pay to go see a movie, and when you sit down, up on the screen they just project a live-feed from a camera in the balcony that’s filming the back of the everyone’s heads.
the running time would roughly be like 120 minutes…give or take time for opeing and end credits.
fluxxy’s ignore the man behind the curtain lines fits beautifully with the campbell pose in his avi.
Jeez, you couldn’t even make it off the first page with it, flux? Pa-fucking-thetic.
Geez, you could not make it off the first page even, fuxxy? Pa-shitting-thetic.
*crosses fingers for ‘Whose Line Is It Anyway?: The Movie’, will think the British version is infinitely superior to the American one*
i concur. that was weak. as i’ve always said, run your alter ego in interweb exploder or safari and your main persona in firefox. it makes the world a better place.
Flux: Are you "fuckin’ Mike" as well?
Drexl Spivey: I’ve had that happen hundreds of times, but without the newspaper. Dealing with a lit cigarette in the car somewhere is easy, but I’ve never had one go down my shirt.
I am all that who was and who ever will be!
I just worry that ‘Whose Line: The Movie" will always suffer from comparisons to the book. But c’mon let’s face it, you can never do the book justice anyway so just enjoy it for what it is.
You know whats funny? That Jack couldn’t understand why the identity of ‘fuckin’ mike’ was driving me nuts, but the second this Jacktion² shows up, he’s all running to tell the teacher. Fantastic. Truthfully though, I can see why you’d be mad. I’ve had people steal my handles on other sites too.
As long as they get John Sessions on board, I’m there.
Hey, can I be Jacktion; ? or maybe Jacktion] no i got it
Jacktion;{)
Bruce Greenwood As ‘Jacktion!’ in ‘Who’s Jacking Who?’
I would be angry if there were a ton of people with "Jacktion" handles in here, but I would be flattered at the same time.
Hey, I just figured out a way to spell grÆy that will make all parties involved happy.
I like big butts and I cannot lie.
Is that a new American Eagle T-shirt color code, Nommy?
The Darkside’s latest post has been up for almost 3 hours and has 40 comments. Just sayin.
Until the true identity of Jacktion is blurred so much that you would be hated by all. When you have comments about being gay attributed to you, and anti-gay comments as well, I will hate you for being, and hating queers.
I would be upset if there were a lot of folks with "Jacktion" usernames in here, but I would be tickled at the same time.
sorry, almost 2 hours. my daylight savings math is a little weak.
So if we already know that the alter-Jacktion is relflux, this is no longer funny? Right?
Nice jughead avatar.
that "let’s hug it out bitch" T-shirt they’re trying to sell: my boss has the same thing only printed on a mug.
…oh yeah, my boss is also full-blown gay, but really, you should see this guy drinking out of it. (no pun intended on the ‘full-blown’ part)
That’s not really me, I was just messing around earlier. Although I know none of you will believe me, so my douche baggery earlier on will be thrust upon me continually if that jackass continues to post. Which he inevitably will now that he knows he’ll be irritating two people.
So the enemy of my enemy is . . . . an irritating f’n whore?
Nice old guy avatar.
Fuck. I really hope that is somebody who is cool, and will stop this shortly, and not somebody from that other place trolling. But i did read "three billy-goats gruff" earlier and might know how to deal with this. Either way, yes, this is your fault FLUX. And fuckin’ mike is now your fault too.
omg people. stop with the revealing and then backpedaling.
Man, I need to learn when to shut my mouth and when to take credit when it’s not rightfully mine. This was not one of those times.
New post!
Well since most of the
writersEMPLOYED writers in Hollywood are nothing but re-write, punch up, steal this other movie idea but but change it enough to not get us sued, hacks I fail to see how making a film without them is a bad thing. Working in a massed army these ass kissing spineless monkeys managed to turn even the grandest film ideas into a steaming pile of shit. Making a movie without them will be like taking a crap after having your colon removed. It will still be shit but there will actually be LESS life giving nourishment leached out of it.