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#1941  December 20, 2014, 12:55:46 am
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This is currently a very hot and debatable topic, should we make a thread about it on the All Thats Left section?
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#1942  December 20, 2014, 01:26:11 am
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#1943  December 20, 2014, 01:04:06 pm
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#1944  December 21, 2014, 02:33:42 am
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He'd be a great Bond.

In the wake of the The Interview canceling, the Alamo Drafthouse chain of theaters planned to replace the showings of The Interview with Team America (which also similarly has Kim Jong-il as an antagonist). Not to be outdone by Sony, however, Paramount has canceled those screenings.

 There's gonna be a comic sequel to David Cronenburg's The Fly (ignoring that shitty sequel that already exists, of course). Sounds like it could be an interesting concept but it also sounds kinda dumb, like basically a zombie story except with humanoid flies?

George Takei petitions against all-white casting choices for Akira adaptation
http://www.flickeringmyth.com/2014/12/george-takei-petitions-white-casting-choices-akira-adaptation.html
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“The same thing happened with M. Night Shyamalan,” he continues. “He cast [The Last Airbender] with non-Asians and it’s an Asian story, and the film flopped.
yeah i'm sure that's why the film flopped dummy
It led to a lot of the fans rejecting the movie, which for a "unknown" property to everyday moviegoers (at least when compared to Batman or TMNT, or something) meant that there wasn't an existing audience to hype up the movie themselves. How much impact that had on the box office is of course questionable, especially since that movie had so, so many other things going against it, but I think it may have contributed a small part in its failure, maybe.
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#1945  December 21, 2014, 08:11:50 am
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There's gonna be a comic sequel to David Cronenburg's The Fly (ignoring that shitty sequel that already exists, of course). Sounds like it could be an interesting concept but it also sounds kinda dumb, like basically a zombie story except with humanoid flies?

That's funny haha. That made me think of the comic I read some months back on The Big trouble in little china movie "comic sequel". Basically the comic continues how the movie ended with the monster hitching a ride. It actually became Jack Burton's protecting killer pet since he killed its master. So now the beast is forever his to command...Another evil wizard connected with lo pan is now the threat. Anyway it was a pretty amusing read...


As for the new star wars:

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/12/17/aaron-paul-cast-as-luke-skywalker-in-jason-reitmans-staged-reading-of-empire-strikes-back?utm_source=zergnet&utm_medium=Web&utm_campaign=Zergnet_348159
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#1946  December 21, 2014, 01:45:12 pm
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... That's not the new Star Wars.
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#1950  December 23, 2014, 06:09:41 am
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Hmm. Well, I guess it'll at least be fun. I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up, I should know better.
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Wasn't it released online today anyways?
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Roberto Orci isn't writing Star Trek 3 either, thank goodness.

Tim Burton says that a Beetlejuice sequel is closer than ever.

also to tie into this:
Then there is this: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/19/exclusive-sony-emails-reveal-studio-head-wants-idris-elba-for-the-next-james-bond.html

And here I am, screaming to Asgard in hope that this is true and we get Idris Elba to say "My name is Bond, James Bond".
bloviating, idiotic asshole Rush Limbaugh is absolutely outraged by this suggestion, noting that "Ian Fleming never created a black Brit to play James Bond. The character was always white. He was always Scottish.”

... which is not true. It gives me great delight to "umm, actually" this douche: for the majority of the Fleming books, James Bond was not Scottish, at all, just English. Fleming retconned in his being Scottish after the first Sean Connery Bond movie came out, and to date, Connery has been the only Scottish Bond!

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#1955  December 27, 2014, 03:05:03 am
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also to tie into this:
Then there is this: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/19/exclusive-sony-emails-reveal-studio-head-wants-idris-elba-for-the-next-james-bond.html

And here I am, screaming to Asgard in hope that this is true and we get Idris Elba to say "My name is Bond, James Bond".
bloviating, idiotic asshole Rush Limbaugh is absolutely outraged by this suggestion, noting that "Ian Fleming never created a black Brit to play James Bond. The character was always white. He was always Scottish.”

... which is not true. It gives me great delight to "umm, actually" this douche: for the majority of the Fleming books, James Bond was not Scottish, at all, just English. Fleming retconned in his being Scottish after the first Sean Connery Bond movie came out, and to date, Connery has been the only Scottish Bond!

And there is the fact that when confronted with the question "Idris Elba as [whatever]", many fans will just say "Yes, please", with female fans saying "YES, PLEASE, PRETTY PRETTY PLEASE WITH SUGAR ON TOP".
So Sony should get a clue and make Idris Elba James Bond.
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#1956  December 27, 2014, 05:39:58 pm
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To be honest, I wouldn't mind seeing Idris Elba as James Bond. It would be a huge breath of fresh air.

No one said he couldn't be a black man, right? Plus, the newest one is an original story (I'm not well versed in the Bond mythos so if anyone can help me here, thanks in advance).
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#1957  December 27, 2014, 05:51:42 pm
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Bond's been divorced from the books since Goldfinger, if you want the truth of it. And as that's one of the best Bond films of all time it's been to his benefit (although I wouldn't mind Bond's half-Japanese son running around). If Moneypenny can be a field agent and Q can be a hipster, Bond can certainly be black. The only thing that should matter is Bond is a cold killer and a suave lover. People can pass it off with the code name theory if they feel raw about it, the rest of us can enjoy the continued adventures of a fictional character as played by a different actor.
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