The truth comes out. After hoodwinking audiences with the last Die Hard movie, Len Wiseman is finally being honest with the title of his next film: Shell Game. The movie, a “sci-fi
action thriller [following] a detective who is faced with a moral
dilemma as he investigates the dangerous black-market business of
immortality,” has been on Wiseman’s wish list for a long time.
“I’ve
been wanting to make this film for the past five years, but it’s a huge
film and has always been too expensive to make at the level I’ve wanted
to make it at. Now I’m finally getting a chance to do it at that level,” says Wiseman.
What
level he’s hoping to work on, exactly, remains to be seen. Wiseman is
teaming again with Lakeshore Entertainment, the company he worked with
on the two three-card monty Underworld movies before moving up to Fox for his longer con, the McClane. The Shell Game script was originally written by Justin Bondi and Andrew Ludington, but Wiseman worked with Wanted / Tokyo Drift scribe Chris Morgan on a new draft to ensure that the shooting script will be tighter than the mummified skin of Jim Thompson.
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So, he's going to take a relatively interesting concept, and piss it through a filter of mediocrity?
Just put Kate Beckinsale in another skintight outfit. I've never seen the Underworld films, but the posters were a joy to ogle.
I think a better title to sum up the, um, talents of Wiseman would be Blue Filter. Man, I need to trademark that. Or at least start a comic with that title.
I hated this movie the first time I saw it. When it was called "Blade Runner".
Umm… "Harrison Ford" what are you talking about?
Your completely wrong. First off Blade Runner had nothing to do with the "black market business of immortality". And secondly it was a good movie, if you are a person capable of watching a movie that makes you think instead of allowing you to go into a coma-like state while eating popcorn.
The plot to Blade Runner was completely different, unless of course you never actually saw it and thought the box description sounded similiar because it had the words "detective" and "sci-fi" in it.
Oh, and by the way, congrats on the super clever name!
I loved Live Free Or Die Hard. Lots of whacky fun. It's pointless comparing to the first film because the Die Hard series had already been screwed up with the third one, so any further sequels were open season. It was wildly enjoyable. Having said that, I could care less about any film that Lenny makes in the future.
Wow Limmic – way to miss the joke. Oh Harrison, you grumpy old fuck…will you ever find happiness? Wiseman: when did directors become so fucking good looking? They all used to be munted trolls…and STILL got the mega-hot actor babes…I wonder if puts the blue filter on their home fuck-movies…
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