New Mexico as part of a press event
Watch Fast and Furious 6 Online While you may hope that this is a film that winds up languishing in development hell, there's one word that could prevent that from happening: anniversary. Steinbeck's book will be turning 75 years old in 2014, and Dreamworks is hoping that they can capitalize on that fact (similar to how Disney and Warner Bros. got Sam Raimi's Oz The Great and Powerful and Zack Snyder's Man of Steel ready just in time for The Wizard of Oz's and Superman's 75th birthdays). This also could very well be why Spielberg won't be available to direct the movie himself, seeing as he has already committed himself to working with Bradley Cooper on the adaptation of the book American Sniper.
Watch Monsters University Online Set during the Great Depression, the classic story centers on the Joads, a family of poor tenant farmers who are forced to leave Oklahoma due to the dust bowl conditions. Told of a promised land on the coast, the family, led by Tom Joad (played by Henry Fonda in Ford's film), decides to make their way out to California... but what they discover both on the road and at their final destination is far from what they hoped to find. Watch the trailer for the original movie below and then head to the comments to tell us whether or not you think a remake of The Grapes of Wrath is a good idea.
Watch The Lone Ranger Online Beneath the pamphlet is a copy of the graphic novel “Pacific Rim: Tales From Year Zero,†the prequel comic written by Pacific Rim co-screenwriter Travis Beacham. The book, which is already available at retailers, also includes a written introduction from del Toro. And finally, here's a look at the poster bag, which could prove useful in carting around your other swag. Yeah, definitely. I mean, I think what’s weird about this one is actually, I was talking about potentially doing The Lone Ranger in 2006. I kind of had my way of doing it and some disagreements with [Terry] Rossio and [Ted] Elliot. So, they went off to write drafts and I went off to make Rango, and sort of, that was a kind of, its own journey, animation and everything, and then, Johnny came back and said, “Will you reconsider and come back?†and I said, “The only way I want to do this is to tell it from Tonto’s point of view. So, that was sort of my, kind of, the ground rules of coming back into the project and that was a page one rewrite and Justin Haythe came in and we kind of, we set sail.
Watch The Way Way Back Online When you’re dealing with a pop culture figure as big as the Long Ranger, there are elements of this character that are important and must be kept. Is there a point where you’re breaking it down and trying to figure what you should include and what you don’t need to? The process is so convoluted and weird. I mean, it really starts with, again, this idea of sort of Sancho Panza/Don Quixote thing, then how to make Johnny Depp relevant, so it’s not tipping, you don’t cast him as the sidekick, the whole thing’s out of proportion. It needs to be a two-hander. Then telling the story from his perspective. Then, he’s a character we can do a lot of different things with and then you go, “Ok, if we’re going to do that, then I need the Lone Ranger that’s sort of Jimmy Stewart from Liberty Valance, who’s going to believe in right and wrong and come in on the train and kind of crash into this sort of [Sam] Peckinpah world where justice can be purchased now.†There’s no place for all these notions that are just arcane and so it sort of works like that.
Watch Now You See Me Online Sitting on top of all the contents of the case was a pamphlet for “Hannibal Chau’s Kaiju Remedies,†the shop owned by Ron Perlman’s character in the del Toro film. Silver bullets. Big white hats. Leather masks. A white steed. The William Tell Overture. When all of these elements are combined they create an image of one of the longest lasting pop culture icons of the 20th century: The Lone Ranger. But as important as all of these individual details are to the legacy of the character, they weren’t the first things that director Gore Verbinski was thinking about when he began working on bringing the character to the big screen. Rather, all of that was secondary to the most important element of the Lone Ranger legend: his partnership with Tonto.
A few weeks ago I took a flight out to Santa Fe, New Mexico as part of a press event for The Lone Ranger, and during the trip had the terrific opportunity to once again sit down one-on-one with Verbinski, this time to talk with him about his second adventure in the old west. Check out or conversation below in which the director not only links the relationship between the Lone Ranger and Tonto to both Don Quixote and Midnight Run, but also talks about the importance of showing the truth of the Native American experience, his apprehension about taking on the project initially, and his hopes to do something small as his next film. First flipping the pamphlet over, I discovered a website address, KaijuRemedies.com, that redirected to the YouTube page where I discovered the viral video at the top of this post. Opening the pamphlet, I was greeted with not only an awesome drawing of Perlman as Chau. In addition to some diagrams, tt highlights eight different Kaiju parts as well as their healthy effects. So, was the first project straight from the Lone Ranger’s point of view? I don’t know. They had their own version. They, rightfully enough, they were the ones who found the rights. They were at Sony. Sony had tried to make it a few times and didn’t get anywhere with it. Rossio and Elliot were championing it and I was dabbling with the idea of Tonto being played by Johnny and talked to Johnny about it a little bit, but I was really kind of keen on this sort of, Sancho Panza telling this story of Don Quixote and Ted and Terry were like, “No, no, no. It’s the Lone Ranger. We have to do this, this, and this.†So, five drafts later, and then, you know, Johnny sort of had done, put himself in makeup and he said, “There’s no story, but I got his guy that I like,†you know, then we sort of set through the task of 18 months working on the screenplay.
