A strange rumor...

[PeterAlt]

Logan's run is shelved

Bummer! They need me to write the screenplay. Seriously. I think I can write a better one than the writer they had chosen.

 

[M.rudolf]

Bummer! They need me to write the screenplay. Seriously. I think I can write a better one than the writer they had chosen.

Do it

 

[PeterAlt]

Think Tron Legacy look and feel. That's how I would do the remake.

 

[PeterAlt]

I would rehire the people who created the game arena in Tron Legacy to create the Carousel.

 

[PeterAlt]

Kill the over 30 crowd doesn't resonate with the young any more so not sure what you would base a new Logan's Run on?? It's still watchable to this day but it's from a certain time period for sure.

I would like to see a new running man movie. Total Recall remake didn't do much for me in fact I just got bored at the end.

My version of the screenplay would not reveal that you expire until your 30 until later. It would be shock element to the story, told through empathy of a character that age. It would work if told that way.

 

[PeterAlt]

In fact, I don't like any of the recent movie remakes. I saw Texas Chain Saw Massacre a couple of weeks ago. Horrible. The 2000 remake was very good.

I hated the remake of Nightmare on Elm Street. Unless you're adding to it artistically, don't remake it! The original Nightmare on Elm Street is a Wes Craven masterpiece. The new one was made just for the sake of remaking it with no artistic vision, and the original vision is lost in translation. There are so much original stuff that could have been done with it. For example, the bath scene. I'm not even going to go there, but if I wrote and directed the remake I could imagine a lot that could be done!

 

[PeterAlt]

That would leave out the brian washing of everyone, how are you going to hire sandmen if they aren't committed to the whole idea?? Or are you saying you just wouldn't introduce it to the movie goer until much later in the film??? If so then the first part of the film would be basically a bunch of good looking people running around entertaining themselves in a hedonistic way then later bam you have to go. I could see that as things gone horrible wrong situation. LOL. It might work.

No. All that would be cut out. It would focus on the female character. The first act is how she meets Logan and the turning point is the Carousel.

 

[PeterAlt]

I would invent a new character who is killed in the Carousel at the end of the first act. That's the turning point that drives the main character to pursue answers.

 

[PeterAlt]

To give an idea of what I think are good screenplays. Breakfast Club is the perfect low budget script. I use that philosophy and apply it to modern films. Modern films I think had great scripts: 1408 (Directors Cut) and Wind Chill.

 

[Captain Chaos]

...but did he drive the bus safely back to the hotel? :lookarou

I think this came from a Jungle Cruise skipper...

 

[lazyboy97o]

Comcast loves their newly acquired theme park division, if they have any qualms it'd be a repeated of Disney vis a vis Tokyo Disneyland, that Universal Studios Singapore is a purely licensing deal. If Comcast was interested in spinning off Universal Orlando Resort they would not have bought out The Blackstone Group, thus triggering the sale of the whole complex. There is no current desire to spin off their parks and merge them with a spun off Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment has had paperwork filed to be spun off as a public company, but that is only unusual because it could happen before The Blackstone Group again looks to move forward with spinning off Merlin Entertainments.

This seems to be more based in the fact that for a brief while SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment, Merlin Entertainments (owners of Legoland and the upcoming I-Drive Live) and half of the Universal Orlando Resort were owned by The Blackstone Group. Before the sale of what became SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment, Jay Rasulo had supposedly expressed some interest in trying to see if InBev, which had promised to sell off Busch's parks as a group, would at all consider just selling off SeaWorld San Diego so that it could be used as a highlight to west coast itineraries of the Disney Cruise Line which would be moved down to San Diego from Long Beach and as a pseudo third gate to the Disneyland Resort.

Also playing a role in this wild story is the one about Universal Studios in the 1980s putting out feelers to see if The Walt Disney Company would have been interested in a joint Florida-based studio complex. Universal had been eying the idea of establishing production facilities and expanded studio tour in the Orlando area, and had been seeking backing and support from another studio, namely Paramount Pictures (headed by a one Michael Eisner who claims he missed that meeting). This same idea was also the catalyst behind a Disney production facility but Disney ultimately sought out MGM more for their name and library than as a partner in the production facility. Universal better understood the challenges which would be faced by moving serious production to Florida and desired a real studio partner, but ultimately accepted mere financial support. While people like to play up film studio rivalries, it is not at all uncommon for films for one studio to be filmed at another studio's facility. Disney got rid of their backlot in Burbank and shoots plenty at Universal Studios Hollywood, including big budget, tent pole films.

 

[Darth Sidious]

Yup, Disney filmed parts of Pirates of the Caribbean in Universal's facilities in CA.

 

[Californian Elitist]

Yup, Disney filmed parts of Pirates of the Caribbean in Universal's facilities in CA.

Not to mention Desperate Housewives.

 

[marni1971]

Most of my original message is based on fact.

And which bits aren't?

 

[AndyS2992]

I highly doubt this ever happened.

If anything Disney would have bought it and shut it down, (one less competitor) and turned into some kind of marine life Deluxe resort lol

 

[alphac2005]

According to the rumor, Comcast is quoted as saying that if Disney gives in to WDO's insistence of managing the combined entity, it will be deal breaker and no-deal.

I think (rather hopefully) this thread will run out of gas shortly. Your original factoids include many errors including your assertion as to why Comcast wanted to buy Disney back in 2004. They wanted to own the content moving through their pipeline, the theme parks weren't what they had their eyes on and it was even spoke of whether or not they would spin-off or sell the parks. Steven Burke was a top executive at Disney in the theme parks division and your incorrect rumor is based on his connection and then (and current) high management role at Comcast.

 

[Turtle]

@magentapanther would faint if this happened (he hates properties)

 

[JT3000]

This might be the worst rumor ever in the history of this forum.

Most of my original message is based on fact.

You don't even know who owns Universal.

Later, Universal was for sale. Disney held secret talks to acquire Universal, but was outbid (by Seagram?). Years later, Seagram sold Universal to NBC, but NBC wanted just the studio (not the parks).

Universal was merged with NBC after being sold to GE (which still retains a 49% stake in the company.) It isn't owned by NBC. And Vivendi was the previous owner, not Seagram.They lost control of the company back in 2000.

 

[DisneyparkFreak]

Not going to happen... Just from a ticket price perspective. Without competition they would have no reason to increase ticket prices, and really with everything else. I would think that the price would increase 25-30% over a year or two.

The problem with this is that people would still go, and just justify the price increase. Having multiple themepark companies keeps pricing competitive.

This also sounds like a logistical nightmare... not just at the management/park level but who would do the design? Imagineering or universal creative?

 

[Timekeeper]

If Disney ran the Universal parks, then at least the Disaster attraction would be much more realistic with actual falling rocks and debris...

And those pesky moving aliens in Men In Black would be much easier to hit with the laser guns once they stop moving.