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This blog tracks script reviews for upcoming films, aggregating links to the latest written. Compiled by Chris Faile, of FilmJerk.com.
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Saturday, March 13, 2004
A new script reviewer, by the name of "T.H." checks into the game at Screenwriter's Voice, with a review of this May's "Van Helsing". No information is given on the draft date or at what stage the script was at that he reviewed.
His review is summed up thusly, and what we've all been hearing for a while, albeit from insiders' whispers: "If you're a fan of [Stephen Sommer]'s work, you'll enjoy it, without a doubt, but for those hard-core genre fans looking for something new and memorable... move along, there's nothing to see here. There's simply not an ounce of originality in the Van Helsing script, and by the time it appears on movie screens this May, the only thing that will be fully developed is a lot of computer effects and money shots, a fully realized visual treat riding on the flimsiest of stories...it's a not-so-subtle variation of Men in Black or Hellboy."
Definitely a script reviewer I'm anxious to hear from again, he has a nice clean writing style that I like.
His review is summed up thusly, and what we've all been hearing for a while, albeit from insiders' whispers: "If you're a fan of [Stephen Sommer]'s work, you'll enjoy it, without a doubt, but for those hard-core genre fans looking for something new and memorable... move along, there's nothing to see here. There's simply not an ounce of originality in the Van Helsing script, and by the time it appears on movie screens this May, the only thing that will be fully developed is a lot of computer effects and money shots, a fully realized visual treat riding on the flimsiest of stories...it's a not-so-subtle variation of Men in Black or Hellboy."
Definitely a script reviewer I'm anxious to hear from again, he has a nice clean writing style that I like.
Thursday, January 29, 2004
I need to get caught up on a number of reviews that have hit in the past 2 months, but let's get the big news out of the way first: In a first for FilmJerk.com, the site features two script reviews today on the same film, Mike Judge and Etan Cohen’s forthcoming feature “3001.” These reviews come as it was announced this morning that Luke Wilson (2003’s “Alex and Emma” and “Old School”) has been cast as the central character Joe Bowers, playing a man who goes to sleep only to wake up 1,000 years in the future. Shooting should begin in mid-April. The column begins here and it links off to the two separate reviews.
Of the two reviews, my own view of the script is probably closer to Darwin's and that this would make a better animation feature than live-action. The set designers for the film have a tough job ahead of them here-- this could come out looking extremely cheesy if not done right.
Of the two reviews, my own view of the script is probably closer to Darwin's and that this would make a better animation feature than live-action. The set designers for the film have a tough job ahead of them here-- this could come out looking extremely cheesy if not done right.
