Disney advises Texans to forget 'The Alamo'

[King Triton]

I cried so much while watching Titanic. All those wasted cases of brandy floating to the bottom of the sea.




King Triton

 

[Another Voice]

First dollar deals are nothing new in Hollywood at all, though the one mentioned seems a little overly generous to be believable. Ron Howard is rumored to have picked up $15 million and Russell Crow was supposed to be somewhat less than $20 million. Since Ron Howard’s company is producing the movie they would get a share in the revenue, but it’s the same deal Disney has with Bruckheimer, Spyglass, Icon or any other outside production company. No one at Disney would actually do anything to make the movie; the real work (building sets, renting cameras, sewing costumes, etc.) would be done by Imagine. They would obviously get a cut of the money.

Then again, they were tremendously eager to get Ron Howard on the project. He was signed when it looked like Bruckheimer was bolting the company and Disney desperately needed a “name” to work with just for appearances sake. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone offered the moon just to get certain people to commit to the project, and then those same people turn around and welch on the deal.

 

[Jeff in BigD]

Originally posted by Luv2Roam
I think I am the only person alive who did not like Titanic or could even sit through it.

Yeah, after the two hour mark I was actually cheering for the iceberg. Geez, that movie could have been sooooo much better, but oh well.

 

[Jeff in BigD]

AV - Maybe if the script was mixed up & has Santa Anna being a really swell guy & the Texans as violent, racist terrorists ME would go for it.


Pirate - Are you honestly saying that you don't think ME's political biases effect his decisions?

 

[doubletrouble_vb]

I suspect it would be in Disney's best interest to kill this movie. Droves of texans might go see it but unless they do as good a job as "The Perfect Storm" (every time I see it I think...they have to get out, they just have to!) I think people will stay away...except in Texas.

But I like the idea of casting the Texans as terrorists.... Instead of making a historical but probably inaccurate movie (happy ending?) finally do a movie version of Sliders...in this case Quinn Mallory ends up in a modern Texas attempting to secede from a modern Mexico. Naturally the US backs Mexico as a sovereign democratic nation. Much cheaper to do & you don't have to worry about very many pesky details or realism.

 

[Another Voice]

From what I’ve heard, the best thing about the now-discarded John Sayles script was the unique and honest way it handled the events. No one was entirely good, no one was entirely bad. Everyone had a point of view, and each was expressed from a unique perspective. The central point of the movie was that all people are capable of being changed by the events around them; that everyone, no matter their background, is capable of rising to a noble cause.

Well written and intelligent screenplays are amazingly difficult to find (you should see the mound of dren on my bookcase). I hate ‘Pearl Harbor’ because its sloppy, inept, dreadful, appalling script took serious events and turned them into cheap melodrama of the worst and most brain-addled kind. I had been looking forward to ‘The Alamo’ as the complete opposite of that, but I really should have known better. The audience is not as stupid as Michael Eisner wants to think we are.

 

[Jeff in BigD]

Originally posted by doubletrouble_vb
I think people will stay away...except in Texas.

But if the movie isn't up to par, I promise a pissed off Texan isn't something Disney wants to deal with.

But I like the idea of casting the Texans as terrorists.

Please tell me this is a joke.

Instead of making a historical but probably inaccurate movie (happy ending?)

Most of the Alamo movies I've seen have handled the "happy ending" by also adding the battle of San Jacento.