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

[Dark Raven]

I couldn't get into the show once the first season ended. The show lost it's more refined charm and took an unfavourable turn IMO but I don't recall either of the protagonists smoking at all in the first season but it wouldn't be a bad thing if they did. It was the 60s after all.

Well it did start getting like the 60s Batman as its run progressed. I tended to watch them mostly as the feature films anyway (eg The Spy in the Green Hat, The Spy With My Face, To Trap A Spy, The Helicopter Spies, The Karate Killers etc). The films naturally did get progressively worse (since they were just several episodes of the series edited together).

 

[Project862006]

likely wont have henry smoke

i fondly remeber the studios wouldn't let laurie smoke in watchmen(she does in the comic)because they felt smoking is a bad person's habit

 

[slumcat]

New pics from set. This is a well that never runneth dry.

 

[slumcat]

Well, the suit is accurate to Solo's personality. And when I say flashy, I mean in the sense of how Kirk was flashy compared to someone like Picard. Both were charismatic, but Kirk had a more gung-ho style. I suppose it can include Solo's taste for expensive suits too though, but that's more to do with sartorial elegance.

Sartorial elegance . Why I quite like that turn of phrase! It is quite... becoming. t:

 

[MrMaooz]

I don't see why not. It's not going to be a kids movie. I actually hate smoking and have never smoked in my entire life but I think smoking looks cool on screen when certain characters do it. That's probably a somewhat controversial opinion to put out there but I really don't care.

I mean, the guy is handsome man from the 60's. You're right. This isn't a kids movie and it'll add more of the 1960's vibe. If he doesn't though, I don't really care.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I mean, the guy is handsome man from the 60's. You're right. This isn't a kids movie and it'll add more of the 1960's vibe. If he doesn't though, I don't really care.

I watch Mad Men so a character from the 60's constantly smoking is old hat at this point. I don't think the studio would allow it though so I don't really expect to see anyone smoke.

 

[MrMaooz]

Do you guys think the theme will get a modern update like M:I?

 

[slumcat]

Cavill last night went to Pierluigi Restaurant in Italy which is frequented by many big celebrities. The owner posted a picture.

Cavill again has a natural spit curl like in thousand other candid photos.

 

[slumcat]

The 6 major fan complaints about this movie. Those whoa are familiar with the series, care to comment on which are the valid fan complaints and which are not?

1. The lead actors are too tall: Norman Felton, executive producer of the original 1964-68 series, was on record as not wanting “big, ballsy men” as his leads, which is one reason why Vaughn and McCallum, each below 6-feet tall, got the roles. Some fans refer to Kuryakin/McCallum as LBG, or “little blonde guy.”

Cavill is 6-goot-1 while Hammer is 6-foot-5. That is admittedly a big change and some fans don’t like it. Cavill was a last-minute casting change for 5-foot-7 Tom Cruise, who opted out of the project.

2. Henry Cavill is too muscular: Cavill, 30, is the latest screen Superman (in 2013′s Man of Steel) and will reprise the role in 2014 for a Superman-Batman movie that will be released in the summer of 2015. That’s different that Felton’s “everyman” vision.

3. Armie Hammer isn’t blonde enough: Hammer had dark hair playing the Lone Ranger in the 2013 Disney movie. He has lightened his hair, but for some fans he’s not blond enough.
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4. Hammer doesn’t have Illya Kuryakin’s hairstyle: McCallum’s Kuryakin had bangs and his hairstyle got shaggier later in the series. Based on photos taken during filming in Rome, Hammer isn’t attempting the same hairstyle.

5. Why does Hollywood do all these remakes and/or sequels? This is a broader complaint about Hollywood in general. As movie costs have spiraled, studios have gotten conservative and are viewed as less willing to take risks in general.

Occasionally, there are remakes worth doing. Humphrey Bogart wasn’t the first actor to play Sam Spade. My Fair Lady, seen as a screen classic, is essentially a musical remake of Pygmalion. Some argue The Godfather Part II is better than the original. The problem isn’t necessarily remakes per se, but how they’re executed.

6. This is going to be a flop on the scale of 2013′s Lone Ranger movie! Actually, that’s almost impossible. The U.N.C.L.E. movie’s budget is a reported $75 million, while Disney’s Lone Ranger movie had a budget of as much as $240 million.

http://hmssweblog.wordpress.com/2013/10/06/some-fan-complaints-about-the-u-n-c-l-e-movie/
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[I SEE SPIDEY]

The last two aren't fan complaints. I think fans of the show have a right to complain about height, hairstyles and muscles but I don't care. Part of that is because I've never watched the original series and the other part is that I find most complaints of that nature ridiculous.

