Posted on 10/13/2014 1:34:01 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
Set in a world where corporations have seemingly unlimited power, the story will focus on one man's efforts to beat the system.
Although it is still known for campy projects like "Sharknado," the deal is another example of how SyFy has been upping its game in scripted content. The cabler recently ordered the alien series "Hunters" from "The Walking Dead's" Gale Anne Hurd and it is developing "Ghost Brigades," which is based on the "Old Man's War" universe book series, with Wolfgang Petersen and Scott Stuber.
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Matt Damon and Ben Affleck; two reasons I will never watch it.
Affleck is a liberal dope, but I thoroughly despise Damon and will not watch his work for whatever reason.
If you two remember .... there has already been such a movie: “rollerball”.
They would do better to go back to some classic ‘Golden Age’ SF on similar themes, like “Gladiator At Law,” or Mack Reynolds’s series about Major Mauser, the corporate mercenary, than to try and contrive something “original.” At least those old writers had a grasp of plot, character, and action.
and what corporation does afleck work for?
The SyFy channel produces documentaries?
I’m not watching it
Typical limousine liberals. I’m sick of these millionaires (and billionaires - Buffet, Gates, etc.) posing as the Vanguard of the Proletariat. Their fake concern for the under dog is a mask to cover their guilt at acquiring their money in something as ephemeral as play acting. If they acquired their wealth through hard work and sixteen hour days, believe me, they wouldn’t feel guilty about “conserving” their wealth.
Wrong! Damon and Affleck have stole someone’s idea and are developing it. Just like what happened with Good Will Hunting.
I’m more worried about a world where governments have unlimited power.
Affleck and Damon. Add their brain power together and it does not even approach that of the late Rodney King. Even worse, they are two very irritating persons.
The ridiculous irony is that both of them ARE wealthy corporations.
Don’t tell me.
I’ve seen a few of those SYFY disaster movies.
Evil Corporate military types who want money and power, usually white men in suits and ties, mess with the atmosphere with science experiments or/paranormal objects.
A bunch of tree hugging teens or crazy nature types help a renegade scientist, teen with angst, scientist type woman, and assorted nerdy types to run through the west with assorted meteors/tornadoes/snowstorms/planets/volcanos chasing them all down, sometimes right down the street, while the team struggles to get to the “magic” spot with the “magic” object only they know how to use in order to stop the world from ending.
Somebody you like dies, usually the crazier ones first.
The evil military/corporate guys get vaporized.
The good liberals save the day, with the help of some multicultural types.
There, I have saved you all tons of wasted hours and blasted brain cells. I promise that is EXACTLY the plot of the last few dozen syfy disaster movies.
I wonder what Jack Nicholson’s come up with this time.
Still more Leftist crapola - Hollywood just doesn’t get it.
Friend, you absolute missed what I said. Try reading it again. I am wrong about nothing. Read what I said again and FILL IN THE BLANK WITH WHATEVER WORD YOU WANT TO USE!
Haven't you heard that we are supposed to take a more merciful approach to unmarried couples?
The comment wasn’t directed at you. I’m saying the article is wrong. Daman and Affleck have never written anything other than their first screenplay that was never made into a movie. Someone else wrote Good Will Hunting and the studio gave them credit as a marketing tool.
“Two starving actors, friends since childhood, who were selling their furniture for grocery money write a screenplay.”
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