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[b]Reasons Roger Rabbit sequel could be made:[/b]
[quote]- Companies are now way more open to work with each other. While companies pull their IPs for their own streaming, we've seen a number of major crossover films in recent years. From Wreck It Ralph and its sequel to Ready Player One. The legal wrangling and such is easier now than in 1988
- With the fast rise of Disney Plus, Disney is aggressively going over all their IPS for sequels and spinoffs in the coming years. Looking at their 2021-2023 slate its insane to see what dormant classics are being mined, but with quality in a way the old VHS cheapquels didn't receive
- The "style" of Roger Rabbit can finally be achieved with 3d software, given the look of Tom and Jerry. Even SpongeBob's new movie takes 3d and turns it into a strange different type of aesthetic. The 1998 test footage of Roger Rabbit 2 that leaked glimpsed at the possibilities that are out there.
- The modern day celebrity actors that would jump at the opportunity. You can think of any top comedy or drama or legacy actor and they'd jump for the role
- The only hindering aspect may be the more subversive elements. Things have become more sensitive and rigid in what can be shown in both a PG and just in overall content these days. But I think with the right clever braintrust of writers and ideas, it could be done.[/quote]
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[b]Racism, ratings and revenge: Revisiting Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom[/b]
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[quote]Temple of Doom became notorious for all these reasons, but perhaps its biggest misstep was its racially insensitive scenes and reliance on Indian stereotypes. Writing for Firstpost, Kuzhali Manickavel noted:
"As Indians, we are often overcome with pride when we see the rest of the world take notice of us in some way. But perhaps we need to consider what it means when people only notice us on these terms. Would it have been terribly difficult for the Indiana Jones team to get their India stuff right? Probably not. But obviously they felt there was no need to get that stuff right. And that is something worth thinking about."[/quote]
The argument that I've heard pertaining to Daryl Hannah is that she was barely A-list to begin with. She seemed content to play small roles in movies, which may work for her personally, but doesn't exactly keep you in the public eye. She also, was never really critically acclaimed for her work and many considered her just a pretty face in regards to her acting.
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That's where I think Kilmer thrived in the role when compared to George Clooney. Val Kilmer unlike Clooney had the ability to make cheeseball lines like that work. Clooney I think, would've clearly sounded embarrassed, visibly irritated, and detached had he said "It's the car, right? Chicks dig the car?" I think that wrote that Kilmer brought a suaveness and a genuine feeling that he was the "smartest person in the room" when compared to say, Michael Keaton's interpretation or George Clooney's Bruce Wayne.
It wasn't so much that they made it (it was inevitable, that there was going to be a third Spider-Man after the positive reception from the previous one), it's that they tried to do way too much, all at once. The movie was arguably screwed, when Avi Arad forced Sam Raimi to include Venom, even though Raimi made it known that he didn't like the character. It seemed that at that point, Raimi was making the movie out of obligation instead of as a passion. Plus, he was already backed into a corner because he had to finish off Harry's arc, that was set up in the previous movie.
Well, the problem with Kim Basinger is that many of the movies that she starred in and was the lead flopped hard and got tepid reviews. I mean let's be real here, can you without looking it up on your computer, name and recall all of the movies that Kim Basinger appeared in at least in-between Batman and LA Confidential? Kim was probably more of a tabloid star due to her financial and legal issues and her relationships with Prince and Alec Baldwin than a genuine box office attraction.
Batman was undoubtedly, the pinnacle of Kim's career (outside of her Oscar win of course). If Kim Basinger wasn't considered A-list then (i.e. somebody whose comes before the title of the movie in the opening credits/is above the marquee), she was definitely considered one after Batman. I think that Kim was certainly an A-list star from 1989 (she was gradually climbing up the ladder in the five years leading up to that) up until she 1994, when she went on her three year sabbatical from appearing in movies.
When she did that movie Cool World, Ralph Bakshi, the director originally wanted Drew Barrymore for her part. But he was overruled by the studio because Kim Basinger was considered a bigger box office draw than either Drew or Brad Pitt (who Bakshi desperately wanted) at the time. Also, when Kim infamously got involved with that movie Boxing Helena, a lot of that movie being greenlit hinged on having a major star attached to it.
Would a Friends-era Lisa Kudrow be too on-the-nose as Sandy? I mean, it has often been said that Teri Garr was essentially, the Lisa Kudrow of her heyday. That's why when Teri played Lisa's mother on Friends, it was probably the most perfect/inspired parental/maternal casting choice ever.
Also, why does Drew need to have this dude assist her in interviews now!? Like when Deborah Norville or Andie MacDowell came on, recently.
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I'm sure that some people may find Ross harmless and charming and unapologetically "himself", but he (I suppose like Drew) can be extremely eccentric and hyper in his demeanor. And that type of relentlessly bubbly giddiness is really hard to tolerate in large doses at a time. But at least, Drew is a major star and people come to watch and talk to her first and foremost.
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I recently read a comment that said that Kim Basinger during her heyday (at least beginning with The Natural in 1984), was the first actress that you called when you needed a woman who could play the soft variation on the femme fatale. I don't know if this applies to her role as Vicki Vale, but Kim at the time was blonde, extremely beautiful, just over 30, and willing to take her clothes off for the right role. She was more importantly, capable of conveying both intelligence and vulnerability.
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Jessica Lange was the primary actress who best filled that quotient for Hollywood before Kim Basinger and Sharon Stone followed her. Stone was in return, followed by Gwyneth Paltrow and it continues today with Margot Robbie. Basically, Kim was the perfect actress whenever Hollywood needed a blonde woman who is no longer an ingenue, but is too sexy to be driving carpool. Generally speaking, that character acts as a catalyst in another person’s journey (such as Bruce Wayne's in Batman), but they have enough lines to get second billing and their face on the poster. Lana Turner was arguably the first notable actress to fill such a need in movies.
