TBF, Mags, you have been doing a lot of the heavylifting for the quest, so this will be in good hands.
To be clear to everyone, this is just me burning out on imagination of the quest, since my muse has been hitting me over the head a lot with so many different ideas that I just can't find myself too interested in this.
I'll still hang out here, though, since this still does have a sepcial place in my heart.
I'd like to thank you all for making this a wonderful experience while it lasted.
I'd also like to thank @Magoose, @Fluffy_serpent, and @Martin Noctis for doing so much to help prepare and write this quest. I couldn't have done it without you all.
Damn! And it had such a promising beginning as well! At least we know pider-Man Noir and the Fantastic Four Noir are doing just fine. Hopefully they don't abandon the universe like they did with the Ultimate one.
What is the premise and ideas for the Fantastic Four Noir? Do they still have powers? Are they adventurers? What did they do with Marvel's First Family?
What is the premise and ideas for the Fantastic Four Noir? Do they still have powers? Are they adventurers? What did they do with Marvel's First Family?
Funnily enough IRL. The scariest thing for Sony right now isn't competition. But the fact that their rival Microsoft, saw the writing on the wall and instead of trying to compete, decided to burn it down by embracing a post-console world.
Does the guy have a master's degree in engineering/electronics or something?, or are there a lot of people doing research work and the credit is being given to him?
Lucas is that one guy who'd do that, but no matter how much he credits the ones who actually made it, the masses just, for simplicity, claim he made it.
Does the guy have a master's degree in engineering/electronics or something?, or are there a lot of people doing research work and the credit is being given to him?
I don't know if Lucas does have any study on technical knowledge proier to his film career IOTL but George Lucas is very know at embracing new technology especially when it comes to film and special effect so their atleast basis for this development , also maybe it late 78 or 79 but their a critcal roll where George Lucas invents both digital camera (or introduced outside of lab experiments ) along with earlier introduction of VHS.
TITLE: The New Scooby-Doo Movies Season 3 GENRE: Comedy SUBGENRE: Mystery FORMAT: Animated television series Prompt:
A continuation of the TV series from the early 1970s, the New Scooby-Doo Movies continues the format started by its predecessor of hour long mysteries with each episode featuring a different guest appearance from a famous celebrity or fictional characters, with the latter featuring many crossovers with Hanna-Barbera and greater Lucasfilms properties. Overall a fun series with a focus on comedy and the exictement of the gang interacting with the various guests.
A/N: Not much I know, but the New Scooby-Doo movies were some of my favorite memories of the franchise and I always loved watching them on Boomerang as a sort of event. Plus I'd like to see an episode of Bruce and Carrie being with the Mystery Gang.
He did play Ares in the Lynda Carter Wonder Woman show, so there's that. Although, I do think Bruce should do more villain roles in general. It should be fun.
Undercover Directed By: Brian De Palma
Produced By: Michael Eisner
Writen By: John Milnius
Production Studio: Lucasfilms Unlimited
Distributed By: Lucasfilms Unlimited
Starring: Nancy Allen (Elizabeth Cochrane), George C. Scott (Joseph Pullitzer), Mary Steenburgen (Nurse Mary Warren), Charles Ciofi (Dr. Thomas de Vries) and Melinda Dillon (Clarice Morton).
Domestic Profits: $16,423,826 International Profits: $34,810,617 Total Gross: $51,234,443
When you gave Brian the go ahead to try for a film nearly a year ago you had expected him to try for perhaps one of the more down to earth scripts, perhaps a more artistic type story, or even of those scripts based on actual books. he had told you before how he much preferred to have a solid base for his movies from which he could adapt and add as he felt like, but when he instead chose to tackle the biopic of one of the most famous women journalists, and possibly the inspiration for the character of Lois Lane in Superman, you could only nod and think it did make sense in a way, it does fit into Brian's style after all.
Elizabeth Cochrane aka Nellie Bly is perhaps one of the most fascinating characters in American History, born of her father's second marriage, and living if not in wealth then at least in a relatively a comfortable middle-class income, she went into the profession due to her own desire to stand out among the world, to bring in recognition and have her name known due to her own efforts and strengths. Even when she had to leave University due to lack of funds she just grabbed her things, rolled up her sleeves, and tried again in a different field.
You can't think of anything more American than that!
