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‘Catch-22’ Miniseries on the Way; George Clooney to Star and Direct
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| 11/17/2017
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Posted on 11/17/2017 10:01:48 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Captain Peter Blood
Sad that these clowns can't come up with anything original. Really pathetic — retread Catch-22, retread your failed career?
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posted on
11/17/2017 10:30:23 AM PST
by
Governor Dinwiddie
(Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
To: Captain Peter Blood
I predict yet another Clooney bomb.
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posted on
11/17/2017 10:30:56 AM PST
by
RooRoobird20
("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves."a)
To: Captain Peter Blood
Col. Cathcart was pretty much a prop. The series will turn on who they get to play Yossarian and Milo Minderbinder.
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posted on
11/17/2017 10:31:38 AM PST
by
Tallguy
(Twitter short-circuits common sense. Please engage your brain before tweeting.)
To: Captain Peter Blood
Another movie I will not see.
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posted on
11/17/2017 10:33:35 AM PST
by
bmwcyle
(People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
To: Captain Peter Blood
Clooney’s next stink bomb.
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posted on
11/17/2017 10:33:37 AM PST
by
Huskrrrr
To: Captain Peter Blood
😹😹👯🍿🦄💩💸. ZERO stars review.
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posted on
11/17/2017 10:36:05 AM PST
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: WKUHilltopper
"Fondlewood". ✊🏼
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posted on
11/17/2017 10:37:53 AM PST
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: Captain Peter Blood
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posted on
11/17/2017 10:41:17 AM PST
by
Salamander
(And Yet, Ezekiel Smiles...)
To: simpson96
Read the book, saw the movie, don’t need a third bite, particularly from one whose proven creativity makes the dregs look like the cream.
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posted on
11/17/2017 10:42:39 AM PST
by
DPMD
To: Steely Tom
No draft, but hardly no war.
To: clintonh8r
My favorite book ever, also. I wangled it into being assigned to my freshman English class in one of the assignments. so I could share my passion.
I attended the red carpet opening of the movie in Atlanta. The movie was so true to the book, I was able to mouth much of the dialogue as it was being delivered on screen. It was a fine adaptation.
As for this Clooney thing, that fact that the star of the series is Colonel Cathcart and not Yossarian, tells me they’ve blown it already.
To: simpson96
He’s a 3rd rate actor.....and a jerk.
To: Captain Peter Blood
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posted on
11/17/2017 11:01:03 AM PST
by
IronJack
To: Jim 0216
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posted on
11/17/2017 11:02:44 AM PST
by
IronJack
To: Steely Tom
Catch-22 barely made sense as best seller during the Vietnam War, when the draft was in full swing. Now there's no war, and no draft.
Maybe George is betting the situation will change.
George seems to have an obsession with this anachronistic stuff. In 2000, he did a live televised broadcast play which was a remake of Fail Safe, which left everyone scratching their heads due to the (apparent) distance from the Cold War. In the early '60s, the book and movie worked, but thirty-six years later - not so much.
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posted on
11/17/2017 11:21:02 AM PST
by
Charles Martel
(Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
To: Captain Peter Blood
Is there still a squadron’s worth of flyable B-25s around. CGI just won’t cut it.
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posted on
11/17/2017 11:40:03 AM PST
by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
To: clintonh8r
This is one of my all time favorite books. Ive read it during three different times of my life, and each time its meant something different to me. It is virtually impossible to script and direct and still be faithful to the book, even the brilliant Mike Nichols couldnt pull it off. I see a disaster in the offing. Unfortunately an entire generation will think of this hot mess as the real Catch-22.
Agreed. This is not a project suited to persons of marginal skill, such as Clooney. George should stick with projects more in line with his meager intellectual endowment, such as a film adaptation of "Dick and Jane Fall into the Sewer" or something similar.
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posted on
11/17/2017 11:50:25 AM PST
by
Milton Miteybad
(I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
To: Milton Miteybad
I REALLY hate these people.
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posted on
11/17/2017 12:05:42 PM PST
by
Uversabound
(Might does not make right, but it does enforce the commonly recognized rights of each succeeding gen)
To: Captain Peter Blood
Will Clooney play the part of Klinger?
To: Cowboy Bob
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