Yeah right, I loved this film when I was a teenager. And it even was with Peter Weller who also played RoboCop!
And you know what the best part is? There is a recent sequel called "Screamers: The Hunting" and it features the wonderful actress Jana Pallaske... Who also plays in Snowblind!!! Whatcha say now? :D
Back in May, Warner Bros. announced that the special Director’s Cut Blu-ray edition of the movie Watchmen would utilize Facebook Connect. The disc arrived in stores today, and it does indeed feature Facebook Connect features for those with BD-Live enabled Blu-ray players. That means that people with both Facebook accounts and BD-Live players can invite friends for live viewing parties, exchange comments, and update their Facebook status.
Yes, that’s a lot of prerequisites, but still, the possibilities here are pretty neat. As we noted in May, the new Watchmen integration is “a huge step forward in bringing our social graph to entities beyond the Web.”
Also arriving today is a special edition Blu-ray version of the film 300 that also includes integrated Facebook features (300 and Watchmen were both directed by Zach Snyder).
Read some comments that the Warner BD-Live registration process asks more questions than most banks, so guess that this still could use some work... Not surprised. Sometimes the majors have good ideas, execution not so great when outside of their comfort zone (whatever that is;-)
Facebook Connect is a standard feature of Facebook, it enables really cool functionality and mainly makes life easier (ie no need to create additional user names / passwords on new sites etc)
In the BD+ case, no probs, if you don't have a player that supports that, you just watch the movie without the FB Connect features. The features in this case are things like having the player post to your profile stuff like "Benjamin is now watching Watchmen", enabling comments, rating etc. I think it could make distributed viewing a very social experience and that would fit very well with what we are trying to do on Wreckamovie in general, ie leading edge productions that Hollywood can't do even if they had the money;-)
DRM sucks and I don't even want to get into that discussion;-)
I believe Facebook Connect is a BD+ feature which would mean the disks either don't work on some players or don't give full functionality on some players. Also, in order to get BD+ features I believe we need to use Blu-Ray's DRM, which will probably annoy a few people, partially because its going against the nature of collaboration and what the film and the process of making the film is about.
awsome... i mean i dont know if i would use this but i think its still interesting and people want to try that... cool marketing stuff. thanks for that.
Hey K, I know we decided on not handing out the finished script. But I think we should give the guys that are interested in the storyline some more Info. So I put the character bios on rapidshare:
Yeah good idea... I wanted to post some of the bad guy's scenes for discussion anyway... so it's good to have their back stories available... But first I have to finish the lineup for sunday's audition...
"It acts like a motorcycle, and it happens to be electric,'' said Gene Banman, Zero's CEO. "We're appealing to the regular motorcycle enthusiast, but because it's green, it adds extra attention.''
Maybe all the motorcycles and other vehicles could be electric & solar powered?
They're no good for Snowblind but they wipe the floor with most of the stuff seen for example in "Minority Report"... Damn I think I have to get myself a bike license really soon!!!
The linkage between the movies could be anything, maybe the people in Snowblind smoke "Norwegian Ninja" branded cigarettes or there's some reference to what happened in ancient past (like the banning of gasoline powered cars). Could be anything really, just thought it would be fun + I'm sure people would love to find these kind of cross references. A little like the easter eggs in computer games. And a lot easier for us to do than for Hollywood;-)
I have to agree that crossover-elements between the individual WAM-movies would be cool... sort of what Rodriguez and Tarantino did with "Grindhouse"... But Norwegian Ninja is set in 1981 if I got that right, so how could it feature things that happen in 2015?
Still, linking the movies somehow is really worth a thought or two. Even if it's only fake brands, like "Red Apple" brand cigarettes that appear in Tarantinos films, and also in "Planet Terror"...
Current energy news from Norway suggests the country with the first all Hydrogen highway is considering banning gasoline powered combustion engines all together by 2015 according to Finance Minister Kristan Halvorsen.
Wow this is a cool machine! I'm not a biker myself but I'd definitely consider buying one of those! Especially the Tie Fighter sound is great, as someone pointed out :-)
Still, we're using mostly seventies technologies in the film, assuming it's set in a parallel universe where a new ice age started in the sixties. We have a real cool BMW with side car from the late 1950s, it's almost a little similar to the one in the Iron Sky trailer :D
As you are featuring a bike on your poster and it seems like bikes will play a central role, I think it would be good to talk to people who make bikes and see if you could get some future designs from them. Could also be cool to have a design competition for the bikes, should be easy to find lots of people with interest in that. Maybe talk to HD?
