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posted by Michael Mirasol (Tue Dec 29 09, 1:19PM)
Jesus Christ. This following NINE.
posted by Will (Tue Dec 29 09, 2:05PM)
Hmmm... On the other hand, On Stanger Tides (the non-PotC related book by Tim Powers) would make a great movie. But as a PotC movie?
I'm not sure what to think... Sort of disappointed on all fronts.
posted by Tonio Kruger (Tue Dec 29 09, 2:57PM)
Rob Marshall is apparently bound and determined to make me regret any good thoughts I ever had about Chicago.
And I second the motion for a movie based on On Stranger Tides but I suspect that novel is doomed to join the long lines of books (I Am Legend, for example) that end up getting ripped off by people unworthy of carrying the original author's pencil box.
Thank God we still have books...
posted by Gia (Tue Dec 29 09, 3:00PM)
Hoo boy. This is not going to end well.
On the plus side, we might get some good tabloid stories of Johnny Depp's on-set revolts out of it.
posted by Hank Graham (Tue Dec 29 09, 3:21PM)
The best criticism of Rob Marshall I know of is to watch just the first sequence (On Broadway) in "All That Jazz" and compare Marshall's work to somebody who did it right.
Oh, sure, the choreography in "Chicago" was terrific, but he was just very carefully recreating Fosse's work, and LOOK at his editing. Fosse had near perfect editing chops, finding just the right detail at just the right rhythm. In comparison, the shot selections were confusing in "Chicago," and he couldn't hit the beat with a cut if his life depended on it.
Given that this is the man who gave us "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "Nine," I believe the goodness of "Chicago" was an aberration, which will not happen again in Marshall's career.
As to P0tC:OST, yes, it would be better if they used Tim Power's book as a source, but don't expect anything so imaginative from Marshall. Or, actually, expect anything imaginative from Marshall at all.
posted by Paul (Tue Dec 29 09, 6:00PM)
If we're lucky, Marshall will just hire the same underlings that worked on the previous movies and say, Play it Again Sam!
posted by Der Bruno Stroszek (Wed Dec 30 09, 11:47AM)
Remember recently when we were discussing how female directors always have to work much harder than male directors to prove their worth after a flop? The example used was Kathryn Bigelow and Michael Mann - both directed underperforming star vehicles in 2001, but one spent the next eight years directing a constant stream of big-budget blockbusters starring actors like Tom Cruise and Johnny Depp, and one's only just managed to make one low-budget war drama.
Well, this. I mean, it boggles my mind that anyone could have a film as critically and commercially reviled as Nine and then step straight into the director's chair for what is probably the biggest movie being made in Hollywood right now. Which studio bosses does he have compromising photos of?
Hank's point about Bob Fosse's influence on Chicago is a good one. Can we designate it a posthumous auteur piece?