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[Movies] Holy shit! They're Making a BFG Movie?

Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
Directed by Steven Spielberg?

How did I not know this until now?

The BFG is my favorite book from my favorite author, Roald Dahl!

It's a charming story about giants and dreams and nightmares and holy shit I'm super excited now!

I was going to make this OP all about summer blockbusters but who gives a fuck bow that I know this!

There is only one movie now and it's The BFG!

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  • GustavGustav Friend of Goats Somewhere in the OzarksRegistered User regular
    I wonder if it crosses over with Jack the Giant Slayer

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  • wirehead26wirehead26 Registered User regular
    Reminder that we could have gotten a Terry Gilliam helmed Who Framed Roger Rabbit at one point in time.

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  • CorporateLogoCorporateLogo The toilet knows how I feelRegistered User regular
    Who Framed Roger Rabbit is fine as is

    Also they're making a Battefleet Gothic movie? Is it direct to video like Ultramarines?

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  • wirehead26wirehead26 Registered User regular
    WFRR was absolutely fine I agree.

    But imagine how it would have looked with Gilliam.

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  • CorporateLogoCorporateLogo The toilet knows how I feelRegistered User regular
    Like The Brothers Grimm, and it would have been about as well received

    Do not have a cow, mortal.

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  • pookapooka Registered User regular
    edited May 2016
    we got a BFG trailer before BvS. this being my first encounter with that property, my only conclusion was of it having an unfortunate name, but i'm assuming most people will not have that association. (yes, obviously Roald Dahl was first. but i wonder if that book would have greater saturation than Doom for my cohort.)

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    The BFG is an excellent book and can easily be read in an afternoon and everyone should.

  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    pooka wrote: »
    we got a BFG trailer before BvS. this being my first ecounter with that property, my only conclusion was of it having an unfortunate name, but i'm assuming most people will not have that association. (yes, obviously Roald Dahl was first. but i wonder if that book would have greater saturation than Doom for my cohort.)

    I always mentally conflate the two and translate it to Big Fucking Giant.

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  • rhylithrhylith Death Rabbits HoustonRegistered User regular
    wirehead26 wrote: »
    WFRR was absolutely fine I agree.

    But imagine how it would have looked with Gilliam.

    Rather not. I don't think it would have worked as well with his style.

  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited May 2016
    Who Framed Roger Rabbit? almost starred Bill Murray as Eddie Valiant, but they couldn't get up with him as he wasn't using an agent and so you needed to contact him directly to offer him a part.

    He never even found out until years later when he was reading an interview in a magazine and saw it mentioned that they had originally wanted him for the part. Apparently he absolutely would have accepted had he known.

    Edit: Also, I believe Spielberg was instrumental in getting WB and Disney to play along for the movie, and I don't know what his involvement was like at the time Gilliam was considered, but without that you could have easily ended up with something more like the book version (which is drastically different from the film) and I don't think that would resonate quite as well (Roger actually dies, for one).

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  • hatedinamericahatedinamerica Registered User regular
    edited May 2016
    The world has enough amazing Bill Murray movies*, I'm glad Hoskins got the part. He fuckin nailed it.



    *I mean...not really, but you know.

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  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    The world has enough amazing Bill Murray movies*, I'm glad Hoskins got the part. He fuckin nailed it.



    *I mean...not really, but you know.

    Hoskins in that movie also looked like he could have been Jason Lee's father

  • FawstFawst The road to awe.Registered User regular
    Paul Reubens was the original voice for Roger in the test footage, too. Another interesting "what if...?"

  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    The guy behind Food Fight is making the Tetris movie

    And it has an 80 million-dollar budget

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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    poor tetris

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  • masterofmetroidmasterofmetroid Have you ever looked at a world and seen it as a kind of challenge?Registered User regular
    Why would they let the guy behind Food Fight make another movie

  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    It's also the first of a Tetris trilogy

    and it's also primarily being made in China

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  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Mr. G wrote: »
    It's also the first of a Tetris trilogy

    and it's also primarily being made in China

    No, no, none of this is right at all.

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  • wirehead26wirehead26 Registered User regular
    Why would they let the guy behind Food Fight make another movie

    That has to be the biggest case of "failing upwards" ever in Hollywood.

    Wait, is this even considered Hollywood since its primarily backed by the Chinese?

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  • GustavGustav Friend of Goats Somewhere in the OzarksRegistered User regular
    I, for one, cannot wait to watch whatever B level celebrity they get stack shit.

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  • replacewythyreplacewythy Registered User regular
    None of this makes sense at all. And why not just go all the way and make a tetralogy?

  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    None of this makes sense at all. And why not just go all the way and make a tetralogy?

    Because that would have a modicum of creativity and wit.

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  • EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    Tetris

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  • SnicketysnickSnicketysnick The Greatest Hype Man in WesterosRegistered User regular
  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    Gustav wrote: »
    I, for one, cannot wait to watch whatever B level celebrity they get stack shit.

    The cast is already confirmed, don't you know?

    Tom Hanks
    Elizabeth Olson
    Taylor Swift
    Ryan Gosling
    Ian McShane
    Scarlett Johansson

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  • replacewythyreplacewythy Registered User regular
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  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    The first movie ends with them about to get a tetris but at the last minute the line piece flips to the side and blocks it off

    The final movie ends with the hero pulling off the legendary t-spin

  • GustavGustav Friend of Goats Somewhere in the OzarksRegistered User regular
    Mr. G wrote: »
    Gustav wrote: »
    I, for one, cannot wait to watch whatever B level celebrity they get stack shit.

    The cast is already confirmed, don't you know?

    Tom Hanks
    Elizabeth Olson
    Taylor Swift
    Ryan Gosling
    Ian McShane
    Scarlett Johansson

    God damnit.

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  • EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    I can't wait for the dramatic piano version of the Tetris theme in the trailers

  • replacewythyreplacewythy Registered User regular
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  • GustavGustav Friend of Goats Somewhere in the OzarksRegistered User regular
    I can't wait for this to compete with a Jenga movie.

    I wanna know which one falls first.

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  • EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    Gustav wrote: »
    I can't wait for this to compete with a Jenga movie.

    I wanna know which one falls first.

    Just stay after the credits for the Tetris movie, where a domino played by Samuel L Jackson mentions the "B.L.O.C.K. Project" or whatever the fuck

  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    Gustav wrote: »
    I wonder if it crosses over with Jack the Giant Slayer

    well in the book all the bad giants were afraid of Jack and his mythical beanstalk. They thought it was some sort of giant-killing weapon.

    judging by the trailer, they're keeping pretty true to Quentin Blake's unique look

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
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  • GustavGustav Friend of Goats Somewhere in the OzarksRegistered User regular
    Gustav wrote: »
    I can't wait for this to compete with a Jenga movie.

    I wanna know which one falls first.

    Just stay after the credits for the Tetris movie, where a domino played by Samuel L Jackson mentions the "B.L.O.C.K. Project" or whatever the fuck

    Connect the Four

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    This summer experience the ups and downs of life.

    Chutes and Ladders: The Movie

  • wirehead26wirehead26 Registered User regular
    We're getting closer and closer to this

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=m6WCZ3cZ27U

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  • replacewythyreplacewythy Registered User regular
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  • GustavGustav Friend of Goats Somewhere in the OzarksRegistered User regular
    This summer experience the ups and downs of life.

    Chutes and Ladders: The Movie

    Sometimes. LIFE is just a game.

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  • GustavGustav Friend of Goats Somewhere in the OzarksRegistered User regular
    To all these dumb jokes I can only say

    Sorry

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