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Antigonus

By Antigonus,
Posted on: 2011-03-22 22:18 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture

 

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Originally Posted by Greenykins View Post
I for one hope I will end up enjoying this movie, and I'm glad there are a few other people in this thread that don't have a biased against Hollywood and adaptations.
You can't really blame them when Robert Pattinson is mentioned.

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Originally Posted by Greenykins View Post
I for one hope I will end up enjoying this movie, and I'm glad there are a few other people in this thread that don't have a biased against Hollywood and adaptations.
I hope you will contribute your reasons for such optimism to this thread.

In the meantime, a supposed early draft of the script from 2008 has been leaked on the 'net. Here's its introductory crawl text:

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The disaster known as "The Event"{*} claimed two mllion lives in New York City and left countless more homeless and orphaned.

In the years following the loss of its financial capital, the United States falls into a crippling depression and withdraws from the world stage. In its absence, Japan emerges as the world's most prosperous nation and China its sole military superpower.

Desperate to boost its collapsing economy, the US government approves a deal to sell the vacant Manhattan island to Japan for settlement by its booming population.

And from the ashes of old Manhattan, a new city rises ...
That leaves plenty of room for ... improvement ... for Mr. Whitta. (Incidentally, I see that in addition to screenwriting credits for the distinctly middling Book of Eli, he also contributed to Duke Nukem Forever.)

* No, not that "The Event". This is a completely different The Event.

 

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Originally Posted by TrueGentleman View Post
I hope you will contribute your reasons for such optimism to this thread.

In the meantime, a supposed early draft of the script from 2008 has been leaked on the 'net. Here's its introductory crawl text:


That leaves plenty of room for ... improvement ... for Mr. Whitta. (Incidentally, I see that in addition to screenwriting credits for the distinctly middling Book of Eli, he also contributed to Duke Nukem Forever.)

* No, not that "The Event". This is a completely different The Event.
Hey now, don't diss the Duke! He's finally returning!

Seriously though, there is room for improvement in that, since as I read that I somehow think of Escape from New York.