Ya know...a Peter Jackson remake might actually be great
The concept and and general plot are both pretty sound. Dialogue and SFX needs updating.
As long as he didn't turn it into a trilogy....it could work.
I'd love to see the effect of living inside the hollow earth. No horizon. Looking up as you look farther away. The inner moon and the Land of the Awful Shadow.
shareIt could be done now. And as for a trilogy, well there are seven books, eight if you count the one written by Dr. Holmes. One of these books even has Tarzan.
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I agree that it could be done now with the technology. I also agree with the OP though that a stand-alone film would be good since I'm tired of movies spending most of their running time setting up sequels instead of telling a solid story. I mean John Carter ended up being nothing more than a two plus hour commercial for another film we know we're not getting so maybe a stand alone Pellucidar film and then if it is successful the sequels.
Also please no more Disney! They can't do Burroughs right at all.
Interfere? Of course we should interfere! Always do what you're best at, that's what I say.
...since I'm tired of movies spending most of their running time setting up sequels instead of telling a solid story. I mean John Carter ended up being nothing more than a two plus hour commercial for another film...
The original books set up for sequels. But then, they told a story, and set up for sequels in the last few pages. If the last five minutes before credits are mostly sequel set-up, I wouldn't mind. I really think ATEC could be a very cool movie, but it would be so easy to mess up, FX notwithstanding.
Also please no more Disney! They can't do Burroughs right at all.
Well you're right of course. Then again, who does?
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At the Earth's Core sets up a sequel. Pellucidar concludes the storyline. Tanar of Pellucidar and Tarzan at the Earth's Core both set up sequels. Back to the Stone Age, Land of Terror, and Girl of Pellucidar (Savage Pellucidar) do not.
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Agreed that you could do At the Earth's Core and then Pellucidar and viewers wouldn't have to feel that they were left hanging. But if you did At the Earth's Core and then for some reason Pellucidar didn't happen, you would have the same thing: two hours or so setting up for a sequel that didn't happen. The only way to be sure of avoiding that would be to combine the first two books into one movie, and now you're really talking about changes from the source material.
There's enough material in Tanar of Pellucidar and certainly in Tarzan at the Earth's Core for a movie each. I can't help but wonder if maybe Back to the Stone Age and Land of Terror and Girl of / Savage Pellucidar would be better done as a one-season TV series.
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Actually for the first two books, they can take a Page out of Peter Jackson's playbook and film them simultaneously. That would guarantee at least the existence of a second film, although a theatrical release would be assured only if At the Earth's Core did reasonably well in theaters.
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I'd go for that.
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