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Post by sgev1977 on Sept 7, 2017 17:33:52 GMT
The guy has a lot of projects: Gary Oldman's Churchill movie, an Alex Gibney's Vietnam fiction film, a Netflix movie about the last two Catholic Popes starring Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins. Clearly he in demand.
I haven't read the book but it doesn't sound extremely attractive to me. It sounds like it could make a good movie, tho. I just hope they found someone interesting like Alfonso Cuarón or someone who could take a nice, noble storyline without do a very conventional period movie.
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Post by MagdaFR on Sept 7, 2017 18:32:57 GMT
I hope they get a good director.
The only thing I half watched from the writer was TToE and it was very boring.
For what I understand it will not be a period movie? Isn't it something that extends through like 400 years?
Each time I searched for comments on the book they were very good.
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Post by MagdaFR on Oct 4, 2017 17:50:44 GMT
I just saw this tweet (it's a thread)
Meeting Shakespeare is unrealistic but you accept a 400 year old living human.
It reminded me of the people who were annoyed because the next Doctor is going to be a woman or the people who were annoyed with The Child in Time because they didn't look at the CCTV tapes.
Why is it so difficult for some people to separate reality from fiction?
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Post by queenzod on Oct 4, 2017 18:58:33 GMT
I don't see what's so far fetched about meeting Shakespeare. I mean, at that time in England, there was like the Queen, Kit Marlowe, half a dozen noble people, and about three peasants. You'd just trip over him at some point. Amirite? 😜
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Post by mllemass on Oct 4, 2017 19:45:27 GMT
I haven't read the book, so I'm not sure if it involves time travel or just someone who has lived a really long time. Speaking for myself, if I had travelled back to Shakespeare's time, I would make sure to seek him out! Or, if I happened to be alive when Shakespeare was alive, I might have heard of him because he was famous during his lifetime. It's not so unrealistic!
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Post by sgev1977 on Nov 30, 2017 2:22:22 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 3, 2017 12:25:12 GMT
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Post by miriel68 on Dec 3, 2017 20:31:25 GMT
Oh no! TToE's script was frankly horrible, bland and superficial, the worst component of the film, IMO.  |
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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 3, 2017 21:19:20 GMT
The script was conventional and good BUT great movies aren’t necessarily about good conventional scripts. Actually a lot of my favorite movies doesn’t seem to have scripts at all!
He is an awarded professional who knows the rules (he actually won the BAFTA and was nominated for an Oscar for TTOE) and having read a part of the book I would say it needs someone like him to adapt it. It doesn’t have the difficulty of an actual quality piece as Patrick Melrose because...well it’s not exactly THAT good. Also there is nothing risky, polemic or daring in the book which would suggest they will go for something different. It’s just an entertaining story with the quality of a young literature novel. Nothing more. I think someone conventional who knows the rules would work for it.
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Post by roverpup on Dec 3, 2017 22:54:45 GMT
And added to that (what sgev said) Anthony McCarten has other pieces besides TToE, such as Darkest Hour and Death of a Superhero. Why judge the worth of a writer on just one film you didn’t like??
As well, McCarten is a very successful playwright who has earned a lot of recognition for his writing. And he has a number of highly acclaimed novels under his belt as well. I think he has all the credentials needed and there doesn’t necessarily have to be a panic because of his name being attached to How To Stop Time.
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