From time to time, news will pop up it's head over at Variety or at The Hollywood Reporter that I can't help but comment on. Usually I let the stuff pass, simply because I want to have pieces that they do not have... I don't want to recycle the news. However, in this case I have to talk about this stuff.
IRON MAN
Tom Cruise wants to play Tony Stark and Iron Man... I'm trying to picture Tom Cruise with the thin moustache, the white tuxedo and the black bowtie. I can see that. I like Tom Cruise as an actor and think he can pull this off. Right now, the script is o.k. It features Iron Man vs the cool as hell looking bad guy, Modok. Please Hollywood follow the design specs carefully on both of these guys. Red and Yellow armor please, sans nipples. Undoubtedly the script is gonna be fine tuned a bit, and we'll be several months away from getting this project moving, but till then we'll all be watching this one closely.
HOUDINI
Verhoeven pulled out on this one... good. I never wanted to see Verhoeven tackle Houdini, personally I think it's a project that Robert Zemeckis was born to take over... hint hint. The script has a lot to do with Houdini's pursuit of the supernatural, about mediums and charlatans... it's a damn good script that doesn't just focus on the onstage Houdini. Hopefully this project will find an actor and director soon and get moving as it was one of the cooler projects on the horizon.
CRUSADE!!!!
MAKE THIS FUCKING MOVIE NOW!!! Ok folks, I know that's crude, but dammit this is the greatest unproduced cool movie script in Hollywood. Arnold should drop everything in his life and stand next to Verhoeven and go make this damn film. It is an amazing project. This film would define "getting medeval on your ass". I read this script about 3 years ago, I don't even know where my copy is anymore, but the film has been etched into my mind. The lead character, HAGEN!!!!!!!!, must be screamed out from the tops of pinnacles. This is the baddest most cool character in unproduced film history. At one point in the middle of a great battle, the graveyard fog is rising, backlit by burning battlements, HAGEN!!!!! (played by Arnold) while weilding a scythe begins cutting people down at the ankles. This is THE movie Verhoeven was born for, that Poledouris was born to score, and that Arnold was born to play. Everything Arnold has done up till this film will be a piece of shit, this is the movie that redefines him. The promise of that one shot in PREDATOR, you know the one, when Arnold holds the torch high in the air, his body caked in mud, a possessed look in his eye. Well, that shot is what CRUSADE is about. It's about epic heroism. Make this film now dammit!! (Harry is currently frothing at the mouth)
