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Harvey Weinstein Threatened to Replace Peter Jackson With Quentin Tarantino on ‘Lord of the Rings’
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Not gonna lie that sounds pretty sweet haha I would love to see it.
"Your honor the ring made him say the n-word"
Gollum
"Your honor the ring made him say the n-word"
I'm pretty sure that's a low-level orc/goblin with a chunk of meat tied to a long pole, and he's using it to lead giant trolls who are pulling some sort of massive carts.
No, but this sort of situation happens a decent amount (where you see a big filmmaker in the producer role sometimes because they had to come in and save the film or shadow it).
Sam Raimi famously took the shadowing job on John Woo's first Hollywood movie, Hard Target (which was the first Hollywood production helmed by a foreign Asian director). The TL;DR is that he was offered it and immediately said yes because he absolutely wouldn't do anything to infringe on Woo's work (he was a big fan of his Hong Kong flicks), and didn't want anyone who would to take the job.
Whenever the studio gave notes, including ones that Woo was happy to compromise on, Raimi would show up to a meeting and be like 'wtf, he is John Woo, let him do his thing!' - but otherwise he just hung around set and went to dinners with Woo to talk movies. Tremendous own goal from the studio obviously.
‘Hard Target’ at 25: John Woo on Fighting for Respect in Hollywood
The anniversary of 'Hard Target' could have passed unmarked, but for the fact that it was legendary action director John Woo's first film in the U.S., and the first Hollywood studio film to ever be helmed by an Asian filmmaker.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
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I only accept Samuel L Jackson as Gandalf.
John Travolta as Aragorn
Mr Orange as Legolas
Kurt Russell as Gimli
Christoph Waltz as Saruman
A few years back after watching The Sopranos I had a dream I was watching Return of the King but Gandalf was played by Gandolfini. But he was just playing Tony Soprano in a robe holding a staff and a sword, calling Denethor a motherfucker and Orcs a variety of Italian slurs.Gandolfini the White could have been a reality:
It looks like the guy is bating the Trolls to keep pushing something. Not sure what it's referencing from the films or books.
Elrond: "Okay, everyone put in some gold."
Gimli: "I would kiss an elf before the day comes that I would tip."
Legolas: "You don't tip?"
Elrond: "Stop fucking around and put in the gold, Gimli"
Maybe Weinstein would've promised him a 50 gallon drum of feet or something.
This thread made my head hurt: I don't think Tarantino would be all over the project but in the case he would, why are some of you doing some castings that include Christoph Waltz? Tarantino didn't work with him back in the late 90s. And also Tarantino has a foot fetish but he isn't homosexual or bisexual, as far as I know, why are you guys suggesting he would include more men's feet lol he has made very clear that he has a women's feet fetish, not feet in general.
Anyway, like some have said, this was a super empty threath but it makes me want for someone to ask him if for some reason or another he would have done it, what would his take on it would've look like.
Anyway, like some have said, this was a super empty threath but it makes me want for someone to ask him if for some reason or another he would have done it, what would his take on it would've look like.
Bob Shea doesnt get enough credit. Thanks to him mot only do we have Lord of the Rings, but A Nightmare on Elm Street would never exist without him.
