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Post by PokerKitten on Jun 7, 2004 0:19:07 GMT
OMG! Finally! James' dream of filming Macbeth, using his own treatment of the script, looks like it's going to happen. $50,000,000 funding *faints*
He dropped this little morsel at Moonlight Rising, after letting it be known at the European Audiences With that he had a DoP already *squeeeeee* I'd love for him to act in it too, but I guess I'll have to be patient to find out that kinda stuff.
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Post by nightnurse on Jun 7, 2004 0:22:59 GMT
$50 mill....woo hoo...does he need a director? ;D Does he need any witches?
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Post by PokerKitten on Jun 7, 2004 0:33:48 GMT
I'm so excited I'm gonna hurl! Lol! Not really but... ;D
Here's a snatch *ahem* from the Moonlight Rising Q&A (courtesy of Alane and Laurie of BAPS):
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Post by nightnurse on Jun 7, 2004 0:53:04 GMT
Good on yer for not hurling...I'm still cleaning sneeze residue of the screen Aaaagh...excited much, but if he's gonna be tied up with it for 3 years...NO touring with the band He'd just better get back here in October and bring the boys , or I'll be in the mosh pit with a zimmer frame by the time they get back
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Post by Pixie on Jun 7, 2004 9:34:18 GMT
Coooool! Though hoping everything works out October-wise like NN, otherwise we'll be planning trips to the US... argh...
I'm getting DG withdrawal symptoms again, better head off to the therapy centre.
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Post by SpikesToy on Jun 7, 2004 14:03:39 GMT
Aaaagh...excited much, but if he's gonna be tied up with it for 3 years...NO touring with the band He'd just better get back here in October and bring the boys , or I'll be in the mosh pit with a zimmer frame by the time they get back LMAO!!! I can just imagine that! This is brilliant news I'm so excited for him. I feel a big WOO HOO coming on ;D
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Post by unslain on Jun 7, 2004 14:06:50 GMT
Didn"t James still have a few years left with J.W. and company? I read somewhere he signed a 10 year contract during, or after season 6 or 7 of btvs. Well, i guess since "angel" ended sooo ubruptly, I assume he got paid for those years anyway. Wow, 3 years with one show? Good luck, james. mike......
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Post by Pixie on Jun 7, 2004 14:11:28 GMT
Will want to be seeing that one, specially as he loves the play so much. I'm sure he'll do something really great with it! Unlike the eejits outside in the quad who are currently murdering "A Winter's Tale" And making a heck of a lot of noise to boot. "Carmen", my aunt Jane...
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Post by PokerKitten on Jun 7, 2004 14:14:41 GMT
Unfortunately that's not how it works Mike. He did have another year's contract for working on AtS, but that was only valid while the series was still being made. If there'd been another season he'd have def been a part of it. But as it's not, that's just tough; no more money as far as I know.
Getting a movie made is a long process, and if you are involved in the writing and producing three years is about right. But that won't mean he is working flat out on the Macbeth project and nothing else. There'll be room enough for other acting gigs to be fitted into his schedule.
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Post by Pixie on Jun 7, 2004 14:18:30 GMT
Thank God for that.
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Post by JIG on Jun 7, 2004 17:26:42 GMT
I'm really glad about the whole Macbeth project, its all very exciting, but im really disappointed with the GotR news
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Post by PokerKitten on Jun 10, 2004 23:27:37 GMT
A lot of folks have been arguing about how much funding James said he had... Some were increduous about 50 mill and thought it must have been 15. Well, the sound system at MR was crappy by many accounts but most of the speculation seems to have come from people who weren't there at all, lol! Anyway, hils has posted at TWOP (not somewhere I normally choose to frequent...) some clarification: forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=190653&st=795Sometimes, the chance circumstances are the ones that get the job done! But let's hope when he said at the Q&A that it had happened about three days before that wasn't just when he was chatting to this guy on the plane (to NY)! But rather that a deal was confirmed three days before. Because otherwise, you know.... But the game of autograph-session-30- second-conversations chinese whispers also reveals that James told someone else, the deal was tied down. We just need to hear him talk about it some more... Melbourne folks, ask the right questions!
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Post by nightnurse on Jun 10, 2004 23:42:43 GMT
Had to laugh at the poster who alluded to the whole thing as sounding like James was being spun a line 'Well he said he invented the MP3' ! Yep, we need to know that its a done deal and not just pie in the sky ....Toy, you'll have to pump him for info...an onerous task, but someone has to do it !
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Post by deborahw37 on Jun 11, 2004 7:34:25 GMT
Well he told me at the Audience in London that Macbeth was happening
( note the casual way I dropped that " told me" into the conversation.. not that he wasn't also telling everybody else in the room . oh no .. I *OWNED* that mike it was mine all mine cue *demonic laughter*) ;D
Ok sorry about that .. anyway, where was I? .
Oh yeah. so if he knew about it in London but wasn't talking details my guess is he's now had enough time to do all the legal stuff and the deal was locked three days before MR .
Of course stuff still could go wrong but I have my fingers toes and elbows crossed for the boy . because ever since I read the reviews from Seattle ( everyone here seen those BTW? or shall I bring em over?) and heard him do " Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow I've wanted to see him play that role . My only complaint is it's apparantly going to take him three years!! what's he filming? the directors cut with extra dinosaurs? I'd hope that two years is more realistic
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Post by PokerKitten on Jun 11, 2004 9:53:29 GMT
Deb, they are posted at the main site. I have a 3 page section on James and Will's lurve And of course, Macbeth features heavily! JM Loves WSHe's producing the damn thing, and it takes a long time to make a movie, so we'll just have to be patient.
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Post by Ditto on Jun 11, 2004 15:28:55 GMT
I have lost my reason for wanting to win the Lottery! ;D I don't quite know what to do with myself now. Congrats JM, but I'm sick as a chocolate parrot that he's even thinking of giving up the band. Hope he's not all Oh I'm doing the Scottish Play and so not bothered about the band now, I might as well get drunk and goof around" grrrr. JM. Er, you wouldn't know I'm over the moon for him would you? ;D
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Post by PokerKitten on Jun 11, 2004 15:37:48 GMT
I think it was more that he was pretty down on himself when he made the band comment, Ditto. And yeah, he'll be pushed for time just like when he was a show regular. But he still managed to squeeze in band time. Maybe once his head's cleared and he accepts that everyone fucks up sometimes, he'll ;D back.
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Post by SpikesToy on Jun 11, 2004 16:41:27 GMT
Pump James?
Oh! For information! Gotcha! Will do ;D
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Post by PokerKitten on Jul 11, 2004 12:56:03 GMT
Well, I was pretty wrong with that last comment, wasn't I?! Anyway, I wouldn't normally do this but geena at MTS has started putting up her Melbourne Con report, which makes very good reading. And I had been a bit confused with the bits I had heard so far from the Con about work on "Macbeth", so was interested in what she reproted about James' dinenr conversation on the subject: Full report, well worth a look - Scroll down for geena's report
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Post by PokerKitten on Aug 29, 2004 12:43:45 GMT
Gah! Rogue Slayer says that James revealed at Oakland Con that the financial backer for Macbeth had pulled out But that the guy had refired his enthusiasm for what he had wanted to do with the play (paraphrasing), and that he would still do it, just with a much smaller budget. Hopefully when she has had a rest she'll write up a report and give details I can link to. ETA - hang on, her hubby did at Whedonesque Here's a snippet:
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