Hollywood Idiots

[Mad_Jack_Rabbit]

So after languishing in development hell for a few years, it looks like 'John Constantine: Hellblazer' is finally going to be made.

And how does Hollywood treat the idea?

Take a blond haired dirty mac wearing chain smoking hard drinking character with a London accent and re-cast him as...

an American...

played by KEANU REEVES!!!

I think I'll wait 'til it comes on the telly.

And end up missing it by going down the pub.

 

[Aquila]

whats a dirty mac?

 

[bluespoke]

whats a dirty mac?

One that has not been cleaned, obviously!

 

[Aquila]

Is it like the skirts scottish people wear?

 

[bluespoke]

Is it like the skirts scottish people wear?

Sod you!

a mac is a rain coat.

 

[Aquila]

Oh .. ok.. its not the fuzzy purse in front of the skirt then..
good.

 

[Gord]

So after languishing in development hell for a few years, it looks like 'John Constantine: Hellblazer' is finally going to be made.

And how does Hollywood treat the idea?

Take a blond haired dirty mac wearing chain smoking hard drinking character with a London accent and re-cast him as...

an American...

played by KEANU REEVES!!!

I think I'll wait 'til it comes on the telly.

And end up missing it by going down the pub.

OK explain - who is John Constantine

and if I am bit a bit dim - its probably because I am

 

[Mad_Jack_Rabbit]

DC Vertigo comic.

 

[Gord]

DC Vertigo comic.

That explains everything

KEANO FUCKING REEVES !!

 

[Mad_Jack_Rabbit]

Very dark. Violent. Does magic. Kills demons. Smokes a lot and drinks scotch by the bottle. Smokes the odd joint.

More of an anti-hero than hero.

Well worth reading.

More info at:

www.dccomics.com

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I had a brilliant thought the other night -- the new Superman should be Hispanic.

 

[RawHumor]

I had a brilliant thought the other night -- the new Superman should be Hispanic.

So what do those two things have to do with each other? And what was the brilliant thought?

 

[gotdatmony]

Yea....Paul Rodriques

 

[vffan]

So after languishing in development hell for a few years, it looks like 'John Constantine: Hellblazer' is finally going to be made.

And how does Hollywood treat the idea?

Take a blond haired dirty mac wearing chain smoking hard drinking character with a London accent and re-cast him as...

an American...

played by KEANU REEVES!!!

You have got to be kidding! How lame is that? It will probably not even make it to theaters, like that stupid Captain America movie a few years back.

J

 

[Rambling Rose]

Aquila, have you ever fucked a man wearing a kilt? I didn't think so. You'd stop calling it a skirt if you had. Ah, the sweet seduction of discovering they really do not wear anything under the kilt. The tantalizing scratching of wool against the back of my thighs.

Kilts. I love 'em. But I digress...

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

So what do those two things have to do with each other? And what was the brilliant thought?

Comic books, and the Superman story is the story of an alien contributing to his adopted country with his special abilities -- an empowering immigrant story. Perfect for our times.

It'll make 100 million in California alone.

 

[Spinaroonie]

Wait... Vertigo?

Shouldn't they be more focused on a Preacher flick? That'd be bad ass.

I'd also go crazy over a Sandman Mystery Theatre flick or maybe a Mr. Punch.

 

[Mad_Jack_Rabbit]

Wait... Vertigo?

Shouldn't they be more focused on a Preacher flick? That'd be bad ass.

I'd also go crazy over a Sandman Mystery Theatre flick or maybe a Mr. Punch.

Rumours abound, Spin.

Preacher is going to be a feature film... a TV series, a mini series, a TV movie... one day. Perhpaps.

Sandman? More rumours. I think it would make a good adult animated film.

Gaiman has completed the script to 'Death' based on the 'High Cost Of Living' and he is slated to direct - unless it is a really good script in which case it will go to someone with some experience of directing. Or it might justs languish in the bottom draw for a while.

But Keanu Reeves to play Constantine??? That's like getting Roseanne Barr to play Caron Carpenter.

 

[Aquila]

Aquila, have you ever fucked a man wearing a kilt? I didn't think so. You'd stop calling it a skirt if you had. Ah, the sweet seduction of discovering they really do not wear anything under the kilt. The tantalizing scratching of wool against the back of my thighs.

Kilts. I love 'em. But I digress...

Im just messin with the resident haggis eater.

 

[patient1]

Comic books, and the Superman story is the story of an alien contributing to his adopted country with his special abilities -- an empowering immigrant story. Perfect for our times.

It'll make 100 million in California alone.

Is Dean Cain hispanic?

 

[Marxist]

Comic books, and the Superman story is the story of an alien contributing to his adopted country with his special abilities -- an empowering immigrant story. Perfect for our times.

It'll make 100 million in California alone.

As two youngsters emerge from an East L.A. bodega:

"It's a bird! It's a plane! Holy shit, Hector, is that dude in tights wearing a sombrero!?"

 

[Spinaroonie]

Sandman? More rumours. I think it would make a good adult animated film.

Wrong sandman.

SMT was about the Golden age Sandman in the 1930's. He'd wear a gas mask and give people sleeping gas to stop crime and stuff.

 

[Shiner]

It's nothing new after all didn't Hollywood turn the story of how a British crew got a German sub into the story of how an American crew got a German sub and don't forget how Speilberg was told to leave after he proposed to turn Harry Potter into an American teenager citing that it would sell better in the states.

 

[Blindinthedark]

NNNNNooooooo!!!!!

The Hellblaizer can't be Reeves. That's just pure blasphemy!

Evil evil Hollywood.

The Hellblaizer has always been one of my favourite characters too.

The Sandman would be cool as an annimated flick but who'd do the voice. Gotta get the timbre of the voice right or else it just won't work

 

[Shiner]

Re: NNNNNooooooo!!!!!

The Hellblaizer can't be Reeves. That's just pure blasphemy!

Evil evil Hollywood.

The Hellblaizer has always been one of my favourite characters too.

The Sandman would be cool as an annimated flick but who'd do the voice. Gotta get the timbre of the voice right or else it just won't work

You know if Reeves has to do it then I'd rather he did it as an American because I fucking shudder everytime I remember his English accent in Dracula.....it was the suckiest sucker that ever sucked.