Spider-Man Reboot Underway

You know, I was all in favor of all this until it was rumoured that Tobey Maguire is now free to take the role of Bilbo Baggins in "The Hobbit," and if that happens, I may have to kill myself, so maybe Sony should have let Sam and Tobey piss all over this franchise for another couple of dozen years...
 
Ohh come on, give it a chance...

Movies suck if you read how good or bad they will be from a board.

Kinda stupid, huh?
 
Captain Pierce said:
You know, I was all in favor of all this until it was rumoured that Tobey Maguire is now free to take the role of Bilbo Baggins in "The Hobbit," and if that happens, I may have to kill myself, so maybe Sony should have let Sam and Tobey piss all over this franchise for another couple of dozen years...
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I thought Tobey was signed to play Rick Hunter in the Robotech movie.

...Bilbo Baggins....eh....never know he might surprise.
 
Wes Anderson's Spider Man?...The guy who plays Owen Wilson here does an uncanny vocal impression--
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I AGREE
 
Nektonic said:
If I ever did sell a novel and also got the screenplay adaptation gig, I could also tweak the original novel a bit for the movie tie-in novel, meaning I could possibly get paid three times for the same story. :beer:

Then again, it could also be more like this :badputer:
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It should be noted that it isn't very easy to get a novel published (unless you go the self-publish route which has less chance of selling than making your own indie feature). I have a couple of friends that have been trying to break into the world of published authorship for years. One finally did it but never saw much money from it. The other is still plugging away. Listening to their journey is both interesting and depressing.

If one is lucky enough to get a book published AND the publisher is actually willing to put the effort into making it a success (which is ANOTHER story altogether) then it is still a rocky road to getting your book optioned. And if by a miracle, it IS optioned the chance of it actually getting to the screen is still remote.

Here's an interesting article from Robert J. Sawyer (currently writing for the TV series: FlashForward) on the odd of having your book made into a movie.
 
Knowing some editors is very useful in getting things read.

They may well still get rejected, but at least they get rejected by the right people.
 
Blaine said:
It should be noted that it isn't very easy to get a novel published (unless you go the self-publish route which has less chance of selling than making your own indie feature). I have a couple of friends that have been trying to break into the world of published authorship for years. One finally did it but never saw much money from it. The other is still plugging away. Listening to their journey is both interesting and depressing.

If one is lucky enough to get a book published AND the publisher is actually willing to put the effort into making it a success (which is ANOTHER story altogether) then it is still a rocky road to getting your book optioned. And if by a miracle, it IS optioned the chance of it actually getting to the screen is still remote.

Here's an interesting article from Robert J. Sawyer (currently writing for the TV series: FlashForward) on the odd of having your book made into a movie.
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I hear you loud and clear, and have done some research into the perils of publishing and self publishing. I guess my impetus for doing something like this is that selling a spec script seems pointless these days. Most studios don't want to actually make original material much anymore. If they do show interest in a spec, they are now starting to option instead of purchase scripts more often than not.

Writing a novel seems like a possible alternative because, while still very hard to find success in publishing, the books sitting on the shelves of Borders or listed on the pages of Amazon are not remakes or rewrites of an old novel. Publishing, for the most part still relies on original stories. Hollywood seems to be moving further and further away from that mentality.

Part of my problem is my favorite genre is epic science fiction stuff. Okay, that's not a genre, but you get the idea. The biggest issue I face is money. Mainly that I don't really have any. Even if I had five million bucks, I still couldn't afford to produce and direct a movie with production value of something like District 9, which at $30 million is considered really low budget by Hollywood standards. Heck, 30 mil would probably barely cover Tom Cruise's paycheck and perks. Maybe if I win one of those mega lotteries where the jack pot is $200 million or something.

I like the idea of writing a novel and not being constrained by financial walls. Plus, the spec script minimum of 110 pages is also not a factor in prose fiction.
 
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2009 was the year of studio's shutting out indies, for 2010-2012 they all have more projects in thier vaults from out of biz or aquired deals than they know what to do with.

Learn how to self market your books or movies and you'll be ok, wait for others to do it for you and you'll be waiting.
 
J.R. Hudson said:
So over the Superhero films.

Time to move onto something else.
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I'm with you on that, but we stilll have:

Captain America
Green Latern
Thor
Deadpool
Ant man
Wolverine 2
Iron Man 2
The Avengers
Magneto
X-men first class

Then after all of these come out. We may have a year or 2 off before the Reboots begin on:

Captain America
Green Latern
Thor
Deadpool
Ant man
Wolverine 2
Iron Man 2
The Avengers
Magneto
X-men first class
 
Richard J. Johnson said:
I'm with you on that, but we stilll have:

Captain America
Green Latern
Thor
Deadpool
Ant man
Wolverine 2
Iron Man 2
The Avengers
Magneto
X-men first class

Then after all of these come out. We may have a year or 2 off before the Reboots begin on:

Captain America
Green Latern
Thor
Deadpool
Ant man
Wolverine 2
Iron Man 2
The Avengers
Magneto
X-men first class
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LOL...Of that batch the only one I want to see is Green Lantern, because a lot of it takes place in space and other planets, which at least makes it different. The only bummer is that it takes the wind out of the sails of any future Lensman movie, since Green Lantern basically stole its whole concept from those novels.
 
I'm not familiar with Green Latern at all except that one of them was black. Thor seems pretty interesting to me mainly because of the director. I will probably skip everything else (besides the avengers) including spiderman unless the trailers blow me away.
 
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