Watch Fast and Furious 6 Online While you may hope that this is a film that winds up languishing in development hell, there's one word that could prevent that from happening: anniversary. Steinbeck's book will be turning 75 years old in 2014, and Dreamworks is hoping that they can capitalize on that fact (similar to how Disney and Warner Bros. got Sam Raimi's Oz The Great and Powerful and Zack Snyder's Man of Steel ready just in time for The Wizard of Oz's and Superman's 75th birthdays). This also could very well be why Spielberg won't be available to direct the movie himself, seeing as he has already committed himself to working with Bradley Cooper on the adaptation of the book American Sniper.
Watch Monsters University Online Set during the Great Depression, the classic story centers on the Joads, a family of poor tenant farmers who are forced to leave Oklahoma due to the dust bowl conditions. Told of a promised land on the coast, the family, led by Tom Joad (played by Henry Fonda in Ford's film), decides to make their way out to California... but what they discover both on the road and at their final destination is far from what they hoped to find. Watch the trailer for the original movie below and then head to the comments to tell us whether or not you think a remake of The Grapes of Wrath is a good idea.
Watch The Lone Ranger Online Beneath the pamphlet is a copy of the graphic novel “Pacific Rim: Tales From Year Zero,†the prequel comic written by Pacific Rim co-screenwriter Travis Beacham. The book, which is already available at retailers, also includes a written introduction from del Toro. And finally, here's a look at the poster bag, which could prove useful in carting around your other swag. Yeah, definitely. I mean, I think what’s weird about this one is actually, I was talking about potentially doing The Lone Ranger in 2006. I kind of had my way of doing it and some disagreements with [Terry] Rossio and [Ted] Elliot. So, they went off to write drafts and I went off to make Rango, and sort of, that was a kind of, its own journey, animation and everything, and then, Johnny came back and said, “Will you reconsider and come back?†and I said, “The only way I want to do this is to tell it from Tonto’s point of view. So, that was sort of my, kind of, the ground rules of coming back into the project and that was a page one rewrite and Justin Haythe came in and we kind of, we set sail.
Watch The Way Way Back Online When you’re dealing with a pop culture figure as big as the Long Ranger, there are elements of this character that are important and must be kept. Is there a point where you’re breaking it down and trying to figure what you should include and what you don’t need to? The process is so convoluted and weird. I mean, it really starts with, again, this idea of sort of Sancho Panza/Don Quixote thing, then how to make Johnny Depp relevant, so it’s not tipping, you don’t cast him as the sidekick, the whole thing’s out of proportion. It needs to be a two-hander. Then telling the story from his perspective. Then, he’s a character we can do a lot of different things with and then you go, “Ok, if we’re going to do that, then I need the Lone Ranger that’s sort of Jimmy Stewart from Liberty Valance, who’s going to believe in right and wrong and come in on the train and kind of crash into this sort of [Sam] Peckinpah world where justice can be purchased now.†There’s no place for all these notions that are just arcane and so it sort of works like that.
Watch Now You See Me Online Sitting on top of all the contents of the case was a pamphlet for “Hannibal Chau’s Kaiju Remedies,†the shop owned by Ron Perlman’s character in the del Toro film. Silver bullets. Big white hats. Leather masks. A white steed. The William Tell Overture. When all of these elements are combined they create an image of one of the longest lasting pop culture icons of the 20th century: The Lone Ranger. But as important as all of these individual details are to the legacy of the character, they weren’t the first things that director Gore Verbinski was thinking about when he began working on bringing the character to the big screen. Rather, all of that was secondary to the most important element of the Lone Ranger legend: his partnership with Tonto.
A few weeks ago I took a flight out to Santa Fe, New Mexico as part of a press event for The Lone Ranger, and during the trip had the terrific opportunity to once again sit down one-on-one with Verbinski, this time to talk with him about his second adventure in the old west. Check out or conversation below in which the director not only links the relationship between the Lone Ranger and Tonto to both Don Quixote and Midnight Run, but also talks about the importance of showing the truth of the Native American experience, his apprehension about taking on the project initially, and his hopes to do something small as his next film. First flipping the pamphlet over, I discovered a website address, KaijuRemedies.com, that redirected to the YouTube page where I discovered the viral video at the top of this post. Opening the pamphlet, I was greeted with not only an awesome drawing of Perlman as Chau. In addition to some diagrams, tt highlights eight different Kaiju parts as well as their healthy effects. So, was the first project straight from the Lone Ranger’s point of view? I don’t know. They had their own version. They, rightfully enough, they were the ones who found the rights. They were at Sony. Sony had tried to make it a few times and didn’t get anywhere with it. Rossio and Elliot were championing it and I was dabbling with the idea of Tonto being played by Johnny and talked to Johnny about it a little bit, but I was really kind of keen on this sort of, Sancho Panza telling this story of Don Quixote and Ted and Terry were like, “No, no, no. It’s the Lone Ranger. We have to do this, this, and this.†So, five drafts later, and then, you know, Johnny sort of had done, put himself in makeup and he said, “There’s no story, but I got his guy that I like,†you know, then we sort of set through the task of 18 months working on the screenplay.
