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Dr. Lecter
You must have big rats
Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:28 pm Posts: 92093 Location: Bonn, Germany
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 Bad Movie Idea of the Day - A Terry Shiavo film
"A year after Terri Schiavo died, a quartet of producers-including Mike Farrell and Lawrence Bender-have optioned the rights to Michael Schiavo's just-published book "Terri: The Truth" and are looking to develop it as a telepic or feature film. Variety says Farrell and Bender would produce any project in conjunction with their respective partners, Marvin Minoff and Kevin Brown.
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"The story is almost Shakespearean in the warring of the families and the great love story between the (couple)," Minoff told the trade. "It starts off so beautifully and then ends so chaotically.""
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Mon Apr 10, 2006 2:23 pm |
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Harry Warden
Orphan
Joined: Thu Jun 09, 2005 5:47 pm Posts: 19747
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Boring
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Mon Apr 10, 2006 3:25 pm |
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Christian
Team Kris
Joined: Thu Oct 28, 2004 5:02 pm Posts: 27584 Location: The Damage Control Table
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Lawrence Bender as producer?
So it will be... violent then? 
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Mon Apr 10, 2006 3:27 pm |
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haerpinot
Indiana Jones IV
Joined: Thu Dec 15, 2005 5:48 pm Posts: 1051
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Hopefully this doesn't clog up theaters and just ends up as a quickly forgotten movie of the week on cable somewhere.
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Mon Apr 10, 2006 3:56 pm |
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Jmart
Superman: The Movie
Joined: Fri Oct 22, 2004 8:47 am Posts: 21230 Location: Massachusetts
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That's almost as bad as the upcoming Cindy Sheehan movie.
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Groucho
Extraordinary
Joined: Thu Oct 21, 2004 9:30 pm Posts: 12096 Location: Stroudsburg, PA
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I think if they concentrate instead on the politics surrounding it and the hypocracy of some politicians, it could be interesting, but instead if they play it up as a Hallmark Movie of the Week it will probably suck.
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Mon Apr 10, 2006 6:53 pm |
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Christian
Team Kris
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Groucho wrote: I think if they concentrate instead on the politics surrounding it and the hypocracy of some politicians, it could be interesting, but instead if they play it up as a Hallmark Movie of the Week it will probably suck.
True, kind of like JFK, it would be interesting at the least. Terry Schiavo doesn't even have to appear in the film.
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Tue Apr 11, 2006 12:33 am |
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Dr. Lecter
You must have big rats
Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:28 pm Posts: 92093 Location: Bonn, Germany
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Groucho wrote: I think if they concentrate instead on the politics surrounding it and the hypocracy of some politicians, it could be interesting, but instead if they play it up as a Hallmark Movie of the Week it will probably suck.
One way or another, it'd be still exploiting a personal tradegy, so I don't think it's a good idea anyway.
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Tue Apr 11, 2006 1:50 am |
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STEVE ROGERS
The Greatest Avenger EVER
Joined: Fri Oct 29, 2004 4:02 am Posts: 18501
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Is this really anymore surprising or disappointing than a movie about 9/11??? 
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Tue Apr 11, 2006 2:04 am |
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Erendis
Indiana Jones IV
Joined: Thu Oct 28, 2004 9:40 am Posts: 1527 Location: Emyn Arnen
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The blurb says the movie is going to cover their romance, and it's all based on Schiavo's book. I should be interesting to see how they cover it. The blurb aslo says this can be either a TV or movie feature. This will probably go on TV.
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