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Post by judithmoose on Sept 1, 2008 21:03:00 GMT -5
The project isn't dead. The status of the film was altered on August 22nd and moved back to an "In Development" stage. It's slated to be filmed in Turkey next year and released in 2010 as a joint production between Irish Dreamtime and MGM.
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Post by Ace on Sept 2, 2008 11:50:38 GMT -5
MGM is in the processing of restructuring/re-financing/selling itself -- yet again. So I guess this isn't surprising. Right now they seem to be in a semi- production state and are mostly just distributing smaller films.
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Post by Lauryn on May 10, 2009 14:37:35 GMT -5
If TCA2 (aka Topkapi Affair) survives the gauntlet of writer's strikes, studio restructuring, swine flu, piracy, worldwide economic meltdown (just thought I'd throw those in) and ever gets made here's a small (if aged) tidbit from the lead writer John Rogers' blog, Kung Fu Monkeysnipped The roundtable/lunch is a common ritual in LA. The Thomas Crown sequel will owe no small debt to mystery writer and all 'round cool guy Greg Hurwitz and others, who helped me with some heisty ideas while we ate lunch at Il Campinile. In point of fact, the opening of the flick comes from criminally under-rated director Karyn Kusama, who casually -- I believe she had a mouthful of bread at the time -- reminded me of a quote from the first movie which neatly, beautifully tied up the entire theme of the first fifteen pages. The only appropriate response at that moment is a mix of hatred and gratitude only other writers can comprehend. --- kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2007/07/all-time-in-world.html
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Post by Lauryn on May 10, 2009 16:04:46 GMT -5
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Post by Ace on May 10, 2009 21:59:06 GMT -5
If TCA2 (aka Topkapi Affair) survives the gauntlet of writer's strikes, studio restructuring, swine flu, piracy, worldwide economic meltdown (just thought I'd throw those in) and ever gets made here's a small (if aged) tidbit from the lead writer John Rogers' blog, Kung Fu Monkeysnipped The roundtable/lunch is a common ritual in LA. The Thomas Crown sequel will owe no small debt to mystery writer and all 'round cool guy Greg Hurwitz and others, who helped me with some heisty ideas while we ate lunch at Il Campinile. In point of fact, the opening of the flick comes from criminally under-rated director Karyn Kusama, who casually -- I believe she had a mouthful of bread at the time -- reminded me of a quote from the first movie which neatly, beautifully tied up the entire theme of the first fifteen pages. The only appropriate response at that moment is a mix of hatred and gratitude only other writers can comprehend. --- kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2007/07/all-time-in-world.html Great quote and makes me want to see the film get done and made even more. If it was attached to any other studio than MGM it would already be in the can - as is I think it's an extreme longshot.
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Post by Lauryn on May 14, 2009 23:26:29 GMT -5
If TCA2 (aka Topkapi Affair) survives the gauntlet of writer's strikes, studio restructuring, swine flu, piracy, worldwide economic meltdown (just thought I'd throw those in) and ever gets made here's a small (if aged) tidbit from the lead writer John Rogers' blog, Kung Fu Monkeysnipped The roundtable/lunch is a common ritual in LA. The Thomas Crown sequel will owe no small debt to mystery writer and all 'round cool guy Greg Hurwitz and others, who helped me with some heisty ideas while we ate lunch at Il Campinile. In point of fact, the opening of the flick comes from criminally under-rated director Karyn Kusama, who casually -- I believe she had a mouthful of bread at the time -- reminded me of a quote from the first movie which neatly, beautifully tied up the entire theme of the first fifteen pages. The only appropriate response at that moment is a mix of hatred and gratitude only other writers can comprehend. --- kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2007/07/all-time-in-world.html Great quote and makes me want to see the film get done and made even more. If it was attached to any other studio than MGM it would already be in the can - as is I think it's an extreme longshot. That blog quote is rather tantalizing, isn’t it? TCA2 may go down as one of those might-have-beens that will drive us nuts like the SMA starring in a Coen Brothers film. Well, not quite the same! Nothing drives me crazier than thinking about one, LOL! I suspect you’re right about the odds of it getting made. I recently read an article in the "Hollywood Reporter" that was sounding pretty dire about MGM. People have predicted its final demise for decades and been wrong but it’s getting harder to see anyone coming to its rescue in these bad times. Sony has its own regrets and even vulture capitalists like Kerkorian may think they got out when the getting was good. In any case, without a certain level of reliable capital from their film library (and DVD profits are sagging right now) they can’t finance much of a slate. The article said they only have a couple of horror / genre movies in the works. The high flying budget they announced for TCA2 always sounded like it was partly to impress investors that they could still mount bigger productions. It would probably have had to come down more to earth, even in a relatively decent year for MGM.
