Hey folks Harry here, I just landed and got to my hotel... which is unlike anything I have ever seen before. The House of Blues is rocking across the street and I can hear it in my room... Everything is white... creepy... but who the hell cares about that, I'll catch a movie with Hallenbeck, then I'll tell ya about the flick and the trip... there. Meanwhile, the ol system keeps on a cranking out the info... Frequent spy and all around glutton Norm (fellow fat man) Peterson dropped off some info about Mission Impossible II, The Horse Whisperer and a possible Dragnet II!!! Well here is goes, saddle up to the bar and listen to Norm, he's avoiding his wife and telling stories of films...
Norm Peterson here again--trying to pay off my tab with a little info.
First up Mission Impossible II news. The Born On the Fourth of July team of Tom Cruise and Oliver Stone will not reunite after all. Cruise wanted Stone to direct him in Mission Impossible II, which Cruise is also producing. The two had agreed to team up again, but scheduling became an issue when Cruise and his wife Nicole Kidman have continued work on one of the longest shoots in Hoolywood history; Stanley Kubricks-Eyes Wide Shut. By the time Eyes wraps it will have been in prouction for 64 weeks.
Robert Redford's the Horse Whisperer is both a long film and long delayed. This does not mean that Disney execs are putting any pressure on him to make changes. The film which is based on the Nicholas Evans book about a horse trainer who has a special way of talking to horses, the film was suppose to be released for Christmas. El Nino storms in the west delayed Redfords shoots. Then Redford's directors cut came in at a whopping four hours long--the shortened version is still well over 3 hours. Redford will cut it furthur now that Sundance is over. Disney execs have said that the film will be whatever Redford wants it to be.
Possible Dragnet II -- Dan Aykroyd shose film BB2K comes out this Friday says that he has several feature projects lined up with director John Landis and Universal Pictures. Dependent on the success of BB2K one of the future projects could be revisiting Dragnet. Apparently Aykroyds idea for the new Dragnet would be more suspenseful than the 1987 film that also starred Tom Hanks.
