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Scarlett Johansson or Anne Hathaway for Bride Of Frankenstein (upcoming remake)?
Cinemapost ^ | 06.21.09 | Pail Larn

Posted on 06/21/2009 10:20:24 AM PDT by Perdogg

The NY Post suggests that insiders believe that producer Brian Glazer is eyeing either Scarlett Johansson or Anne Hathaway to reprise the role of Frankenstein’s Bride, first portrayed by the beautiful Elsa Lanchester in 1935.

“She’ll be young. They’re looking for a person with great power and sex appeal” say insiders, according to The Post.

I could perhaps see Scarlett Jo’ as ‘The Bride’, but I’m not sure about Anne. To be honest, I have a hard time visualizing anyone but Elsa in the role, so I wouldn’t be shocked if they are probably quite some time from announcing just who will get the role. It could well end up going to an unknown.

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To: Perdogg

I think Hollywood has long missed the point of the novel. It is less a monster story than it is a treatise on ethics. This is why the monster doesn’t even need a name—because it is just an outgrowth of the ethical, moral and spiritual failure of Dr. Frankenstein.

In the modern world, the irony of this is staggering. This is because the scientist and physician who is ethical, moral and spiritual is today the outcast, the renegade. The amorality of Dr. Frankenstein is the norm. His research would be sponsored by the US government and several biomedical corporations.

Today, scientists and medical researchers actively seek out ethical barriers to violate. What in his day would have properly made Frankenstein an outcast would today earn him a Nobel prize, numerous patents for “reanimation of cadavers into soulless humanoids”, and the arguments would be cast in whether the monster itself should be patentable, and could it be freely used in experiments like a lab animal.

His peers would be deeply offended at anyone who objected to the grotesqueness, the unnatural inhumanity of his creations, as “anti-scientific”. Legislation would be proposed that after death, people should no longer have legal possession of their own bodies, as they are too valuable for scientific research into reanimation.


21 posted on 06/21/2009 10:53:51 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: mamelukesabre; lewisglad
No. I am serious. Escape from NY 2011

Red Dawn 2010

Adrianne Palicki is the movie. She was 2 when the first one was made. John Milius is given credit for the story.

Clash of the Titans Release date of 3/26/010
22 posted on 06/21/2009 10:55:55 AM PDT by Perdogg (Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
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To: Perdogg
I've always enjoyed the original and as a rule think that remakes are a bad idea, but what got me was this line: "the beautiful Elsa Lancaster". Beautiful? WTF?

I think she looks better as a reanimated corpse.


23 posted on 06/21/2009 10:56:18 AM PDT by stormer
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

I agree. The novel was aboutthe consequences of playing God.


24 posted on 06/21/2009 10:56:56 AM PDT by Perdogg (Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
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To: Perdogg

Red Dawn ?

Do Obama brown shirts replace the Cubans?


25 posted on 06/21/2009 11:00:30 AM PDT by Popman (Joe Biden REALLY can't be Vice President, can he ?)
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To: Rocko
Clash of the Titans 2010


26 posted on 06/21/2009 11:00:44 AM PDT by Perdogg (Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
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To: Rocko
Clash of the Titans 2010


27 posted on 06/21/2009 11:00:44 AM PDT by Perdogg (Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
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To: Rocko
Clash of the Titans 2010


28 posted on 06/21/2009 11:00:45 AM PDT by Perdogg (Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
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To: Rocko

sorry about the triple post, my computer got stuck.


29 posted on 06/21/2009 11:01:37 AM PDT by Perdogg (Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
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To: Perdogg

I tried to avoid using the phrase “playing God”, because it’s not just about that. Most of the offenses are against people, and are not so lofty.

In recent history, we have some truly appalling examples of moral and ethical failings, that in no way reflect upon God. Eugenics, the Tuskegee experiment, radioactive isotopes being given to unwitting people, Mengele’s experiments, etc. The utter abandonment of morality, ethics and spiritual reservations.


30 posted on 06/21/2009 11:20:15 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: Perdogg
.. and put the seat down, my little bolt neck!

I understand that Anne Hathaway will be starring in a biopic of Judy Garland!

31 posted on 06/21/2009 11:31:00 AM PDT by Young Werther (Julius Caesar (Quae Cum Ita Sunt. Since these things are so.))
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To: Perdogg

Mine gets stuck on stupid too


32 posted on 06/21/2009 11:59:32 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: Perdogg

Knowing Hollywood, they’ll take the title “Red Dawn” and turn it into political bio-pic of Obama.


33 posted on 06/21/2009 4:44:41 PM PDT by skepsel
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