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Date: October 25, 2006
By: Kellvin Chavez
Source: El Mayimbe
Paramount and MTV Films have hired Terence Winter, Emmy-nominated four times for The Sopranos scripts, to pen helmer Tony Scott's remake of The Warriors, reports Variety. The film is an updated version of Paramount's 1979 action film, directed by Walter Hill.
The trade says the project is envisioned as having a heightened reality compared to the original, which was set in New York City. As in the original, the plot will center on the Warriors gang being wrongly accused of assassinating a rival gang leader during a truce and being forced to make their way home through hostile territory.
El Mayimbe takes a look this week at the script.
Rating:F
Give This Movie the Finger
Before I start, is it me or is it really hard to watch a Tony Scott film these days? All of a sudden he got crazy with the camera in films like MAN ON FIRE and DOMINO.
Im sorry but his hyperkinetic cinematography, staccato editing, and saturated colors are a bit too much for me these days. Anyway, he probably has a found the script to use this annoying style. So they hire one of my favorite writers out there Terry Winter (who was heavily rewritten on the 50 cent movie) to update THE WARRIORS.
So what is the verdict?
WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY THINKING?!
Folks, as much as I love this writer, THE WARRIORS remake script is hands down the worst script I read and suffered through this entire year!
THE SCRIPT ROYALLY SUCKS!
Its supremely corny, painstakingly bad, and completely unnecessary. Paramount and MTV are going to have a disaster on their hands with this. You guys at Paramount can get all the writers on board to come and fix this...
...but it doesnt work.
Setting it in modern day L.A.?
CORNY! CORNY! CORNY!
It doesnt work.
My goodness was this script painstakingly bad! Why are Paramount and MTV Films even remaking this and stepchilding Walter Hill and Larry Gordon?!
As much as I didnt like Charlie Kaufmans latest, a few readers reamed me a new one for not finishing it so I took one for the team and punished myself through Winters 105 pages of this script.
I wanted to put it down halfway through and it was an exercise in futility.
Folks, all they did was lift the structure and story of the original and place it in L.A. What is it about? If you seen the movie, there are no spoilers, it is the same movie.
Here is a recap:
CYRUS, declares a truce and calls a summit with the intention of uniting all of the Los Angeles area gangs. However, before he even makes his speech he is assassinated by Luther, leader of the Rogues. Cyrus practices his famous speech from the original on index cards on his way to the meeting. Anyway, Luther subsequently frames the Warriors, getting one of the Warriors LITTLE INCH murdered by a Cambodian gang at the end of Act 1. The rest of the Warriors are forced to flee. The Warriors make their way at night through the LA METRO RAIL, the streets and alleys of Long Beach, Compton, East L.A., and Chinatown while running from and battling hostile gangs like THE ORPHANS, THE VIETNAMESE, THE CAMBODIANS, THE PANTHERS, THE LIZZIES (now a transsexual gang terrible!), THE RIFFS, THE ROGUES, THE WAI-CHINGS and the police. Along the way they lose members, split up, and gain/kidnap a female companion named MERCY who becomes involved with the second-in-command, Swan, all while trying to get home. The script ends after a final showdown with the Rogues at The Warriors home turf of Venice Beach. How original they substitute Coney Island for Venice Beach. THE ROGUES are corrupt L.A. cops. Get it? Rogue Cops?! Oh whatever! The Riffs have massed on the beach, and, having already learned the truth from a wheel-chaired bound RADIO DJ GUCCI GONZALEZ swarm (and presumably kill) the Rogues as the Warriors head off down the shore.
Thats it! The script is like a video game where The Warriors get into one scuffle, then another. Just one level after another with barely enough time for our Warriors to regroup and refocus. A really bad video game.
So who are our warriors?
CLEON, AJAX, COWBOY, FOX, VERMIN, COCHISE an African American with a massive Mohican tattoo on his biceps, SNOW, LITTLE INCH, SWAN and REMBRANDT.
By the way, some people are pissed that the Baseball Furies arent even in this.
Well guess what?
They are!
But to add insult to injury they are not the baseball furies like you remember them.
They are the Latino gang Los Furiosos! The Warriors refer to them simply as Furies.
Yep, the Furies have Los Furiosos inscribed on their bats where Louisville slugger ought to be and on their jerseys!
CORNY!
Get my drift folks? See how corny it is? Ay pero que porqueria of a script!
Oh and by the way fellas, dont even think of taking your girlfriend to see this remake because is it also super misogynistic and completely degrading to women and every girl in this script is a hoe of some sort.
This is the first time ever in a script review where I give the script a complete ****ing F grade!
Now it still doesnt make sense to me why Paramount and MTV would remake this, when it is this bad. As the rewrites come, it will only get worse.
Enough energy on this porqueria. I really wanted to like it because I am a huge Terry Winter fan, but I just couldnt.
Anyway, coming next week for our special Halloween edition script review, we take a look at one of the hottest specs out there Corey Goodmans PRIEST which Sam Raimi is producing Sony/Screen Gems under his Ghost House Pictures banner. Priest is a Vampire Western. A warrior priest teams up with a local sheriff and a priestess to track down a group of vampires who have kidnapped the priests niece.
Hasta el proximo capitulo...
...YO SOY EL MAYIMBE!
