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Post by Ace on Mar 19, 2006 17:21:04 GMT -5
Arghhh....
The suppossed "insider" is correct. It would be a stretch for Colin because he hasn't shown one elegant sophisticated bone in his entire body so far, either on screen and certainly not off screen. And yes for an irishman he's curiously rather uncharming but then maybe that's because he's too busy trying to be a shocking badboy.
I do wonder when this conversation supposedly happenned. It could have been a year ago or just a response to "Do you think Colin would be good" and PB saying "sure why not?" like he did with Bond. As you said it is the Mirror afterall.
Ace
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Post by Lauryn on Mar 19, 2006 18:26:49 GMT -5
Arghhh.... The suppossed "insider" is correct. It would be a stretch for Colin because he hasn't shown one elegant sophisticated bone in his entire body so far, either on screen and certainly not off screen. And yes for an irishman he's curiously rather uncharming but then maybe that's because he's too busy trying to be a shocking badboy. True, so much of the energy he pours into being a lout offscreen seems to play out onscreen. To me, he's curiously bland and uninvolving as a good guy, and was hysterically bad when required to be larger than life and charismatic (see Alexander). Those latter two qualities, in a different sense, are required for Steele as well, and as you say, also the elegance and sophistication. I don't think just having a good tailor is going to work that large a miracle for Farrell. I got this article off one of the library's subscription services a couple of weeks ago. Of course, who knows when it happened, if it did. I highly doubt that it's the exclusive "The Mirror" touts. Maybe they pulled the quotes from one of the press junket interviews for "The Matador" or something PB said at the time of the RS Season Two DVD release. I just don't remember seeing anything about Farrell / RS before. It may have as much meaning in the news cycle, as you point out, as PB's quotes about Farrell as Bond -- just a nod and a wink to a fellow Irishman, and nothing more to it than that. Even though it makes it sound as though he's under consideration, all that "insider" perspective from Colin's camp, etc. could be fabricated or just an exaggeration of a more casual remark by PB.
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Post by Yuliya on Mar 20, 2006 12:29:21 GMT -5
Not to mention the sort of things that RS did rather gracefully (for instance, recreating something new out of the whole cloth of classic cinema) is not something that modern Hollywood or most modern actors do especially well -- and a retool would almost have to be given a different emphasis for the big screen and for a broader, younger audience. Meaning RS would go about quoting old reality shows with a line or two thrown in from The Star Treck for those old-timers who happen to tune in? I refus to belive in the rest of Lauryn's post, so I'll pretend it did not happen. I usually ignore those rumrs because I know I can always the movie, should it even come out, but being purportedly produced by the IDT is too much to bear.
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Post by Barbara on Mar 20, 2006 17:30:41 GMT -5
I think Pierce needs to see a show called "Hustle."
This is a show about grifters doing their long-con game in London. Two of the characters, the most fun ones in my opinion, are clearly older.
Who's to say that Remy would have his grifter sense after all these years?
And why, by the way, does Pierce assume he is too old to play Steele. If he just asked us, he would see we want to see Remy get older, like the rest of us.
Love...B
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Post by sparklingblue on Mar 25, 2006 17:56:27 GMT -5
I so hope that article is just a tabloid fabrication.
