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By: ‘The Thing’ Writer Talks Prequel - Screen Rant

‘The Thing’ Writer Talks Prequel - Screen Rant — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:26:09 +0000

[...] quietly rumbling along in development for some time now. We know that Battlestar Galactica’s Ronald D. Moore penned a draft of the script and that Eric Heisserer was brought in to do a rewrite for the film which is to be [...]

By: Bros Before Who? (Los Angeles CityBeat) | Hotustrends.com

Bros Before Who? (Los Angeles CityBeat) | Hotustrends.com — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:30:41 +0000

[...] Mid-Week Movie News Wrap Up – March 26, 2009 (Screen Rant) In this week’s A-list packed Wrap Up: Kevin Costner, Ben Affleck and Tommy Lee Jones are Company Men; Costner is The One; Silver rewrites Battle: Los Angeles for Aaron Eckhart; Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz are in love; Magnum Pi hangs out with Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl in Five Killers; Dennis Quaid and Julianne Moore [...] [...]

By: INK

INK — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:14:45 +0000

All right Mr. Smartipantses, then explain Avatar to me.

Hmmm? Hmmmm? Hmmmm?

Or is it just a matter of not getting the films confused with the audiences since they are so close together in release time, relatively that is.

By: Andy S

Andy S — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:10:04 +0000

Ken, I can TOTALLY see Tom Selleck as a retired assassin!! C’mon Sly, add Tom to “The Expendables!” LOL!

@INK…I never thought about that Costner connection, but it’s funny. The sports movies (which I love) are well done by Costner. Then there is Waterworld…..

By: greenknight333

greenknight333 — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:46:18 +0000

Five Killers..doesn’t that sound exactly like the movie that just starred Diane Lane(Ken’s older woman crush), Tom Jane and Mickey Rourke called Killshot except one of them wasn’t an assassin..Original…NOT!!!

By: Ken J

Ken J — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:27:01 +0000

About Kutcher as a assassin though, I would have believed Tom Selleck to be the assassin before Kutcher, lol.

By: Ken J

Ken J — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:20:26 +0000

INK, you can’t copywrite something that is in common usage. Star Wars can be copywrited, but you can’t copywrite star or wars, but only them together. And Godzilla, since that’s a specific name, but you can’t copywrite “The One” since that can be used by so many people not trying to reference this movie. Imagine if I can copywrite the letter e. Then everyone will owe me royalties…

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:06:13 +0000

INK
i meant to say they cant copyright a film title you can have two completely different films called the one or the anniversary and give them two completely different plots, but you cant name another film titled star wars that has nothing to do w/ what lucas has created and there are other titles that are like that like star trek, godzilla, etc

By: INK

INK — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:58:26 +0000

“you cant copyright a film title unless its like star wars or godzilla, etc.”

That makes absolutely no sense to me. Copyright is copyright it doesn’t only apply to certain titles. If a title is copyrighted it is copyrighted. Why do you think Shamalamalamalamalayaman’s The Last Airbender isn’t called Avatar like Cameron’s? Cameron won the copyright race.

Kevin Costner = Movie killer
(unless it is sports related for some ungodly reason.)

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:54:22 +0000

WHAT?!?! They can’t do the “Thing”. That’s just sacrilege!

By: steven the git

steven the git — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:16:57 +0000

Rather see Kurt in the Expandables myself.
Maybe Moore’s script had too many loose ends and the Thing just vanishing for no reason.

The Special Relationship sounds good. Sheen is a seriously good actor but he is fantastic at imitating people. He is in a new movie called the Damned United where he plays a famous british football manager in the 70s and he is brilliant in the role.
Moore is a fantastic actress too.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:15:49 +0000

andy s

i would buy that only after hell froze over lol and as far as the one is concerned you can always have a movie w/ the same title, hell john campea’s film is called the anniversary yet there is already a film out that is called the anniversary, you cant copyright a film title unless its like star wars or godzilla, etc.

By: Andy S

Andy S — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:12:25 +0000

Ashton Kutcher as an assassin? Is there ANYONE out there who would buy that?

Isn’t there already a movie called “The One” with Jet Li??

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Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:04:56 +0000

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By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:40:05 +0000

im excited about a prequel to the thing as long as its gory as carpenter’s film