Date: October 25, 2006
By: Kellvin Chavez
Source: El Mayimbe
Paramount and MTV Films have hired Terence Winter, Emmy-nominated four times for The Sopranos scripts, to pen helmer Tony Scott's remake of The Warriors, reports Variety. The film is an updated version of Paramount's 1979 action film, directed by Walter Hill.
The trade says the project is envisioned as having a heightened reality compared to the original, which was set in New York City. As in the original, the plot will center on the Warriors gang being wrongly accused of assassinating a rival gang leader during a truce and being forced to make their way home through hostile territory.
El Mayimbe takes a look this week at the script.
Rating:F
Give This Movie the Finger
THE WARRIORS
By
Terrence Winter
105 pages
Yo El Mayimbe here with our weekly script review. This week we take a look at Terrence Winters remake of THE WARRIORS for Tony Scott.By
Terrence Winter
105 pages
Before I start, is it me or is it really hard to watch a Tony Scott film these days? All of a sudden he got crazy with the camera in films like MAN ON FIRE and DOMINO.
Im sorry but his hyperkinetic cinematography, staccato editing, and saturated colors are a bit too much for me these days. Anyway, he probably has a found the script to use this annoying style. So they hire one of my favorite writers out there Terry Winter (who was heavily rewritten on the 50 cent movie) to update THE WARRIORS.
So what is the verdict?
WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY THINKING?!
Folks, as much as I love this writer, THE WARRIORS remake script is hands down the worst script I read and suffered through this entire year!
THE SCRIPT ROYALLY SUCKS!
Its supremely corny, painstakingly bad, and completely unnecessary. Paramount and MTV are going to have a disaster on their hands with this. You guys at Paramount can get all the writers on board to come and fix this...
...but it doesnt work.
Setting it in modern day L.A.?
CORNY! CORNY! CORNY!
It doesnt work.
My goodness was this script painstakingly bad! Why are Paramount and MTV Films even remaking this and stepchilding Walter Hill and Larry Gordon?!
As much as I didnt like Charlie Kaufmans latest, a few readers reamed me a new one for not finishing it so I took one for the team and punished myself through Winters 105 pages of this script.
I wanted to put it down halfway through and it was an exercise in futility.
Folks, all they did was lift the structure and story of the original and place it in L.A. What is it about? If you seen the movie, there are no spoilers, it is the same movie.
Here is a recap:
CYRUS, declares a truce and calls a summit with the intention of uniting all of the Los Angeles area gangs. However, before he even makes his speech he is assassinated by Luther, leader of the Rogues. Cyrus practices his famous speech from the original on index cards on his way to the meeting. Anyway, Luther subsequently frames the Warriors, getting one of the Warriors LITTLE INCH murdered by a Cambodian gang at the end of Act 1. The rest of the Warriors are forced to flee. The Warriors make their way at night through the LA METRO RAIL, the streets and alleys of Long Beach, Compton, East L.A., and Chinatown while running from and battling hostile gangs like THE ORPHANS, THE VIETNAMESE, THE CAMBODIANS, THE PANTHERS, THE LIZZIES (now a transsexual gang terrible!), THE RIFFS, THE ROGUES, THE WAI-CHINGS and the police. Along the way they lose members, split up, and gain/kidnap a female companion named MERCY who becomes involved with the second-in-command, Swan, all while trying to get home. The script ends after a final showdown with the Rogues at The Warriors home turf of Venice Beach. How original they substitute Coney Island for Venice Beach. THE ROGUES are corrupt L.A. cops. Get it? Rogue Cops?! Oh whatever! The Riffs have massed on the beach, and, having already learned the truth from a wheel-chaired bound RADIO DJ GUCCI GONZALEZ swarm (and presumably kill) the Rogues as the Warriors head off down the shore.
Thats it! The script is like a video game where The Warriors get into one scuffle, then another. Just one level after another with barely enough time for our Warriors to regroup and refocus. A really bad video game.
So who are our warriors?
CLEON, AJAX, COWBOY, FOX, VERMIN, COCHISE an African American with a massive Mohican tattoo on his biceps, SNOW, LITTLE INCH, SWAN and REMBRANDT.
By the way, some people are pissed that the Baseball Furies arent even in this.
Well guess what?
They are!
But to add insult to injury they are not the baseball furies like you remember them.
They are the Latino gang Los Furiosos! The Warriors refer to them simply as Furies.
Yep, the Furies have Los Furiosos inscribed on their bats where Louisville slugger ought to be and on their jerseys!
CORNY!
Get my drift folks? See how corny it is? Ay pero que porqueria of a script!
Oh and by the way fellas, dont even think of taking your girlfriend to see this remake because is it also super misogynistic and completely degrading to women and every girl in this script is a hoe of some sort.
This is the first time ever in a script review where I give the script a complete ****ing F grade!
Now it still doesnt make sense to me why Paramount and MTV would remake this, when it is this bad. As the rewrites come, it will only get worse.
Enough energy on this porqueria. I really wanted to like it because I am a huge Terry Winter fan, but I just couldnt.
Anyway, coming next week for our special Halloween edition script review, we take a look at one of the hottest specs out there Corey Goodmans PRIEST which Sam Raimi is producing Sony/Screen Gems under his Ghost House Pictures banner. Priest is a Vampire Western. A warrior priest teams up with a local sheriff and a priestess to track down a group of vampires who have kidnapped the priests niece.
Hasta el proximo capitulo...
...YO SOY EL MAYIMBE!
