I think there has never been a better time for a big budget feature version of The Man From U.N.C.L.E.. What with one of our biggest fears today being the end of the world brought about by terrorists, who better than Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin to save us from ourselves. Their opponent was the massive terrorist organization called Thrush, which had no allegiance to anyone but their own agenda, much like terrorists of today. Napoleon and Illya weren’t government agents but worked for the world as a whole, making them more trust worthy than even James Bond. I even have the perfect actors to play them, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. I know, I know, the last thing U.N.C.L.E. fans want is a memory insulting spoof like I Spy, or a name only version like Mission I.M.P.O.S.S.I.B.L.E., but hear me out. Damon has proven himself perfect for espionage action films with the Bourne Trilogy, and after a series of lackluster performances, Affleck truly redeemed himself with Hollywoodland showing real dramatic talent portraying George Reeves. As added incentive he could also direct, Gone, Baby, Gone certainly proved he can tell an exciting and thought provoking story to match any made by
Archive for December, 2007
This is the question I’ve been asking myself for weeks now. Who thought Christmas Day was the perfect time to debut Tim Burton’s new version of Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street? How many people are going to be sitting around on Christmas Day thinking “I feel like seeing a movie. I know, I’ll go see a musical about a serial killer. It’s so festive, what with the entrails being hung like garland. Nothing says Christmas like gore soaked death.” Look I know it has been a popular stage production for almost twenty years and we wouldn’t have had Little Shop of Horrors on Broadway if not for this ground breaking production, but I just think it would have been better to put it out in October as an alternative to Saw IV or Rob Zombie’s unnecessary remake of the horror classic Halloween.
