Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
I thought readers might want to see the shot selected for my StalloneZone‘s POW [Picture of the Week]: Sly with Burgess Meredith and Stan Shaw in a rare, deleted scene from Rocky. Click on the photo to see a full-size version. – Craig
And now… Movie Bloopers So Good They Made the Final Cut.
Maria Popova and BrainPickings present Bruce Lee’s Never Before Revealed Letters to Himself About Authenticity, Personal Development, and the Measure of Success. Fans will want to check out Bruce Lee’s thoughts displayed through photographs of his actual journal entries.
Rob Hunter and Film School Rejects present 31 Things We Learned from Frank Darabont’s The Mist Commentary. Here are three of my favorites…
1. The opening set, where David Drayton (Thomas Jane) is painting, is designed after Drew Struzan’s actual studio and features copies of his most famous poster work including The Thing and Pan’s Labyrinth. “My idea was our artist here is painting a movie poster for a fictional Dark Tower film.”
6. He picked Melissa McBride (The Walking Dead) from tapes given them by the local casting director, and she impressed even the more seasoned actors during her initial scene in the market where she’s concerned about her kids. “The audition was thrilling, but what she did on set was even more thrilling.” The cast and crew burst into applause when he called cut.
23. The jump scare at 1:24:53 — William Sadler pounding on the glass door — made King jump in his seat on first viewing. “It was really one of the most gratifying moments because I scared the crap out of Stephen King, with the oldest trick in the book.”
If this ever happened I would have good reason to read my first ever Doc Savage story.
Source: Disgruntled Superman
Today we have How Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 Should Have Ended, Y’all!
Gem Seddon and GamesRadar look at 25 Alternate Movie Endings Better Than the Original. While I think that in most cases the original endings are better than the alt versions, the piece does make for interesting reading.
Jenelle Riley has a nice interview with Stephen King at Variety. Here are a couple of tidbits…
Do you enjoy acting? A lot of people cite your performance in “Creepshow” as memorable.
What they really talk about is the bit I did in “Sons of Anarchy” where I played a crazy guy who cleans up bodies. That was fun. Look, I like to sing in the shower, too, but that doesn’t mean anybody’s ever going to put me on a record.Is there anything that scares you?
Oh God, yes. Air travel is a big one with me because I feel like I’m not in control. I’m close to 70 now, so I’m worried about basically having the cheese slide off my cracker — Alzheimer’s, dementia, stuff like that. I don’t like bugs, I don’t like bats, I don’t like things that creep and crawl. With the exception of snakes, somehow they don’t really turn my dials. But I’m also afraid of people like Brady Hartsfield, they’re out there. And it crosses my mind every time I do a public event. You think about somebody like Mark David Chapman, and you think maybe somebody’s got a knife out for you. But that’s part of life.
Hard to believe Stephen King has been knocking out best-sellers for over 40 years!
Today we have…
ComicBook101.com recently posted an interview with Jonathon Maberry that’s worth a read.
Jonathan Maberry is a NY Times bestselling author, executing a wide-ranging body of work for Marvel, Dark Horse, and more. He is currently doing loads of stuff with IDW, from the frenetically-paced, terrifyingly good ‘V-Wars’, to the angst-loaded, twist-laden ‘Rot & Ruin’. A fan would be breathless following the work of this writer, just as we were when he granted us the following interview, in which he promised lots of rot, ruin, and paranoia, among other things.
I’ve been a Seth Damoose fan since I first saw his art. There’s a joy to everything Seth draws. I was extremely happy when Seth announced he was taking a few sketch commissions through the mail. I jumped on board with a request for Jack Carter and John Wick. As you can see, Seth came through like a champ.
You can see more of Seth Damoose’s art at his Facebook page, his Art of Damoose page, or follow him on Twitter.
Did you ever wonder which Hitchcock film you belong in? You can find out if you take the Which Hitchcock Film Do You Belong In quiz.
I really like this alternate poster for The Thing. Not sure who the artist is, but if/when I find out I will update this post.
Source: Vic’s Movie Den.
From Lee Goldberg’s site:
Covert Media is also producing my screenplay adaptation of Victor Gischler‘s Edgar-nominated novel GUN MONKEYS , which will be directed by Simon Brand. The development history of GUN MONKEYS goes back years. I optioned the book myself, wrote the script on spec, and for a long while it was set up with actor Kevin Costner and director Ryuhei Kitamura. That project came real close to getting made…and then fell apart. A new producing team came on board, offers are going out to big-name actors now, and we’re on track to shoot in late 2017/early 2018.
Back in September, Simon shot an action scene from my script as a camera/lighting test…and I’ve just been given the okay to share it now that he’s posted it on his site. The key parts are played by his friends and it has a voice-over that isn’t in the script — I wrote it just for this so that the action makes sense out of context. I think the footage looks terrific. Here it is. I hope you like it!
Gun Monkeys from simon brand on Vimeo.
I dig everything about this test footage. Gun Monkeys by Victor Gischler is an excellent book. Kudos to Lee Goldberg for having the faith in it and himself to option the book, write the spec script and stick with it until a deal was made.
Goldberg managed in a short video that is mostly action to create a main character that we care about, a feeling that everyone in the clip has a backstory, plus he gives us a twist at the end not only in the climax but how things are resolved. Bravo, Lee Goldberg!
My hat is also off to director, Simon Brand and director of photography, Pedro Luque. I certainly hope that they will work together to create this feature film. I don’t know who the actors are in the Gun Monkeys test but I’d like to see more of the actors playing Charlie and Milt.
I’ll be in line to get a ticket when Gun Monkeys hits the big screen and will keep us posted on any updates.
Rob Hunter and Film School Rejects present 25 Things We Learned from the Kong: Skull Island Commentary. Here are three of my favorites…
5. The image that Bill Randa (John Goodman) hands Senator Willis (Richard Jenkins) was originally of Godzilla, but he fought against that as he felt the film needed to be about Kong from the beginning.
25. The post-credits scene almost didn’t make the cut as several voices felt it didn’t fit, but he argued successfully for its inclusion knowing that audiences would love the tease into the bigger monsterverse to come.
14. The helicopter occupant falling into Kong’s mouth is an homage to the 1933 film version where Kong actually ate people.
