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Disney makes new ‘20,000 Leagues’ with …
Disney has gone back to its own well again, to remake one of its old properties, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. And according to Variety the man for the job is …
McG.
Crud.
Sorry, but I still haven’t forgiven the cutely-named director for the abomination that was Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle. The headache I got from that seizure disguised as a movie has never gone completely away - and that was almost six years ago.
On the other hand, McG did show he can film a sensitive story without editing it within an inch of its life, as he did in the solid football tragedy We Are Marshall. Perhaps I shoud wait until I see Terminator: Salvation. due May 22, to gauge how concerned I need to be. Despite McG’s involvement, I have some hope for that project because Jonathan Nolan, brother of Christopher and the co-writer of The Dark Knight and Memento, took a crack at the script.
Still, I dunno. As far as Disney re-dos go, I have much higher hopes for March’s Race to Witch Mountain, starring Dwayne Johnson and AnnaSophia Robb (Bridge to Terabithia).
(Quick fact-check: the Variety story’s contention that 20,000 Leagues was Disney’s first live action movie is incorrect. That was Treasure Island, which came out 4 years prior, in 1950.)
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By SRCputt
January 7, 2009 7:08 PM | Link to this
A few years ago I would have agreed. But then McG made We Are Marshall without any stupid gimmicks, and he also directed the pilot for the TV show Chuck, which I enjoy, and has retained an executive producer credit. Now I’m prepared to give McG a chance with this project.