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Weird Movie

posted 5 years ago by cyberbob (3488)
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I don't know anything about the source novel, but it seems odd to me to see so many Hollywood heavyweights associated with a Young Adult adaptation

Doug Liman is directing. Charlie Kaufman, the patron saint of hipsters, is one of the writers. So is John Lee Hancock. So is the writer of the actual novel. And two more lesser known writers

Why does any film need 5 writers? Especially when you have seasoned pros like Kaufman and Hancock? Or the writer of the freaking novel, who you would think should be able to adapt the screenplay on his own, or with a max of one partner

The cast is pretty solid, too. Tom Holland, Daisy Ridley, Mads Mikkelsen, etc.

Anyone know if the novel is some kind of masterpiece? Because it seems that the studio really believed in it if they recruited this all-star team

And yet, the production seems to be a mess. Delays. News that the results so far are "unwatchable". The plot synopsis sounds odd and unfilmable

YA novels tend to make for shitty movies. And high-concept sci-fi YA movies are a dime a dozen. The whole thing seems like a giant mess

[–] actionkamen (23176) 5 years ago

"A dystopian world where there are no women..."

Yet starring Daisy Ridley right and center on the poster. Oh.

[–] Tyler1986 (235) 3 years ago

You can't be this dense, got to be a troll.

Is it so hard to imagine a world with only men has a woman crash land there? C'mon, this is some Gilligan's Island level shit. Get your head in the game, man!

Edit: I am the dense troll.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 3 years ago

No means no, right? Not one. Not few. Not several.

[–] Tyler1986 (235) 3 years ago

Yeah, you are right. I hadn't watched the movie when I made my comment. "A community where there are no women..." would have been a better description.

[–] maximmm (3085) 3 years ago

i saw a few of the film fragments, there's a gang of men - but there are also gangs with women, so the description is way off. By the way, the one scene I saw was the dudes with cowboy hats arrive at another enclave with men/women and they all knew each other by names.

Daisy is not the only female on this world by a long shot.

[–] HarlemEagle42 (16275) 5 years ago

They should just release it onto some streaming service already. No one cares about this.

[–] cyberbob (3488) 5 years ago

Yep. What a waste of time, talent, and money

They should just release what they have. I'd rather watch some "unwatchable" disaster epic fail than whatever mediocre teenage adventure film they were hoping it would be

[–] mrowlandscript (2) 4 years ago

I read the novel when I was 14 or 15 and loved it. It was also the first book that made me cry. Having not re-read it, I suspect that it wouldn't have the same emotional impact on me now, but I still would love for this film to make the best of the book.

One of the key hooks of the book is that when you were hearing characters' thoughts, it would appear on the page in a different font which suited their personality. For example, animals' thoughts were more scrawled and disorderly. Looked great on the page and mixed it up, making character voices distinct. One of the big challenges on film will be communicating the idea of "Noise" without making you feel like you just have a headache from all the overlapping voices.

Also as you would expect from a book about thoughts, many of the best parts were all internal. Hard to put that on screen.

It's so weird to me that Charlie Kaufman is one of the writers, but I like his stuff. Doug Liman as director doesn't bode well IMO. I actually do like Tom Holland, but I don't imagine him fitting the role of Todd. At least as you said it sounds like the studio believed in it so good production value? But yeah, with COVID, who knows how that will come off.

Probably what will happen is they'll boil it down to gray looking hunger games rip-off film fare like maze runner or divergent. Which is a shame.

[–] HarlemEagle42 (16275) 4 years ago

Apparently a trailer was leaked earlier this week. But the studio took it down. I think we're in for a real flop if it ever gets released.

[–] Satan2016 (23560) 4 years ago

Trailer might be on Daily Motion. This is all I found: https://www.comicbookmovie.com/sci-fi/chaos-walking-trailer-leaks-revealing-first-look-at-tom-holland-and-daisy-ridleys-delayed-sci-fi-film-a179184

Now, a release date for Chaos Walking has been set for January 22, 2021, and a trailer has leaked on today which...well, it doesn't exactly look like a sci-fi masterpiece. The biggest talking point is probably going to be the blond wig Ridely appears to be wearing.

We'll let you judge what's on offer here, but it does appear to be an old trailer, and isn't necessarily the one that will be released (presumably) in the coming weeks to promote this blockbuster.