Man From U.N.C.L.E movie

[MrMaooz]

I keep using the wrong smiley.

Yeah, well anyways, I too have no idea what this show really is about besides 2 spies.

 

[Octoberist]

The show's before my time (I hate saying stuff like that) and I never saw it.

My defense is that, as a kid, they used to have reruns of old tv shows like 'I Love Lucy', 'Get Smart' and 'Gilligan's Island'. So I was lucky enough to catch them. But they never played 'The Man from UNCLE'. Or at least, that I remembered.

 

[warhorse78]

So, with the story and the two up and coming leads, does this movie have potential?

 

[MrMaooz]

Yes.

 

[Poni_Boy]

As much as I want to I can't get excited for this. I'm still pissed about The Avengers movie. What a piece of crap that was.

 

[flickchick85]

As much as I want to I can't get excited for this. I'm still pissed about The Avengers movie. What a piece of crap that was.

This could very well end up being bad, but they'd have to be actively sabotaging it to make it that bad, lol.

 

[Poni_Boy]

This could very well end up being bad, but they'd have to be actively sabotaging it to make it that bad, lol.

All it takes is a film making crew who don't understand why the property was popular (which is more common than not nowadays) so they modernize the hell out of it and throw in tons of action. I hope that's not the case here but they'll have to go out of their way to earn my excitement. Once bitten and all that

 

[dark_b]

As much as I want to I can't get excited for this. I'm still pissed about The Avengers movie. What a piece of crap that was.

this is superherohype. you can not writte The Avengers and expect everyone to know that you mean the Sean Connery movie. haha t:

 

[flickchick85]

All it takes is a film making crew who don't understand why the property was popular (which is more common than not nowadays) so they modernize the hell out of it and throw in tons of action. I hope that's not the case here but they'll have to go out of their way to earn my excitement. Once bitten and all that

Understandable.

Some modernization is inevitable, but I do hope they keep the 60's setting at least.

 

[Octoberist]

They will keep the 60's setting. There was a Variety article about the producer's struggle to make this thing, and how he insisted on the Cold War setting.

 

[Dark Raven]

The problem is also making them stray too far from their characters. This could easily end up like lightweight movies such as I-Spy or the already-mentioned Avengers with Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman. The latter one made it that the 60s never stopped so everything was still styled that way even in the late 90s. Fiennes and Thurman weren't great in their roles.

 

[flickchick85]

They will keep the 60's setting. There was a Variety article about the producer's struggle to make this thing, and how he insisted on the Cold War setting.

Was that before or after the budget cuts?

 

[Rowsdower!]

As much as I want to I can't get excited for this. I'm still pissed about The Avengers movie. What a piece of crap that was.

For a second I thought you meant Marvel's The Avengers, and I was like, "What the hell does that have to do with anything?" LOL

And yeah, THAT Avengers movie was f***ing awful. But I don't think we have to worry about the villains running around in teddy bear costumes or Sean Connery trying to control the weather in this movie.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Was that before or after the budget cuts?

You say budget cuts faintly like it's a bad thing. I'm sure they can do a 60's set movie with 75mil. Though they might have to write actual characters, good dialogue and a good story now that they don't have unlimited funds.

 

[Dark Raven]

For a second I thought you meant Marvel's The Avengers, and I was like, "What the hell does that have to do with anything?" LOL

And yeah, THAT Avengers movie was f***ing awful. But I don't think we have to worry about the villains running around in teddy bear costumes or Sean Connery trying to control the weather in this movie.

The thing is that all of that was pretty faithful to the source material. So was that house with the weird angles from which there was no escape. They are all homages to actual episodes. So the question becomes: is the source material the problem? Is it just not something that would appeal to audiences with its rather surreal elements?

 

[Rowsdower!]

Perhaps. I was just having a similar conversation about The Spirit in another thread. From his point of view at least, that movie was very faithful to the source material.

