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Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell

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IAmNotReallyASpring - Apr 23, 2007 2:41:33 am PDT #8244 of 10001

I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel

They showed a trailer for "Run, Fatboy, Run" and while it had funny moments, it just didn't have a premise that really interested me.

I may be misreading but Run, Fatboy, Run has no involvement from Wright or Frost or anyone from that whole set but Pegg. I think David Schwimmer directed it.

SailAweigh - Apr 23, 2007 2:17:40 pm PDT #8245 of 10001

Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

I thought it said it was from the same producers, or maybe the same production company, which really means nothing. Probably why I looked at it and went "bleah."

Narrator - Apr 24, 2007 2:44:37 pm PDT #8246 of 10001

The evil is this way?

They are filming some of the "Batman" sequel here in Chicago. (Because Chicago naturally looks just like Gotham.) And they sorta, kinda, set fire to the place -- well part of it. The story is a wee bit spoilerish about some general plot details, like the identity of costumed bad guy and one of his capers.

lisah - Apr 25, 2007 5:16:09 am PDT #8247 of 10001

Punishingly Intricate

They are filming some of the "Batman" sequel here in Chicago. (Because Chicago naturally looks just like Gotham.)

hey! They were supposed to be filming that in B'more. My friends and I had big Bale stalking plans. (Maybe they are still going to film some of it here...we definitely have some Gotham-looking bits.)

Jessica - Apr 25, 2007 5:28:59 am PDT #8248 of 10001

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

(Because Chicago naturally looks just like Gotham.)

It does in the current movie Batverse -- they filmed the first one there too.

esse - Apr 25, 2007 5:34:46 am PDT #8249 of 10001

S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

I was going to say, that movie always makes me wonder what it would be like if Gotham *was* Chicago.

Theodosia - Apr 25, 2007 5:53:03 am PDT #8250 of 10001

'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

That's silly, because Gotham = NYC, Metropolis = Chicago.

Ailleann - Apr 25, 2007 5:54:24 am PDT #8251 of 10001

vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda

Gotham = NYC, Metropolis = Chicago.

This is weird to me, I would have pegged them opposite. (I'm not a comics reader, though, so my viewpoint may be skewed...)

shrift - Apr 25, 2007 5:55:32 am PDT #8252 of 10001

"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I haven't stumbled across the Batman shoot yet (oh, unless those dudes were setting up cameras for that and blocking the sidewalk and annoying me while I was trying to get to Water Tower Place), but I know quite a few people who have.

I shouldn't stalk Christian Bale, right? Right.

Jessica - Apr 25, 2007 6:00:12 am PDT #8253 of 10001

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I shouldn't stalk Christian Bale, right? Right.

Righ-- no wait, why not?

The Gotham in the current movies is geographically where NYC is (and seems to have the same basic arrangement of islands), but is really really obviously shot in Chicago. For me, anyway, the architecture and look of the streets gives it a much stronger Chicago vibe than NYC.

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