Frankly, the more you learn about her, the more fascinated you become; living for six months in Mexico after she was relegated to fashion and glamour articles in order to do what no one had tried before, having to escape the country after she criticized Porfirio Diaz himself, infiltrating a madhouse in order to write an expose and having to live with the clearly inhumane conditions that the doctors and staff inflicted on all the residents, Travelling around the world in 72 days and on the way meeting Jules Verne!!
And that's just the tip of the iceberg...there is so much more to her life that came after, perhaps the most amazing anecdote being the time when she went to report on the Eastern Front during WWI and was arrested because they thought she was British Spy! Dear God one would be scared to their boots there, yet she just took it in stride, talking to the other prisoners and keeping them calm as they were being sent to POW camps before she was recognized by one of the officers in charge.
And that's without even mentioning how she predicted the exact year women would get the vote.
And Brian was ready and willing to bring justice to this woman, and make sure that she was remembered from here on out with a film that would bring to light as much as her accomplishments as possible, with a strong cast that would make sure to highlight the many challenges she had to overcome; Nancy Allen, Brian's wife and veteran actress in previous Lucasfilm's movies (both in Carrie and 1941) finally takes the lead in the film as Elizabeth Cochrane, bringing in that zest for life and daring persona that so symbolizes the character. George C. Scott as Joseph Pulitzer, the owner of the New York World who takes in Elizabeth as she looks for a job, playing once more the stern but complex authority figure. Willing to take her in, but also making her work to the bone in many dangerous assignments in order to increase the readers for the newspapers. They both bounce of each other perfectly in their scenes.
You can comfortably say that despite it all, they are the true protagonists of the movie.
Mary Steenburgen though...man you never thought that she had what it took to play a convincing villain! Her role as Nurse Warren at the Madhouse had her bring out a side that you've never seen since One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest with Nurse Ratched, playing the mean, abusive, and outright nasty role to a T. And Charles Ciofi, as Doctor de Vries of the Asylum, gave the character a skeevy, creepy vibe that just made you fear for all the women trapped in there. Both of them can truly show that for all the failures that the Asylum had, the greatest threat came from the human element which allowed for people like these to ever have that much power over another human being.
But Brian went further than just using the perfect characterization as a vehicle for the film going forwards. he made sure the film had a perfect beginning and end, with a theme of moving forward and facing one's obstacles head on perfectly wrapped and framed through a story told in flashbacks. Beginning with Elizabeth boarding the Passenger Train in San Francisco, where she meets Clarice Morton, played by Melinda Dillon, as a female journalist inspired by her, and wishing to interview her. The four-day journey from San Francisco to New Jersey thus become a journey through the memories of her life; the tales of her childhood, her first job at the Pittsburgh Dispatch, her travels through Mexico, finding a new job at the New York World which then began her most famous expose at the New York Mental Hospital, culminating with her travels around the world. Through it all, it's always shown that determination, and the will to go on despite everything life throws at you servs as the main theme of the film, with Clarice being inspired by Elizabeth and moving on to follow her example when the movie ends.
It was a movie that should be garnering praise from critics and audience alike...so why is it that so few people are coming to see the movie?
Well, as Mike told you as he was nearly beating himself with the table at seeing the returns, he'd planned an entire campaign with interviews of the cast being the main focus, bringing attention to the roles they would be playing in the film, followed up with commercials and previews being aired in nearly all cinemas, perhaps even get Paramount involved thanks to all that their shows had done for them. It was supposed to bring notice to a character that nearly everyone in the United States had never heard of at the moment.
Instead, Brian decided to reject that and do his own thing.
To start with, they chose a rather underwhelming (and at times misleading) name. Undercover may have been a good name if you're trying to cover Cochrane's expose on the Mental Asylum, but the movie doesn't focus only in that period of her life, but her childhood, her initial forays into journalism, her travels to Mexico and around the world as well form a part of the rich tapestry that is her life. And even then, as much as it shames you to admit, not many people know about her life and exploits, so how could they know what the movie was about without the title being a bit more explicit.
After that, instead of a series of interviews with the cast, there was a limited interview at night, only promoting the movie and keeping it somewhat mysterious in order to "not spoil the story to the audience". The result is nearly anyone who would be interested in seeing an amazing biopic of one of the greatest women of the era, were instead confused as heck and wondering just what the hell did "Undercover" meant when it came to the story.
Mike was not amused...and neither was Brian.