Sometimes I think screenwriters and directors really have to look at what works in a movie and see if the source material either needs serious changes in the adaptation... or perhaps shouldn't be adapted at all. For example, the comic book Wanted is brilliant but also not something that could ever truly be adapted to a movie faithfully. So they instead decided to make a movie with the same name and maybe two scenes from the comic and changed EVERYTHING else. And it was a piece of sh**.

Sometimes, just don't try adapting the unadaptable.

 

[Dark Raven]

Or maybe in some cases (like the Man From UNCLE) maybe they should adapt/ remake actual episodes for the big screen. Some of them were released as theatrical movies with additional footage (and in colour). They got progressively worse, but some of the early movies like "To Trap A Spy" (which was the pilot "The Vulcan Affair") could be remade so that they could take what works and eschew anything that isn't as great. At least they know that it already works in an existing form, and they can just improve it rather than starting completely from scratch.

It would be like some comic book movies adapting existing comic story lines such as XM: DOFP.

 

[flickchick85]

You say budget cuts faintly like it's a bad thing. I'm sure they can do a 60's set movie with 75mil. Though they might have to write actual characters, good dialogue and a good story now that they don't have unlimited funds.

I'm not saying it like it's a bad thing at all. I was just genuinely asking if that interview with the producer was before or after the budget cuts, because things change. I like that it's not gonna be some overpriced blockbuster, because as this summer has proven, we have way too many of those. If the Hunger Games cost $80m, then surely this shouldn't cost more. I'm just saying, for a project still in the early stages, the period setting might be one of the first things to go when they have to rethink it for a significantly different budget.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I'm not saying it like it's a bad thing at all. I was just genuinely asking if that interview with the producer was before or after the budget cuts, because things change. I like that it's not gonna be some overpriced blockbuster, because as this summer has proven, we have way too many of those. If the Hunger Games cost $80m, then surely this shouldn't cost more. I'm just saying, for a project still in the early stages, the period setting might be one of the first things to go when they have to rethink it for a significantly different budget.

You actually make some really great points that I didn't think about. Things have changed so much that nobody should be ruling out the period changing.

 

[Poni_Boy]

Hugh Grant has been cast as the head of British Naval Intelligence

 

[Dark Raven]

Hmmm. Interesting. Is he going to do his usual Hugh routine or will he be more serious?

And when are they going to cast Mr Waverley?

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I keep forgeting that filming starts in September, casting should be coming fast and furious now.

 

[Dark Raven]

What's this highlighted section on this article from SHH's front page?

Hugh Grant Boards The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/178705-hugh-grant-boards-the-man-from-uncle

As production on the film gears up to begin next month, The Hollywood Reporter brings word that Hugh Grant has joined the cast of Guy Ritchie's The Man From U.N.C.L.E. opposite Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander and Elizabeth Debicki.

Steven Soderbergh was originally planning to direct the feature, based on the original NBC television series that starred Robert Vaughn as Napoleon Solo and David McCallum as Illya Kuryakin. They were agents of United Network Command for Law Enforcement (U.N.C.L.E.) who fight the forces of Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity (T.H.R.U.S.H.).

Cavill will play Solo with Hammer as Kuryakin, although the names may ultimately differ in the final film, especially if the project contemporizes the action and maintains some subtle continuity with the original series.

Grant, who will play the head of British Naval Intelligence, recently provided a voice for Aardman Animation's The Pirates! Band of Misfits and played several roles in the Tom Tykwer and Andy and Lana Wachowski's Cloud Atlas.

Is there a possibility that they won't actually be called Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin? If so, how dumb is that? It will just become like those Charlie's Angels movies with modern Angels. People want to see the original characters returning not new ones.

 

[Poni_Boy]

Yup. If the setting is modernized then the characters (names and all) will be modernized too to appeal to as broad an audience as possible. At the end of the day I think they'll go for a straight up contemporary 007 film just with two Bonds

 

[green]

I dont really see the budget concerns. Ritchie has only made one film that had a budget over $100 mill. If they are filming in England and Italy there are areas in both countries that have not changed much since the 60's anyhow if they are keeping it in that period.
I trust Ritchie to doing something cool with it.