The Nerdz Lounge.

The thing to keep in mind is that every artist has their time. And sometimes the artist runs out of ideas and ends up in a creative slump. I'm sure Lucas can write new and completely different stories and films. He could write a movie about his daughter's sport of MMA. It's all possible.

 

New Indy? Could work. I'd give it a shot if the trailers and word of mouth were good.

Bond, Batman and Spider-Man have all done it. It could work well as long as they don't do a modern, gritty and pessimistic take on the character. Keep it lite and fun with a sense of awe and it could be great. The last thing I want to see is a grim and morally ambiguous take on the character.

More than likely this is an intentional "info slip" to gauge the reaction of the public to the idea of recasting the character with someone younger whom they can sign for multiple movies at one time. If the internet hates the idea, it won't happen for a few more years. If the net is meh or favorable to it, you could see this coming together relatively quickly.

 

Well, they're talking to Bradley Cooper about it. But a screenplay hasn't been written and approved yet.

 

Frank Darabont Says There's "Not A Shred Of Truth" To 'Indiana Jones' Reboot Rumors.

Taken from indiewire.com.


It's been a pretty wild few days for fans of the "Indiana Jones" franchise. Late Tuesday night, word dropped that Disney was considering a reboot of the beloved series, and had Bradley Cooper down on their list of names of potential people to take over the role. The Internet collectively freaked, and it wasn't long for industry folks associated with the franchise to weigh in, with producer Frank Marshall calling the rumors "ridiculous." Now another name associated in the Indiana Jones report has taken the denial a step further.

Frank Darabont, who had previously written installments of "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" (and penned "Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods" as the proposed fourth movie before it was rejected by George Lucas) was said by Latino Review to have apparently pitched an idea for a new feature film to Disney suits. Well, according to him, that never happened. "This is an internet rumor with not a shred of truth in it. I have not pitched an idea for a proposed Indiana Jones movie, nor has anybody approached me with such an idea. The inaccurate report on Latino Review was the first I'd heard of it," he told AICN.

Case closed? For now, we guess, but we'd bet that Disney is going to revisit that property somewhere down the line, whether it's with Harrison Ford or not. But you can probably chill out for the moment as it seems the cart is being put in front of the horse on this one.

 

Yeah, I often wonder how much of the favorites of my generation would even have registered in the popular consciousness, given the amount of other stimuli they have, be it videogames, the internet, kids' television networks, et al.

 

My nephew is a fan of the L.A. Clippers. He has followed that team for some time and insists on watching every game. I even tried to show Cowboy Bebop to him through the movie adaptation. He shrugged it off. I have to introduce him to Ninja Scroll. He might like that. I saw it on campus in school(in the English subtitles).

 

Very cool, although I would have had Arya as one of the "heroes".

 

Loved Cowboy Bebop and Ninja Scroll. Can't forget Ghost In The Shell, either. When my son is older, I'm going to let him check those out. Although he'll probably just roll his eyes at me and think "Geez, nerd!" LOL!

The list of good guys is getting pretty thin on that show...

 

Ghost In The Shell was the kind of anime you have to watch more than once to understand what it's really all about. After more than a hundred viewings, I learned it was, for all intents and purposes, a love story that was well animated. I remember the first anime I purchased was Vampire Hunter D, then came Golgo 13: The Professional, Akira, 8Man After(The live-action version preceded 8Man After and was decent)Robot Carnival(Fantasia with a robotic theme now on DVD), Galaxy Express 999, Adieu, Galaxy Express, The Yamato/Star Blazers films, Arcadia Of My Youth(Captain Harlock's tory), Super Atragon, Silent Service, Submarine 707R, Hellsing, Patlabor 1, 2, 3, and so many more.

 

You pointed out a few I haven't even heard of. I'll try to check them out.

 

Also check out Wicked City(A MUST-SEE), Angel Cop, Black Jack: The Movie, Perfect Blue, Roujin-Z, Vampire Princess Miyu, You're Under Arrest and the City Hunter animated movies and series(Jackie Chan did a live-action version). Golgo 13: was once a live-action film starring Sonny Chiba.

 

This one, I've caught. But these other titles are new to me. I've seen Golgo 13, Cowboy Bebop, Akira, Ninja Scroll, Ghost In The Shell, Perfect Blue and Vampire Hunter D. Is Wicked City the best of the lot in your opinion?

 

Wicked City is not the best best one of my top go-to picks because it has nudity, sexual situations and a good story. A few more I need to see(I had read the manga on a few of them) are Slam Dunk!, Pet Shop Of Horrors, Planetes, Case Closed(also known as Detective Conan), Remote, Samurai 7, Yukikaze, Area-88, Sanctuary(I saw the animated version and the live-action version, both are worth seeing) Monster and Ghost Hunt.

 

I'm a high fantasy-Tolkein-D&D-C.S. Lewis type of nerd. I can't believe I'm just now getting into GoT, the television show. I'm amazed.

What I am not amazed at is the fandom. Stupid, stupid fans. I actually heard someone refer to the costuming as "period costuming." Yeah, I love the clothing back from when there were still direwolves and dragons around. >_<

 

LMAO, me too! If I was back there I would have had a pet dragon too.

Hey, does anyone here watch Continuum on SyFy(I hate that. Sci-Fi, dammit! LOL)?

 

A friend of mine in high school explained to me how to play D&D. I thought it was complicated. It was very big in the 80's. I loved the D&D cartoon on Saturday mornings. It was inspiring and insightful. I recall a tv movie called Mazes And Monsters, it starred Tom Hanks as a college student who is a gamer and he meets a few others as interested in the game as he is, until he loses his grip on reality. It was a good film.

 

Love Continuum Kara is my girl

 

I watched the whole cartoon series on YouTube awhile back. Pretty cool stuff.

 

Just back from seeing Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Liked it a lot. But, did not love it. Was very predictable to me. But, in defense of the film, I may have loved it had I not seen it the day after getting out of the hospital. Still feelling a bit drugged up so I'm sure that played a majority part in the "WOW!" dampening aspect of my movie going experience. Plus the theater I saw it in had the screen so free kin' dim that I it was hard to make out what was happening during the night sequences.

Gonna' have to bite the bullet and see it again at my local Arclight theater.