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1. MAMET TOSSED INTO TURNAROUND
David Mamet's rather daring adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank into a modern day fable about contemporary antisemitism has been put into turnaround by Disney. Turnaround is movie development-speak for "We're not going to make the film, but we're not canceling it either."
Now it's not the news itself that caught my eye, movies, especially ones that tackle controversial politically incorrect subjects, get put into turnaround all the time. What caught my jaundiced eye was this quote from a Disney executive in the original report in Sharon Waxman's The Wrap:
Why do I get the feeling that the executive who said that went to an Ivy League school?
2. HE MAN FINDS A HOME
Sony has picked up the adaptation of Mattel's Masters of the Universe toy line that was recently dropped by Warner Bros.
Call me cynical, but I'm not holding out much hope for a movie version about a muscle man
with a Prince Valiant haircut battling a dude in a Halloween mask. Especially with a story that makes He-Man an astronaut from Earth, who lands on Eternia, and a lot of hooey about science vs magic.
I don't care if it has one of the few characters with the same name as me that does not get killed off, I'm not going to be waiting for this flick with bated breath.
3. CRONENBERG TO TAKE ANOTHER SWAT AT THE FLY.
David Cronenberg is reportedly planning to reboot his reboot of the horror standard The Fly.
All I can say to Cronenberg is Why Fly?
1. MAMET TOSSED INTO TURNAROUND
David Mamet's rather daring adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank into a modern day fable about contemporary antisemitism has been put into turnaround by Disney. Turnaround is movie development-speak for "We're not going to make the film, but we're not canceling it either."
Now it's not the news itself that caught my eye, movies, especially ones that tackle controversial politically incorrect subjects, get put into turnaround all the time. What caught my jaundiced eye was this quote from a Disney executive in the original report in Sharon Waxman's The Wrap:
"It's very intense, and dark and scary," said the executive. "It's not a film version of 'The Diary of Anne Frank.' The story evolved into something more intense."Because we all know that THE HOLOCAUST wasn't intense, dark, and scary.
Why do I get the feeling that the executive who said that went to an Ivy League school?
2. HE MAN FINDS A HOME
Sony has picked up the adaptation of Mattel's Masters of the Universe toy line that was recently dropped by Warner Bros.
Call me cynical, but I'm not holding out much hope for a movie version about a muscle man
with a Prince Valiant haircut battling a dude in a Halloween mask. Especially with a story that makes He-Man an astronaut from Earth, who lands on Eternia, and a lot of hooey about science vs magic.I don't care if it has one of the few characters with the same name as me that does not get killed off, I'm not going to be waiting for this flick with bated breath.
3. CRONENBERG TO TAKE ANOTHER SWAT AT THE FLY.
David Cronenberg is reportedly planning to reboot his reboot of the horror standard The Fly.
All I can say to Cronenberg is Why Fly?
Was Disney thinking Mamet was goign to make a happy musical about the Holocaust with Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens?
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