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feedmyleg posted:It's a Freddie Mercury biopic that reportedly ends at Live Aid, and one that focuses more on Queen as a band than Mercury as a person. It was never going to be good. And Freddie was all about sex too, so perhaps Singer was an appropriate choice for the topic...
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got any sevens posted:And Freddie was all about sex too, so perhaps Singer was an appropriate choice for the topic... Brian May has tossed all that out. He somehow has creative control over the project, and is the reason Sacha Baron Cohen dropped out a few years ago (Cohen wanted the movie to focus heavily on some of the more sordid details of Mercury's life, whereas May's vision was that Mercury died halfway through the movie and the rest would focus on how Queen has gone on since his death).
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feedmyleg posted:Same. My dream movie has always been a Tom Waits biopic starring Ron Perlman as Tom Waits and Tom Waits as the devil.
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Timby posted:Brian May has tossed all that out. He somehow has creative control over the project, and is the reason Sacha Baron Cohen dropped out a few years ago (Cohen wanted the movie to focus heavily on some of the more sordid details of Mercury's life, whereas May's vision was that Mercury died halfway through the movie and the rest would focus on how Queen has gone on since his death). Even if you are actually in loving Queen, it's so hard to believe that there's a guy with an idea for a movie that's that god drat delusional. I'm sorry Bry, but guess who we want to see in a movie about Queen? We wanna see the Queen, you stupid gently caress.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:My dream movie has always been a Tom Waits biopic starring Ron Perlman as Tom Waits and Tom Waits as the devil. I'm on board but who's playing Young Tom and who's directing?
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Dec 2, 2017 04:54
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Heath Ledger and Kubrick. Seriously though, Ledger would have made an incredible young Tom
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feedmyleg posted:Same. the only good biopic ive seen is the story of dewey cox
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:My dream movie has always been a Tom Waits biopic starring Ron Perlman as Tom Waits and Tom Waits as the devil. get Jim Jarmusch to direct it & i might watch it
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Baron von Eevl posted:Heath Ledger and Kubrick. I remember pointing out that TDK's Joker seemed to have a touch of Tom Waits in the voice.
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If by a touch you mean swiped the entire cadence from a Tom Waits interview wholesale then yeah https://youtu.be/gCSc6E4yG9s
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K. Waste posted:Even if you are actually in loving Queen, it's so hard to believe that there's a guy with an idea for a movie that's that god drat delusional. Brian May is a pretty interesting guy in his own right, but that's spot on. Just tease the Brian May movie after credits of the Freddie movie.
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Detective No. 27 posted:Brian May is a pretty interesting guy in his own right, but that's spot on. Just tease the Brian May movie after credits of the Freddie movie. You know he's trying to figure out a way to work astrophysics into this. He's gonna want it to be like The Theory of Everything or some poo poo. And that's not even a bad idea! But I don't trust fuckin' Brian May to know the best way to achieve that. Maybe that's cynical and unfair. And maybe Freddie Mercury was too good for this world and Brian May proves it with every inch he refuses to cede to the logical conclusion that you end your loving Queen movie when the face of Queen dies.
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K. Waste posted:You know he's trying to figure out a way to work astrophysics into this. He's gonna want it to be like The Theory of Everything or some poo poo. Already been done.
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feedmyleg posted:If by a touch you mean swiped the entire cadence from a Tom Waits interview wholesale then yeah that late 70s australian tour is top notch. crazy fantastic versions of silent night/burma shave also hell yeah to doing the persona in the interviews
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I liked what Tarentino said about how he'd do an Elvis biopic. Don't do cradle to the grave, as it's both fairly limiting as a format and way too expansive in content. Instead, pick a specific moment, like the day leading up into him walking into the Sun Records studio. Explore their character though that experience. Personally, if I was to do a Queen biopic, I'd do a fictionalised account of backstage at a Live Aid type event. Feature all four members interacting with various celebrities, occasional flashbacks to important points in the band's history, intersperse interpersonal Drama, Freddy's AIDs, and end with the performance, featuring interlude of Queen's most famous songs. Then we get a weird, ethereal, high concept exit of Freddy from the stage (representing his passing), and in come the actual band along side the actors representing them, with a performance of Bohemian Rhapsody with a number of the guest performances they've had over the years. Conceptually exactly what they want in a format that is actually satisfactory and filmable.