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Post by Lauryn on Apr 2, 2006 0:37:12 GMT -5
Late April Ist Bulletin: FAN PURISTS URGE BOYCOTT OF STEELE FILM
LA TRIBUNE 4/1/2006by Windsor Thomas Fans of Remington Steele, disaffected over the choice of actor Colin Farrell in the title role, have urged a boycott of the upcoming feature film at the website www.colinnotsteele.com. Visitors to the site are greeted with photo-shopped pictures of Farrell morphing into Cheetah from "Tarzan," Bert from "Sesame Street," and (as a peroxide blonde) Siegfried from "Siegfried and Roy." Online and newspaper polls showing limp to downright flaccid support for Farrell in the part are flashed in screaming 72 point type. The troubled, yet-to-be-titled Steele movie, a co-production of FOX Studios and Irish Dreamtime has had a gestation period marked by an extended casting search and elements of controversy about the direction of the film. Irish Dreamtime producer Beau St. Clair is staunch in her support of Farrell, dismissing the concerns of online Steele fans who've characterized the actor as "a zoo monkey who was sideswiped by a Norelco shaving kit." "Colin's really thrown himself into the part," counters St. Clair. "He's managing a knife and fork quite easily now and even uses those little cardboard pub coasters when drinking Guinness. I don't know what the fuss is about, really. He'll make a delightfully sophisticated Remington Steele." One insider dropped this bombshell from behind the scenes. “I hate to say it's her hormones but she's been set on him since this casting search began. We've been going through the motions with other actors, really. Would I go so far as to say that Beau has the hots for Colin? Yeah, I would. Just don’t use my name, OK? I don’t want to spend my summer scanning the ads in ‘Craig’s List’ for a new job.” Fans remain miffed over co-producer Pierce Brosnan's decision not to reprise his iconic role; Farrell insists that this Steele will be different from his predecessor, who was generally obliged by the network to stop at the bedroom door. "There'll be a f*cking f*ckload of Steele f*cking in this f*cker! Get in line now, girlies, and kiss my f*cking Irish maypole!" Sources close to the production say that, in the choice of Farrell, Brosnan is getting his revenge against the television version's tameness. "Pierce is giving them the middle finger after all these years, letting Colin do all of the things he wasn't allowed to do as Steele: curse, bed-hop like a bunny, and go club crawling til the wee small hours." Fan entreaties for Stephanie Zimbalist to return to the role of Laura have been firmly rebuffed. The actress is currently starring as Martha in a Broadway revival of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf." To land the coveted role she gained forty pounds, acquired a four-pack-a-day smoking habit, and was fitted with large prosthetic breasts. "I don't even look like Laura Holt any more, and lord knows I don't sound like her. Anyway, they wouldn’t even offer my dad a measly little cameo. They’re giving one to Lynne Randall. Lynne Randall!! I have two words for that putz Michael Gleason. ‘Bite me.’” Director Stephen Frears was said to be attracted to the project because Laura Holt “is a strong kick-ass female character” and he’d like to be able to bring her to the screen “in a way we haven’t seen before in the history of cinema.” Thus far, A-listers have been decidedly more cool to the idea. Natalie Portman, reputed to be on the short list for Laura Holt, had second thoughts after reading the script, say sources close to the actress. “I guess Laura Holt is an icon and all,” Portman was quoted as saying, “but she’s not my type. Her hairstyle’s boring for starters. No platinum blonde wig, no kabuki headdress, no shaved head. I’m looking for something more challenging.” Frears was also strongly committed to the concept of an origin story for Steele. “This has been a cherished concept of creator Michael Gleason’s for a long time. He wanted to do a “young Steele” in the 80’s but the network brass said no. Now we have the opportunity with this film to re-boot the character of Steele, make his mysterious past a bit less mysterious. We’ve decided to start his personality from scratch, really.” Die hard Steele fans are not swayed by attempts at revisionism. One habitué of www.colinnotsteele.com put it this way, “According to canon the man we know as Steele was rescued from life on the streets in his teens. How old is Colin Farrell? 31? Everyone knows the first draft of the movie script was written for a younger actor. But when Daniel Radcliffe bowed out and they had to fall back on Frankie Muniz FOX threatened to pull the plug. And what’s up with keeping Mildred? Are we supposed to believe that she’s the same character from back in the age of the Commodore 64? They didn’t even have cell phones in the 80’s. I know Doris Roberts has won a truckload of Emmys but whatever happened to continuity? Frears insists that enough elements of the original series will remain to please purists and general audiences alike. “We’re merely making it more modern and accessible to a new generation of fans.” Leaked versions of the script center around a terrorist cell that has embedded coded messages of their plans inside copies of classic movies “Casablanca” and “North by Northwest.” Now that Farrell has been officially cast, fans at sister sites www.orlandonotsteele.com and www.rikkileetravoltanotsteele.com vow to work with www.colinnotsteele.com to boycott the Farrell production and continue a letter writing campaign for the return of Brosnan and Zimbalist as Steele and Laura.
