The BJMDDS General Discussion Thread......

[bjmdds]

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/reviews/?id=45&p=s.htm From 2002. Could Cr-egg do Brosnan numbers here? http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=mammamia.htm

[katied]

How can a film with this advertising lose?

Apparently they're focusing their market strategy on the Red States.

[stockslivevan]

Apparently another reason why THE LONE RANGER had a huge budget is because there were werewolves involved.

Yeah.

[Omega]

Apparently another reason why THE LONE RANGER had a huge budget is because there were werewolves involved.

Yeah.

Explains the silver bullets.

[Kristatos]

Apparently another reason why THE LONE RANGER had a huge budget is because there were werewolves involved.

Yeah.

Got a link for that? If it's true, then I'm glad it's not being made.

[Blowfeld]

Some good came of Daniel's desastrious pic after all

Did Werewolves Cause The $250 Million Budget for Johnny Depp's The Lone Ranger?
A source has contacted Hollywood-elsewhere with new information, and provided one revealing page of the script, that suggests werewolves as the film's antagonist. Also, the poor performance of Cowboys vs. Aliens was the final nail in the coffin.

The reason The Lone Ranger's budget was so astronomically high that Disney execs decided to shut it down was because it's an effects-heavy CG thing due to being a kind of an Indian-spirituality werewolf movie -- a.k.a., The Lone Ranger Meets the Wolfman. Yes, I'm serious. A 3.29.09 draft of Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio's script makes it clear it was going to be at least partly about some kind of Native American wolfbeast tearing victims apart and leaving a bloody mess.



"It was always going to be a big Bruckheimer CG movie with traditional Bruckheimer elements with an eye toward being a tentpole, totally Pirates-style," says a gadfly screenwriter who always hears stuff and has been following the project through postings on writersactionbss.com -- a private writers' website that Elliott has posted on.

"It was never going to be a semi-traditional western...it was never going to be Zorro. It was going to be a Tonto show mainly. Tonto as the top dog and more dominant than the Lone Ranger. Tonto and the Indian spirits like Obi Wan Kenobi and the force. The driving engine was going to be Native American occult aspects worked in with werewolves and special effects. But flavored with doses of Native American spirituality in a serious way."

"But then Cowboys & Aliens came along and tanked and Disney got cold tenderfeet, spooked by the idea of a pricey mashup. If Cowboys & Aliens had made $200 million, this wouldn't be happening. A Bruckheimer-style western in the wake of Cowboys & Aliens is nothing anyone is feeling secure about at this stage. Trust me, the writers of tentpole garbage are all scared now."

[stockslivevan]

It's what I've been saying for the past couple of posts, studios are only interested in the brand names.

Disney Offices:

Beavis: Hey, we need a tentpole film. What brand names do we have that we can use?
Butthead: Well we've got The Lone Ranger.
Beavis: But all fans of that are dead and everything knows it's just a cowboy show.
Butthead: Yeah, but maybe we can throw in some 'splosions and ****.
Beavis: Yeah, that's right! They did that with Star Trek!
Butthead: Yeah man, just get Brukheimer on it and it's a seller.
Beavis: Johnny Depp wants to be in it, but he wants to be Tonto. So let's center it on him.
Butthead: What about Lone Ranger?
Beavis: Nobody gives a crap, it has Johnny Depp. What else can we throw in?
Butthead: Vampires?
Beavis: Vampires are everywhere now. What's another supernatural element less used?
Butthead: Werewolves?
Beavis: Yeah! That's it. We'll make the indians all spiritual and mystical too.
Butthead: That's great, guilty white people love magical indian people. Look at Avatar.
Beavis: Okay, let's throw over 200 million on this and get this going!
Butthead: Another thing.
Beavis: What?
Butthead: Hookers or coke?
Beavis: Let's heads or tails on that!

[Capt. Sir Dominic Flandry]

Has anyone bought this magazine yet. What a simply wonderful picture.

[oscartheman]

Has anyone bought this magazine yet. What a simply wonderful picture.

It says "I am constipated yet pretentious about it"

My lord it looks like an Alfred E Newman parody!

[shaken not stirred]

Has anyone bought this magazine yet. What a simply wonderful picture.

Now I realised who creggs trying to be with that expression, it all makes sense now





Bond 23: carry on pouting , ow m take them away, I say .

[Thunderpussy]

That cover photo looks like the shot the wax-dummy

"I am constipated yet pretentious about it" From oscartheman

Looks like we were thinking the same thing shaken not stirred.

[stockslivevan]

He looks fine to me in that photo.

[katied]

That cover photo looks like the shot the wax-dummy

"I am constipated yet pretentious about it" From oscartheman

Looks like we were thinking the same thing shaken not stirred.

He definitely looks constipated..give that man a prune-tini..with an Ex Lax chaser!

[Capt. Sir Dominic Flandry]

He looks fine to me in that photo.

Are you looking at it through Craig tinted glasses?

[katied]

Are you looking at it through Craig tinted glasses?

Obviously. They had to find the most terrible picture possible,too.

[stockslivevan]

I'm sincere. No glasses required.

[Thunderpussy]

I could do the old "you must give me the name of ypur oculist " Stocks.
But I think the problem is mainly it's been over "air brushed" like many magazines do these days, Only normally it
Makes the sitter look better.

[katied]

There's no shortage of terrible pictures they could have used for that cover. I also see the resemblance to Alfred E. Neuman .

[bjmdds]

http://boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/ Ouch......don't look now but Cr-egg's Aliens has slipped to 9th place, well behind the pack now.........Potter is still eating it up...............Bond 23? Invest $150 million in DC? Would a studio be so foolish after a 4 year hiatus and no new actor in the offering? MP, stay away from it. FBF, mission accomplished. "Undercover Ale", find out what is REALLY happening inside Eon. The stars are aligning now for the moment we have ALL(minus a few out there) waited for since 2002!

[FormerBondFan]

FBF, mission accomplished.

The war isn't done yet. This b1tch may be up to something.