The Wild Bunch - remake (D: Mel Gibson)
03-18-12 | 01:37 PM
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03-18-12 | 03:20 PM
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Re: Tony Scott to remake The Wild Bunch. AKA The Scott brothers are turning into HACK
I love that it simply took a trailer for Ridley's very next movie to make the OP sing a different tune. 
03-18-12 | 03:41 PM
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Re: Tony Scott to remake The Wild Bunch. AKA The Scott brothers are turning into HACK
03-18-12 | 04:42 PM
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Re: Tony Scott to remake The Wild Bunch. AKA The Scott brothers are turning into HACK
I don't think Tarantino was ever even on the set of "True Romance" per his commentary. I don't think he was ever on the "Natural Born Killers" set either. Both were made during that hectic post-Dogs pre-Pulp year of '93 where Tarantino probably didn't have time to be hanging around on movie sets unofficially co-directing scenes. And why would Tony Scott let some unproven one-off director co-direct anyway?
He also respectfully left the directorial duties of "From Dusk Till Dawn" to Rodriguez even though he was there as an actor most of the time.
I don't know why people feel the need to falsely attribute stuff like that to him. It's like they can't enjoy his writer-only movies unless they convince themselves that he unofficially directed them.
He also respectfully left the directorial duties of "From Dusk Till Dawn" to Rodriguez even though he was there as an actor most of the time.
I don't know why people feel the need to falsely attribute stuff like that to him. It's like they can't enjoy his writer-only movies unless they convince themselves that he unofficially directed them.
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03-18-12 | 05:30 PM
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Re: Tony Scott to remake The Wild Bunch. AKA The Scott brothers are turning into HACK
I was actully interested in his source for that Tarantino bit... but now we'll never know. 
03-18-12 | 05:39 PM
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Re: Tony Scott to remake The Wild Bunch. AKA The Scott brothers are turning into HACK
Here's hoping he'll still provide some links or whatever. Should be fun if he wants to play in the sandbox.
03-18-12 | 06:50 PM
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Re: Tony Scott to remake The Wild Bunch. AKA The Scott brothers are turning into HACK
QT never co-directed, but did keep in contact with Scott. That's why Scott shot both endings, but knew that he had to go with the theatrical ending due to the audience liking the characters. If QT had directed it he would have kept the unhappy ending.
03-18-12 | 08:35 PM
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Re: Tony Scott to remake The Wild Bunch. AKA The Scott brothers are turning into HACK
03-18-12 | 08:39 PM
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I agree.
08-26-12 | 03:24 PM
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08-26-12 | 03:41 PM
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Re: Tony Scott to remake The Wild Bunch. AKA The Scott brothers are turning into HACK
08-26-12 | 04:41 PM
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08-26-12 | 09:23 PM
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I though the Love Bug was great!
08-26-12 | 09:47 PM
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Re: Tony Scott to remake The Wild Bunch. AKA The Scott brothers are turning into HACK
I never liked Herbie as a kid. Thought the movie was boring as a kid..pretty sure I'd feel that way now too.
08-26-12 | 10:27 PM
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08-26-12 | 11:23 PM
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Re: Tony Scott to remake The Wild Bunch. AKA The Scott brothers are turning into HACK
I rented the first Love Bug to show my kids because I had fond memories. I gotta say it bored me to tears. I don't think they were into it either. It wasn't bad, just dull. My memories must be from later films in the series where it got zanier as they went along.
05-15-13 | 01:58 AM
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Re: THE WILD BUNCH remake...
For $7.99 via Amazon Prime, you can purchase a perfectly watchable Blu-ray of Sam Peckinpah's classic THE WILD BUNCH. That's money well spent - though I imagine there'll be a spiffed-up re-release at some point if only because it's a popular library title for Warner Bros. In any event, my point is that Peckinpah's seminal revisionist western isn't going anywhere.
So let's keep that in mind as we deal with The Wrap's report that Will Smith is attached to star in WB's long-in-development remake of THE WILD BUNCH. It will be a modernized version in which a rogue DEA agent assembles a team to rip off a massively wealthy Mexican drug lord. David Ayer (TRAINING DAY, END OF WATCH) wrote a screenplay a while back, while Brian Helgeland (L.A. CONFIDENTIAL) got halfway through a draft for the late Tony Scott. There is no word as to whether these scripts will be incorporated into Smith's version, but I would caution people against making 1:1 comparisons to the original as they attempt to guess whether Smith will take the William Holden or Robert Ryan role. My understanding is that, structurally and character-wise, the remake is a different beast entirely.
At least is was. Smith has specific screenwriters he likes to work with (namely Akiva Goldsman), so I wouldn't be surprised if one of these guys is hired to do a page-one rewrite and tailor the project to Smith's unthreatening sensibility. Then again, it's possible that Smith regrets turning down the title role in Quentin Tarantino's DJANGO UNCHAINED (because his character didn't get to kill Leo DiCaprio's villain), and is finally ready to torch his good guy image. Tom Cruise has done it from time to time, and he's still one of the world's biggest movie stars. Smith needs to find his COLLATERAL, and resist the urge to dull the character's razor-sharp edges. Perhaps THE WILD BUNCH will be his first legitimate attempt at this.
