Bryan Poyser (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} poyboy) wrote,@ 2008-04-29 12:49:00 |
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in the pipeline
There were two reasons with this bit about a potential remake of Brian De Palma's The Fury in Cinematical caught my eye. First is cause I just saw it again on TV maybe a week ago. It's still as spastic, ludicrous and compulsively watchable as ever and I was happy that Rebecca appreciated it in the same way. But the second is cause I know one of the writers attached to write the script - Lee Shipman. A couple semesters ago, I directed a screenplay reading of one of his scripts as part of UTFI's development program. It was a pretty effective little chiller called Croatoan (and yes, that is a reference to that cryptic word carved into a tree at the site of the disappeared Roanoke colony), so it seems like it'll be a good fit.
Another Cinematical post caught my eye today - apparently they're making Stephen King's novella Dolan's Cadillac into a movie. I re-read this during my pneumonia convalesence last year and it's always been one of my favorite of King's "later period" (which I designate as his post-"It" works - that to me is the best thing he's done and nothing since has really quite come close). But, I'm pretty dubious about this as a movie, especially with that cast. One of the best qualities of the story is that the revenge takes years and years of focused but tedious efforts and that will almost certainly be jettisoned for plottiness. And, Wes Bentley just doesn't strike me as the right person for the mild-mannered protagonist. Christian Slater as the gangster? I don't even want to talk about that.
Whatever, I know it's not healthy to focus on other people's movies right now, especially since I seem to have some trouble getting into a groove on this new script I'm working on. But, blogs beckon to me on an hourly basis, what can I say.
There were two reasons with this bit about a potential remake of Brian De Palma's The Fury in Cinematical caught my eye. First is cause I just saw it again on TV maybe a week ago. It's still as spastic, ludicrous and compulsively watchable as ever and I was happy that Rebecca appreciated it in the same way. But the second is cause I know one of the writers attached to write the script - Lee Shipman. A couple semesters ago, I directed a screenplay reading of one of his scripts as part of UTFI's development program. It was a pretty effective little chiller called Croatoan (and yes, that is a reference to that cryptic word carved into a tree at the site of the disappeared Roanoke colony), so it seems like it'll be a good fit.
Another Cinematical post caught my eye today - apparently they're making Stephen King's novella Dolan's Cadillac into a movie. I re-read this during my pneumonia convalesence last year and it's always been one of my favorite of King's "later period" (which I designate as his post-"It" works - that to me is the best thing he's done and nothing since has really quite come close). But, I'm pretty dubious about this as a movie, especially with that cast. One of the best qualities of the story is that the revenge takes years and years of focused but tedious efforts and that will almost certainly be jettisoned for plottiness. And, Wes Bentley just doesn't strike me as the right person for the mild-mannered protagonist. Christian Slater as the gangster? I don't even want to talk about that.
Whatever, I know it's not healthy to focus on other people's movies right now, especially since I seem to have some trouble getting into a groove on this new script I'm working on. But, blogs beckon to me on an hourly basis, what can I say.
