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post #301 of 315
7/24/10 at 7:33am
A long long long time ago I read on Corona's Coming attractions that 'Dolans Cadillac' was meant to star Kevin Bacon and Sly Stallone, I was always said that it never came to fruition.
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post #302 of 315
7/24/10 at 9:48am
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Originally Posted by Evi View Post
What was the new twist?
SPOILERS for anyone who hasn't read Dolan's Cadillac.

Well Wikipedia says
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The narrator, Robinson (no first name given), a schoolteacher who lives in Las Vegas, finds himself a childless widower when Dolan, a wealthy crime-boss, has Robinson's wife murdered in order to prevent her from testifying against him. The murder (by ignition bomb on her 1968 Chevrolet) is never solved, and Robinson, unskilled in the arts of revenge, has no recourse. Over a seven-year period, however, haunted mentally by his wife's voice, Robinson devises a scheme of retaliation. Discovering that Dolan regularly makes the same cross-country road trip in his gray/silver Cadillac, Robinson sets an elaborate trap on a desert road in Nevada: He takes on a summer job with a road paving crew just so that he can learn to operate the heavy equipment he needs to execute his plan - excavating a funnel-shaped ditch just long and deep enough to contain the car, but not so wide as to allow escape through the doors.

The trap works, and Dolan is stuck in his Cadillac in the bottom of the pit. One of the goons in the car with Dolan is killed instantly in the crash; the other, crushed by the engine block, screams at the top of his lungs out of pain and panic, prompting Dolan to silence him with his gun. Robinson then greets Dolan and announces his intent to bury him alive. Dolan then asks his tormentor "Is your name Robinson?"; surprise prompts him to lean over the roof of the car, just as Dolan fires a few bullets skyward. He misses Robinson, who proceeds with the burial. Dolan, increasingly desperate, pleads with Robinson for his freedom, offering him a large sum of cash (which Robinson refuses without question), before Robinson advises him he will be released if he can scream "as loud as eight sticks of dynamite taped to the ignition of a 1968 Chevrolet". Robinson gleefully listens to Dolan's screams as he completes the burial and paves over the car. With what must be the last gasp of air left to him, Dolan screams out, "For the love of God, Robinson!" as the latter drops the last piece of paving into place.

Robinson pays a relatively small price of undergoing much physical and mental exhaustion, but he feels satisfied that he has done a great service to the memory of his late wife, whose voice finally falls silent; this silence is somewhat of a relief to Robinson. The press report Dolan missing, joking that he is "playing dominos or shooting pool somewhere with Jimmy Hoffa."
In the movie everything happens about the same. A big part of it is how without his wife as a witness Dolan won't ever be able to be put behind bars. However in the film as Dolan slides the last piece of pavement into place he gets a phone call from the police telling him that they have new evidence that will put Dolan away. Robinson hangs up the cellphone and starts laughing like a madman probably regretting what he just did. However all I know about the short story was from what I got from that Wiki description above so maybe the same thing happens in the story and whoever write the wiki article omitted it.
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post #303 of 315
7/24/10 at 10:19am
I don't think its in the story, but it's a wet fart of a twist, or at least would have been in the story. The point is the main guy is absolutely nuts by the end because of his vengeance, a la Oldboy.
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post #304 of 315
7/24/10 at 1:43pm
Yeah. I think the initial approach of Kevin Bacon & Sly might also have been a bad move, because part of what makes the story interesting is how much of a non-character Dolan is. You don't hear him speak until the very end and I think there's only one "scene" with him other than the end. No way that'd fly if they cast Sylvester Stallone in that role.
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post #305 of 315
7/24/10 at 3:25pm
for those interested

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384580/

WOLF!!!
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post #306 of 315
7/24/10 at 9:14pm
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Originally Posted by NickP View Post
for those interested

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384580/

WOLF!!!
Vapor movie. I'll believe it when I see footage roll in front of my eyes and not before.
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post #307 of 315
10/12/10 at 6:15pm
Thought this would be of interest to King fans.

http://chud.com/articles/articles/25...210/Page1.html
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post #308 of 315
10/12/10 at 6:23pm
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Thought this would be of interest to King fans.

http://chud.com/articles/articles/25...210/Page1.html
Huh. I always did wonder how someone at my film school was able to make "The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands".
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post #309 of 315
10/12/10 at 6:26pm
That's a great story, Miller. And a tremendous thing for King to do, as well. I always wondered about those King short films floating around out there and now I know. Very, very cool.

(although a part of me is disappointed that your post isn't news about the IT update... whatever happened to that?)
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post #310 of 315
6/16/12 at 3:29pm

With news of the new IT films coming out, and the director, I was thinking about who would make a great Pennywise.

 

Considering the director, and people they have worked with I was thinking that Michael Fassbender would be an awesome Pennywise. 

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post #311 of 315
6/16/12 at 4:42pm
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Considering the director, and people they have worked with I was thinking that Michael Fassbender would be an awesome Pennywise. 

 

Peniswise.   #rimshot

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post #312 of 315
6/16/12 at 5:13pm
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With news of the new IT films coming out, and the director, I was thinking about who would make a great Pennywise.

 

 

Andy Serkis.

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post #313 of 315
6/16/12 at 11:00pm
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Originally Posted by t3cii View Post

 

Andy Serkis.

 

Ding, ding! Except it will be mo capped, ala Planet of the Apes. So he can shapeshift and be 3 foot tall.

 

 

And now, thinking about it, I am afraid to go to bed.

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post #314 of 315
6/17/12 at 1:24am

Serkis is actually a terrific idea. Fassbender though? Never really imagined Pennywise being handsome and erudite. 

 

I'd probably cast a comedian, just to try something different. Mike Myers is a name that's been floated, but Patton Oswalt at his Gacy-est might be interesting too. You'd think it would be easy to outdo the fairly shallow characterization in the miniseries, but damn, Curry just plain works in it, with a decent assist from the surprisingly good soundtrack.

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post #315 of 315
6/17/12 at 7:14am

Jim Carrey or Kelsey Grammer

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