Well, its still a joke but a direct to DVD, actually exists way:
On the 100th anniversary of the original voyage, a modern luxury liner christened “Titanic 2,” follows the path of its namesake. But when a tsunami hurls an ice berg into the new ship’s path, the passengers and crew must fight to avoid a similar fate.
on August 24, 2010 — you can sink again…
Dear Stephen King,
Absolutely not. I realize you are just kicking around the idea. And I realize this will involve you writing a novel first. But here’s the thing:
We don’t need to continue that story on the page or the screen. I mean, I can’t even really think of why you need to continue that. And so many years later? It smells like you’re 100% of any sort or original ideas. Or maybe you’re going broke all Nic Cage style? I’m not really sure, but I don’t like it.
Now, here’s the thing. Your story idea isn’t all that bad:
Danny Torrance is now a 40-year-old orderly at a hospice for the terminally ill in upstate New York. His job is to “visit with patients who are just about to pass on to the other side, and to help them make that journey with the aid of his mysterious powers.” And on the side, Danny bets on the horse races, a trick he learned from his old friend Dick.
I agree with Peter over at /film: “[Your] idea for a ‘sleep doctor’ might be worth exploring, but why must it involve characters from The Shining? Why [can’t you] use the the concept as inspiration to create some new characters?”
Why is nothing sacred anymore, even to the creators?
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by Andrew Richards
NO.
Something that already should have been left alone instead of releasing two awful “sequels” certainly doesn’t need a fucking remake or reboot. I won’t care if it’s a good script. I will not care if you come up with some brilliant casting.
Just leave The Crow alone.
Leave Brandon Lee’s legacy alone.
I implore you, Hollywood. PLEASE. Just. Don’t.
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by Andrew Richards
Claiming the record for the biggest one-day gross, The Twilight Saga: New Moon raked in an estimated $72.7 million on approximately 8,500 screens at 4,024 sites. The Dark Knight was the previous title holder with $67.2 million on around 9,300 screens at 4,366 sites.
Who would have thought that a movie about glittery vampires would end up in the record books? I don’t know whether we should be more disappointed in ourselves for bombarding the theaters to see this or for simultaneously fawning over a 17 year old boy who remains shirtless 90% of the time. It’s not even that bad that the incessant moaning from teenyboppers was enough to deafen people worse than a typical rock concert but did we really just make theater teams for characters in the film?
Thanks to this, we now have to live with the fact that a cast of mediocre actors and Kristen Stewart go down on paper for quite some time. Considering it has taken over a year to knock The Dark Knight off the block (which was critically praised and considered one of last year’s top films) and looking at the fact it took quite a few years for Titanic (which set its record between 1997-98) to be taken over by The Dark Knight, I’m pretty scared for the next few years.
In closing, we never thought a film starring a terrible lip biter, that guy who died in Harry Potter and an actor who shares Matthew McConaughey’s feelings on wearing a shirt in films would be where it is now. Shame on you America. Shame on you.
At least we have the weekend to turn this around.
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by Mike Davis
(quote via boxofficemojo)
As 2012 opens to a projected $200 million weekend, rumor has it director Roland Emmerich has plans for more destruction. He recently revealed to MTV that not only is he interested in making a sequel to Independence Day, but that he wants to make it a two-filmer. That’s right… ID4-Ever Part I & ID4-Ever Part II.
So far there aren’t any real story details. So, no word on if the world will be saved by a virus 2.0 or not. Now, I would be remiss if I didn’t admit that, at least 13 years ago, I rather enjoyed watching Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum
saving the world (but not the White House) by uploading a computer virus (oh yeah, “spoiler” alert). But did I ever wonder what they did next? Do I care where they are now? No, not really. Can’t say I do.
But there’s a larger issue here. It’s the fact that Emmerich has an annoying thing for global disaster, almost end of world films. The political issue of global warming lead to an ecological disaster that destroys (most of) the planet in The Day After Tomorrow (2004), but of course humans don’t actually see a dinosaur-like fate. And now with 2012, we have another end-of-the-world movie only this time the premise is taken from the theory that the world will end in the year 2012. Ok, fair enough, aliens and nature failed… but the Mayan’s won’t!
Whoops. Not so fast. Emmerich foiled the Mayans, too! Not to spoil that ending, but apparently he is working on a TV series set in post-apocalyptic 2012. According to Entertainment Weekly Emmerich is in talks with ABC to develop “2013” with Howard Gordon (“Grey’s Anatomy,” “Private Practice”).
Sometimes I wish the world really would end just so I didn’t have to not see another Roland Emmerich disaster.
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by Andrew Richards
