Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016, Burton) S: Green, Butterfield
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In Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, the latest fantasy from director Tim Burton, Asa Butterfield plays Jake, a 16-year-old plagued by nightmares following a family tragedy.
On the advice of his therapist, the teen embarks on an overseas journey to find the abandoned orphanage where his late grandfather claims to have once lived. Not only does the place turn out to be real, it also serves as the gateway to an alternate realm where children with strange powers are looked after by a magical guardian (Penny Dreadful star Eva Green) and time moves of its own accord.
Due Sept. 30, the movie is based on Ransom Riggs’ hit 2011 novel, which was inspired, in part, by otherworldly vintage photographs (like the cover shot of a levitating girl) that the author collected at flea markets and included in the book. Burton said he, too, found inspiration in those images.
“They’re quite compelling,” Burton says. “They remind me of old horror movies, or dreams.”
Green (with Butterfield and Georgia Pemberton) stars as the title character, a shape-shifter known as an ymbryne. She protects her charges (called peculiars) from hungry monsters known as hollows. “She’s like a scary Mary Poppins, and she can turn into a bird,” Burton says.
Jake (Butterfield) finds an unlikely romance with Emma (Ella Purnell), who, in an earlier life, also had a special bond with Jake’s grandfather. “It was nice to shoot on location, to be connected to a place and geography while having people actually floating, as opposed to doing it all digitally,” Burton says of the production, which counted Florida, Belgium, and Cornwall county in the south of England among its locales.
The orphanage’s residents include, from left, Olive (Lauren McCrostie), Bronwyn (Pixie Davies), Millard (Cameron King), the twins (Thomas and Joseph Odwell), and Emma. “Weird kids: It’s something that I’ve dealt with and been interested in for a while,” says Burton, who previously directed Alice in Wonderland and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, among other films with youthful protagonists. “It’s a weird family.”
On the advice of his therapist, the teen embarks on an overseas journey to find the abandoned orphanage where his late grandfather claims to have once lived. Not only does the place turn out to be real, it also serves as the gateway to an alternate realm where children with strange powers are looked after by a magical guardian (Penny Dreadful star Eva Green) and time moves of its own accord.
Due Sept. 30, the movie is based on Ransom Riggs’ hit 2011 novel, which was inspired, in part, by otherworldly vintage photographs (like the cover shot of a levitating girl) that the author collected at flea markets and included in the book. Burton said he, too, found inspiration in those images.
“They’re quite compelling,” Burton says. “They remind me of old horror movies, or dreams.”
Green (with Butterfield and Georgia Pemberton) stars as the title character, a shape-shifter known as an ymbryne. She protects her charges (called peculiars) from hungry monsters known as hollows. “She’s like a scary Mary Poppins, and she can turn into a bird,” Burton says.
Jake (Butterfield) finds an unlikely romance with Emma (Ella Purnell), who, in an earlier life, also had a special bond with Jake’s grandfather. “It was nice to shoot on location, to be connected to a place and geography while having people actually floating, as opposed to doing it all digitally,” Burton says of the production, which counted Florida, Belgium, and Cornwall county in the south of England among its locales.
The orphanage’s residents include, from left, Olive (Lauren McCrostie), Bronwyn (Pixie Davies), Millard (Cameron King), the twins (Thomas and Joseph Odwell), and Emma. “Weird kids: It’s something that I’ve dealt with and been interested in for a while,” says Burton, who previously directed Alice in Wonderland and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, among other films with youthful protagonists. “It’s a weird family.”
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Re: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016, Burton) S: Green, Butterfield
I've enjoyed the books, and I'm looking forward to Burton's version.
The pics look great imo...
The pics look great imo...
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I hope this is great. Loved the books, and love the lead actors. The photos look really great!
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Yeah, if Burton needs a new gothy princess, Eva Green is the proper choice.
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Ever notice how everything Burton does from an original screenplay is great? Like Beatlejuice and Pee-Wee and Ed Wood and Edward Scisorhands.
