- We’ve got another busy weekend coming up (Thankfully, the last one for a while), so expect little to no updates over the next couple of days. We’ll be back Sunday to catch everything up. Sorry for the delay, but sometimes we just gotta let real life intervene for a day or so. Rest assured that you won’t miss anything, and don’t forget to mail us if you get a scoop while we’re gone!
Archive for October 9th, 1997
Superman’s Script Woes…
- For those of you following along with the ever-changing saga of Superman Lives/Reborn, Bork sent us this story. Check it out:
‘Superman’ Grounded Again
By Paul Karon and Chris Petrikin
HOLLYWOOD (Variety) – The Man of Steel is not moving with his legendary super speed.
Warner Bros. has pushed back pre-production on the Nicolas Cage starrer“Superman Lives” yet again, this time until late spring, with an expected 1999 bow. Director Tim Burton and his writing team need more time to finish the screenplay, the studio confirmed Tuesday.
The picture previously was slated for a fall start date, and then delayed until January, before this most recent rescheduling.
Burton chose not to use the first version of the script, penned by “Chasing Amy” director-writer Kevin Smith, and based on a series of comic book episodes about the death of Superman, including his loss of special powers, his subsequent rebirth and the restoration of his super-abilities.
Aside from Cage’s, no other major parts have been cast.
Reuters/Variety
This story actually interests me for a couple of reasons. First of all, as Bork said, if they stuck with the original script, they’d probably be finishing up right about now. Secondly, is it just me, or is this one of the most publicized script rejections you’ve ever seen? Kevin’s gotta be loving all the press from this, if anything. Practically every article you see mentions his name and the fact that his original script was rejected by Burton. This tells me that a lot of folks really liked the script, and didn’t understand why it got buried so fast. Anyway, just my 2 cents on that one. We’ll see what happens next…
The Sounds Of Amy…
- Can’t wait for the video release? Interested in hearing some Amy dialogue clips that you can’t find on the ViewAskew site? We got this e-mail from Benajmin Lesbian about a site that he set up:
I’ve started posting sounds from my bootleg copy of chasing amy on my web pages: http://www.fanarchy.com/too-askew
Some of the sounds will have some difference from those in the movie – ie, the .wav of Hooper and Banky arguing over “Archie” does not have “The Impression That I Get” in the background. I plan to post at least 20 sounds by day’s end, including sounds of some of the scenes that are edited differently (ie – Alyssa’s friends digging on her for going straight).
Hopefully, this will tide fans over until the laser disc.
We stopped by to take a look at the site. Not too much there, yet, but we assume Ben plans to throw up some more sound clips here and there…Hell, maybe he’ll even take requests.
“Rock” On…
Here’s what Kevin had to say about Chris Rock’s involvment in “Lethal Weapon 4”… Looks like we’ll still be seeing him in Dogma. Glad to hear that no last minute casting changes had tobe made. By the way, if you’re following Rock lately, he’ll be on Leno tonight.