 

[Octoberist]

Yeah number 6 is just absurd. Also, the spy genre (thanks to Bond) is alive and well. In fact, for the next two years, we've got 'UNCLE', 'The Secret Service', Bond 24, and Mission: Impossible 5 hitting theaters. Even though Jack Ryan isn't suppose to be a spy himself, he does get himself into spy adventures so 'Shadow Recruit' counts too.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

For all I know the movie could bomb and I have predicted bombs before seeing a trailer before (sometimes I've been wrong and sometimes I've been right) but it's too soon for me to predict this film. It depends on how appealing and mainstream it looks, the release date, the marketing and maybe, maybe the reviews. I just can't get a read on it yet, congrats to the individuals who can.

BTW, The Lone Ranger has made over 255mil worldwide (too bad it cost so damn much) I think that Warners would be satisfied if their 75mil remake of a T.V Show did that well.

 

[slumcat]

New photos of Cavill and co. in Rome from yesterday.

 

[Dark Raven]

Kuryakin wearing a suit and tie? That's not in character with him. Maybe he'll comment that he feels uncomfortable in it within the movie.

Hammer still looks significantly taller than Cavill.

 

[Bruce Malone]

Kuryakin wearing a suit and tie? That's not in character with him. Maybe he'll comment that he feels uncomfortable in it within the movie.

Hammer still looks significantly taller than Cavill.

Still? are we assuming cavill is still growing or that he would be wearing lifts for this role?

I wouldn't be surprised though if some in the public are a little surprised when they see the height difference between the two of them as cavill was depicted as realtively tall-ish in MoS.

 

[Dark Raven]

Still, as in even though Hammer is only 3-4 inches taller than Cavill, there still looks a significant difference.

 

[terry78]

Well, everybody can't be 6'5.

 

[Bruce Malone]

Still, as in even though Hammer is only 3-4 inches taller than Cavill, there still looks a significant difference.

3-4 inches is actually a pretty big/noticeable difference in height. It's the difference essentially between someone who's 5'8" and someone who's 6' tall. Hammer has at least 4" on cavill as well.

 

[Dark Raven]

Well good thing that it wasn't Tom Cruise at 5'7" next to Hammer at 6'5". That's nearly a foot taller.

And Batman is going to look gigantic next to Superman when in full costume.

 

[MrMaooz]

Camera techniques will help people. Tom Cruise doesn't look short in his movies.

 

[slumcat]

That's a bad picture too with the perspective. They don't look that far apart usually but obviously 4 inches is significant.

 

[Ajendo]

Kuryakin used to wear suits all the time in season 1 at least, granted they were standard dark suits and not worn with the style if sophisticated elegance that Solo adopted.

As fir muscles, having muscles isn't the problem; it's the size and mass that's jarring. If you took Cavill from how he looked in Immortals he'd be fine in a suit but as he's in superman size/shape it looks like he's ready to hulk out if his suit at any moment and this makes it potentially a hard sell for any guy to really be a credible, physical threat to Cavill's Solo unless he's going up against a bunch of 7ft mountain men.

 

[Ajendo]

And Batman is going to look gigantic next to Superman when in full costume.

It won't appear that way on film.

 

[slumcat]

As fir muscles, having muscles isn't the problem; it's the size and mass that's jarring. If you took Cavill from how he looked in Immortals he'd be fine in a suit but as he's in superman size/shape it looks like he's ready to hulk out if his suit at any moment and this makes it potentially a hard sell for any guy to really be a credible, physical threat to Cavill's Solo unless he's going up against a bunch of 7ft mountain men.

But that's course for the par these days isn't it? Aren't all heroes portrayed as heroic badasses today and Ritchie will portray Solo the same way. Wasn't that always gonna be the case, he ought to have cast Cavill for a reason?

But mostly, Rithcie does not follow the properties he's adapting. He made even Sherlock Holmes into a ripped badass who could beat up bad guys.

 

[Ajendo]

Maybe but secret agents in suits aren't exactly the hulking supermen type. Daniel Craig is a perfect example of having muscles and being a badass but also looks great in a suit without looking like a hulking behemoth ala Cavill. Anyway, this is just an observation maybe and hopefully it will work better within the context of the movie but I'm still very much excited for this movie.