The Next Superman — Page 4

Author: PSYCHO_DAYV
Time: 5-Nov-2004 1:04 PM
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Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
Shimmy's typing is only a minor flaw, but his saving grace is that he makes a nice dead human puzzle; right, DAYV?

THAT IS CORRECT.

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Author: ADigitalMan
Time: 6-Nov-2004 7:25 AM
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Yep. Jon Peters is still attached. I do think he's been sidelined, and with Singer's previous attachments to Richard Donner (via X-men, and Donner's wife on X2) he's much more interested in preserving the films' mythos. (That said, I'd rather have seen Millar and Gough take Smallville to the big screen; I don't know WHY Tom Welling wasn't cast, because poll after poll showed the public wanting him to don the tights and cape). But I digress ... back to Jon Peters: The second paragraph of the official press release dated 10-22-2004 on Routh's casting announcment confirms:

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The untitled Superman movie is expected to begin principal photography in Australia early next year for release in summer, 2006. It is produced by Jon Peters, Bryan Singer and Gilbert Adler from a screenplay by Michael Dougherty & Dan Harris. No other casting has been announced.

Bring on those frickin' polar bears and the gay Jimmy Olsen. As Homer Simpson suggested "All this movie needs is a robotic pie."

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Author: PSYCHO_DAYV
Time: 6-Nov-2004 8:04 AM
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A THREE PICTURE DEAL ???

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Author: StarTrooper3000
Time: 6-Nov-2004 10:05 AM
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Thanks for the info...kind of

Peters....geesh...

I just hate stupid people.

GO JETS!!!!

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Author: PSYCHO_DAYV
Time: 6-Nov-2004 10:07 AM
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JON PETERS NEEDS TO LEAVE HOLLYWOOD.

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Author: StarTrooper3000
Time: 6-Nov-2004 10:08 AM
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Yeah...some people get a little too old & senile. They lose touch with the reality of what the fans want. Who else could fit this description?

I just hate stupid people.

GO JETS!!!!

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Author: PSYCHO_DAYV
Time: 6-Nov-2004 10:12 AM
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HMM... A VERY GOOD QUESTION INDEED.

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Author: StarTrooper3000
Time: 6-Nov-2004 2:35 PM
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No one else knows?

I just hate stupid people.

GO JETS!!!!

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Author: PSYCHO_DAYV
Time: 6-Nov-2004 2:40 PM
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I THINK WE ALL KNOW TO WHOM YOU ARE REFERRING.

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Author: StarTrooper3000
Time: 6-Nov-2004 2:41 PM
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I know u know, but I expected a genious poster to come & say his name.

I just hate stupid people.

GO JETS!!!!

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Author: PSYCHO_DAYV
Time: 7-Nov-2004 6:08 AM
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Originally posted by: StarTrooper3000
I know u know, but I expected a genious poster to come & say his name.

I GUESS THAT'S MY CUE...LOL

GEORGE LUCAS

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Author: StarTrooper3000
Time: 9-Nov-2004 2:31 PM
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Lol. This thread died I guess.

I just hate stupid people.

GO JETS!!!!

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Author: ADigitalMan
Time: 10-Nov-2004 2:32 PM
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I think Lucas is becoming more analogous to Ed Wood, while McCallum is more analogous to Peters. Hmmm ... now that I think about it, Peters is actually more original than McCallum. Peters' ideas may be the stupidest in Hollywood, but at least he's trying to come up with something. McCallum really seems to just be George's little toadie. I'm not sure what he really does, since George is the Exec Producer anyway. Manage the day-to-day production schedules?

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Author: Regicidal_Maniac
Time: 10-Nov-2004 4:15 PM
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Rick McCallum is one of the world's best Line Producers but he is no Producer.

Jerry Bruckheimer is a Producer

Gale Anne Hurd is a Producer

GARY KURTZ is a Producer.

In a nutshell a Line Producer makes sure everything gets done on time and and to budget while negotiating other locations in the shooting schedule when things go pear-shaped. Rick McCallum is extraordinarily capable in this role but to be a producer you have to have these skills plus the skills of a creative talent. (Good) Producers are the glue that hold a project together, they can offer helpful suggestions on shots, character, story, location, Actors etcetera. A good producer is sometimes more responsible for a finished film than the Writers or Director/s. In the case of large studio films where the producer shepherds the project through all stages of development he or she is often more integral and less replacable than the chosen director.

In this sense George Lucas is the real producer these days having stepped up his role from Executive Producer on the OT after he parted ways with the enormously talented Gary Kurtz. (Seriously if Kurtz had produced the PT film no-one would have any complaints.)

But the credits on LFL films have always been iffy as GL's not a member of the DGA or the WGA and so can choose to create credits or omit them at will. This is the case with the writing credits on ANH as much as with yes-man McCallum's overblown position.

By the way if anyone doubts that Gary Kurtz would have saved the Prequel Trilogy from farce and the weight of its own hubris then they are either ill-informed or just plain kidding themselves.

Now onto Superman, the latest casting rumour appears to have one-time Superman contender Jude Law taking over from Terence Stamp as General Zod, (or perhaps a relative? Gog??)

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"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." - Goebbels.

"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - Orwell.