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SomeJazzyRat posted:I liked what Tarentino said about how he'd do an Elvis biopic. Don't do cradle to the grave, as it's both fairly limiting as a format and way too expansive in content. Instead, pick a specific moment, like the day leading up into him walking into the Sun Records studio. Explore their character though that experience. Or we could just throw that mop-headed twerp into the sea and sing bohemian rhapsody on the drive home.
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feedmyleg posted:The only biopics I'd be real into are total fantasy ones that don't even try to approximate reality and do a weird genre thing. Like, give me a David Bowie biopic where he was Slaughterhouse-Fived to Mars and learned how to be a rock god from some giant spiders. Like Lisztomania or whatever. I’ve always wanted a highly fictionalized (because it’d probably have to be) retelling of the 24 hours Queen and Bowie spent drinking wine, snorting cocaine, and accidentally writing one of the greatest songs of all time.
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that is why walk hard is the only good biopic. hagiographies are gross as hell and i cant imagine a real deep truth
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K. Waste posted:You know he's trying to figure out a way to work astrophysics into this. He's gonna want it to be like The Theory of Everything or some poo poo. I love May as a musician, but this has been increasingly his thing to manipulate Mercury's image to continue the Queen gravy train. Some of the stuff works, like Freddie for a Day and I'll give him the We Will Rock You musical. But everything else has been to say that Mercury would love this individual performing with May and Roger Taylor. Taylor keeps his mouth shut mostly and John Deacon has steered clear of all of it for 20 years. May and Taylor could get a lot out of their names alone, but May would rather use Mercury for his own gain. (Queen's revival at Live Aid and their rise from 1973-75 would be fun little movies.)
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feedmyleg posted:Same. My friend, have you heard the good news of Space Jam?
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I don't know why we're arguing about a Queen biopic when Can't Stop the Music already exists.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:I love May as a musician, but this has been increasingly his thing to manipulate Mercury's image to continue the Queen gravy train. May has also basically unilaterally appointed himself the keeper of Mercury's legacy or some poo poo; that's why he flipped out about Sacha Baron Cohen wanting the biopic to explore Freddie's crazy side. May's response was basically, "We don't talk about that."
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:My dream movie has always been a Tom Waits biopic starring Ron Perlman as Tom Waits and Tom Waits as the devil. If you get get Neko Case, Nick Cave, and Ry Cooder in there somewhere, I'm totally loving sold.
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I did see the first show of Queen touring with Adam Lambert; and it was great. Adam can’t replace freddie but he was serviceable and the band was as good as ever.
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bows1 posted:I did see the first show of Queen touring with Adam Lambert; and it was great. Adam can’t replace freddie but he was serviceable and the band was as good as ever. I still don't get how Marc Martel didn't take Lambert's place. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTV1chNHvD4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptr3-ThAXAw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B85IzWVXs-A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6-TMLrUMwk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_97S1ZuXUY Gonz fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Dec 2, 2017 |
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Gonz posted:I still don't get how Marc Martel didn't take Lambert's place. Hah, holy poo poo, I went to high school with this guy's brother! Pretty sure he's in a band now, too.
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Phylodox posted:Hah, holy poo poo, I went to high school with this guy's brother! Pretty sure he's in a band now, too. Yep. His younger brother appears to have musical talent, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9marUNpg0E
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Gonz posted:Yep. His younger brother appears to have musical talent, too. Yeah, I remember his band from high school. Dental Toe, they were called. Because it was the 90s.
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Hey greenlight thread which I haven't checked in god knows how long. Just popping in to draw your attention to CineD Secret Santa which ends tomorrow so please sign up if you want to get movies that will probably not be better than the stuff discuss in this thread https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3840701 Thank you for your time.
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I hope the Queen film has at least 15 minutes dedicated to Bryan May writing the music for Rise of the Robots.
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Gonz posted:The first trailer for Jurassic Park 5 drops Thursday.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:whoooooooooo caaaaaaaaaaaaaaares Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard probably care.
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Gonz posted:Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard probably care. They get payed either way.
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Chris Pratt probably has enough money to last him the rest of his life.
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I will show my support for actor Chris Pratt by probably watching the trailer of a movie he's in. Hope he appreciates it.
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