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Post by Ace on Apr 2, 2006 0:59:24 GMT -5
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Post by sparklingblue on Apr 2, 2006 7:54:15 GMT -5
Lauryn, that was brilliant! ;D
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Post by respectanimals on Apr 2, 2006 10:02:43 GMT -5
FAN PURISTS URGE BOYCOTT OF STEELE FILM
LA TRIBUNE 4/1/2006by Windsor Thomas Good God, don't do that to me first thing in the morning! I haven't even finished my first Dr. Pepper yet, so my brain isn't functioning well yet. Honestly, it took me WAY too long to figure out this was an April Fools joke. I don't know whether to say "Shame on you!" or "Very well done!" LOL! Ellen
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Post by Ace on Apr 2, 2006 15:12:59 GMT -5
It's just brilliant because Lauryn has so many delicious ripped from headlines and posting boards tidbits. To list a few - Beau scarily channeling Barbara Broccoli
- colinnotsteele web site along with attendent graphics
- SZ gaining weight and melons to play Martha in "Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf"
- Lynne Randall in a cameo! (Bite me. LOL)
- Stephen Frears denied his Bond spinoff Jinx film is now envisioning a kick ass Laura Holt
- Article written by Windsor who was in "Steele in the Spotlight" as the ethic challenged reporter
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Post by Barbara on Apr 2, 2006 22:44:29 GMT -5
I would like to take this moment to offer Lauryn my undying love and appreciation. That was unbelievable! What a great job!
Love...Barbara
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Post by Yuliya on Apr 3, 2006 9:50:20 GMT -5
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Post by sparklingblue on Apr 8, 2006 17:13:23 GMT -5
PB really was supposed to be in DaVinci?? Because my mother recommended the book to me with the words: "You'll love this because you could imagine Pierce Brosnan as Robert Langdon." And she's not even a PB fan. Naturally, we were both disappointed when we learned who got the part. LOL But I'm glad to hear we weren't the only ones.
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Post by Ace on Apr 8, 2006 18:12:48 GMT -5
PB really was supposed to be in DaVinci?? Because my mother recommended the book to me with the words: "You'll love this because you could imagine Pierce Brosnan as Robert Langdon." And she's not even a PB fan. Naturally, we were both disappointed when we learned who got the part. LOL But I'm glad to hear we weren't the only ones. He wasn't supposed to be in the film but he mentioned during the Matador press conference when asked if there was any recent role he wanted that he didn't get, the role of Langdon. He says people kept telling him he should play the role so he read the book and decided he should but then they gave it to some former TV actor who used to wear a dress. Frankly, I think the book is poor, mostly because of the writing but the plot is rather goofy. Still it will probably make an entertaining film and with the huge success of the book be a smash. Even though Hanks is completely miscast as Langdon and the hairdo he's sporting for the film is one that would make Travolta shudder. Ace
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Post by Lauryn on Apr 9, 2006 18:52:46 GMT -5
I guess it's a near bulletproof box-office proposition even though it looks amazingly like its own imitator, "National Treasure," just with a higher priced cast and swankier production values. Still, "Treasure" even made more money than it deserved, so there must be a lot of pent-up desire to see this sort of thing.
