Showing posts with label Stanley Kubrick. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stanley Kubrick. Show all posts

Thursday, December 12, 2013

HOLLYWOOD ELSEWHERE commenter (in jest) suggests film titled SAVING JACK TORRENCE re THE SHINING.

From the HOLLYWOOD ELSEWHERE website of Jeffrey Wells, here's commenter "bastard in a basket":

Warner Brothers is currently in production on "Saving Jack Torrence." The film will detail the struggle between Stanley Kubrick and Stephen King regarding the adaptation of The Shining. There will be scenes of Kubrick screaming at King that having the hedge animals come alive in the movie will look stupid. There will be flashbacks to King's own personal battles with alcoholism with Kubrick in modern day screaming at King that explaining too much of Jack's backstory and his drinking problems will ruin the film. Finally, there will be an epilogue about how King can't stop bad mouthing the film 25 years later even though it's considered an all time classic and King gladly took the paycheck when selling the rights. Who will be cast is unknown at this point.

Link to this comment (plus the post about discord re the film SAVING MR. BANKS):
http://www.hollywood-elsewhere.com/2013/12/serious-anti-banks-grenade/

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Malick's THE TREE OF LIFE: one theater chain posts an explanatory sign.

I haven't seen Terrence Malick's apparently-impressionistic THE TREE OF LIFE yet, but here's a link to a recent Jeffrey Wells HOLLYWOOD ELSEWHERE post:
http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2011/06/american_idiot.php

Like Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY in 1968, THE TREE OF LIFE is unconventional enough to trigger some audience-member walkouts.  And I guess it's a sad sign of the times that a theater chain felt it had to post a sign of explanation/warning about the film on one of the entrance doors.