Comments | faeriemaiden: one of these things is not like the other

faeriemaiden

one of these things is not like the other

Jan 24, 2007 23:43

i. So, Dad came upstairs a few minutes ago to tell me that, "oh, there's going to be a Beowulf movie...with Angeline Jolie." We sort of stared at each other in an "o-kay" sort of way, and he said something about Robert Zemeckis directing, "so it might be good, because he's really brilliant," (not that I would know; I am not so well-versed in ( Read more... )

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ressie_noldo January 25 2007, 05:26:30 UTC

Angelina Jolie? I am officially weirded out. Though, Angelina Jolie as an underwater hag will be quite interesting.

Whatever. I am willing to accept it and be all optimistic, because NEIL GAIMAN. ♥ ♥ ♥ Nothing that man writes can be bad. *creepy fangirl* And I like technical wonders, so!

faeriemaiden January 26 2007, 01:18:46 UTC

YESSS, NEIL GAIMAN. ♥ Neil Gaiman is so many kinds of awesome that I can't even count them all. I know his script will be brilliant, and I really hope the rest of it is equally awesome, because. NEIL. YAY. (Who is involved in, what, three movies right now? Yikes. But also yay.)

wanderlight January 26 2007, 02:49:37 UTC

NEIL GAIMAN WILL NOT FAIL US! ♥ *another creepy fangirl*

Also, this for Banui 'cause I think the comment will probably show up in her inbox -- I don't have a Vox account, so I will never be able to comment over there; don't be afraid if I start drop random comments re. Ink & Chocolate into comments here every once in a while. ;)

charismitaine January 26 2007, 00:46:32 UTC

Actually I think there is another Beowulf film coming out next year, and there was one called something like 'Beowulf and Grendel' that came out this year (didn't see it or hear much about it, but I know it exists).

I am very excited about the Gaiman Beowulf, though--if you search his blog I think there are a couple of pictures from the production.

faeriemaiden January 26 2007, 01:22:39 UTC

My, what's with the sudden outpouring of Beowulf love? Not that it's undeserved, it's just rather sudden. And I heard about the Beowulf & Grendel film, if somewhat vaguely--wasn't it released in Finland or someplace like that?

I haven't seen any Beowulf production photos, but I haven't been reading Neil's blog all that long, either. The Coraline photos look completely amazing, though. I cannot wait to see how that turns out.

charismitaine January 26 2007, 05:31:38 UTC

Someplace like that--it was definitely never in theatres here, but then we didn't have Mirrormask or Howl's Moving Castle for more than a week.

The Beowulf photos were a while ago--last summer, maybe? There weren't very many, but I think there was at least an artist's rendering of what Grendel's mother will look like.

I am so excited about Coraline, too--and nervous. If there's a narrator of any kind and it's not Neil Gaiman, my headspace will be all kinds of disturbed.

liveonthesun January 28 2007, 05:49:07 UTC

Hold up. Why in the world are they doing to Beowulfs in one year? Have you seen the Gerard Butler one? We got it in from NetFlix, but it was while I was doing Wizard of Oz, so I never got to see it. Mom did, and said it wasn't that good and that they had thrown a love story into it.

Hmm...

Why two in one year, though?