At the end of the day, the film managed to get over 5o million, which is not bad for a budget of only 10 million, but the main impetus of the movie was to get the story out there, to have people enjoy it, and yet it seems that it has mostly ignored by the audience and lambasted by the critics for ignoring the latter half of Elizabeth's life. Geez, it's not like Brian was ignoring it, but he clearly had a vision as to where the movie and them should focus rather than trying for it all without a single core centering the story. Heck, he added post script near the end telling of what happened to her life afterwards to make sure no one would think her journey ended there. People can still research as to her marriage and eventual investigative reports through the first two decades of the 20th century.
But it appears hardly anyone wants to.
Fuck it! next time you're talking to Brian to make him accept Mike's help whether he wants it or not! As things stand, Mike thinks they can get enough coverage to justify a VHS run in the future, but for now it may behoove you to focus on other films.
You've heard Brian's other Biopic may have better luck. What was it again?...Small Giant?
A Space station infamous for being a magnet of idiots and incidents, why it is still operational is a mystery of the ages. With mundane issues like practical jokers throwing around banana peels, cargo hogging valuable materials, people with power that really shouldn't, and classic office politics. Alongside threats from serial killers, mad clowns, people not at all prepared for their jobs, saboteurs, power-mad officers, Secession movements, and even self-proclaimed magicians... Mini-arcs should typically end with the evacuation on the station. The Cast by nature is a bit of a revolving door, with characters coming and going, and even getting killed off in the inevitable chaos.
Starting Viewpoint Character
A street savvy assistant, whom is just as much out of his element as the audience. Someone whom is meant to be a bit of a starting anchor for the series.
Ep 1: The Pilot is meant to establish the type of show we are aiming for. With the focus here being a bit more on 'standard' station hijinks, aside from possible incidents like a saboteurs managing to get blown up by their own voice-activated bomb. Though standard is very relative, given this episode ends with the evacuation of the station, which is going to be a somewhat standard event.
Ep 2 and 3: A two-parter split mostly between the Cargo section declaring Secession from the station, and a hostile strike team that tries to invade the station, only for everyone to be forced to evacuate as someone messed with a reactor they shouldn't.
The key here is to balance an odd mix of reality Tv style life on a space station, with more surreal and tense events ranging from invasions, spies, and even mixing bits of both with crew Hijinx being just as much of an escalatory force as the actual external threats.
A/N: Honestly inspired by the game of the same name, which may come into being in the future. Envisioned as something that could be a good source of getting new talent experience due to the core idea involving a constantly shifting casts, with the whole game end evacuations serving a pretty decent bookends for the small arcs or episodes, with possible overarching arcs/stories with the possibility of characters appearing for multiple arcs, and even coming back from a longer absence(If they survive their last showing.)
Damn, that's rough for Undercover. Sounds like a very interesting topic too. Hopefully we have better luck next time and that in the future this film would be considered an underrated cult classics. There are many movies irl that suffered this fate (Like Carpenter's The Thing because it competed against E.T.), so I know that it could reach this status.
I just can't wait to see how in the future of this timeline people will say: "What on Earth were critics smoking to bash this gem?!"
[X] Plan Lucasfilms Synthwave
-[X] Moonlight Diner
--[X] Directed by Bruce O'Brian
--[X] Produced by Bruce O'Brian
--[X] Budget: $10 Million
-[X] Solomon Kane and the Shadows of Africa
--[X] Directed by: Martin Scorcese
--[X] Produced by: Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer
--[X] Budget: $40 Million.
-[X] Undercover
--[X] Directed by: Brian de Palma
--[X] Budget: $20 Million
--[X] Produced by: Michael Eisner
-[X] The Taxman Cometh
--[X] Directed by: Paul Schrader
--[X] Budget: $10 Million
--[X] Produced by: Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer
-[X] Devil's Hour: Dead Man's Gold
--[X] Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
--[X] Produced by: Francis Ford Coppola
--[X] Budget: $30 Million
-[X] Dark Forest
--[X] Directed by: Wes Craven
--[X] Produced by: Michael Eisner
--[X] Budget: $15 Million
-[X] Basil of Baker Street
--[X] Directed by: John Musker and Ron Clements
--[X] Budget: $20 Million
-[X] Pacific Rim
--[X] Directed by Noboru Ishiguro
--[X] Budget: $10 Million
-[X] Sunrise
--[X] Astro Boy: Pluto
--[X] $5 Million
-[X] Malpaso Productions
--[X] Work on your own picture Clint (Firefox)
--[X] Budget: $25 Million