There must be a sense of over-the-top dangerous in Saberneck or maybe Clayton should meet the wife first? Falling in love with her (on the first sight, of course) and then not wanting to hurt her doesn't kill Saberneck just then (giving them time to befriend each other?)
Otherwise I have a problem with it. If his mission is to kill him, it's hard to think that hanging around, wasting time could help the main character accomplish this. Also if he is a poor liar, shouldn't Saberneck guess his plans soon enough? There should be a bigger common enemy before they can pull the guns away from each other's faces?
Maybe Saberneck could tell Clayton something about the Governor that unites them against a common villain?
Yes, it's exactly the point that Clayton is "turned" by seeing that Matt has a "real life", running some kind of farm and having a "familiy", that consists of his wife and some young recruits he also rescued from the Governor's brainwashing programme.
So at first, Clayton mistakes the beautiful wife to be the key to this "real life" as opposed to "surviving", the only thing he has ever known up to this point. Alas, he runs away with her. But as the story progresses and Clayton develops, he realises that the woman isn't the point, but life is. So, as a little unusal surprise in the end, the "old guy" gets the girl and Clayton leaves to start over...
Simo brings up a classic feature of bad writing that many artists consider amusing after studying good writing for so long...
It might be important to underline that while the Governor represents a strong free market force, perhaps because he lacks a state, he cannot really guarantee young Clayton any prolonged safety... Saberneck, though poor in the Common Wealth / Territory, clearly wields more 'freedom,' and perhaps more ways of escaping into a 'real life.'
It seems like treating currencies in a realistic fashion might solve this problem nicely as will combining that with the politics mining, etc.
In short, the answer is not just how Saberneck disables Clay, but how does Saberneck string Clay along into real wealth (beauty does not alone achieve this as we're talking about a hardened criminal who knows what beauty represents -)
Hi Simo, welcome aboard. Well no worries actually ALL the things you demanded are in the story ;-)
Clayton first meets Chun Jian alone, Saberneck does get his intention and thus takes all his guns from him, the Governor is the big ugly mother of an enemy, and Saberneck tells Clayton about his past and also they have a little adventure together... So they're still no buddies, but something like gentleman gangsters. Which doesn't stop them to fight over a woman, of course ;-)
Well we've thougt about revealing the whole story here... But on the other hand, we don't wanna spoil too much ;D
...it appears you're already a long way with your story. The brochure doesn't convey a b-movie feeling to me, but doesn't rule it out too. The setting offers a lot of options for lame hot/cold and ice related jokes & paraphernalia:
- Ice bullets, ice shot glasses
- every drink should be 'on the rocks' or everybody drinks hot coco all the time.
- Foreigner: 'she's as cold as ice, willing to sacrifice'
- Vanilla ice: 'ice, ice, baby', could be what the one of the characters is eating all the time.
- 'he's no blind'
- 'I see' (just in case: icy) or, after having shot someone with an (huge) ice bullet: 'I see through you', :)
- how about a snowball ('he has no balls') fight that goes awry,
- or snowballs with shuriken inside them or explosives.
- etc. etc. etc.
Oh and I think the knife as a favorite weapon of Govenor Lafort is a bit out of character. He might be more the kind of guy to keep an animal from which he mimics the behavior, like a snake, but then more of an arctic animal. Maybe some ferocious, cunning new breed of penguin. Or snowfox ('that's no fox') :)
I wasn't suggesting you to use _all_ of the above :) Just a few, the more subtle, the better the 'replay' value. I really like the ice bullets, maybe only for that one special hit. It can add to the suspense easily, having to fire the shot before your bullet melts :)
Thanks fpr your thoughts, there's some real funny stuff in there ;D
Still the style your pursuing would be more fitting for an over-the-top parody like tropic thunder or the like. Ours is more on the semi-serious side; the characters behave somewhat like they mean it but live in a distorted world (think graphic novel), maybe a good example would be a mixture between the Kurt Russel classics "Escape from New York" and "Big Trouble in Little China".
But maybe if it all doesn't work out, we'll edit it into a flat-out comedy and then we'll also use Foreigner as the sound track ;D
I see your point, hunting makes him a manly man, capable of killing and self providing. I doubt if it's the guy that gets elected though, more like he chose to be elected. Well, what about a knife _and_ an animal (penguin) to match? Keeping an animal, makes the owner more of an alpha male. But I guess having both is a bit too much.
