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Post by hellogirls on Feb 6, 2017 17:10:11 GMT -5
Well it is a new role so we need a new thread........  Gerard Butler to Star in 'Snow Ponies'
The action film marks the directorial debut of Darrin Prescott. Gerard Butler is set to star in Snow Ponies, the action film that marks Darrin Prescott's directorial debut. Sierra/Affinity is handling sales and will introduce the project to buyers this month at the Berlin Film Market. The film follows a crew of men who travel across difficult terrain to deliver a mysterious package, but are forced to choose between survival and honor when they face brutal obstacles and bandits along the way. The film, developed from a script written by Pat Healy, was featured on the 2006 version of the Black List. Kelly McCormick will produce with 87eleven, with Butler and Alan Siegel producing via their G-BASE production company. Sierra’s Nick Meyer and Marc Schaberg will executive produce, along with Healy and Bryan Brucks. Butler currently is shooting STX's heist thriller Den of Thieves, also starring Pablo Schreiber, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson and O'Shea Jackson Jr. Butler is represented by CAA and Alan Siegel Entertainment. Prescott is represented by WME and McCormick. Healy is represented by The Gersh Agency and Luber Rocklin. Principal photography is planned for later this year. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gerard-butler-star-snow-ponies-972059 |
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Post by hellogirls on Feb 7, 2017 2:26:08 GMT -5
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Post by So on Feb 8, 2017 10:56:14 GMT -5
So...another action movie....from his own production company? You know me, I'm hesitant to accept until he is on set filming it. If it was period or horror, some kind of something different mentionted, could be interesting. Have to think on it though, is it common for a film to be on the blacck list for over ten years? Two or three I've heard, maybe another few years by time production roles, but ten years before it even sells to the point that no one but Gbase is interested? Doesn't seem like so hot a script at that point. I need more!  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2017 12:16:32 GMT -5
So...another action movie....from his own production company? You know me, I'm hesitant to accept until he is on set filming it. If it was period or horror, some kind of something different mentionted, could be interesting. Have to think on it though, is it common for a film to be on the blacck list for over ten years? Two or three I've heard, maybe another few years by time production roles, but ten years before it even sells to the point that no one but Gbase is interested? Doesn't seem like so hot a script at that point. I need more! I feel the same way about these scripts that are on a blacklist for a long time and not picked up earlier. That is what happened with Headhunter's Calling it was an Award winning blacklist script and the director commented at one screening in Toronto that it kept getting turned down over and over again by by studios. Matthew McConaughey was cast in 2010 collider.com/matthew-mcconaughey-the-headhunters-calling/ and it did not make it to filming. The HHC script was panned for being an old and tired script that has been done over and over again by the critics. I think there must be can be a expiration date on scripts because interests, world events and genre are driving movies. |
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Post by So on Feb 8, 2017 22:56:50 GMT -5
Yeah I mean, if it is in its own unique world, it would still be viable, but a ten year old script about guys with a mystery package seems very dated. At that point if they were too controversial to touch then, they are probably pretty cooled now. Maybe Gbase is just buying up a lot of cheap scripts and trying to look like it has a lot of hot properties in the works?
What the heck ever happened to that fantasy book series GB bought the rights to? Hot dang that is should be something he should be fast tracking. They could do like what Htichcock did, use the crew of one project to sublet another, just to get some fantasy designers and set builders into pre production on a world or something. Again, that will be something Thrones done and over and the torch passed onto the next big thing before Gerry ever gets to his own fantasy tv. I swear, in 2020 he is going to decide it will be time to do a comic book movie like 15 years too late!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2017 5:46:22 GMT -5
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Post by lolita on Jun 29, 2017 9:53:23 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2017 14:57:29 GMT -5
The director of Snow Ponies has a video interview with Collider.com check it out below and you will note that Gerry worked with this guy on Gamer The interview is very long and he doesn't talk about Snow Poines until the 30:00 minute mark approximately. Very cool comments about the movie and the fact that this guy is very excited about the film - He said they will be filming in Budapest and that it will be an ensemble piece - listen to it if you can he gives a lot of info on the movie and the fact that he can pick the cast he wants because they are fully financed because of Gerry being the star. Filming to start in January of 2018. collider.com/darrin-prescott-interview-deadpool-2-baby-driver-drive/#images |
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Post by So on Aug 11, 2017 1:07:11 GMT -5
Okay, so this isn't the guy that thought it was cool to film herky jerky on roller skates, right? Because that would totally not work in a medieval fantasy!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2017 7:38:09 GMT -5
Yep, he did work with the guys from GAMER not sure if he was on roller skates LOL but do I think he was a stuntman/coordinator at that time.