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/62418
So let's keep that in mind as we deal with The Wrap's report that Will Smith is attached to star in WB's long-in-development remake of THE WILD BUNCH. It will be a modernized version in which a rogue DEA agent assembles a team to rip off a massively wealthy Mexican drug lord. David Ayer (TRAINING DAY, END OF WATCH) wrote a screenplay a while back, while Brian Helgeland (L.A. CONFIDENTIAL) got halfway through a draft for the late Tony Scott. There is no word as to whether these scripts will be incorporated into Smith's version, but I would caution people against making 1:1 comparisons to the original as they attempt to guess whether Smith will take the William Holden or Robert Ryan role. My understanding is that, structurally and character-wise, the remake is a different beast entirely.
At least is was. Smith has specific screenwriters he likes to work with (namely Akiva Goldsman), so I wouldn't be surprised if one of these guys is hired to do a page-one rewrite and tailor the project to Smith's unthreatening sensibility. Then again, it's possible that Smith regrets turning down the title role in Quentin Tarantino's DJANGO UNCHAINED (because his character didn't get to kill Leo DiCaprio's villain), and is finally ready to torch his good guy image. Tom Cruise has done it from time to time, and he's still one of the world's biggest movie stars. Smith needs to find his COLLATERAL, and resist the urge to dull the character's razor-sharp edges. Perhaps THE WILD BUNCH will be his first legitimate attempt at this.
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/62418
05-15-13 | 05:13 AM
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Re: THE WILD BUNCH remake...
For $7.99 via Amazon Prime, you can purchase a perfectly watchable Blu-ray of Sam Peckinpah's classic THE WILD BUNCH. That's money well spent - though I imagine there'll be a spiffed-up re-release at some point if only because it's a popular library title for Warner Bros. In any event, my point is that Peckinpah's seminal revisionist western isn't going anywhere.
So let's keep that in mind as we deal with The Wrap's report that Will Smith is attached to star in WB's long-in-development remake of THE WILD BUNCH. It will be a modernized version in which a rogue DEA agent assembles a team to rip off a massively wealthy Mexican drug lord. David Ayer (TRAINING DAY, END OF WATCH) wrote a screenplay a while back, while Brian Helgeland (L.A. CONFIDENTIAL) got halfway through a draft for the late Tony Scott. There is no word as to whether these scripts will be incorporated into Smith's version, but I would caution people against making 1:1 comparisons to the original as they attempt to guess whether Smith will take the William Holden or Robert Ryan role. My understanding is that, structurally and character-wise, the remake is a different beast entirely.
At least is was. Smith has specific screenwriters he likes to work with (namely Akiva Goldsman), so I wouldn't be surprised if one of these guys is hired to do a page-one rewrite and tailor the project to Smith's unthreatening sensibility. Then again, it's possible that Smith regrets turning down the title role in Quentin Tarantino's DJANGO UNCHAINED (because his character didn't get to kill Leo DiCaprio's villain), and is finally ready to torch his good guy image. Tom Cruise has done it from time to time, and he's still one of the world's biggest movie stars. Smith needs to find his COLLATERAL, and resist the urge to dull the character's razor-sharp edges. Perhaps THE WILD BUNCH will be his first legitimate attempt at this.
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/62418
So let's keep that in mind as we deal with The Wrap's report that Will Smith is attached to star in WB's long-in-development remake of THE WILD BUNCH. It will be a modernized version in which a rogue DEA agent assembles a team to rip off a massively wealthy Mexican drug lord. David Ayer (TRAINING DAY, END OF WATCH) wrote a screenplay a while back, while Brian Helgeland (L.A. CONFIDENTIAL) got halfway through a draft for the late Tony Scott. There is no word as to whether these scripts will be incorporated into Smith's version, but I would caution people against making 1:1 comparisons to the original as they attempt to guess whether Smith will take the William Holden or Robert Ryan role. My understanding is that, structurally and character-wise, the remake is a different beast entirely.
At least is was. Smith has specific screenwriters he likes to work with (namely Akiva Goldsman), so I wouldn't be surprised if one of these guys is hired to do a page-one rewrite and tailor the project to Smith's unthreatening sensibility. Then again, it's possible that Smith regrets turning down the title role in Quentin Tarantino's DJANGO UNCHAINED (because his character didn't get to kill Leo DiCaprio's villain), and is finally ready to torch his good guy image. Tom Cruise has done it from time to time, and he's still one of the world's biggest movie stars. Smith needs to find his COLLATERAL, and resist the urge to dull the character's razor-sharp edges. Perhaps THE WILD BUNCH will be his first legitimate attempt at this.
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/62418
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05-15-13 | 08:54 AM
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Re: THE WILD BUNCH remake...
Why the fuck is everything in Jumpcutz post in bold?! At least it wasn't in all Caps.
For those interested in the BD of the original, the lowest it has been at Amazon was $4.99. $7.99is still a great price for BD. A little too reddish in some skin tones and some very minor stuff but a solid BD. For some reason i'm still holdin out to the idea of a set like we had in the DVD era. I really loved Ride the High Country. Probably my favorite of that set.
For those interested in the BD of the original, the lowest it has been at Amazon was $4.99. $7.99is still a great price for BD. A little too reddish in some skin tones and some very minor stuff but a solid BD. For some reason i'm still holdin out to the idea of a set like we had in the DVD era. I really loved Ride the High Country. Probably my favorite of that set.
Last edited by Solid Snake; 05-15-13 at 09:11 AM.