How lazy is it to compare movies to Pirates of the Caribbean? What does it even mean when you do that? I ask because that’s how The Further Adventures of Doc Holliday, a spec script bought by Paramount, is being described in the trades today: ‘a history based action-adventure in the vein of Pirates of the Caribbean.’ Does that mean Doc Holliday, the famously tubercular doctor from the gunfight at the OK Corrall, is going to take on the undead? Or perhaps sea monsters?
Just because a movie is a period piece and has action/adventure doesn’t mean it’s in the vein of Pirates of the Caribbean. Hell, this is going to be a Western, so call it in the vein of The Wild, Wild West.
At any rate the script is from Chad St. John, who is a writer and not, as his name might indicate, a character on a soap opera. He’s knee deep in a few other projects that are CHUD bait, like Sgt. Rock and the remake of Outland.
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Perhaps by "in the vein of Pirates of the Caribbean" they mean "bloated and boring?"
Now that he's out of Toronto and in Philly?
Maybe Doc'll be played by Johnny Depp and he'll approach it as a pirate turned dentist turned gunslinger/gambler who performs dental surgery on his opponents before a shootout while wearing an eyepatch
As long as there's a kraken and Keira and Orblando are nowhere near it I'll be happy to see this. Doc is a kind of Jack Sparrow type of dude if you follow Tombstone's vibe.
The people need to speak: WE WANT VAL KILMER TO BE OUR HUCKLEBERRY.
I guess what they mean is that the main character will seem gay.
This one's already been sent to Downey's agent first thing, bet on it.
The script for this has been floating around for years, and he does in fact fight the undead.
So they're remaking a remake — are there no original ideas left?
I do have this one original idea: ok, fade in to a janitor mopping the floor, with the camera focused on the janitor, and the camera slowly tilts down and we see he's mopping up blood! yeah, right? I know, fucking crazy.
wait, I guess that's not really an original idea, I guess its more of a scene…
fuck it, making original ideas is too hard, let's just remake The General with Jackie Chan.
Here's a pitch…………Mark Twain discovers that the corpses of murdered slaves are coming back to life and he is the only one who can broker a truce between the warring factions of live slave owners and the undead slaves. He discovers a Huck Finn proxy to aid him, and uses his wit and brawn to defeat the zombie scurge. Huh?? This could work onscrean!!
If it's a 'a history based action-adventure in the vein of Pirates of the Caribbean,' then why make it Doc Holliday? Why not make it a fictional guy loosely based on Holliday?
This sounds dumb. Really really dumb.
SHIA LABEOUF IS DOC HOLIDAY – SUMMER 2012
I actually live in Doc Holliday's hometown. And I also agree with post #12. I hated everything about the new Sherlock Holmes trailers, and then realized at one point, "If this was just an action-adventure movie about two guys in 19th Century England discovering some evil occultists I would be all over it." Calling it Sherlock Holmes immediately sets up expectations that they're planning on not living up to.
They are fucking remaking Outland? Why ffs why?
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