(looking for armored codpiece ) "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 14:20:49 -0800 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Nutcracker action flick? Clever lines: "The Nutcracker is back, and this time he's after YOUR nuts!" On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Tracey de Morsella <tdli...@multiculturaladvantage.com> wrote: Seems like the key to getting a movie made now is to take something familiar -- and perhaps more importantly, in the public domain -- and put a "fresh" spin on it. Like, say, an action version of the the Nutcracker ballet? Sure, whatever. New Line has grabbed a pitch for just such a re-imagining of THE NUTCRACKER AND THE MOUSE KING, based on Tchaikovsky's famous music and E.T.A. Hoffman's dark fantasy story about a young girl whisked away to the Land of Toys to help her animated nutcracker defeat the seven-headed Mouse King. Okay, that's actually wild enough to make a trippy action flick... The update comes from writer Darren Lante, who already played with fair-game fairy tales with Bryan Singer's project JACK THE GIANT KILLER and SHREK FOREVER AFTER. Extra Tidbit: All right... let's hear some clever taglines. http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=29857 -- Bringing diversity to perversity for over 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ _________________________________________________________________ Chat with Messenger straight from your Hotmail inbox. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/hotmail_bl1/hotmail_bl1.aspx?ocid=PID23879::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-ww:WM_IMHM_4:092009
