2004 movies; pan; charlie rose

[amezri]

'allo. Anti-social mood today.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow looks like an interesting movie. Here's hoping there was some sort of licensing for them to use the Stargate theme for the trailer :-P

Thanks to crzydemona - Van Helsing Trailer! Eeeeee! The vampires look wicked and of course there's a strong female lead. And Hugh so looks like Vampire Hunter D. Love it.

2004 is going to kick ass in the movie area.

This is random, but apparently there was 3 hours of footage cut from "Peter Pan." There's a small e-mailing campaign trying to get Universal to release an extended DVD or a 2-disc set. I've e-mailed. Give us a hand, eh? No fan girly screaming, just nice letters ^_^

For anyone who missed Elijah, Sean, & Andy on Charlie Rose, there is an audio file at the Charlie Rose site. Can't download it though. Argh.

Comments

[crzydemona.livejournal.com]

And Hugh so looks like Vampire Hunter D.

OMG! He SO does!! SQUEE

[crzydemona.livejournal.com]

waitaminute... 3 hours of cut footage!!?

MUST HAVE!!!

Jen

[amezri.livejournal.com]

YES!! We must campaign for Peter Pan: Extended Edition! *hopes*

[hostile17girl.livejournal.com]

I'm sooooooo excited for Van Helsing! It comes out the day after my birthday too! *dance dance*

[amezri.livejournal.com]

I can't wait! It's like live action Vampire Hunter D! With really bad CGI!! XD

[hostile17girl.livejournal.com]

That's really funny! The first thing my best friend said when I showed her the trailer was, "It looks cool, but the CGI is really cheesy." Haha.

[eido.livejournal.com]

Hugh so looks like Vampire Hunter D.

Ain't that the truth. Although I think Hugh's vampire hunter will be a little less morose or economically worded as D. Both are beautiful though (in their own ways). ;)

I also enjoyed the "Sky Captain..." trailer. Very art deco and "Metropolis" (leaning more towards Osamu Tezuka's as opposed to Fritz Lang's).

[ex-mightygo.livejournal.com]

Here's hoping there was some sort of licensing for them to use the Stargate theme for the trailer.

Well, yes, of course there was, just as there's licensing to use any piece of copyrighted music, be it Hans Zimmer's "Submarine Choral" from Crimson Tide (which has been used in so many trailers I have lost count), that bit from Aliens where the metal things are going TING! TING! TINGTING! over and over again (you know, the bit where Ripley is driving the big Marine truck through the tunnels), the "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's 9th, or the latest tune from Smashmouth, by which I mean goddamn "All Star" again.

Unless the music is really, really amazing and a signature part of the film (cf. John Williams' scores, and even then not always), trailer editors traditionally use music from other sources because trailer music isn't something most audiences pay attention to, but instead supplants itself in the subconscious as a shortcut to what they expect the film will be like. IE, for Sky Captain, they wanted something "adventurey", and the Stargate theme is certainly that.

(This is much the same reason every kiddie-teen movie for the last two years has used "All Star" in their trailer, because it's rebellious and hip without being dangerous, or at least it's shorthand for rebellious and hip without being dangerous.)

[eido.livejournal.com]

Since you were already discussing VH and "Vampire Hunter D", according to AICN there's going to be some animated prequel (feat. Hugh's voice as VH) about "Van Helsing". You can check out the DVD covers (comparisons to the VHD cover) at the link. I'd probably put money down at this point that Stephen Sommers has indeed seen VHD and was taking notes.

[amezri.livejournal.com]

Very delayed in answering, but thanks for the link! The prequel looks pretty interesting, if it is true.