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D.B. Barnes:
'Cosmopolis' Trailer: 'Twilight' Vampire Pees in Car, Shoots Hole in Hand
--- Quote ---The first trailer for David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis is here, and it is not safe for work nor safe for those Twilight fans hoping to keep an idealized vision of Robert Pattinson preserved in their mind as well as their flesh. In this nerve-wracking preview for the Don DeLillo novel adaptation, Pattinson has unsettling sex with non-Bellas, pisses in a limousine, nonchalantly shoots a hole through his hand, and begs a naked woman to do the same to his anemic chest. The trailer is also NSFSbarro, in that I can't imagine the shot of a giant rat eyeing the pizza chain could possibly be good for business.
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TRAILER NSFW
Spoiler (click to show/hide)http://www.youtube.com/v/DCFB-WPe9Ic?version=3&hl=en_US
Sparkle fairy's shakin' things up a bit.
Paramount Reinventing Mark Twain with 'Huck'
--- Quote ---Paramount is giving Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer a 21st century makeover.
The studio has picked up a spec by Andy Burg titled Huck, with Peter Chernin and Dylan Clark producing along with Matt Lopez.
The title characters, of course, are 19th century creations of author Mark Twain and are known for their mischievous teenage adventures – Sawyer, presented as a small-town, all-American boy, is something of a schemer, while Finn, who is more of an outcast, is faced with tougher moral choices. The duo first appeared in Twain's 1876 novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Twain continued their tales in three additional books. There have been several film and TV adaptations of the material, from 1918's Huck and Tom, starring Jack Pickford and Robert Gordon, to Disney's 1995 version Tom and Huck, starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Brad Renfro.
The storyline is being kept under wraps, but the project is described as a re-imagining in the vein of Snow White and the Huntsman, focusing on Sawyer and Finn as adults. There also are supernatural elements to the script.
Chernin and Clark are the producers behind Rise of the Planet of the Apes and are in production on Oblivion, Universal’s sci-fi project starring Tom Cruise. Lopez is a screenwriter whose credits include Bedtime Stories and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
Huck is the latest project Burg has set up at Paramount; Hellified, a supernatural actioner with Lorenzo di Bonaventura producing, also calls the studio home. He is repped by Brucks Entertainment and Sloane Offer. ICM repped the scribe in the deal.
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I read "supernatural elements" as "Huck and Tom are now a pair of wise-cracking alien prospectors."
mrbasehart:
--- Quote from: Imrahil on March 23, 2012, 11:33:30 AM ---Huck and Tom now hunt vampires (and each other!) in a post-apocalyptic zombie wasteland in which they're forced to play games. Hungry games. Also, it will have slow-motion CGI gore.
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And to tie it in with the recent board game phenomenon, they'll add African wildlife and call it Hungry Hungry Hippo Games.
wurwolf:
Man, that sucks. Don't fuck with Huck.
D.B. Barnes:
--- Quote from: mrbasehart on March 23, 2012, 12:09:46 PM ---
--- Quote from: Imrahil on March 23, 2012, 11:33:30 AM ---Huck and Tom now hunt vampires (and each other!) in a post-apocalyptic zombie wasteland in which they're forced to play games. Hungry games. Also, it will have slow-motion CGI gore.
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And to tie it in with the recent board game phenomenon, they'll add African wildlife and call it Hungry Hungry Hippo Games.
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Well, would you look at that!
mrbasehart:
Called it!
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