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Dante’s Inferno: A Movie Based On A Video Game Based On A Poem
Sometimes the ideas these movie people come up with, they’re just too crazy for words. But I’ll try.
The Divine Comedy is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri back, oh, in the 1300’s. It’s considered one of the world’s greatest works of literature. Inferno represents the first third of the book and details Dante’s journey through Hell, all nine circles of that bitch. Dante and his guide Virgil get to meet and chat up all sorts of sinners and monsters along the way.
Although it’s not an action/adventure story and there’s no battle to speak of, you could see why someone would want to make this a video game. A journey through Hell gives you an excuse to show all kinds of nasty looking stuff and being based on a significant piece of literature makes gamers feel more intelligent. That’s a …
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Weekend Predictions: 01-23-09
Not a great weekend for new movies, this. Only two new movies will appear in more than 81 theaters, and then less than 3,000. But if you like those movies that were nominated for Academy Awards, several are expanding to wider releases. Now’s the time for them to capitalize on all that award buzz.
Check out all my detailed calculations here.
The biggest new release is the much anticipated Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, in 2,942 theaters. The first Underworld was a pretty decent movie, but the second one started getting a little too concerned with the mythology, but heck, it did outgross the first one. Even though the third installment goes to new, nerdlier, non-Kate Beckinsale depths in the Underworld mythology, I think it’s going to continue the upward trend in box office returns. And the fact that this
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Tags: academy award, epic, Horror, mythology, prediction, weekend
Paradise Lost Movie Details From The 12-Year Old Director
John Milton’s Paradise Lost is one of the great works of Western literature. It details Adam and Eve’s expulsion from the Garden of Eden by way of their eating of fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil after a little nudging by Satan. Milton’s purpose for the story was to “justify the ways of God to men.” The book is separated into 12 ‘books.’ 1-4 cover Satan’s plotting and journey to Eden, 5-6 give the back-story on Satan’s war in Heaven, and 7-12 deal with the aftermath of Adam and Eve’s disobedience.
Scott Derrickson, director of The Exorcism of Emily Rose and the upcoming The Day the Earth Stood Still remake, found himself a script for Paradise Lost and gave an interview to Sci Fi. Both the director and the
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Tags: epic, Guillermo del Toro, Heaven, interview, literature, Mickey Rourke
By Crom! Brett Ratner Has A New Franchise To Kill
Is it just a coincidence that Brett Ratner’s last name sounds an awful lot like Rat Turd? Maybe his ineptitude isn’t his fault and that phonetic relation has caused him to take on personality traits not of his last name, but those associated with rat turds.
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Tags: barbarian, comic, dialogue, disgust, epic, franchise, ineptitude, mythology
All Aboard The Midnight Meat Train
If you didn’t know any better, you might think The Midnight Meat Train was the most anticipated, greatest movie you never heard of.
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Tags: butcher, campaign, disgust, epic, fear, Horror, murder, photographer
A New Space Odyssey
It looks like Brad Pitt is a big fan of Homer- the Greek poet, not Simpson. Not only did he star in Troy, the adaptation of Homer’s Iliad, but he’ll also star in an upcoming adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey.
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Tags: adaptation, Brad Pitt, epic, Homer, Pirate, poet, space
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