Since Snow Ponies is going to be a Western the terrain would not be conclusive to roller skates, thankfully LOL
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2018 7:25:50 GMT -5
According to Deadline Hollywood deadline.com/2018/10/jon-bernthal-evan-peters-charlie-plummer-josh-gad-snow-ponies-afm-1202491754/ today, Snow Ponies has the same director but a new cast.. Gerry is no longer part of this film.  I wonder what happened, the same director is attached .. Gerry must have exited, that director was happy to have Gerry involved. in an interview I posted above fron August of last year the director said he "can pick the cast he wants because they are fully financed because of Gerry being the star. Filming to start in January of 2018." I wonder if Gods of Egypt and Geostorn and now Hunter Killer box office not being profitable was involved with him exiting. |
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Post by lolita on Oct 30, 2018 8:44:20 GMT -5
According to Deadline Hollywood deadline.com/2018/10/jon-bernthal-evan-peters-charlie-plummer-josh-gad-snow-ponies-afm-1202491754/ today, Snow Ponies has the same director but a new cast.. Gerry is no longer part of this film. I wonder what happened, the same director is attached .. Gerry must have exited, that director was happy to have Gerry involved. in an interview I posted above fron August of last year the director said he "can pick the cast he wants because they are fully financed because of Gerry being the star. Filming to start in January of 2018." I wonder if Gods of Egypt and Geostorn and now Hunter Killer box office not being profitable was involved with him exiting. If Gerry wanted to be the lead star that could be the reason. We are biased when it comes to Gerry but the HW powers are not. If they think he can't carry a movie they won't use him. The public likes HK but unfortunately it didn't draw enough of them to make it a hit. It will hopefully recover the costs for it. It opened to a about a thousand less theaters as the other movies out there so that in itself hurt it. Gerry couldn't break through the top four movies and all of them were out there for weeks. No matter how good the film was liked by the public it didn't have a chance. Now the next new movies will come out that HK will be fighting against. Maybe with Halloween over it might pick up a bit. I still wonder if Afterburn is going that way. Gerry just did an Aussie interview and he talked about DOT2 but not Afterburn. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2018 12:37:48 GMT -5
I think Gerry could have lost this role due to his box office popularity decline in the U.S. and it is obvious it would be hard to get a film funded right now that he is headlining.
I thought though, that Gerry was producing this film and if that was the case he could have decided not to put his money on this project - maybe if Afterburn is still in the works it could be Afterburn needed a larger production budget and he could afford both projects?
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Post by lolita on Oct 30, 2018 15:17:59 GMT -5
Gerry has appeal with the ladies but guys don't follow him. The men go by trailers and if they think a movie will catch their eye. I doubt during his romcom run the only way a guy saw it if he SO took him there. If Gerry had a huge fan base now his movies would be making big bucks. What ever happened to that magic book he bought rights to. I have so many questions but I don't think anyone but Gerry and his management can answer them. He also should look for better management too.
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Post by lolita on Oct 30, 2018 15:26:03 GMT -5
I will say this and I am just wondering that Gerry saw the romcom's were not helping him so he went back to soft syfy which really didn't help and now the action guy. He made good movies in the Fallen series and with DOT but I just don't understand how a good film like HK failed. I wonder how it will effect AHF if at all. You wonder if they will put money into marketing for it. He must be in shock over this and never thought it would happen. He keeps saying things happen for a reason and I agree with that but I still can ask why even if he won't.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2018 15:33:34 GMT -5
What I don’t understand is why couldn’t Hunter Killer been a PG13 movie.. it wasn’t that violent and the Fast & Furious franchise made a mint in that PG13 rating and same goes for the comic book movies. The Rock sealed his popularity with PG13 films...and his turn in Fast and Furious helped it. I just don’t get Gerry’s preferences in making his own movies.
I know others do not think critics ratings on RT mean anything but I feel they do.. Gerry has become a punching bag for the critics, they show him zero respect and social media repeats all of it causing I think of the lack of support now for his films. I don’t know where he goes from here, he is as low as you can get with 3 major flops so the only way is “up” . maybe AHF will be that start.
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Post by lolita on Oct 30, 2018 16:24:02 GMT -5
I don't think the critics change the minds of the public who want to see a movie but what they say may have pull on who makes movies or finances them. It just looks like they waited to announce this right after box office came out. You know some will equate this to him losing star power. Terryanne, I was just looking at some pf the previous comments about this movie and it seems like it was a bad thing from the go so just maybe this is a blessing for him and not a negative thing. Remember when he was going to do Priest but dropped out and they made it anyway and it wasn't good so who knows maybe this will turn out to be a good thing.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2018 16:58:11 GMT -5
Well you may think they don’t changed people’s minds but one thing RT ratings do is help push the advertising for films, you see trailers for films once they get released touting their high RT ratings and top critics listed on the ads. Hunter Killer tried that but they did not have any top critics in those ads.
They should really try to push that A- CinemaScore in a few ads this week to try to get some interest generated. The film only made $600,000 yesterday so sad.. the movie won’t even make $10 million domestically at this rate. It is like the studio has given up, the movie will be gone by next weekend and theaters cut this weekend.
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Post by lolita on Oct 30, 2018 18:49:13 GMT -5
For me I could care less what a critic says so I don't go by them. We are Gerry's fans and follow him so we know what is coming up and any new projects but nonfans who don't follow him only rely on pr or trailers they see on tv or when they run them at the movies. I don't think they go to places like RT to tell them what to see. I went to see HK with people who don't follow him but saw the trailer on tv and said to me they want to see it. They loved it too. They know I follow him but I never push them to see his movies. I talk to them about it to feel them out but it is their choice. I do think RT may convince movie makers to not look his way but not the public movie goers. I am very strong willed (stubborn) so only I make my decision on what movie I will see not what someone else tries to convince me to see. I think critics are full of themselves but that is just me.
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