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Post by Quorthon on Aug 23, 2005 11:35:50 GMT -5
I am beyond excited...except for the fact that I don't get Showtime. Yeah, that's the only problem I have--I get free HBO for a year, but no Showtime. Nuts. |
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Post by Bartwald on Aug 23, 2005 13:12:53 GMT -5
Some news about the cast:
Joe Dante hires Jon Tenney and Robert Picardo (the episode's title is "Homecoming"). Tobe Hooper, in his "Dance of the Dead", is going to cast Robert Englund and Jonathan Tucker. Norma Reedus and Udo Kier will appear in "Cigarette Burns" directed by John Carpenter.
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Post by LivingDeadGirl on Aug 24, 2005 16:13:43 GMT -5
Shit...I just realized I don't have Showtime either. Dammit man...  |
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Post by Phoenix on Aug 26, 2005 12:01:33 GMT -5
From Sci-Fi.com:
The creators of Showtime's upcoming Masters of Horror anthology series told SCI FI Wire that they are developing a second show: Masters of Sci-Fi, which will adapt famous SF stories for TV. Producer Keith Addis said that he hopes to get the show on the air by the fall of 2006, though no network has picked up the idea just yet.
Addis said that the SF anthology will begin by adapting some of the best-known short stories of SF, including works by Harlan Ellison, Robert A. Heinlein, Polish writer Stanislaw Lem (author of Solaris) and Ray Bradbury.
Addis and his partners, Brad Mendelsohn and Andrew Deane, picked stories that fit their budget and that "have the potential to be the most satisfying hours of television that can be produced wonderfully without cutting corners," Addis said. He added: "We really want to do the very best material with as much integrity as humanly possible."
Michael Tolkin (The Player) will adapt Heinlein's "Jerry Was a Man." John Milius (Conan the Barbarian) will rework Lem's "The Hunt." Bradbury will adapt his story "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed." Similarly, Ellison will adapt his short story, "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the TicktockMan," Addis said.
For his part, Ellison expressed enthusiasm for the project. "Scripts are, in a hundred ways, more difficult and stylistically [demanding] than a straight story," he said in a separate interview. "It takes a conscious paradigm shift in thinking to adapt something from narrative to visual media. With only a half dozen exceptions in my 40-plus years [in Hollywood], I've never allowed anyone else to stir my porridge. And as far as 'Repent, Harlequin!' is concerned, well, even I consider this gig to be a ball-buster. I wouldn't trust it to anyone else. If anyone should fail at the task, it ought to be me, just to be fair."
Ellison added that he's in the process of signing a contract for the show. "I've turned down half a dozen requests to purchase ['Repent, Harlequin!'], one of which came from Michael Jackson," he said. "But Keith Addis seems to be a straight arrow. He's very smart, which is a wonderful sea change from other people I've worked with who have the intellectual capacity of an edamame bean. So I sort of talked myself into it."
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Post by Bartwald on Aug 26, 2005 12:06:26 GMT -5
Whoa! This Masters Of Sci-Fi sounds as good as Masters Of Horror! And finally another story by my countryman Stanislaw Lem will be adapted - great!
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Post by Quorthon on Aug 26, 2005 12:08:28 GMT -5
No networks' picked that up yet?? What's Sci-Fi waiting for??
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Post by mabuse on Sept 10, 2005 12:43:39 GMT -5
;D
This should be pretty-good. I'm most-excited about Stuart Gordon and Tobe Hooper's contributions, but Miike could be excellent. John Carpenter could be great, too, I loved "Ghosts of Mars." Now THAT was a great use of Heavy Metal, what a lineup!! Carpenter basically made a Heavy Metal orchestra out of Buckethead, Anthrax, Steve Vai, and himself! !
Excellent-results for the battle-scenes, just awe-inspiring. He is one of my all-time favorites, especially "Escape from New York," which doesn't seem so far-fetched with the Bushies in-power. Luckily, their approval-rating is now 39%, so there is hope. Otherwise, we'll have that total Police State soon-enough.
Anyway, Stuart Gordon is doing HP Lovecraft's "Dreams in the Witch House," which I have read--it should prove to be great! Unsure about the rest of the directors and what they are going to do, but with Romero on-board, this should be great. Anchor Bay will be doing the DVDs. Showtime is like HBO, Bart, you ain't missing much on the "L-Word" (L-for-Lesbian). It's great that gay-people have shows for themselves, but I find identity-politics annoying and boring after awhile. Great, you're gay: so-what? If gays act stupid, I'll still say they're stupid like everyone-else. :0)
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Post by mabuse on Sept 10, 2005 12:46:47 GMT -5
;D
Yeah, Stanislaw Lem is one of the masters of science-fiction, and a unique one. I rank him with Philip K. Dick, very-very-hihgly. Harlan Ellison---shite, how can you lose?! Why don;t they do "I Have No Mouth, But I Must Scream."
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Post by Bartwald on Sept 13, 2005 12:09:33 GMT -5
Yeah, Stanislaw Lem is one of the masters of science-fiction, and a unique one. I rank him with Philip K. Dick, very-very-hihgly... Did you know that Dick actually thought Lem is a KGB spy sent to investigate his private life, mabuse? With all Dick's phobias and conspiracy theories it's nothing special probably but, well, just a crazy link between the two sci-fi masters. Love some of Dick's stories, too. Ghosts Of Mars soundtrack is my favourite ever made. Favourite. Ever. Yeah. As for Masters Of Horror, there's sad news for you: Romero decided to get out of the project and will be replaced by somebody less "classic". |
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Post by Bartwald on Sept 21, 2005 11:50:54 GMT -5
Don Coscarelli is to kick off the Masters Of Horror series with an adaptation of Joe R. Landsdale's (of the Bubba Ho-Tep fame) Incident On And Off A Mountain Road; starring, among others, a Phantasm veteran - Angus Scrimm!
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Post by Quorthon on Sept 21, 2005 14:51:27 GMT -5
Hell, it's gotta have Reggie Bannister in it, Coscarelli almost always uses that guy!
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Post by Bartwald on Oct 13, 2005 3:03:34 GMT -5
Visit mastersofhorror.net/ for the latest update on Masters Of Horror - now you can see trailers for several episodes there as well as get the titles and plot-hints of all the episodes. My "VERY excited" vote gets more and more so! |
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Post by slayrrr666 on Oct 20, 2005 16:29:33 GMT -5
We're down to the final two weeks, I can feel the anticipation creeping in.
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Post by Phoenix on Oct 21, 2005 15:10:55 GMT -5
I read a good review in Entertainment Weekly of the first episode (from Don C.), and they gave it an 'A'. All I need to do is order Showtime...
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Post by frankenjohn on Oct 21, 2005 18:45:40 GMT -5
So did I.
Nothin but good buzz.
I'll have to save up for the DVDs...
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