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Topic: Item of Note: Shyamalan just bought back the rights to his old script.

tl;dr: Shyamalan bought back a spec he sold back when he was... more... reliable, and now intends to produce it with Bruce Willis starring.


Link to Drew.


*shrug*

I thought it was interesting. I am also, now, intrigued to buy the book Drew mentions about the production of "Lady in the Water." Also, if I'm not mistaken, WAYDM alum Matt "Lank" Hingstman was a featured extra in that very flick. Wonder if he has any stories.

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Re: Item of Note: Shyamalan just bought back the rights to his old script.

I remember when this cover came out...

http://www.blastr.com/sites/blastr/files/images/MNightBirthday-thumb-330x440-44847.jpg

...I drink to forget!

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Re: Item of Note: Shyamalan just bought back the rights to his old script.

Ugh. That guy got lucky and then big-headed and now sucks so much he's probably only making $1 million a picture. HAHAHAHha ha... ha..... *laughter becomes tears*

*tears become rain*
*fades into nonexistence as a force of nature*
*passes into legend*
*becomes subject of terrible M Night Shyamalan movie*

Warning: I'm probably rewriting this post as you read it.

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Re: Item of Note: Shyamalan just bought back the rights to his old script.

Hang in there, Zarban!  All these things will be lost in time....

For the next hour, everything in this post is strictly based on the available facts.

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Re: Item of Note: Shyamalan just bought back the rights to his old script.

We've lost Zarban! SHYAMALAN!!!!

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Re: Item of Note: Shyamalan just bought back the rights to his old script.

Later, we discover Zarban was never actually here!

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Re: Item of Note: Shyamalan just bought back the rights to his old script.

That book is fucking ridiculous.  I'll see if I still have my copy but it is 90% cock-gobbling levels of asskissery.

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Re: Item of Note: Shyamalan just bought back the rights to his old script.

AshDigital wrote:

http://www.blastr.com/sites/blastr/files/images/MNightBirthday-thumb-330x440-44847.jpg

Of all the embarrassing Newsweek covers, and there have been many, that might be my favorite. I love that SIGNS is presented as Exhibit B in the case of him being "the next Spielberg." That film would be Exhibit A in my counterargument that he's not.

Gosh that's funny.

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Re: Item of Note: Shyamalan just bought back the rights to his old script.

I'll say this, Signs scared the ever-loving shit out of me when I saw it as a kid. I was going through a serious UFO phase at the time, and that 1st viewing is still probably the most scared I've ever been by a movie. That rooftop Silhouette shot made me jump several feet out of my seat. Only stuff that's come close since then is Rec and The Descent.

Haven't gone back to it because I think all the religious stuff would just piss me off nowadays, and a lot of the stuff with the Aliens is deeply stupid if you think about it now. That being said, there's a lot of really effective filmmaking on display. The kitchen pantry, the scene with the radios, the found-footage birthday party.
It's hard to believe the same guy who pulled off such amazing stuff went on to make Last Airbender.

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Re: Item of Note: Shyamalan just bought back the rights to his old script.

Eddie wrote:

That book is fucking ridiculous.  I'll see if I still have my copy but it is 90% cock-gobbling levels of asskissery.

Yes. That book reminded me of Dennis Hopper's character in Apocalypse Now. The author was sent in there to observe and document but ended up an apostle of the crazy cult.

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Re: Item of Note: Shyamalan just bought back the rights to his old script.

bullet3 wrote:

there's a lot of really effective filmmaking on display. The kitchen pantry, the scene with the radios, the found-footage birthday party.

It's some of the best technical filmmaking I've ever seen. I filled a medium binder with notes from a dozen or so viewings of Signs.

EDIT: Just to be clear, I don't think Signs is a particularly great story. The logic isn't fridge. How many nanoseconds does it take the brain to process an image? The illogicalness is evident one nanosecond after that. And the theme? *eye roll*. But it's brilliant direction.

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