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---------[ Received Mail Content ]---------- Subject : Re: [scifinoir2] McG wants Will Smith for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Date : Mon, 9 Feb 2009 21:29:31 -0500 From : Daryle Lockhart <dar...@darylelockhart.com> To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com This is the same director who put Common in the same movie as Christian Bale, and did the Charlie's Angels movies. Safe to say WIll Smith has McG's number on straight-to-voicemail. On Feb 9, 2009, at 8:56 PM, keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: > oh gawd! and i suppose similarly omnipresent Beyonce Knowles will > get a role in the flick as well! save us! and while I'm the first > in line to give black folk roles in films not typically written for > us, neither do I want to take away the role of Nemo from an Indian > actor. > > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > From: "ravenadal" > > http://blackgeekdom.com/blog/ > > > > Terminator: Salvation director McG on wanting Will Smith for 20,000 > > Leagues Under the Sea: "I definitely like the idea of Will Smith. > I've > > made that very clear. I like the idea of breaking down any racial > > barriers and taking the idea of what people perceive to be a period > > film and turning it on it's ear. And we have a few interesting > way to > > deal with that as well… Because I think he can handle it. It's > > basically a guy at war, with war itself. And I don't want it to > be so > > dark as to be prophetsorial [sic] and to feel like a history lesson. > > It has to have a journey component to it so it makes you want to get > > out of your cubicle and your small life and go live in a world > larger > > than your accustomed to. For that I think you need somebody to take > > you with them, and like I said that's a short list." > > > > > > > > From: "ravenadal" > Date: February 9, 2009 7:52:05 PM EST > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [scifinoir2] McG wants Will Smith for 20,000 Leagues Under > the Sea > > > http://blackgeekdom.com/blog/ > > Terminator: Salvation director McG on wanting Will Smith for 20,000 > Leagues Under the Sea: "I definitely like the idea of Will Smith. I've > made that very clear. I like the idea of breaking down any racial > barriers and taking the idea of what people perceive to be a period > film and turning it on it's ear. And we have a few interesting way to > deal with that as well… Because I think he can handle it. It's > basically a guy at war, with war itself. And I don't want it to be so > dark as to be prophetsorial [sic] and to feel like a history lesson. > It has to have a journey component to it so it makes you want to get > out of your cubicle and your small life and go live in a world larger > than your accustomed to. For that I think you need somebody to take > you with them, and like I said that's a short list." > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds
