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War of the Worlds, Chocolate Factory Trailers
rocketjam writes "The trailer for Tim Burton's version of 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' is online at Yahoo. The movie stars Johnny Depp and scheduled for release in July of '05. I think Tim Burton is the perfect director for a new Willie Wonka movie. The trailer looks very Burtonesque." And reader daquake writes "Our first peek at Steven Spielberg's contemporary version of War of the Worlds is available from Apple. Spielberg's installment is just one of many that have been developed throughout the years including a film produced last year n England."
That has to be the number 1 druggy movie ever.
The original was nothing like the book, it was dark and gloomy.
i think burton w/ depp will combine to make an kick ass flick the way the book intended it to be. i hope burton redoes alice in wonderland, THAT would be a trippy movie
It would be amusing if the War of the Worlds TV trailer (which is refusing to play on my machine), was engineered to look like a news broadcast, and managed to cause panic like the radio series.
IMHO, this is a movie that will make full use of Burton's talents. Willy Wonka is a deeply eccentric character, and Burton is known for his well... "Burtonesque" way of doing things. Burton will really bring out the weirdness of Wonka. Although the book and even the previous movie (where Gene Wilder did a GREAT job) have alluded to it, I think Burton will really bring out how weird and eccentric and mysterious Wonka really is.
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I'd just like to know if Burton is going to use Pygmies like there were in the book?
From the trailer:
"No one would have believed in the early years of the twenty-first century that our world was being watched be intelligences greater than our own, that as men busied themselves about their various concerns, they observed and studied. With infinite complacency, men went to and fro about the globe, confident of their empire over this world. Yet, across the gulf of space, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic regarded our planet with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us."
And from the book:
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied [...]. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. [...] Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.
I think that's pretty cool.
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These aren't the droids you're looking for.
The alien hand on the War of the Worlds poster has its middle finger on top of Texas.
Not that it necessarily means anything...
What's wrong with steampunk Victorians fighting off a Martian invasion?
You'll get them. There are two War of the Worlds movies coming out. The other one from Pendragon Pictures will be set in the original book's setting.
I know what I'll be doing this weekend: retooling and reorganizing my War of the Worlds website. Interesting that this Spielburg version is depicting the alien hand holding the Earth in a manner very reminiscent of the 1988-1989 season of the TV series.
I just wish I had a complete working copy of the old waroftheworlds.com Radio Classics website, especially their story, "The Last Chat Room". Lost my copy to hard drive corruption. Random two-byte errors in the image files. Anyone who can help, drop me a line at my site, either having an archived version or can repair damaged GIF and/or JPEG files. (The Way-Back Machine sadly doesn't have a copy.)
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
Oh look. A link -> http://www.davidlwolper.com/shows/details.cfm?sho
The candy had a problem. That just can't be good.
He took a duck to the face at 250 knots.
Well the Wilder portrayal made Wonka come across as an eccentric loner type. He also didn't seem to care about the children who couldn't keep their hands to themselves.
Dahl's novels are all quite gloomy and Burton would seem to be the ideal director for such books, but I'll reserve judgement until I see the whole film. Burton does have a reputation for creating visually impressive "gothic" films which lack in other areas. At least he's converting an existing story.
Ok, so now we add WOTW to the list:
LOTR
FOTR
ROTK
ROTJ
WOTW
The movie acronym namespace is getting overcrowded! I predict that soon movies will start being made with FIVE words in the title, maybe by throwing an adjective or expletive into the mix. War of the Doggone Worlds.
You drank my drink, you drunk!
I thought Spielberg said he would never do a movie that painted aliens in a bad light. Now unless I am mistaken, Aliens trying to take over the world doesn't seem too ET-ish? Did he change his mind? Am I wrong in thinking that he was anti-angry alien movies?
I ask for a car and I get a computer. How's about that for being born under a bad
Just looking at the trailer, Depp is -way- to young to play Wonka. The whole point of the story is Wonka is getting on in years and is looking for an honest young person to help take over. Gene Wilder was the only redeeming feature of the first C&tCF...