11.13.09 GREENPEACE MOVIE GETS DIRECTOR OF ‘3 NINJAS’
Hollywood is making a movie about the origins of the environmental activist group Greenpeace, so naturally they hired Jon Turtletaub, the guy who directed 3 Ninjas.
Set primarily in the late 1970s and early 1980s, story will be told through the eyes of the controversial organization’s charismatic founding members, Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler. The duo led an eccentric group of pacifists, ecologists, musicians, teachers, sailors, and scientists as they attempted — often successfully — to disrupt American and French nuclear bomb tests, Japanese and Russian whaling ships and Norwegian infant harp seal hunters.
Holy sh-t, Norway lets their infants hunt harp seals? Scandinavia is so metal.
Two books will shape the narrative: Weyler’s “Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists, and Visionaries Changed the World” and Hunter’s “Warriors of the Rainbow: A Chronicle of the Greenpeace Movement.” [Editor's Note: Gayest. Title. Ever. Might as well call yourselves "Sparkleponies of Justice."] The producers are looking to hire a writer for the project and have had early discussions with Aaron Sorkin. [Variety]
It’s easy to make fun of them for hiring the director of 3 Ninjas to shoot a film about complex issues of environmental activism, but I realize it’s a little unfair. After all, he also directed The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, National Treasure, The Kid, and Cool Runnings. “Hooray, we turned back a whaling ship!”
(*Air guitar, record scratch, bike horn, bass riff from Seinfeld*)
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GREENPEACE MOVIE GETS DIRECTOR OF ‘3 NINJAS’
I pretty sure that was a hate crime in that 3 Ninjas video.
Members of Greenpeace ALWAYS let the bed bugs bite.
i took a screen-writing class from the guy who wrote 3 Ninjas
… no joke, well other than my diploma …
Hey, until they use a Klingon battlecruiser’s hull to deflect a harpoon, these amateurs are totally D-List.
Greenpeace hates Heidi Klum as she’s always harping on Seal.
Chino-Ol’ Fekky reckons Seal’s harpooned her a few times…
ATidyLi: I’m pretty sure that was a hate crime
inposting that 3 Ninjas video.FIXED
I like to imagine that Rocky now uses his incessant “HIII-YAAAHH!” wailing as a Wal-Mart greeter.
@Stinky
Thanks. My 4th Grade English Teacher couldn’t have done it better.
Just like a young, black suburbanite to confuse an NWA hat with a POW hat.
The director must have used time-lapse photography to capture young Edward Furlong’s lightning moves.
John Cusack signed up for this as soon as he heard that Greenpeace disrupted nuclear bomb tests.
(hates boomboxes)
The guy who directed all those episodes of ‘Captain Planet’ is flipping you all off as hard as he possibly can right now.
Is that the fat chick from Precious?
Working Title: 3 Ninjas & a Baby Harp Seal.
The duo led an eccentric group of pacifists, ecologists, musicians, teachers, sailors, and scientists
They forgot the word “unemployed” in that sentence.
I still say the sequel to Three Ninjas, starring Jim Varney and Loni Anderson in a shiny black bodysuit, is the pinnacle of American film-making.
I like greenpeas in my mac ‘n cheese.
/serious
Infant Harp Seal Hunters would be a cool band name. I’d listen to them when I’m out clubbin’.
With Cool Runnings as a career high Jon Turtletaub looks like Scorcese compared to Dennis Dugan
Harp seals are such naggers anyway.
What? I said NAGGERS.
Tom Cruise was set to play the role of Bob Hunter until he heard that his book was titled “Warriors of the Rainbow”
WELCOME TA N’UP(ff)!!
as long as the plot of the greenpeace movie is the same as 3 ninjas im in.. and by the same i mean little kids put laxative in the bad guys drink which leads to uncontrollable bowel movements
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