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Post by Ace on Feb 5, 2010 14:06:51 GMT -5
I'm surprised it's still alive considering MGM is on life support. When it's sold they'll be a new studio to contend with - that is if they're interested in current projects aside from a stake in Bond and The Hobbit. www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=63050EXCL: Pierce Brosnan's Thomas Crown Sequel Update Source:Edward Douglas February 5, 2010 Actor Pierce Brosnan is going to be around a lot in the coming months with key roles in a number of films including Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer and the romantic drama Remember Me. At the junket for Chris Columbus' fantasy-adventure epic Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief, in which Brosnan plays a centaur named Chiron, ComingSoon.net asked him if he had any update on the proposed sequel to his 1999 thriller The Thomas Crown Affair, last mentioned almost two years ago, to be based on the 1964 Peter Ustinov film Topkapi and Eric Ambler's novel "Light of Day." The last word was that Paul Verhoeven might direct and that Angelina Jolie would co-star with Brosnan, so we quickly asked the actor if there was any progress on the sequel. "We've got the fourth script in and this is the closest we've gotten in structure to making sense," he told us. "It's very very hard. Now we have the character, it's not really fleshed out, so we have to work on him, Mr. Crown, and her, Miss Moore*, another affair, more art, but it has to be an unexpected surprise." (*Note: We might have misunderstood the name he mentioned but it seems like this might be the new character that reportedly Angelina Jolie was once attached to play.) Brosnan has been very involved with the process of developing this sequel and making sure to get it right, and while he'll be doing quite a bit of press over the next month for the movies mentioned above, it's not definite we'll be able to get more of an update than that. Look for more with Brosnan in the coming weeks, starting next week before Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief comes out on February 12.
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Post by Ace on Feb 8, 2010 22:14:39 GMT -5
Excerpt from Cinematical interview
You're probably tired of hearing about this, but what is the latest on The Thomas Crown Affair 2?
PB: Well, oh dear. Well, again, the studio is in such disarray at the moment. We're not sure who's going to buy it. I think someone's bought it. We have the script in; I think this is about the fourth draft. We're all very happy with it, but it still needs work. So there you go. I would like to say that come the autumn we will be ready to start shooting... There's a few other things before that, other pictures I'm signed up to do, so I still have employment...
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Post by Ace on Feb 17, 2010 0:26:12 GMT -5
AICN interview
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Beaks: I'll use my last question to ask about the status of the THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR sequel. The first film has endured; it's really a terrific little movie. Is the sequel moving forward? Is it still called THE TOPKAPI AFFAIR?
Brosnan: It won't be called THE TOPKAPI AFFAIR. At the moment it's just THOMAS CROWN. Or THOMAS CROWN 2. TC2. That's what's on the scripts - and there have been a few. (Laughs) We'll do it. We must do it. It wasn't my idea to do it, but I'm going to do it. No names mentioned of who wanted us to do it, but studio heads have such bright ideas. Yes, the character has endured; it seems to have created its own life. So to see this man ten years down the line still doing what he does - living the life, doing a bit of thievery, and a love affair with some beautiful woman - why not? We're making our best effort to do it. It's not easy, but our best effort. Dear old MGM is... dear old MGM, you know? (Laughs) It's just trying to sort itself out again.
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Post by Ace on Apr 15, 2010 16:25:06 GMT -5
moviesblog.mtv.com/2010/04/15/paul-verhoeven-thomas-crown-affair-2-update/EXCLUSIVE: Paul Verhoeven No Longer Attached To Direct 'The Thomas Crown Affair 2' Adam Rosenberg There was news a number of years ago that "RoboCop" director Paul Verhoeven was hired on to helm a sequel to "The Thomas Crown Affair," which would see the return of original star Pierce Brosnan. Later, word emerged that Angelina Jolie would star opposite Brosnan. Then... nothing. No word, no developments. Nada. So when Verhoeven stopped by the newsroom earlier this week to promote his new book, "Jesus of Nazareth," MTV's Josh Horowitz asked for an update on the long-in-development project. "No, I am not [involved] anymore," Verhoeven said. "Things happened there, the regime changed. The initial ideas that they had about 'Thomas Crown 2' were interesting I thought. There was a script written by two young writers that used the fact that now we're living 15, 20 years later." So what happened? "Ultimately, [the studio] decided not to [use] that script anymore. Then there was a regime change. And basically I felt that I could not follow [on the project]," he concluded. Now this news doesn't necessarily mean that a "Thomas Crown" sequel is off. Verhoeven is out, but Brosnan could still be in. And maybe another director's been found, or being looked for. Verhoeven's moved onto other things now though. Like a video game adaptation, presumably of "Prince of Persia" creator Jordan Mechner's PC classic, "The Last Express."
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Post by formermi6agent on Apr 15, 2010 17:33:08 GMT -5
This delay is going WAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY too far.
