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Posted on: 2012-05-17 19:40 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
R rated movies don't normally make the amount of money the studio would need to recoup the cost of the FX budget I expect this movie will have. Therefore it must be PG-13 and that means ill informed parents will be taking little Suzy and Billy to it.
I can't fathom what Hollywood would do today with Lord of the Flies.
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It would be a lighthearted romp about a boy who invents a helmet that lets him control armies of flies. He fights crime! Brought to you by the same animation studio that did The Lorax! In 3D!
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Originally Posted by Father Xmas
I can't fathom what Hollywood would do today with Lord of the Flies.
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Goodbye, I guess.
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Originally Posted by Lord_Nightblade
It would be a lighthearted romp about a boy who invents a helmet that lets him control armies of flies. He fights crime! Brought to you by the same animation studio that did The Lorax! In 3D!
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It would be an animated feature by Pixar. He doesn't control flies, but rather he becomes one. He visits the lab of a friendly mad scientist and accidently knocks some chemicals together. He turns into a fly and has wacky adventures. He meets a girl fly and they fall in love. Eventually, the chemicals wear off and he turns back into a human. He begs the mad scientist to save his girlfriend. Said scientist manages to turn her into and cue sunset.
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Animated, schmanimated. It'd be a Tim Burton + Quentin Tarantino dark comedy horror flick with teenagers trapped on an island with a murderous pig-like alien (or, alternatively, a human pilot cursed by some native pig deity) who had previously crash landed there. Bonus points if it's a musical.
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Originally Posted by Dark One
No no.
It would be an animated feature by Pixar. He doesn't control flies, but rather he becomes one. He visits the lab of a friendly mad scientist and accidently knocks some chemicals together. He turns into a fly and has wacky adventures. He meets a girl fly and they fall in love. Eventually, the chemicals wear off and he turns back into a human. He begs the mad scientist to save his girlfriend. Said scientist manages to turn her into and cue sunset. |
Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
But in my heart's the memory
And there you'll always be
-- The Fox and the Hound
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Come, now. You all know it would be a reality show. Season Two would be "Lord of the Flies: Outback," and Season Ten or so would be "Lord of the Flies All-Star Reunion," which would bomb because the kids would be all grown up by then.
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Originally Posted by Tenzhi
Animated, schmanimated. It'd be a Tim Burton + Quentin Tarantino dark comedy horror flick with teenagers trapped on an island with a murderous pig-like alien (or, alternatively, a human pilot cursed by some native pig deity) who had previously crash landed there. Bonus points if it's a musical.
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Ok, this is now an officially nifty thread. I love all these Lord of the Flies possibles, and I hope they all get produced and made one day. 
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re: Enders... Yeah, disappointing if that's how Card has played this all-too-long-in-the-making movie.
It's gonna be as awesome as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was. Which is to say... it's not really all that possible to make the book in real life. So you'll have to accept that and enjoy the movie for what it is.
At least Card's directly involved, so maybe it won't suck a metric ton, but just a portion of one.
/Will be there when it's out.
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I think Richard Matheson, a science fiction writer whose short stories and novels have been adapted to TV and movies since the late 50s, including the novel I Am Legend five times, was quoted to say that he didn't care how they adapted his works as long as the check was big enough.
Not everyone is Alan Moore (and we thank the gods for that).
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Which is a good job too, given that none of the 5 versions are remotely close to the book...
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Originally Posted by Father Xmas
I think Richard Matheson, a science fiction writer whose short stories and novels have been adapted to TV and movies since the late 50s, including the novel I Am Legend five times, was quoted to say that he didn't care how they adapted his works as long as the check was big enough.
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I really should do something about this signature.
Ok, not the same minds literally but the same mindset. Orson Scott Card has done interviews about being on the set of Ender's Game. According to him there is almost nothing from his book in the movie but it's still good.
So in other words another Starship Troopers or I Robot. A mindless but entertaining bit of fluff that has almost nothing in common with the original story.
Personally I'm glad because I know that Hollywood would demand that it be rated pg so they could get an audience of kids. Because after all, if it has children in it the movie must be a kids movie right? Right? And Ender's game could never be a faithful adaptation at less than an R rating.
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