The FFINO ZONE - Part 3

[SSJ4_Haruhi]

Only realised afterwards that that is the Daily Mail, they're known for having very 'different' views here in the UK. :/

 

[Brian Braddock]

Hate the Daily Mail with a passion.

 

[Docker2.0]

I don't want to sound like a gossip mag, but Katie Mara has been spotted at the airport after the FFINO weekend. Don't know if the article is making a fuss over what most celebrities do anyway, but she was avoiding eye contact wearing shades and supposedly looking glum, despite pictures of her with a little smile.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...-airport-Fantastic-Four-bombs-box-office.html

I'm surprised she was spotted. Mara is pretty but she is one of the most generic celebrities I've ever seen.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

She doesn't look glum in those photos to me and am I supposed to hate her because she comes from a rich family?

 

[SSJ4_Haruhi]

I think the writer must have done, seems a bit harsh, thought it'd just be talking about her feeling down due to the film...but it doesn't.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I'm sure all of the actors are disappointed with the film's reception and box office. Surely all of them, even MBJ, saw the failure coming during the last week before release.

I think that this is a good message to the studios. Do not half ass these films, because fans and general audiences alike can smell a soulless cynical cash grab from a mile away.

 

[Willie Lumpkin]

I'm sure all of the actors are disappointed with the film's reception and box office. Surely all of them, even MBJ, saw the failure coming during the late week before release.

I think they saw it long before then. I've been watching their Twitters since the start of production and there has been very little excitement or enthusiasm for the film from the cast for the past year-and-a-half.

I think they knew they were involved in a stinker from the moment they started filming.

 

[Dark Raven]

I think they saw it long before then. I've been watching their Twitters since the start of production and there has been very little excitement or enthusiasm for the film from the cast for the past year-and-a-half.

I think they knew they were involved in a stinker from the moment they started filming.

I think MBJ saw it ever since he said we'd see it anyway.

And I'm thinking that Trank put in some metaphors into the film of the friendship between Reed and Ben to say that this is what he wants his own friendship with MBJ to be like. Just like he called on Ben in the middle of the night to come and join him in the fateful drunken venture that would ruin their lives, Trank called up MBJ to join him on the fateful drunken venture that would ruin theirs.

 

[SSJ4_Haruhi]

I wonder if/when any of the main 4 stars or Trank will post anything about FFINO on their Twitter?

 

[Willie Lumpkin]

I think MBJ saw it ever since he said we'd see it anyway.

And I'm thinking that Trank put in some metaphors into the film of the friendship between Reed and Ben to say that this is what he wants his own friendship with MBJ to be like. Just like he called on Ben in the middle of the night to come and join him in the fateful drunken venture that would ruin their lives, Trank called up MBJ to join him on the fateful drunken venture that would ruin theirs.

Hmmm, you may be on to something. But it seems their roles may have reversed because when Trank got fired from Star Wars and MBJ didn't offer any support, that seems like Reed abandoning Ben in the film.

 

[BatsDC]

I wonder if/when any of the main 4 stars or Trank will post anything about FFINO on their Twitter?

Not for a while

Although with Trank, who knows

 

[Willie Lumpkin]

Not for a while

Although with Trank, who knows

Yeah, I think the sane people involved in this project have the sense not to post anything more controversial than "Check out FF this weekend!" until the film is out on DVD and blu-ray, but Trank could say anything at any time.

 

[Joe Rockhead]

I'm sure all of the actors are disappointed with the film's reception and box office. Surely all of them, even MBJ, saw the failure coming during the last week before release.

I think that this is a good message to the studios. Do not half ass these films, because fans and general audiences alike can smell a soulless cynical cash grab from a mile away.

I honestly feel bad for the actors - certainly the primary members of the cast. In all the videos with four of them together at different interviews, they really seem to get along well and were having fun with the press tour.

Maybe they did so because it's better to stand together in the face of all the harsh criticism.

 

[VictorDomashev]

Yeah, I think the sane people involved in this project have the sense not to post anything more controversial than "Check out FF this weekend!" until the film is out on DVD and blu-ray, but Trank could say anything at any time.

I wonder if MBJ will say

"They'll buy it anyway"

When the DVD / Blu-Ray is announced. Come on MBJ for old times sakes

 

[Dark Raven]

Hmmm, you may be on to something. But it seems their roles may have reversed because when Trank got fired from Star Wars and MBJ didn't offer any support, that seems like Reed abandoning Ben in the film.

Maybe when Johnny calls Ben "the Thing that nobody wanted", that's MBJ alluding to Trank's directorial career since he's now the director that nobody wanted.

 

[MadVillainy]

Actors rarely come out an admit a movie wasn't a success so soon. It'll take some months before any of them talk about it honestly.