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Post by Ace on Apr 19, 2010 17:37:21 GMT -5
if MGM still owns the rights then it's going to be an even longer delay. EON just said Bond 23 is indefinitely delayed and Peter Jackson says MGM hasn't even green-lit The Hobbit yet because of MGM's financial troubles and the oft delayed sale.
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Post by Ace on Jul 7, 2010 16:10:37 GMT -5
From April - small article and clips with Pierce and Rene. I think this was done to coincide I think with the re-release of the DVD in Blue-Ray. www.etonline.com/news/2010/04/85839/Pierce Brosnan & Rene Russo Recapture Their 'Thomas Crown' Chemistry
April 12, 2010
ETonline has the exclusive! Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo heated up the box office in 1999 with 'The Thomas Crown Affair,' just released on Blu-ray, and the two stars show that their chemistry was no fluke as they reunite for the first time in five years to reminisce about the movie! The two talk about their racy dance scene, Rene's impromptu topless moment -- and how she was sent to study with a dominatrix before production! "I'm very private in some ways; certain things you just leave in the bedroom, so I'm not the kind of actress that really leads with a sexual or sensual spirit," explains Rene. "[Director John McTiernan] knew that … so he sent me to a dominatrix, and she was amazing, I have to say. She was incredible." Pierce and Rene's modern update of the classic 1968 Steve McQueen heist flick finds the former 007 as a thrill-seeking billionaire who decides to steal a priceless Monet painting in broad daylight, with Rene as an insurance investigator who falls for him. Pierce reveals that a sequel to 'The Thomas Crown Affair' is officially getting underway this summer, but Rene tells him she's nervous about the prospect of getting in front of the cameras again for her role as Catherine Banning. "You know, I've got to tell you, I'm not so sure I could do it again," says Rene. "I'm not sure how I can enter into that zone again." "It's not easy to do the second time around," says Pierce. "I certainly never saw this as a franchise. I saw it as a one-off, but here we are going for it -- and it's scary as heck."
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Post by formermi6agent on Jul 7, 2010 23:49:55 GMT -5
Is it likely that TC 2 will be canceled?
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Post by Ace on Apr 28, 2014 10:39:46 GMT -5
I don't see this ever being made - at least not with Pierce attached any more but it's nice to think about www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=40871John McTiernan Talks Thomas Crown 2 'It’s really a lot of fun'
28 April 2014 | Written by Phil de Semlyen | One of the unalloyed joys of Issue 300 of Empire – now available for purchase – is beleaguered director John McTiernan opening up his Wyoming ranch, and his memory banks, for an exclusive interview that spans everything from directorial landmarks like Die Hard and The Hunt For Red October to his herd of 'beefalo' and a close encounter with a rattlesnake. Within that heady mix also comes news that, while under lock and key in Yankton prison last year, he wrote a sequel to his 1999 heist flick The Thomas Crown Affair, entitled Thomas Crown And The Missing Lioness. “Nebuchadnezzar had two lion statues commissioned in 1100BC: a male and a female,” explained McTiernan of the title’s provenance. “Alexander the Great took them when he conquered Persia. Mark Antony had them taken to Rome. Constantine moved them to Constantinople. And at some point the lioness went missing. The movie is about what happens when it turns up at an auction. By the way, it’s all bullshit; none of that ever happened.” His original Thomas Crown Affair, of course, was a beautifully elegant caper that improved considerably on Norman Jewison’s 1968 original. It had Pierce Brosnan’s wealthy financier engaged in an elaborate game of cat-and-mouse with insurance investigator Rene Russo, style to burn and a central McGuffin, the priceless San Giorgio Maggiore At Dusk, painted by Claude Monet himself. Whether "Mac Daddy", as he was known at Yankton, will reboot the cast or reignite that Bron’usso chemistry remains to be seen, but he’s keen to pull the trigger on the project. “It’s really a lot of fun,” he says, “and I hope I get the chance to make it.” Another looming project for McTiernan is Red Squad, a narc thriller that’s rumoured to have Nicolas Cage and Colin Farrell attached. The project has been announced as McTiernan’s comeback and while he told Empire at the end of March that he was unhappy with the current draft, he was hard at work getting it right. Red Squad, per the synopsis we have so far, involves a former DEA agent (presumably Cage, should he sign on) who has gone rogue and runs a team of mercenaries. Their latest mission takes them to Mexico, to take out a drug lord. For much, much more from McTiernan, or just to find out what a beefalo is, pick up the June issue of Empire.
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Post by rosafermu on Apr 29, 2014 2:17:57 GMT -5
I think the second part of Thomas Crown, fail. It has been too long since the first, but time will tell. I also think that Irish Dreamtime, has discarded. Greetings Ace
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