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Re: Animorphs Film
« Reply #75 on: September 11, 2015, 04:31:36 PM »
uh.... what if it's some horrible amalgamation like they did with the goosebump movie?
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« Reply #76 on: September 11, 2015, 04:40:17 PM »
I would cry....and then I'd give up on every form of adaptation ever. If they make Animorphs into a family comedy, starring Jack Black, that'll just be it for me and all things Schoolastic :|
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« Reply #77 on: September 11, 2015, 06:51:05 PM »
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Re: Animorphs Film
« Reply #78 on: September 11, 2015, 07:19:56 PM »
uh.... what if it's some horrible amalgamation like they did with the goosebump movie?

I would cry....and then I'd give up on every form of adaptation ever. If they make Animorphs into a family comedy, starring Jack Black, that'll just be it for me and all things Schoolastic :|

I wasn't worried until just now... bollocks...

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« Reply #80 on: September 11, 2015, 08:13:00 PM »
So KA says it's not true but MG says they're still trying to find out. Damn it, I just want to know if it's true or not! Certainly sounds like they've been kept in the dark if it is true though, which is not a good sign.
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« Reply #81 on: September 11, 2015, 08:59:50 PM »
If Applegate is good, thank goodness! The Tracking Board seemed shady, but I stupidly handwaved that.
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« Reply #82 on: September 11, 2015, 09:54:40 PM »
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« Reply #83 on: September 11, 2015, 10:25:08 PM »
Wow, I disappear for 7 years and come back to my thread still active. How weird is that? Even though its probably a fake, despite the Tracking Board responding to Grant saying that they confirmed the story 100%, this can only lead to studio interest. People clearly want to see an Animorphs film, assuming its good. Remember, people wanted to see another movie about Airbending until they suddenly didn't. And with Jack Black about to put Sony into The Black with Goosebumps, I'd be willing to say the chance of an Animorphs movie happening just increased astronomically
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« Reply #84 on: September 12, 2015, 01:39:11 AM »
Yeah, sounds like we should have been taking this with a giant grain of salt from the beginning.  I have a suspicion this is probably all fishing on the part of the news site, due to the Goosebumps thing.  Taking a legitimate Point A and speculating to a Point B.

I mean, Katherine would know, either way, whatever production they were trying to get off the ground.  If she says it's BS, it doesn't really matter if MyTrackingBoard is sticking to their story.

The Goosebumps thing piqued my interest though, I hadn't even heard about it until this thread.  Just went over to imdb to check it out, seems pretty abysmal by the team they've hired.  Though Scott Alexander did shock me a bit, he wrote Ed Wood and The Man On The Moon, seriously amazing movies.  But the director Rob Letterman's a hack stooge, Gulliver's Travels and Shark Tale?!  Good grief.  Gulliver explains the Jack Black involvement, they're probably friends and Black's supporting his efforts.

This is what worried me all along though, if it was real.  This is the type of team they hire for these things, you're not going to get some A-lister (or even no-namer with a huge impressive vision), they get the work-for-hire guys who don't really care, it's just their next gig and nothing more.

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« Reply #85 on: September 12, 2015, 07:57:06 AM »
Hmm. The Goosebumps movie looked promising from the trailer. A supernatural action-comedy isn't what I expected, but it could work. Judging by the creative team (and the total lack of Tim Burton), I have my doubts. Not going to see it in theaters, regardless.
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« Reply #86 on: September 12, 2015, 08:06:20 AM »
Goosebumps should definitely have an element of comedy, those books were always half-scary (kid's scary) and half-funny.

But it just looks so lowest-common-denominator, total disposable cookie-cutter stuff.

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« Reply #87 on: September 12, 2015, 12:38:38 PM »
See I've heard otherwise. People and Black seem really excited about this movie. Probably because people loved those books, but were under no pretenses that they were great literature. I don't think its lowest common denominator. Its more like Speed Racer. Take a fondly remembered but cheesy cartoon and just go all out. Don't try to make it better than what it is, just make it fun! I think its interesting that The Writer of Ed Wood and Man on the Moon is the writer. What are those movies about but misguided creators that no one seemed to get and who are just crazy characters. And what is this movie about? Fictional R.L. Stein played by Jack Black whose monsters are real. As long as the movie is aware of how stupid it is and embraces it in a loving way I think it could be good.
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« Reply #88 on: September 12, 2015, 01:27:07 PM »
I like Jack Black, but he's been enthusiastic about plenty of **** he's done too.  That Gulliver's Travels flick is goddamn atrocious.  People promote stuff all the time either knowing it's crap, or having not even seen it in some cases (recent Fantastic Four flick).

And no, of course Goosebumps was fun & self-referential and goofy.  It's supposed to be, but that doesn't mean you can't put out a quality flick.  It can be fun, it should be fun, just...make it work.  That trailer looks barf-worthy.

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