BAG OF BONES IS REALLY HAPPENING

Not a fan of the book, but the bigger concern might be the King+Brosnan track record:

That's not a King movie in any sense.

Come on dude, Garris might be the nicest guy on earth but he's never shown himself to be a good filmmaker. Budget aside, Bag Of Bones (which I love) needs someone who's fantastic with performance and with wringing proper emotion out of a scene. I doubt he's it.

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Originally Posted by Nick Nunziata 

That's not a King movie in any sense.

You know that and I know that, but if King would have never written the (not very good) story that it was oh-so-loosely based on, perhaps the movie-going public would have been spared the sight of Jeff Fahey in neon spandex.

I'm listening to the audiobook of Bag of Bones, and maybe it's because King is the reader, but Pierce Brosnon is just about the last guy I picture as the protagonist. And yeah, I'd like to get behind Garris because I believe his heart is in the right place, but he hasn't actually managed to do anything that's truly worth a damn. Budgets are not an excuse.

Wow...Brosnon is SO not Mike Noonan.  And who is Gish playing?  The ghost of the wife?  Weird.

I don't really care how nice of a guy Mick Garris is though. Roman Polanski is a creepy rapist that should be in prison but but at least he can make a film worth seeing.

This is my obligatory "the first half of THE STAND is good" post.

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Originally Posted by Verber 

Wow...Brosnon is SO not Mike Noonan.  And who is Gish playing?  The ghost of the wife?  Weird.

I imagine she's playing the single mom who Mike gets involved with.

I'll also add that for the many problems the miniseries Shining had, casting Steven Weber wasn't one of them.  I thought he did a damn good job playing the book's Jack Torrance and not just being Nicholson Redux.  

Steven Weber would make a better Mike Noonan than Pierce Brosnan.

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Originally Posted by Ratty 

I imagine she's playing the single mom who Mike gets involved with.

 

Except she's 20 years old in the book.

I'm enjoying the book, but one thing that sort of irks me about the character of Mike is that he is so clearly King and not really a character in his own right. He's 40 years old in 1998, but his inner monologue, in terms of references to pop culture and sayings, reads like a guy who grew up in the 50's and 60's. Mike would be a product of the late 60's and early 70's and his language and frame of reference in terms of pop culture would reflect that. I get the whole "write what you know" thing, but King was a young man in the 70's, he knows what people were into. Come on man, make a little effort.

This is coming uncomfortably close to saying you opinion of Garris' work is more valid because he is an acquaintance of yours.  Damn.  Really?  You're risking sounding much worse than an apologist.

Yea, have to echo what Doc Phibes said.  Being an apologist is one thing, it's not even an inherently bad thing.  But it seems like you're basically just saying "I know and like this man, therefore all the shitty movies he makes are not his fault, he gets unfairly criticized."  Would you be as eager to make excuses for him if you didn't know and like him?  

You say "Some of the stuff he's done is not very good."   Here's his filmography, which movies are actually good? 

• Fuzz Bucket (1986)
• Critters 2: The Main Course (1988)
• Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990)
• Sleepwalkers (1992)
• The Stand (1994)
• The Shining (1997)
• Riding the Bullet (2004)
• Masters of Horror - "Chocolate" (2005)
• Masters of Horror - "Valerie on the Stairs" (2006)
• Desperation (2006)

Let's call a spade a spade.  All of those films are shit. He can still be a nice guy, doesn't make Sleepwalkers any less awful.

I find parts of The Stand watchable and I enjoy Sleep Walkers as some sort of fucked up guilty pleasure thing. None of those qualify him to do Bag Of Bones.

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Originally Posted by Sebastian OB 

Steven Weber would make a better Mike Noonan than Pierce Brosnan.

True.

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Originally Posted by Schwartz 

Except she's 20 years old in the book.

 

Yeah that was what I was thinking.  The whole dynamic changes if she isn't a young naive widow with a kid.