A Few Notes on Movies of the Near Future

BenderFan writes "The first review of the next Futurama DVD, The Beast With a Billion Backs (out in the US on June 24), has appeared online. And the reviewer liked it — a lot." (I hope it's as good as Bender's Big Score.) Read on for reader submissions on two other upcoming movies. The Day The Earth Stood Still (with Keanu Reeves, but also John Cleese) is due out in December, and a movie version of Philip K. Dick's The Owl in Daylight is currently being drafted by Tony Grisoni; the interview linked below is appropriately surreal.

Etienne writes "Tony Grisoni is a British screenwriter who has co-written several Terry Gilliam's films (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Tideland, Brothers Grimm and Lost in La Mancha).
He is currently writing the screenplay for 'The Owl in Daylight', based upon the book Dick was planning to write just before he died. The movie is produced by Electric Shepherd Productions, which is run by Anne and Laura Dick, PKD's daughters. Paul Giamatti is co-producing and will take the part of Philip K. Dick."

bowman9991 writes "Keanu Reeves' big budget remake of the 1951 science fiction classic 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' has all the right ingredients to be his biggest hit since 'The Matrix.' SFFMedia asks whether we are looking at another classic or a disastrous Hollywood star studded rehash? Now that the cold war anxieties from the original movie have been replaced with the threat of environmental catastrophe, will Keanu become some type of extraterrestrial Al Gore and ruin the movie?" (John Cleese plays Klaatu's giant 8-foot robotic pal called "Gort.")

Comments

Re:A movie that needs no remake

[hackus]

Yes and then I hear they are going to turn it into a Al Gore vehicle and make the movie about global warming.

Good God.

Since most of the people behind the funding for Global Warming are the Oil companies anyway, you would think the whole "system" is making enough money off of that contrived research.

Want a free PhD? Just do research on Shell or Exxon's technology to reduce global warming.

Make me sick. If you are doing that sort of research by the way...

YOU SUCK IT.

Now where was I....

It would have been nice to update the movie with stuff like thousands of civilized worlds living in peace with societies accomplishing a great deal in our galaxy....then panning to the earth where we basically don't do sh*t and waste our lives trying to buy things, kill things and destroy and control things for a buck. They have a big meeting about US and decide they should intervene before we get to far accomplished in space technology to spread this vile disease of violence.

To facilitate that, they have Gort come down and destroy all of the major corporations on the planet and teach us a lesson.

Happy Ending. :-)

But to take a movie that has so much reverence and destroy the plot by changing the movie and keeping the title is blasphemous.

Seems like Hollywood is almost SCARED of the challenge to remake such a fine movie of the past so they have to make it different.

-Hack