You guys are pretty slow. Troy Release Date: May 21, 2004 Studio: Warner Bros. Director: Wolfgang Petersen Screenwriter: David Benioff Starring: Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Sean Bean, Diane Kruger, Peter O'Toole, Rose Byrne, Brian Cox, Julie Christie, Saffron Burrows, Garrett Hedlund Genre: Action, Drama, War MPAA Rating: Not available Official Website: Not available Review: Not available DVD/VHS: Not available Movie Poster: Not available Plot Summary: Bana stars as Hector to Pitt's Achilles. Hector is the prince of Troy, who leads the Trojan army in holding off the entire Greek armada. It is Hector's brother, Paris (Bloom), who steals the beautiful Helen away from her husband, Menelaus, the king of Sparta, and prompts the war between Greece and Troy. O'Toole will play Priam, king of Troy. Christie will play Thetis, the mother of Achilles http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/t/troy.php There's also been talk of Tom Cruise doing a War of the Worlds remake.
Julie Christie was still pretty hot last time I saw her, She should be Helen, although when Saffron Burrows portrayed Eve, she was smoking naked... But Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom are prettier than the women in the movie. BTW, the parodies of the first two Tolkien movies are mostly hilarious: http://www.cynicsteaparty.com/04/the_very_secret_diaries.shtml
The Hyperion series, by Dan Simmons. Most amazing sci-fi saga I've ever read. It's too big for a movie, though... Have to cut it up into about 4 or 5 - 3-hour movies. But it would be Star Wars all over again, just darker and more mature.
I read the screenplay - I can assure you it wil be a blockbuster hit, but it was one of the cheesiest things I've ever read (perhaps that's just how screenplays go though). As for the person who metioned the Foundation Trilogy - awesome books, but don't see how it would work in movie format. I wouldn't mind seeing some story that takes place 10-15k years ago - competing tribes, dawn of humanity, something like that, but still a good, yet accurate story. I'm reading a book right now called Kushiel's Dart that would probably make a good movie because there is a fair amount of sex-related scenes in it.
I was reading this: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0332452 To reiterate what someone else said, they're compressing ten plus years into two some hours, and they added a character named Texan? How.... Hollywood. Here's their Helen: http://images.google.com/imgres?img...er+&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=G Diane Kruger image with husband.
Some of these have never been done, others have never been done as well as they deserve: The Long Goodbye The Great Gatsby The Sun Also Rises The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn There are many others...great thread.
You know, I'd like to see Heart of Darkness. The time has seriously come. Orson Welles tried, couldn't get it made, Apocalypse Now is good, but an actual movie based directly on the book is long overdue.
One thing about the adaptions is if we've read the book first AND recently, for me at least, alot of times the movie is a let down or the changes make it too different. The one adaptation that was better than the book that I remember is Ghost World. Haven't read the Sun Also Rises yet, how's it compare to A Farewell To Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls? From what I remember of The Great Gatsby it was just too plain depressing.
Don Quixote. If anyone gets the chance to see the documentary, Lost in La Mancha, it's great. Funny but in a sad sort of way. Terry Gilliam is working on it again, and I hope it gets done. He's the perfect man to make this into a film.
All are jokes of course except for Being Christopher Walken which would be an utterly hilarious sequel to Being John Malkovich.
Hey, don't laugh, but this is being considered. There's already a Tron 2.0 game coming out. Disney is thinking about releasing a movie by the same name, too.
There's The Man of La Mancha...a pretty bad movie, but you do get to see several extras grope Sophia Loren's breasts....