And that everything that's adapted from another show or movie or book is mediocre to craptastic? Willie Wonka and Alice in Wonderland and Planet of the Apes and Dark Shadows.
You'd think he would notice the pattern and stick to more original screenplays.
And that everything that's adapted from another show or movie or book is mediocre to craptastic? Willie Wonka and Alice in Wonderland and Planet of the Apes and Dark Shadows.
You'd think he would notice the pattern and stick to more original screenplays.
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Ed Wood was based on a book called Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Jr.
Plus Big Fish and Sweeney Todd are great. Most people like his Batman movies and even Mars Attacks! and Sleepy Hollow and those are all adaptations.
Plus Big Fish and Sweeney Todd are great. Most people like his Batman movies and even Mars Attacks! and Sleepy Hollow and those are all adaptations.
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Ever notice how everything Burton does from an original screenplay is great? Like Beatlejuice and Pee-Wee and Ed Wood and Edward Scisorhands.
And that everything that's adapted from another show or movie or book is mediocre to craptastic? Willie Wonka and Alice in Wonderland and Planet of the Apes and Dark Shadows.
You'd think he would notice the pattern and stick to more original screenplays.
And that everything that's adapted from another show or movie or book is mediocre to craptastic? Willie Wonka and Alice in Wonderland and Planet of the Apes and Dark Shadows.
You'd think he would notice the pattern and stick to more original screenplays.
I never knew he was a producer on Cabin Boy, that actually explains a bit.
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I was never very hot on Big Fish and I don't know why. I've seen it twice and despite the ending moving me to tears I find my recollection of it as very bland and that it was too long.
Mars Attacks essentially is an original screenplay and I like it a lot. Being based on some collectors cards isn't really the kind of adaptation I'm talking about. Every character and every incident in that film was entirely original, not sourced from the cards.
Mars Attacks essentially is an original screenplay and I like it a lot. Being based on some collectors cards isn't really the kind of adaptation I'm talking about. Every character and every incident in that film was entirely original, not sourced from the cards.
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I was never very hot on Big Fish and I don't know why. I've seen it twice and despite the ending moving me to tears I find my recollection of it as very bland and that it was too long.
Mars Attacks essentially is an original screenplay and I like it a lot. Being based on some collectors cards isn't really the kind of adaptation I'm talking about. Every character and every incident in that film was entirely original, not sourced from the cards.
Mars Attacks essentially is an original screenplay and I like it a lot. Being based on some collectors cards isn't really the kind of adaptation I'm talking about. Every character and every incident in that film was entirely original, not sourced from the cards.
Also just realized this last time that Christina Applegate and Jack Black were in it, and had their names in the opening credits despite essentially having thankless cameos. (That or I knew it and forgot, regardless you actually have to pay attention to see Applegate, and I just simply didn't recognize Black)
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It's true, but I'd seen the movie long after Jack Black was Jack Black, still missed him. That's actually one reason I was surprised to see him in the opening credits.
Then again he did kind of look like a kid
Then again he did kind of look like a kid
Spoiler:
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Phew!
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^^ i'm liking what i see but...
-someone messed up cutting the first part of that video (before the green banner)?
-clearly that white top was no where near real water during that scene
-that last monster bit looked...plasticky?
-someone messed up cutting the first part of that video (before the green banner)?
-clearly that white top was no where near real water during that scene
-that last monster bit looked...plasticky?
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Haven't cared about a new Tim Burton film in years. This one, however, looks very good and I can't wait to see it.
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Big Eyes is worth seeing.
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Ahh Maaaan....They're ripping off X-meeeeen!
Looks good, Eve Green is a draw. The water stuff alone is great.
Looks good, Eve Green is a draw. The water stuff alone is great.
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Hmm, characters' powers were switched. Not sure how that's going to work. If the girl in the trailer is supposed to be Emma, she should not be floating. And Bronwyn is that young?
Well, let's see how this works out, still hoping it'll be great.
Well, let's see how this works out, still hoping it'll be great.