I love both but in short I doubt either one would even consider wasting their time on a movie like this. Both are, at this point, pretty well sought after film makers and Fincher is already tied up with the Millenium shizznizzle so if he even THOUGHT about making it you wouldn't be hearing about it for another good 5 plus years.
Aronofsky makes very good but depressing movies. I would love to see him make it but it's really more of a teenaged-aimed movie. He really likes to push boundries and if he did we would be seeing an X rated one. Which I don't disagree with but considering the book is aimed at tween/teenagers (as much as now that I'm older I still like the book just as much as I did when I was younger) it would never happen unless it's an indie movie. In which case no one would hear about it because you know how that all goes over...
Tbh I see Catherine Hardwicke, cringe-inducingly, making this and that *beep* KILLS me. That hoe isn't skilled enough to be in the presence of a movie camera much less behind one!
Bottom line; I LOVE both Fincher and Aronofsky. Behind Kubrick they're my absolute favorite directors and I didn't necessarily mean it'd be a waste to make this film, for them, more or less it's something I think both of them have heavily strayed away from. When you can make anything, and I mean both of them could literally make ANY film, in this entire world; what would make them choose one like this? Aronofsky, imo, out of both of them would be the one to do it. He made those anti-meth ads not too long ago. But it's a dream. I can see him being quite sick of doing heavily drug laced films.
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dystopiaintexas
13 years ago
Yeah man, I agree for the most part...but if the producers/director were to include the most important parts of the book, naturally they'd have to include the San Francisco heroin-induced rape of "Alice" and her friend by the boss lady and her guy friend...thus automatically making it an R-rated film.
I think if it were remade, it should be a remake that's aimed towards the past 2 or 3 generations that grew up with the book, not aimed towards tweens or teens necessarily at all. A 17+ target audience. And most likely it would indeed be an indie film, but then again Universal did make Fear and Loathing possible...
And yeah haha, I also fear Catherine Hardwicke would try to step in and make this a period THIRTEEN piece or something even more ridiculous, although she did do a good job with Lords of Dogtown...
I don't know, maybe when I'm done with film school I'll make the damn thing myself..
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Big_Bad_Wolf3456
13 years ago
Lords of Dogtown was mehh. It was decent but ohmygawd Twilight. You know I actually didn't really MIND the second movie, whatever it's called, but Twilight was so awful. And it's not like JUST the story; it was all her direction and what not.
Listening to the commentary on some of her movies is like ramming your head into a wall over and over again.
Good luck to you, man. I've thought about film school but the likelihood of my life going anywhere in it is...slim, innit?
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