Coming Soon

[robotnik2004]

OK. Imagine you're in a movie theater, sometime between one and five years from now. You're munching your popcorn, sipping your humongo-sized Sierra Mist. Lights go down, a string of ads play, then the trailers come on. The screen is filled with a clear blue sky. Cut to office workers doing their morning routine. A cop directing traffic. Mundane it-was-like-any-other-morning stuff. Movie trailer voice over guy intones, "In a world..." Now. Cut to a passenger jet coming in slow over New York City. Cut to the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, pristine, perfect, filling the screen, glinting in that perfect September morning sun. Then the money shot. Not the TV footage we've all seen a hundred times, but a slick Bruckheimer CGI special, a zooming we-are-the-nose-of-the-plane shot like the we-are-the-bomb shot in the Pearl Harbor trailer that takes us right through the glass in the side of the building. Then the mother of all Hollywood fireballs. Bigger, louder, better than the real thing.

Yes, I know, it's a horrible, reprehensible idea. It doesn't matter what the movie that follows is. But I have this idea that someone, somewhere, is pitching it. Right now. Coming soon to a theatre near you. I'll be happy to be proven wrong. But I don't think I will.

Comments

[peaseblossom.livejournal.com]

You have *got* to see the trailer for "The Comedian"! http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/comedian.html

In a world...

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

Hee. That's great. I wonder if it was cathartic for that guy to do that.

Please lord, spare us.

[editswlonghair.livejournal.com]

I doubt it'll happen. If they haven't made a movie about the Challenger explosion, I doubt this'll get made.
Besides, it'd piss me off if a 9-11 movie got the green light when there still hasn't been a good big screen WWI epic, and the 'Lafayette' biopic and Frank Darabont's 'Doc Savage' movie have been in limbo for years after being reported in Variety...
But, this is Hollywood. Some jackass may just think it's a good idea. *shudder*

Speaking of 'Pearl Harbor'

[editswlonghair.livejournal.com]

Do yourself a favor- rent 'Dark Blue World.' What Pearl Harbor could have been, if it wasn't so schlocky. DBW is still melodramatic, but it just plays better. And the dogfight sequences are amazing.