Another Writer has been added: David Self

[Kelly]

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0783100/

• Captain America (2009) (announced)
• Deathlok (2008) (announced)
• Sub-Mariner (2006) (announced) Interesting!
• Fantastic Four 2 (2007) (pre-production)
• Beyond (2006) (TV) (completed)
• Road to Perdition (2002) (screenplay)
• Thirteen Days (2000) (written by)
  [*]... aka Thirteen Days Which Shocked the World (USA)
• The Haunting (1999) (screenplay)
  [*]... aka Maldición, La (USA: Spanish title)

Plot Summary for
Beyond (2006) (TV)
Newly appointed director of the JPL Laboratories, irascible but brilliant DR. MORRIS FITCH starts his new job off with a bang as he brainstorms a radical plan to deflect a pathogen-infected meteor currently on a collision path with the Earth...

Plot Summary for
Deathlok
Plot Outline: A man unwittingly finds himself the subject of an experiment which slowly turns him into a cyborg, with computer and robotic parts replacing nearly his entire body...
Status: Announced
Comments: David Self's been hired to rewrite the script, studio's looking for a new director for Deathlok.

The others I figure most know the premise of the plots...

 

[Kelly]

Interesting information on Sub-Mariner

Production Companies:
Marvel Comics
Misher Films

Distributors:
Universal Pictures (2006) (USA) (theatrical)

 

[Carp Man]

Well good lord. Another unknown. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Things that make you scratch yourself. Didn't they learn from the 1st film, what happens when you have too many hands in the pot ? What happened to the days when you had 1 writer ? It would be like having 3 directors, each with his own ideas. No you have 1 director, why do you have to write by commitee ?

 

[Kelly]

Well good lord. Another unknown. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Things that make you scratch yourself. Didn't they learn from the 1st film, what happens when you have too many hands in the pot ? What happened to the days when you had 1 writer ? It would be like having 3 directors, each with his own ideas. No you have 1 director, why do you have to write by commitee ?

Just because you haven't heard of him doesn't make him an unknown...it just means you've never heard of him.

Looks to me like the writers are bringing different gifts to the table...he seems to be from a sci-fi background....nothing wrong with that in an F4 movie.....

 

[Dragon]

Now this is about the first good bit of news. David Self is a talented writer. So, hopefully he can inject some life and creativity into this movie that was lakcing in the first.

 

[Hunter Rider]

He wrote the screenplay for Road To Perdition
hopefully they can all come together to form a cohesive unit

 

[Milkman95]

This is good news.

 

[Carp Man]

Just because you haven't heard of him doesn't make him an unknown...it just means you've never heard of him.

Looks to me like the writers are bringing different gifts to the table...he seems to be from a sci-fi background....nothing wrong with that in an F4 movie.....

Sometimes unknowns are good. And bringing different ideas to the table is also good. Just seams to me like who decides which script they go with ? Fox ? Avi ? Do they take something from all 3 ? Just seams a bit blured to me. But if thats what they want, it may all turn out good. Then again it may not. But we shall see. Old saying, too many hands spoils the soup. .

 

[Retroman]

Self is a good writer and has been working on Marvel scripts for some time.Most of them haven't been made yet.

OMG at jmafan's avatar.

 

[Kelly]

Self is a good writer and has been working on Marvel scripts for some time.Most of them haven't been made yet.

OMG at jmafan's avatar.

LOL, yeah Jessica doesn't like paparazzi very much......

 

[Retroman]

LOL, yeah Jessica doesn't like paparazzi very much......

 

[Dynasty]

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Mark Frost
Don Payne
David Self

David Self is easily the best of those 3, but lets just hope it's true, last time i checked IMDBs credibility was bunk, Aunt May as Carnage?? Anywhere else confirms this?

 

[Kelly]

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Mark Frost
Don Payne
David Self

David Self is easily the best of those 3, but lets just hope it's true, last time i checked IMDBs credibility was bunk, Aunt May as Carnage?? Anywhere else confirms this?

They've been pretty good in the respect of writers, and other crew for the most part.....the problem with Imdb is their slowness of changing....

 

[Carp Man]

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Mark Frost
Don Payne
David Self

David Self is easily the best of those 3, but lets just hope it's true, last time i checked IMDBs credibility was bunk, Aunt May as Carnage?? Anywhere else confirms this?

