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lancesolous13 from California Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: Dancing with Captain Jack Harkness
#626: May 13th 2014 at 9:00:15 PM

Well, they're supposed to do Wicked. They want to, but they won't sell the rites to Wicked "until the box office receipts dwindle".

And they haven't at all.

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#627: May 14th 2014 at 1:55:30 AM

I still think someone should make a movie about Gaston trying to get some nerdy poontang.

"Gary, you'll never get laid if you keep using the word poontang."

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kalel94 Rascal King from Dragonstone Since: Feb, 2011
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#628: May 14th 2014 at 5:16:55 AM

It'd be like She's All That in 18th century France.

The last hurrah? Nah, I'd do it again.
Sisi Since: Oct, 2012
#629: May 14th 2014 at 5:19:09 AM

Which beauty and the Beast remake? The one directed by Guillermo Del Toro, which sounds f**king AMAZING, or this French movie with Vincent Cassel that also sounds really cool: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_and_the_Beast_(2014_film)

I WANT TO SEE THIS

edited 14th May '14 5:24:27 AM by Sisi

Mort08 Pirate AND writer! from Oklahoma Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
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#630: May 14th 2014 at 5:23:16 AM

[up] Neither. Disney's developing their own version that's just called The Beast, despite the fact that we clearly don't need another live-action BatB remake.

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Sisi Since: Oct, 2012
#631: May 14th 2014 at 5:27:12 AM

Yeah. This French one looks like a lot of time effort was given to the world-building and story, and looks absolutely gorgeous. Between this and whatever awesomesauce Del Toro makes, we don;t need ANOTHER remake. Has Disney seriously run out of ideas so thoroughly that they;re just doing the animated canon live action?

FigmentJedi Since: Jan, 2001
#632: May 14th 2014 at 9:47:21 AM

They're probably meaning this to be some dramatic "And then Maleficent was evil" moment, but it just comes off as really cheesy with the score and all these Spiderwick rejects looking sad because Maleficent has made the clouds all grey.

Mort08 Pirate AND writer! from Oklahoma Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
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#633: May 14th 2014 at 10:05:27 AM

[up] Spiderwick rejects. I love that.

Honestly, I think that could be a cool moment if they made it more impressive.

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#634: May 14th 2014 at 6:58:28 PM

live-action Bat B remake.

i thought you were talking about a live-action Batman: The Brave and the Bold movie. which would be awesome, by the way. waii

edited 14th May '14 6:58:38 PM by crimsonstorm15

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minespatch Since: Sep, 2009
#635: May 14th 2014 at 8:33:34 PM

[up][up][up][up]I definitely hear ya. That trailer and the two fairytale adaptations that Guilmero Del Toro is doing(he's also doing a stop motion Pinnochio) will have better depth than this film.

Why can't Disney just adapt Abadazad to give that book a proper ending?

Sisi Since: Oct, 2012
#636: May 15th 2014 at 6:12:18 AM

OOOOH stop motion Pinocchio? I'm not really a fan of that story, but I might just see that.

Mort08 Pirate AND writer! from Oklahoma Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
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#638: May 15th 2014 at 6:59:51 AM

[up] That article's from a while ago.

Even when we're still talking about the actual story for this film, we still come up with better ideas than the filmmakers.

edited 15th May '14 7:02:15 AM by Mort08

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#639: May 18th 2014 at 7:25:18 PM

Late, but King Stefan is the baddie? They're not even hiding that they've pinched the concept from Wicked, are they?

Mort08 Pirate AND writer! from Oklahoma Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
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#640: May 18th 2014 at 7:33:46 PM

Not really. I'm still convinced that this is only happening because they can't get the rights to Wicked.

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Sisi Since: Oct, 2012
#641: May 18th 2014 at 8:52:08 PM

I once heard that the musical was going to made into a movie while almost at the same time someone else would adapt Maguire's book into a miniseries. Because you can never have too much Oz spinoff at once. Or orgies (seriously, the writers would have had a hard time with the Philosophy Club scene. That is some seriously weird shit).

You what I just realized? Once Upon a Time kind of preempted the idea for the evil-Maleficent origin story that was talked about here early on before the Wicked ripoff plot was confirmed. The writers for the show basically wrote an understandable but ultimately unsympathetic backstory for their Wicked Witch character. Sorry, random off tangent thought.

Sisi Since: Oct, 2012
#642: May 19th 2014 at 8:08:12 AM

Sorry, double post.

More info on Diavol, the bird. Admittedly, This makes me want to see the movie. Damn that accent XD

edited 19th May '14 8:11:05 AM by Sisi

lancesolous13 from California Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: Dancing with Captain Jack Harkness
#643: May 25th 2014 at 4:52:25 PM

Well, its out in less than a week. This'll be... interesting.

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#644: May 25th 2014 at 4:58:01 PM

Every time I see a trailer or spot for this movie, I keep getting angrier and angrier. I think what set me off the most was that tagline, "You know the tale, now know the truth." I hate that it implies that the original movie isn't canon or is a lie or something like that. It just smacks of discarding the classic and setting up this new canon, and that just spits on the work of everyone who worked on Sleeping Beauty in my eyes.

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Mort08 Pirate AND writer! from Oklahoma Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
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#645: May 25th 2014 at 5:02:03 PM

[up] THANK YOU. I thought I was the only person who was most pissed off by that. The original movie is a work of art, and this one has no right to even put itself in the same category, let alone claim to be "what really happened."

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#647: May 25th 2014 at 5:14:35 PM

That screenwriter has some serious ladyballs to claim that her crappy Wicked knockoff is even approaching the original.

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Mort08 Pirate AND writer! from Oklahoma Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
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#648: May 25th 2014 at 5:23:51 PM

[up] It was probably a marketing decision. That said, what she's said in the interviews hasn't been helping. BTW, have you noticed that they basically say the same damn thing in each little featurette?

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lancesolous13 from California Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: Dancing with Captain Jack Harkness
#649: May 25th 2014 at 5:24:46 PM

Yep.

Ok, we get it, SHUT UP AND GO AWAY!

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maxwellelvis Mad Scientist Wannabe from undisclosed location Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: In my bunk
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#650: May 25th 2014 at 5:26:53 PM

What's she keep repeating?

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