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I'm Definitely Too Old for This Sh*t

By TK | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (13)

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Danny Glover is a pickle of an actor. He displays phenomenal ability at times. He also is complete shit at other times, and occasionally makes some incredibly poor choices (Switchback, anyone?). His “I’m too old for this” shtick from the Lethal Weapon movies (personally, I’m still reeling from the fact that a) there are FOUR of those and b) … I’ve seen all four) got tired in a hurry, to the point where it became its own punchline.

But still, he’s a fine actor at times.

He’s been making some poor choices is all I’m saying. The president in 2012, the eeeeevil army guy in Shooter… just look at his IMDB page. Dude has busy, but what he’s been up to has not been great. So, you know, he needs a little shot in the arm, a piuck-me-up, a jumpstart to get his career revving again.

So, an adaptation of a classic novel seems like the right idea, and thus Mr. Glover has signed on to do an adaptation of Melville’s classic novel, Moby Dick.

Oh, and it’ll co-star Vinne Jones (who I last saw butchering the role of Juggernaut in X-Men III). And apparently, it’ll be about dragons.

I shit you not. The film, called Dragon Fire, is being described as “a live action fantasy thriller.” Oddly, it’s being developed by a smallish indie company, and will have a budget of a whopping $5 million. For five mil, unless they’re going to just use stock footage of komodo dragons, or go the SyFy channel route, you ain’t gonna get much in the way of quality dragon, you know? Maybe they’ll just use wide angle lenses on anoles. I don’t fucking know. The point is, Murtaugh is going to fight dragons. Maybe. Hell, he fought the Predator once, so this should be a breeze.









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Comments

I don't get it.

They kill lots of dragons in their dragoning ship, but the Ahab guy really wants to kill the wily white dragon that took his leg?

Which one is Queequeg and which one is Ahab?

I don't get it.

Posted by: Kosmic Koyote at February 3, 2010 9:49 PM

I felt sorry for Danny Glover when he showed up in the first Saw, and I don't even hold all the Lethal Weapon flicks against him. Now this. And he's going to be in a Caribbean version of Macbeth too. Talk about a salad shooter of shit.

If I were him I'd take roofies every day.

Posted by: Gozer at February 3, 2010 10:15 PM

Perhaps the movie subject would be more interesting if it were about chasing the dragon instead.

Posted by: bleujayone at February 3, 2010 10:19 PM

Slim will be creaming his jeans over this one. He loves Reign of Fire, right?

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at February 4, 2010 1:25 AM

Awww... and i liked Switchback.

Posted by: Scott at February 4, 2010 3:20 AM

Always struck me as an actor that seemed to need a lot of over-dubbing.

Posted by: protoguy at February 4, 2010 5:45 AM

Sounds awesome. Everyone knows how great movies with dragons are.

Posted by: superasente at February 4, 2010 8:40 AM

Do we really need another dragon movie? Reign of Fire was just so perfect!

Posted by: piedlourde at February 4, 2010 10:24 AM

And don't forget about Dragonball Z! If Danny Glover can't get his hair all ridiculously high and spiky, I don't even know why he's trying this. Psha, I say.

Posted by: Katers at February 4, 2010 11:01 AM

Hey Scott, I like Switchback too. A Danny Glover serial killer? Come on now...that is just awesome.

Posted by: DeistBrawler at February 4, 2010 2:28 PM

oh that's just sad..

he was ok, in LW 1-4...and predator...

i really enjoyed him as a pilot, trying to rescue gene hackman in a very fine war flick, BAT21.


dragons catch no quarter in the west... tsk tsk tsk...

Posted by: kikz at February 4, 2010 3:24 PM

I just can't get over the fact that he's going to be Grandpa in the US remake of Death at a Funeral.
Which, incidentally, looks like it will be an even bigger shitfest than the original. I just don't understand the idea to 'remake' that movie, they have the same guy from the original movie playing the same character from the original movie! The only difference is that this version features an ensemble of black actors instead of British.
Movie is still going to suck ass. It wasn't funny the first time, and from the previews, I don't see how it's going to be any funnier this time 'round.
I guess we can be thankful that it is not "Tyler Perry's Death at a Funeral"... but still...

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