I agree. Sometimes imbd goes on just a rumor.

 

[Kelly]

I agree. Sometimes imbd goes on just a rumor.

No actually they don't for Cast/Crew lists.....they usually wait too long to post things as far as their Cast and Crew lists, release dates and what not goes......


As far as their articles, yes they go on alot of rumors........I've used IMDB.pro for awhile, and they have actually been the best as far as Cast Crew, etc.....just REALLY SLOW....but articles pretty much like most celebrity/movie site, usually goes on rumors....

 

[Carp Man]

If you say so. I just go by what i hear about them.

 

[Kelly]

If you say so. I just go by what i hear about them.

I go by what I've seen in using them as a source for the past 2 years.....


They are not the best by far.....very slow, but for the most part the reason they are slow on the Cast/Crew changes is because they do not want to go by rumor. But their celebrity articles are a different story. They were the last with F4 dropping Kinberg off the list of writers, etc....things like that.....they are also slow on release date changes....IN FACT .... they pretty much just recently changed the release date of F4 2....now if you want to call that wrong information....ok.....I simply call it SLOW information....ALSO, sometimes in their descriptions of plots they have been off quite a bit......so YES they have their problems, but not in the area of cast and crew for the most part...

 

[Carp Man]

I'm getting a bit worried since they're using the Don Payne script.

Don Payne also happens to be the writer of My Super Ex girlfriend.

The recent debuted trailer of My Super Ex girlfriend is very cheesy and corny.

I tend to have the same reservations, but at least he is a fan of the comic, and from his interview, he seams to know the FF, and what their about. And he is on so we'll just have to hope he and Frost, and the other writer they just added, that we'll get a good story. Just keep your fingers crossed.

 

[TrailerMusic]

I would be more worried about how much FOX will interfere again

 

[echostation]

this film will be even a bigger screw up than X-3... Silver Surfer and Galactus?? Penned by the dude who wrote Super Ex-Girlfriend... joy, that doesn't exactly stand out as the most promising start to a project...

there are at least 2000 greater and much better writers who could write a kick ass script involving this classic arc in Fantastic Four, not only that, my bigger problem, much better directors too... Tim Story sucks, he's plain bloody awful and his technical credits on the film were god damn pitiful...

 

[Willie Lumpkin]

I'm getting a bit worried since they're using the Don Payne script.

Don Payne also happens to be the writer of My Super Ex girlfriend.

The recent debuted trailer of My Super Ex girlfriend is very cheesy and corny.

Respectfully, I think it's difficult to judge the actual quality of a film from a preview, and trying to judge the abilities of the scriptwriter is an enormous leap.

 

[Kelly]

this film will be even a bigger screw up than X-3... Silver Surfer and Galactus?? Penned by the dude who wrote Super Ex-Girlfriend... joy, that doesn't exactly stand out as the most promising start to a project...

there are at least 2000 greater and much better writers who could write a kick ass script involving this classic arc in Fantastic Four, not only that, my bigger problem, much better directors too... Tim Story sucks, he's plain bloody awful and his technical credits on the film were god damn pitiful...

mmmmm'kay

 

[Lightning Strykez!]

Now this is truly good news to read.

 

[Malus]

there are at least 2000 greater and much better writers who could write a kick ass script involving this classic arc in Fantastic Four

Two thousand. How'd you arrive at that number?
I doubt there are two thousand working script writers in Hollywood.
And I seriously doubt very many are even familiar with the Galactus Trilogy, much less fans of the series themselves.

not only that, my bigger problem, much better directors too... Tim Story sucks, he's plain bloody awful

And you have seen Barbershop, yes?
Just asking, 'cause I'm getting really sick of seeing Tim Story bashed by people who've only seen Taxi.
I can forgive what may have been his shortcomings on Fantastic Four, as it was a movie made by commitee if ever there was one.

 

[Kirk Langstrom]

Well good lord. Another unknown. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Things that make you scratch yourself. Didn't they learn from the 1st film, what happens when you have too many hands in the pot ? What happened to the days when you had 1 writer ? It would be like having 3 directors, each with his own ideas. No you have 1 director, why do you have to write by commitee ?

"Unknown" really shouldnt be a factor. Stephen King and J.K. Rowling were once "unknown", and look at them now.

In regards to multiple writers; i believe both Spider-Man movies had several writers (iirc), and those movies turned out ok.