I'm afraid I do not (fully) understand what you mean with the last two remarks, could you please elaborate?
Well you're absolutely right once again! The thing about our leading lady is that she was abducted from "The East" (China) and as with their mythology, she is considered very special because she has green eyes. You've probably seen that in "Big Troble in Little China", hehhe. Well in our case we think about even giving her bright blue eyes to make the whole thing visually obvious. And this is not just some gimmick, but it's heavily connected to our scenario:
We haven't really put much thought in why the world became frozen technically. That is something we'll put up here for discussion in another task. The envrionment serves more as a metaphor of how people are becoming in our information age - COLD. The spirit of life is fading, facing so much exploitation, selfishness and cruelty. So the story is really about information vs spirit in a way. Well of course it is as this is also a classic theme ;-)
Anyway, our girl Chun Jian is supposed to make her one true love sort of invincible, which is of course thought to be kind of silly by most of the players. But in the end... well, everyone in the audience can decide for themselves if it was true or just some sort of coincidence :-)
About the nagging part, please DO keep on nagging. When I was younger I always asked myself "why did they do this and that thing in that movie, it's obviously SO stupid/wrong... There are so many people involved in making a movie, somebody must've told them?!?" And now that I've worked some years in the industry, I know why this is - because nobody dares to speak against a director. Or at least, they think that the person behind it all will have spent so much thought on the thing that there must be a reason for every decision... But in reality, if you work in developing a project for months, you just can't see your hand before your eyes because your head is so clogged up!!
And this is EXACTLY the reason why I think WAM is such a good Idea. So keep on naggin', tomorrow we'll also launch the web site and put up new tasks. We just didn't want to do that on Friday the 13th, hehhe ;D
The story is a bit quirky when it comes to the love triangle if you ask me. There seems to be no clear division between 'good' and 'bad', a gunslinger marrying anyone at all is capable of love and therefore cannot be entirely bad. If the Saberneck guy is supposed to be the bad guy he should only show his love for the slave girl at the end of the movie, when he's probably dying :)
I wouldn't focus too much on the love story as in LOVE story or make it a LUST story where the girl is somekind of trophy and no more. Even better, both just want a trophy wife and eventually take of with another woman. Leaving the girl behind, or, or, or maybe. Just maybe the gunslingers both discover deeper feelings for eachother halfway through the movie. :) Saberback Mountain. Lol.
Erm...
Anyhow...the storyline stikes me as a bit too linear, where are the B-movie plot twists?
Maybe the damsel in distress has something more appealing to the heroes other than her looks. Although her beauty should be enough for the shallow B-movie type of plot, it might be nice to add something else. She could be some scientists daughter :) with some knowledge of her own. Maybe a failed gunslinger herself or the secret daughter of one of the (unknowing) gunslingers :)
Most (post-)apocalyptic movies have some new sort of valuable commodity which all players covet. Is there one in this flick?
How '(post-)apocalyptic' is your setting? 'Just add snow' won't do the trick. And what has happened, a new ice age? The guy on the movieposter doesn't look very post-apocaliptic to me.
Please forgive me, I was born to nag and keep on nagging. Nonetheless I'm a B-movie fan :)
Hey thanks for your thoughts! Of course you are right, we just didn't reveal the complete story... Actually, most of your ideas are already in there - well maybe except for that saberback mountain part LOL it'd be pretty good twist though ;-p
The story doesn't have the classical "good vs evil" thing in the center, it's more like two Adams struggling over a very attractive Eve ;-)
Okay now I'm gonna do some SPOILING: The main plot twist is that, even if it appears to be to testosterone fuelled heroes duking it out for a damsel in distress, it turns out more and more that SHE is making the calls and using the men for her purposes. Okay THAT still isn't too original in itself, but as you asked for, she won't be getting what she wants in the end either. Or, to put it better, she finds out that what she wanted isn't what can make her happy. As so often in life ;-)
We'll be revealing some more details soon, just putting together a web site...
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Has she been in Portugal?
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Yeah right, I loved this film when I was a teenager. And it even was with Peter Weller who also played RoboCop!
And you know what the best part is? There is a recent sequel called "Screamers: The Hunting" and it features the wonderful actress Jana Pallaske... Who also plays in Snowblind!!! Whatcha say now? :D
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