Re: Tom wants to be Magnum again?
Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 1:56 am
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Who else was paying David Carradine anything?Magnum N.I. wrote:Yes he does, and that's what's holding up the production. Nobody wants him, but they can't make the film without his approval. I don't think he has any legal claim, but the studio fears any bad publicity if he isn't happy. The reason they don't want him is probably because his agent will demand an exorbitant salary for his client and the movie would have to be the highest grossing film of all time for the studio to make what they feel would be an acceptable profit for them. I suspect that's the reason that Quentin Tarantino has cancelled his plans for making Kill Bill III in 2014. Uma agreed to do the film, but probably only in principal. Her agent no doubt demanded a fortune. Bear in mind, that Tarantino only paid David Carradine $250K for both Kill Bill I & II combined. Read "The Kill Bill Diary," by David Carradine.
That's .......disturbing ......marlboro wrote:
Totally agree on this. I think the movie would be very very disappointing.Stelth wrote:I HATE the Dragnet, Starsky & Hutch, A-Team, Charlie's Angels-type movie adaptations. They all sucked. It would be awful if Magnum P.I. received that kind of treatment.
Hi Guys,Magnum's moustache wrote:Totally agree on this. I think the movie would be very very disappointing.Stelth wrote:I HATE the Dragnet, Starsky & Hutch, A-Team, Charlie's Angels-type movie adaptations. They all sucked. It would be awful if Magnum P.I. received that kind of treatment.
ConchRepublican wrote:That's .......disturbing ......marlboro wrote:
Stelth wrote:
I HATE the Dragnet, . . . . type movie adaptations.
I think it was okay. It can't really be compared to the TV show (I'm only familiar with the 60s/70s version of the show). It was written as a parody and as such it came across quite well. (I think parodies are a very big compliment; ask any musician who's had their stuff parodied by Weird Al Yankovic and I'd think they'd agree.) Although, I did not like the ending much. Very anticlimactic.Luther's nephew Dobie wrote:
The Tom Hanks 1987 Dragnet is a send up that for the first hour is a lot of fun but then loses its way.