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Reinventions
I haven't horrified you with entertainment news in a while. So here you go:
The latest franchise to get reimagined: Sherlock Holmes
"Sherlock Holmes" Gets Reinvented: Warner Bros. Pictures and producer Lionel Wigram will adapt Wigram's upcoming comicbook "Sherlock Holmes" for the bigscreen.
The aim, according to Variety, is to reinvent Arthur Conan Doyle's sleuth and Dr. Watson in the same edgy way that Batman and Bond have been in the past two years.
Michael Johnson is penning the script for the project, expected to be the next directing project of "The Descent" helmer Neil Marshall who is currently filming "Doomsday" for Rogue Pictures.
Hmm. Well... I like Neil Marshall's direction, so that would be cool... But is "Sherlock Holmes" in need of "reinvention"? The nice thing about both Casino Royale and Batman Begins is that both movies went back to the basics, stripping away a lot of the Hollywood FX, gagetry and merchandising tie-ins that had transformed those franchises into bloated monstrosities.
But Sherlock Holmes... I don't think Holmes adapatations have suffered as much as the Bond+Batman films have. There hasn't been as much deviation from the original.
Then again, this is a comic book adaptation, not *actually* a reinvention per se.
The storyline is being kept under wraps, no word on if it will use some of Doyle's mysteries but Wigram does plan to showcase some of Holmes lesser known traits including sword fighting and bare knuckle boxing.
See, *that* sounds like deviation to me. Holmes solves mysteries through deduction, not parkour. Sure, he can box, but action-heroics is not what the character is famous for.
*Sigh*
Well... maybe the comic book will be good.
Reinvention #2:
Veronica Mars dead? Alive?
I hope the FBI proposition gets greenlit. From what I've heard about VM, it's a good show suffering from the dreaded "transition to college" plotline. (See also: Buffy S4, every other high-school show that tried to follow characters into university). I think jumping ahead a few years and reinventing the show would be a good move.
More news:
Following the trend set by The Queen -
Margaret Thatcher gets a movie! So does Queen V!
And for you Supernatural fans out there: the Weekly World News has an issue out featuring an interview with the Winchesters. I kid you not. Here's part of the online version (I like the print version more, myself.)
The latest franchise to get reimagined: Sherlock Holmes
"Sherlock Holmes" Gets Reinvented: Warner Bros. Pictures and producer Lionel Wigram will adapt Wigram's upcoming comicbook "Sherlock Holmes" for the bigscreen.
The aim, according to Variety, is to reinvent Arthur Conan Doyle's sleuth and Dr. Watson in the same edgy way that Batman and Bond have been in the past two years.
Michael Johnson is penning the script for the project, expected to be the next directing project of "The Descent" helmer Neil Marshall who is currently filming "Doomsday" for Rogue Pictures.
Hmm. Well... I like Neil Marshall's direction, so that would be cool... But is "Sherlock Holmes" in need of "reinvention"? The nice thing about both Casino Royale and Batman Begins is that both movies went back to the basics, stripping away a lot of the Hollywood FX, gagetry and merchandising tie-ins that had transformed those franchises into bloated monstrosities.
But Sherlock Holmes... I don't think Holmes adapatations have suffered as much as the Bond+Batman films have. There hasn't been as much deviation from the original.
Then again, this is a comic book adaptation, not *actually* a reinvention per se.
The storyline is being kept under wraps, no word on if it will use some of Doyle's mysteries but Wigram does plan to showcase some of Holmes lesser known traits including sword fighting and bare knuckle boxing.
See, *that* sounds like deviation to me. Holmes solves mysteries through deduction, not parkour. Sure, he can box, but action-heroics is not what the character is famous for.
*Sigh*
Well... maybe the comic book will be good.
Reinvention #2:
Veronica Mars dead? Alive?
I hope the FBI proposition gets greenlit. From what I've heard about VM, it's a good show suffering from the dreaded "transition to college" plotline. (See also: Buffy S4, every other high-school show that tried to follow characters into university). I think jumping ahead a few years and reinventing the show would be a good move.
More news:
Following the trend set by The Queen -
Margaret Thatcher gets a movie! So does Queen V!
And for you Supernatural fans out there: the Weekly World News has an issue out featuring an interview with the Winchesters. I kid you not. Here's part of the online version (I like the print version more, myself.)
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I totally agree that VM would do great to take a break of a few years, though. My theory is that Veronica needs to be immersed in a social environment for the premise of the show to work, she needs to be able to navigate her milieu better than the viewers can, and that's one of the many reasons S3 was so bad. I'm not sure I want to see her at the FBI academy though, I think she ought to be way too cynical about the US government to want to work for it!
And I cannot, cannot believe that they are seriously considering making a film about Thatcher. It had better be a satire, is all I can say...
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*shudders*
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I know! Parker was just gross. I loved it when Willow goosed him over his smugnitude.
The Freshman, Living Conditions, HUSH (omg), A New Man, Something Blue, Primeval - seriously among my favorite episodes of all time. I even liked Beer Bad. Mostly for the hilarity of Xander and his lighter.