I saw the Da Vinci trailer again at the movies last week. It's spooky how much Tom Hanks's new hairstyle makes him look like Jim Belushi. I'll hazard a guess that that's not the image they're looking for. I kept expecting the dog from K-9 to show up in a cameo. Fans of the book were twisting my arm to read it but I could never get past the first fifty pages. I can't say what mumbo-jumbo happened after that. I do know that Dan Brown's prose is pedestrian enough to be arrested for jaywalking. I'm sure he didn't mean it, but there was some fun to be had for Steele fans in the way Langdon's character was introduced -- via reference to a puff piece in "Boston Magazine" where he's chosen one of the city's "top ten intriguing people." All those women gushing over his "impressive curriculum vitae" and "scholarly allure." Shades of "Steele Eligible." I'm sure there's symbology in "The Prophet" that's yet to be mined, LOL! It's a shame they didn't give the role to Pierce. With RS fresh on his mind from the DVD releases, he wouldn't have any trouble hitting his marks.<wink>
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Post by Patricia on Apr 9, 2006 19:06:19 GMT -5
Lauryn: I love this line! Laughed out loud when I read it. I may have asked you this recently, but are you the same Lauryn who writes RS fic (such as "Lost Art of Steele", "Porn Fed Steele")? If so, I read more of your work recently and I wanted to make a point of commending you for your talent. Not only do you capture the essence of both R & L, but your way with a phrase is positively wonderful. Your stories are witty, fun, touching and make me feel like I'm reading lost episodes of Steele! More, please! Patricia
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Post by Lauryn on Apr 9, 2006 22:34:01 GMT -5
Affirmative. I hope you came across them at my new website, very nicely designed and maintained by Ace. If not, go here andrea11.t35.com/. The newest thing is the story add-on to "Elementary Steele." I hope the well isn't dry and there'll be something in the works sooner rather than later. Thanks for the vote of confidence. I do try to capture the feeling of an episode, or at least the rhythm of it. On one of the RS DVD commentaries Michael Gleason points out that the show was very lucky to find writers who could write both dialogue (of the bantering sort that Laura and Steele required) and construct mystery plots. In his experience, and that of others in the industry, most screenwriters can write one, but not the other. This divide is yet another way in which fanfiction is like real life, LOL! In my estimation, I'm pretty iffy on plot, so that leaves dialogue. Not that I mind. It's more fun.
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Post by Yuliya on Apr 10, 2006 13:23:03 GMT -5
Back to the subject of DaVinci (not that I intend to draw attention away from Lauryn's admirable talents), yes, that line Ace quoted is what I had in mind when I said PB was supposed to get the part of Langdon.
I quickly skimmed the book in Russian, online, over a few lunches, so I don't know how the prose is, but I'll take Ace's and Lauryn's word for it. But the rest was so much blah, too, IMHO, that I probably better not say what I think the rage attributes to for the fear of offending those who liked the book.
By the way, I skimmed the first Langdon book as well and I think it's a lot better where the plot is concerned. At least it doesn't have to deal with one of those situations that obviously can only be resolved in one way. I mean, when I'm reading a book in which a group of terrorists is planning to blow up the entire East Coast, I don't hold my breath wondering whether they'll be able to do that - I know they won't. Unless the book is written as well as The Day of the Jackal, at most I can wonder how said terrorists would be stopped. It's just an examp0le, but realization how DaVinci Code would end from the start dampened my impression.
One thing I must say for Dan Brown, though - he does have my admiration for the ability to collect so many miscellaneous facts (I use the word loosely) and trivia and tie them in one reasonably entertaining story.
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Patricia
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Post by Patricia on Apr 10, 2006 21:38:50 GMT -5
Yes, I did. There are a few I haven't read yet, and I'm looking forward to that! I believe I've read Elementary Steele, but I don't think I've read the add-on. Great, more to read! Btw, your Steele songbook was hilarious.
And you do.
That very cadence was probably my favourite thing about the show; I think their dialogue was a much more interesting and colourful means of expression than anything we get handed nowadays.
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Post by Lauryn on Apr 11, 2006 1:01:22 GMT -5
Well, maybe not, LOL! I meant it was an add-on to the episode, which story addition I think you've already read.
Eh? Songbook?! [looking 'round for Ace] Why didn't you tell me it was up? As Gershwin would say, "how long has this been going on?"
Patricia, I'm glad you noticed, LOL! And that you enjoyed it. I have to tip my hat, too, to my old friends Paris and Susannah, for their delightful contributions. It all happened yonks ago while we were shooting the breeze over on the Mysterynet boards. (Makes those hours watching the clock at work pass ever so much faster.) I thought I'd collect them all for a rainy day, et voila! (Ace, it all looks perfect.)
True, it's not much in vogue on television these days, but there's always a chance for a comeback, with things that are classic.
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