For example, Channing Tatum did an AMA sometime this summer around the release of Magic Mike XXL where he more or less admitted that Jupiter Ascending , which was released only in February, was bad

 

[metaphysician]

Why were there so many bans?

Administration making the mistake of believing that conceding to the bad faith "fans" of this movie would somehow make this forum a healthier place. Hopefully they've learned what happens when you pay the Dane his Danegeld.

 

[The Infernal]

Hate the Daily Mail with a passion.

Yup. The paper that supported the Nazis and the Blackshirts and hasn't really changed much since.

 

[Brian Braddock]

I honestly feel bad for the actors - certainly the primary members of the cast. In all the videos with four of them together at different interviews, they really seem to get along well and were having fun with the press tour.

Maybe they did so because it's better to stand together in the face of all the harsh criticism.

I'm torn on that one.

On one hand it must be horrible to be in a stinker of a movie; especially if you are contractually bound to then go on the whole promotional merry go round; the whole experience must be a nightmare. Theres also the idea thst they might also somehow be perceived as a failure themselves by being in such a movie, even if the failure of the movie isnt actually down to them. On the other, these actors and actresses get paid lots of money and have wealth (and the comfort that comes with such wealth) that the majority of regular people will never experience. So Im sure that they can afford endeavours that can lessen the pain somewhat.

Its the fans that I feel sorry for.

 

[Brian Braddock]

Yup. The paper that supported the Nazis and the Blackshirts and hasn't really changed much since.

Indeed. They now support the conservatives.

 

[spideyboy_1111]

I don't think any of these actors are going to be having "that bad" of a time nor take it that personally.. they've had negative reaction from the get-go and many have filmed other films since this one... have other stuff coming out, are currently filming other projects, and have more stuff to look forward to.

 

[MadVillainy]

I still wanna see the actors team up again. Obviously not in FF, but I think they'd be good in a comedy. At least MBJ and Teller.

They were in That Awkward Moment but that was terrible and MBJ wasn't given anything to do.

 

[Endeavor]

I still wanna see the actors team up again. Obviously not in FF, but I think they'd be good in a comedy. At least MBJ and Teller.

They were in That Awkward Moment but that was terrible and MBJ wasn't given anything to do.

Saturday Night skit a year or so from now, dissing this garbage of a movie?

 

[Joe Rockhead]

Thinking about it now... Sue was the designer for the environment suits, and it looks like Reed, Johnny, Victor and Ben were all comfortable in their suits.

There is NO way that Sue planned for Ben to be there for their clandestine trip.

So was Bell hired in part because he's roughly Mara's size and could fit in her suit?

 

[Dark Raven]

Trank seems to have his eye on ruining another franchise:

Gary Whitta (and Josh Trank) still really want to make a Columbo reboot with Mark Ruffalo

Can Gary Whitta’s dream for a Columbo reboot actually come to pass? While there’s no project on the books at the moment, the Star Wars: Rogue One writer opened up about his ideas for a new version of Columbo – with Mark Ruffalo in the lead role – during an interview on Kinda Funny’s The GameOverGreggy Show podcast.

“We had an initial conversation with NBC and they basically shut us down,” Whitta said, Kojak with Vin Diesel and other similar projects already in the works. So while Columbo isn’t in active development, Whitta calls it a “dream project,” one that has support from former Rogue One director Josh Trank.

“So it laid fallow for a little while,” Whitta said. “But part of what maybe got it going again is Josh Trank … I became friendly with him and he is like the biggest Columbo fan on the planet. After I started talking about Columbo online, he sent me this massive long email … and he got excited about it. So there is actually renewed effort at the moment. There’s me, and Josh, and a couple of other people who are in the wings on it who are trying to figure out if there is actually a way to do it.”

Trank has tweeted his support of the reboot idea previously, and Ruffalo has expressed his interest as well. Whitta said he, Trank, and Ruffalo all want to do it, but Ruffalo “is super booked up and also his attitude would be like, because we haven’t had a real conversation with him yet, but he’d be like ‘Yeah, I’m open to it, but I’ve got to hear what the actually idea is.’”

Though Whitta isn’t ready to reveal what his story would be – he’s still trying to determine whether he’d like to make it modern day or keep it in the 70’s time period of the show – he does know how he’d like the reboot to air.

“The way that we would want to do it is as a limited event series,” Whitta said. “You’d put it on Netflix, HBO, whatever … you wouldn’t do 22 episodes, because, again, the original Columbo was never that.” Whitta went on to cite the model of BBC’s Sherlock as a possible jumping off point for how the show would be formatted.

We can be sure it will be a dark, grounded and gritty version of Columbo with maybe a bit of body horror thrown in for good measure. Columbo: Chronicle 3.

If Mark Ruffalo is seriously thinking about this, he should run for his life after the Trankwreck this past weekend.