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"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe"

By Steven Lloyd Wilson | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (9)

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Back in the olden times of 2007, when Grindhouse was about to change everything we knew about film, there was a competition at SXSW for filmmakers to make their own Grindhouse style trailers, like the several that appeared at the start of the film. The winner of that contest was the trailer for Hobo With a Shotgun, which sounds like the sort of film idea that Homer Simpson would come up with down at Moe’s. Well, it turns out that Jason Eisener, the Nova Scotia comic book store employee who directed that trailer, is being given a shot to make it feature length. And he just landed Rutger Hauer to play the eponymous homeless gentleman.

Here’s the trailer:

See, this is the sort of thing that is immensely entertaining in a two minute block, but just is unimaginable as 90 minutes. Sure, it hasn’t stopped SNL’s film adaptation strategy over the last couple of decades, but that’s not exactly the model to strive for.









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Comments

Look, I love Frank Capra as much as everyone else, but you can't blatantly rip him off like this. It offends my inner artiste.

Posted by: Kballs at April 19, 2010 10:16 AM

That's so over-the-top it's beautiful, and I hate to ruin it by asking a serious question for anyone here with a background in human physiology or neuroscience or policin', but:

If someone is holding a pistol to a girl's head and you hit him in the chest with a shotgun blast, would there likely be some sort of muscle compression or nerve impulse that would cause him to involuntarily squeeze the trigger and blow the girl's head off? Just seems like the first impulse when hit with a grievous wound would be for the hand to clutch.

Posted by: , at April 19, 2010 10:30 AM

Me: I'd like to make a movie about a hobo with a shotgun. Rutger Hauer would star.

Studio Exec 1: The guy from Ladyhawke?
Studio Exec 2: The guy from Black Runner?
Studio Exec 3: Didn't he play a blind ninja? I thought he was really blind. Is he a ninja, too?

Me: Think highbrow/lowbrow, guys. Like Black Dynamite. Not like Syfy Saturday.

Studio Exec 1: Yeah, lots of dynamite.
Studio Exec 2: And big f-ing robots.
Studio Exec 3: Blind Hobo with a Shotgun?

Me: I'd like to bleed all the color out of it - have it be dark, dystopian, creatively campy, with lots of references for those who know film. I want it to be art.

Studio Exec 1: What about blind robots?
Studio Exec 2: Can we have Megan Fox running in slow motion?
Studio Exec 3: I'm thinking a budget of $275 million. Let's CGI the crap out of it.

Ass Sucking Studio Lackey: I have the contract all written up already.

Megan Fox: I want top billing.

Me: Where the f did you come from?

Posted by: Lance at April 19, 2010 10:45 AM

Look fantastic, I do agree that the trailer is entertaining, but I can't see a 90 minutes long movie.

Posted by: Mad Claw at April 19, 2010 10:54 AM

Studio Exec 2: The guy from Black Runner?

Way to induce early Monday morning rage, Lance.

Posted by: admin at April 19, 2010 10:54 AM

I didn't know he was in "The Jesse Owens Story"!

Posted by: Jay at April 19, 2010 11:27 AM

OF COURSE Rutger Hauer is in this. Don't get me wrong, I love Rutger Hauer. Especially his name. Rutger. Hauer. But Rutger Hauer has been in a lot of shitty shit and it looks like Rutger Hauer's going to continue that streak. Rutger Hauer.

Posted by: The Wandering Parakeet at April 19, 2010 11:52 AM

Actually looks sort of shitty.

Posted by: blahblah at April 19, 2010 2:10 PM

Coulda done w/o the civilian dentistry...christ I just ate.

Posted by: stryker1121 at April 19, 2010 7:36 PM