Sean Penn dismayed by `Wild' discovery (Spicoli sad that somebody took dead bum’s boots)

AP ^ | Thu Sep 20, 9:01 AM ET | DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer

[wideawake]

I want my replacement keyboard to be ergonomic, with a salad-bar-style guard over it.

[Rummyfan]

The bus had become something of a shrine for Christopher McCandless, the subject of Penn's latest movie, "Into the Wild," a young man who died of starvation there in 1992 after four months of trying to live off the land.

Next Penn can do a flick about the man who got himself eaten by bears..... (unfortunately for her, he also got his girlfriend killed).

[Millee]

Movies can’t capture the details & inner thoughts of the characters. Always better to read the books first & then see how badly Hollyweird strayed from the original story line.

[L,TOWM]

Would it be wrong to hope that Spicoli plays the lead and insists on method acting for that flick?

[wideawake]

Next Penn can do a flick about the man who got himself eaten by bears.....

Ah yes, Timothy "Grizzly Man" Treadwell - another borderline personality who believed the laws of nature didn't apply to him.

Leonardo DiCaprio bought the rights to his story, but while he was in preproduction on the adaptation the Discovery Channel released a German director's documentary about Treadwell and it won some awards.

Not only did this documentary glut the market for movies about idiots eaten by bears, it is also deromanticized Treadwell enough to make the DiCaprio project look a lot less commercial.

[a_chronic_whiner]

maybe he was foraging in the wrong place?

I consider myself a hunter-gatherer of the same sort. I gather a special type of fine leaves the natives call “money”
which I can barter for tools, food and what not.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Would it be wrong to hope that Spicoli plays the lead and insists on method acting for that flick?

LOL

[the lastbestlady]

I really enjoyed the book also. I really fear that Sean Penn is going to ruin it!

[spinestein]

[I want my replacement keyboard to be ergonomic, with a salad-bar-style guard over it.]

Get two.

Then send the other one to me.

[spinestein]

[I consider myself a hunter-gatherer of the same sort. I gather a special type of fine leaves the natives call “money”
which I can barter for tools, food and what not.]

LOL!!!

[biscuit jane]

“Next Penn can do a flick about the man who got himself eaten by bears.....
Ah yes, Timothy “Grizzly Man” Treadwell - another borderline personality who believed the laws of nature didn’t apply to him.”

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I read both books (Into the wild was an audio book). Both of these guys were mental cases not intelligent .
Both of them died in situations that any reasonable person would have would have survived, or not intentionally entered into.

Both were foolishly arrogant.

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A great book reporting on the survival some of a crew fishermen in Alaska titled: “Last RUn” by Todd Lewan.

A page turner and true story. Originally appeared in an Alaska newspaper as a series of articles.

[biscuit jane]

Also, there was once a hilarious blog about the Bear
guy , Treadwell.

People were blurbbering on about his heroism , bravery,
brilliance etc. Still others were raining shards on him,
disgusted with his arrogant antics. Quite a little mosh pit.

[Prodigal Son]

Looking forward to seeing this movie. The book was really good. Glad somebody decided to make it.