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[b]290. ENTERTAINMENT LAWYER 01/30 **3**[/b]
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This foreign born former A+ list mostly movie actor is an Oscar winner/nominee. He is an anti-vaxxer, but agreed to pretend he got a vaccination for the cameras. [i]Anthony Hopkins (Anthony Hopkins, 83, shares the moment he received the COVID-19 vaccination after a year of 'self imposed quarantine': 'Light at the end of the tunnel')[/i]
Bringing Bronson Pinchot back as Serge to me, seemed to be compensation for the absence of John Ashton and Ronny Cox (Sgt. Taggert and Captain Bogomil respectively). Plus, like you said Eddie Murphy for the most part, unlike in the prior two, decided to play things straight and not ab-lib (since he felt that Axel had matured in the seven years since BHCII and should no longer be this brash, loud-mouthed, hot-shot cowboy cop). So Serge, who was considered one funniest parts and a scene stealer from the first movie, was there to make up for the lack of comedy. Serge as he is portrayed here, seems like he's meant to be Q to Axel Foley's James Bond.
I can kind of see where they wanted to go with the theme park setting. Steven E. de Zuza wrote the screenplay for this as well as Die Hard. So the concept was supposed to be in theory and on paper, "Die Hard in a theme park". I think with the right director, script, and budget, they could've made that concept work.
Unfortunately, instead of this claustrophobic, edge of your seat, dynamite action film like Die Hard, where the hero is trapped and has to battle his way out, Beverly Hills Cop III is more about the investigation. I think that people just saw the theme park concept as too cheesy for something like Beverly Hills Cop and passed.
Robin Williams did this film called One Hour Photo, where he played a really creepy, mentally unbalanced photo developer, who targets a middle-class family. That's pretty much how I would've imagined him as Edward Nygma.
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Somebody recently told me that what really hurt Kim's career in the long run was that she spent the majority of her career playing sexy, sultry bombshells. When you bank on being a sexy leading lady, you don’t have a lot of shelf life in Hollywood—that role is a young woman’s game. Even attractive older women find roles like that few and far between.
To put thing into proper perspective, Kim Basinger is as I type this, 67 years old. When the movie that garnered her an Academy Award, LA Confidential was released, she was about 44 years of age. That put her on the upper end of the “bombshell” age range. By that particular age, she would have started facing serious competition for the type of roles she was known for, and taking two years off afterwards would not have helped her. And at the age that she was at when making LA Confidential, she should have been looking for roles that did not depend on her looking like a supermodel.
And naturally, in order to make the transition to more meatier roles, you need more than looks—you need the acting chops to pull it off. If you were just a pretty face but a so-so actor like Kim Basinger, your ability to stay employed diminishes as you age.
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Based on that interview with Kevin Nealon, I get the sense that Kim Basinger wants to pridefully fashion herself as some sort of outspoken rebel, who marched to the beat of her own drum and was above the so-called Hollywood "BS". I think that's one big reason why Hollywood seemingly wants little to do with her anymore. She simply put, pissed the wrong people off I'm afraid with her attitude behind the scenes. If Kim was a proven money maker, then I would like to believe that her supposed "difficult" and neurotic behavior would've been much more tolerated.
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[b]11. ENTERTAINMENT LAWYER 02/01 **#11**[/b]
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In this spot, I talk frequently about stars who have reached really big heights and then have come crashing back to earth and never ever see their star shine again. This time, there is hope. I hope it has a happily ever after, but only time will tell. This actor was never higher than B+ list and that was a very brief moment in time. B+ in movies is still great and to add to that he also had musical talent and actually had a couple of songs crack the top 40. The thing that gets me is that just when he reached his peak- actually while he was making the movie that landed him at his peak he was self-destructing. Because of a horrific childhood growing up, our actor was always troubled by demons and the things done to him at an early age. Whenever he would relive those days he would turn to drugs to escape. Meth was his drug of choice. For the most part he could keep it together, but during the filming of this hit movie in which he had a big role, it all came crashing down on him. He was forced to face his past right before filming started. During the movie you can see him transform from this great looking future lead actor who every woman wanted, to a guy who looked like he stayed up 20 hours a day either filming or smoking meth. He was a mess. When the film wrapped, the A+ list actress lead of the movie told him he needed to get help and she would pay for it. He didn’t listen. Instead, he smoked away his money and got arrested more often than DMX. He bounced in and out of rehab. His marriage was awful because of the drugs. For a decade, this was his life. Just a vicious cycle. About six years ago, a producer gave our actor a chance. A chance to make a comeback. At the time, our actor was sober and he thought it was going to be the rebirth of his career. Not so fast though.
If Batman Forever is "forgotten" like the article suggest, I would say because it serves as a "middle of the road" Batman movie. It wasn't exactly groundbreaking like the 1989 movie (in regards to how it was marketed and it was meant to show a mainstream audiences a darker, more serious take on Batman in contrast to the campy and silly Adam West version from the '60s), it wasn't controversial/polarizing like Batman Returns, and it wasn't universally reviled and considered an all out embarrassment to the Batman name like Batman & Robin. Batman Forever was just the "safe and marketable" Batman movie that I would imagine that the studio wanted all along.
I agree that Batman & Robin tarnished whatever good will that Forever had. Batman & Robin took the flaws that were in Batman Forever and magnified them. After that, I think that most people saw Michael Keaton as the definitive big screen Batman (at least prior to Christian Bale or Ben Affleck), since Val Kilmer and George Clooney only played the part once.
Batman: Robin Williams Almost Played Joker & Riddler (Why He Didn't)
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