I need to see these two movies. I need a dimensional shifting transport such that I can visit the place where they were made.
Patrick
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My dimensional shift (entertainment related) would be the alternate universe where Les Claypool became the bass player for Metallica. I have no ideas what they would have sounded like, but I would love to find out.Report
They would have sounded somewhat like this:
http://youtu.be/Uva_FrpLU6MReport
We are not worthy.Report
I have posted this
before, but what the hey: HBO Sandman series, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, showrunners Whedon and Del Toro.Report
Martin Freeman as Lucien?Report
Maybe typecasting, and I obviously have Whedon on the brain, but Anthony Head makes a great librarian, and could use the work more than Freeman.
Anna Friel for Death?Report
And maybe use editing or CGI to have Desire keep switching between Tilda Swinton and Cillian Murphy.Report
That….sounds awesome. Del Toro is the perfect pick. Not so sure about Whedon; The Sandman’s not a quippy as his typical oeuvre, and it seems to be the fad lately to pick him for anything geeky whether it directly connects to his skills or not.Report
I just wanted someone who could handle the story’s emotional beats, which I am afraid Del Toro might lose because of the comic book source – he’s great in original stuff, like Devil’s Backbone or Pan’s Labyrinth, but Hellboy or Mimic (not that this is a comic, but still it’s sort of comic-like) have no real feeling to them, IMO.
I am open to suggestions on that front, and maybe Del Toro would be fine on his own (there’s no doubt the visuals’d be fantastic). I thought of Whedon not so much for his ‘quippy’ side, but the way that BtVS was able to pile on so many different emotional tenors and stylistic experiments.Report
Slightly off topic, but it is movie related:
I thought of you, Patrick, when I heard they were remaking Sound of Music. My first thought was, “really, is nothing sacred?” And then I thought, I wonder what Pat thinks of the festering subculture of remakes.Report
Ah.
Oh, hey, post!Report
The first turned into Torn Curtain, but Nabokov’s version would have been interesting.
I don’t think the second got made, certainly not by Hitchcock. There’s some similarities to Fitzwilly.Report