BRADLEY COOPER LONGS TO WRITE HYPERION

Fucking pretty boys with their abs and their chins and their hair moving in on our sci-fi.

Seriously though, Hyperion? That's a big fucking undertaking. I like the guy very much, I think I'm the only one here that likes him being in a Crow movie, and know nothing about him except his movies but this seems a bit presumptuous for a first try.

His ALIAS character was a major nerd. I believe it.

I'm actually just finishing up Rise of Endymion right now. I think I say this about every one of my beloved sci-fi treasures (the Shrike is perhaps one of my favorite things in any sci-fi universe), but really? One movie? There's a ton to put in there and the worldbuilding is huge and dense. And you can't really cut out any of the Pilgrim's stories, or the endgame kind of all falls apart. But hey, maybe he has it all worked out, in which case, damn him and his chiseled jaw, deep blue eyes AND nerdtastic tendencies.

So, I guess...Game of Thrones that bitch! Movies are dying, Ebert said so, time to turn to television to give the sprawling epics the treatment they deserve.

It's been a long time since ive read these but aren't they the definition of unfilmable? They make Dune seem cinematic.

Not exactly unfilmable, though it would be damn hard. I think the first book is definitely the most cinematic in it's storytelling. I could see it working if split up into multiple films, but one? Nah...

I agree The Game of Thrones way is the way to go. My God, each of the pilgrim's stories is a movie in itself; That's six movies from one book.

Every sci-fi fan should read Hyperion. Each pilgrim's story tackles a different genre, and every one of them succeeds.

I don't know anything about the books, but I listened to an interview with Cooper on NPR last night and was impressed. I already knew he was an English major, but he came off as exceptionally bright, and now that I know that he has aspirations beyond giving Ms. Rappe (and myself, I admit) heart palps, I'm looking forward to seeing what he can do.

Yeah, he was talking about Paradise Lost on Charlie Rose recently & I was impressed by his reverance for The Elephant Man & how generally non-douche-y he was. He's not a Bale or Pitt but he definitely got me interested in his future projects.

One pilgrim, one episode. Have a little present day "we're getting closer to Hyperion" at the beginning of each episode, then get off to the races. Do it like Lost and keep calling back over the course of the season, then finally be done with the Canterbury Tales framing and get back to the central narrative of the Time Tombs and the Shrike laying waste to just about everything.

And think, we'd get chance #2 at Benjamin Button, now with 100% less Forrest Gump.

Whoa whoa whoa, wait wait wait - they're remaking The Elephant Man now????

The FUCKING ELEPHANT MAN?

Ugh. I am so fucking sick of the current state of Hollywood right now.

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Whoa whoa whoa, wait wait wait - they're remaking The Elephant Man now????

 

The FUCKING ELEPHANT MAN?

 

Ugh. I am so fucking sick of the current state of Hollywood right now.

Haha..relax dude, nobody said anything about a remake. Cooper was just talking about how The Elephant Man made him want to be an actor.

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Haha..relax dude, nobody said anything about a remake. Cooper was just talking about how The Elephant Man made him want to be an actor.

Right. No problem - my bad. Carry on gents.Please ignore my little tirade.

As a quick aside has anyone ever seen the Inside The Actors Studio with Clint Eastwood? A young Cooper features rather prominently as an audience member. I'm pretty sure he gets to ask Clint a question too.

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Right. No problem - my bad. Carry on gents.Please ignore my little tirade.

 

As a quick aside has anyone ever seen the Inside The Actors Studio with Clint Eastwood? A young Cooper features rather prominently as an audience member. I'm pretty sure he gets to ask Clint a question too.

 

I actually can't look at Cooper without thinking about his goofily eager expression from that episode.

A short compilation of his appearances at 3.45

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Originally Posted by The Rain Dog 

Right. No problem - my bad. Carry on gents.Please ignore my little tirade.

 

As a quick aside has anyone ever seen the Inside The Actors Studio with Clint Eastwood? A young Cooper features rather prominently as an audience member. I'm pretty sure he gets to ask Clint a question too.

 

Is he in Eastwood's? I've never seen it, but I see all 9 parts are on YouTube.  I know what I'm watching tonight!

I know Cooper is in Sean Penn's episode and asks him a question there.  Poor guy has that daffy wide-eyed nod we all put on for Q&A's, only his is immortalized for all time.   He looks like such a schlubby student, it is kind of refreshing.

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I don't know anything about the books, but I listened to an interview with Cooper on NPR last night and was impressed. I already knew he was an English major, but he came off as exceptionally bright, and now that I know that he has aspirations beyond giving Ms. Rappe (and myself, I admit) heart palps, I'm looking forward to seeing what he can do.

 

 

I was too! I really hadn't looked into his background at all -- you're just a piece of meat, Cooper! -- although I knew he'd gone to some posh schools and spoke French, but that never means anything. I know lots of idiots and douchbags who went to better schools than I did.

But then he's all "I took a class from a Miltonian scholar" and I realize he's exactly who I thought I'd meet in my Chaucer and Milton classes -- right down to the sweater/button up combo -- except I didn't. 

You can't judge a book by its cover, or by its smug smile, I guess.   I'm definitely intrigued.  I'll see all his movies just to see if he becomes an American Kenneth Branagh.

     Please pitch this to HBO and not turn it into a David Lynch's "Dune" for this generation. Besides there are other Dan Simmons novels that would be easier to make into movies. What about "Drood"? "The Terror"? Or even "Summer of Night".

I actually wouldn't mind seeing this generation's David Lynch's Dune. I actually just watched the extended cut last night, by coincidence. Seriously flawed movie, but still more interesting than 90% of the SF they make these days.

The alternate contender for this generation's Dune is Chronicles of Riddick. Does that thought make you happy?

Cooper's Inside episode made me turn around on him. I never hated him, but I fell for the big sap. I recommend people check it out!