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Trailer for Guy Ritchie's latest, In The Grey

 

 

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1 hour ago, Edmilson said:

Hmm, let's see...

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Poledouris

 

So no. Don't need to bother making this movie.

Oh crap, I just realized after posting it, that Poledouris and Horner died at the exact same age: 61 years old, though Poledouris had just turned 61 a few months before he died, and Horner was a little more than a month from his 62nd. This is really sad and tragic. I wonder what the film music landscape would look like today if they were alive and working to this day (BP would be turn 81 and JH 73 in August - Poledouris' birthday was just a week after Horner's!). 

 

:crymore:

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Chances are the film music landscape would pretty much be the same. Just with two great composers still alive.

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I'll see an Arnold-starring King Conan no matter what, but their ability to get a great composer might be what tips me over into excited or not.  My choice would probably be Bear McCreary.

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Along with Excalibur, Conan the Barbarian is arguably the greatest fantasy film of the 80's, and I'd absolutely love to see the long awaited, much anticipated, King Conan. And I actually think McQuarrie is a very good choice for this movie.

 

But Conan was in part such a great flick because of Basil's score, and he'll be sorely missed. While I'm not the biggest fan, I agree Bear just might be a good choice for this film. I'm assuming they'll just ignore Conan the Destroyer, and I hope they keep the serious existentialism of the original. 

 

I'm certainly looking forward to this more than the Highlander remake. A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.

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39 minutes ago, Nick1Ø66 said:

And I actually think McQuarrie is a very good choice for this movie.

McQuarrie means Lorne Balfe. Would you like to see a Conan movie with a score by him?

 

I mean, he has done fantasy...

 

 

... and medieval fantasy before:

 

 

(I haven't heard any of these scores personally, but apparently they aren't half bad, might try them one of these days... I liked LB's score to Top Gun Maverick)

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17 hours ago, Bryant Burnette said:

I'll see an Arnold-starring King Conan no matter what, but their ability to get a great composer might be what tips me over into excited or not.  My choice would probably be Bear McCreary.

 

McCreary was my first thought, and really the only currently working film composer I can think of that seems a good match. I'm sure he would love to do that. I'm less sure how much heavy metal I can enjoy in a Conan score.

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11 hours ago, Marian Schedenig said:

I'm less sure how much heavy metal I can enjoy in a Conan score.

Then McCreary isn't who you want, then. He'll put as much heavy metal in his potential Conan score as he possibly can :P

 

Honest question: is there a composer working today who can create a traditionally operatic score for a fantasy epic, in the same style as Poledouris' original Conan or Shore's LOTR, but resisting the temptation to go "let's make it more badass" and insert heavy metal or other modern elements to "give the movie an edge"?

 

I mean, I'm sure there's probably more than a few, but even they won't be able to protest the producers and directors who will surely entertain this idea.

 

In that sense, as beloved as Shore's LOTR is, I believe the most influential fantasy/epic score of the century so far is... Tyler Bates' 300. Shore's and Poledouris' works might be operatic, but Bates and Snyder were those who made fighting ancient wars rock 'n' roll and badass in mainstream cinema (and TV, games...)

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@Stark accidentally put it in my head that David Arnold was scoring the King Conan movie, and was pretty bummed afterwards when he meant the Governator was coming back

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first person in history to be bummed to learn someone is Arnold Schwartznegger instead of David Arnold

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29 minutes ago, #SnowyVernalSpringsEternal said:

Arnold was at his physical peak during his first 2 Conan's. 

Seeing him play Conan now would just be sad.

 

Isn't that kind of the point? This is Old Conan. The one who became King.

 

Of all the roles for Arnold to revisit, to me this is the only one that makes sense.

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Trailer for Desert Warrior starring Anthony Mackie, Ben Kingsley, and Sharlto Copley

 

 

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Sweet! David Wain finally made another movie and it opens this July - Gail Daughtry And The Celebrity Sex Pass starring Zoey Deutch, Jon Hamm, John Slattery, Sabrina Impacciatore, and The State alums Joe Lo Truglio, Ken Marino, Michael Ian Black, Kerri Kenney-Silver, and Thomas Lennon!

 

https://deadline.com/2026/03/gail-daughtry-and-the-celebrity-sex-pass-release-date-1236751433/

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On 27/02/2026 at 5:51 PM, Jay said:

The Landis pitch has been rejected. Seems like his great post-allegation comeback is postponed for now.

 

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/max-landis-gi-joe-movie-script-paramount-passes-1236688071/

 

Reached via Instagram, Landis told Variety he was “tremendously grateful to have been given the opportunity.” He elaborated that his pitch came together “very serendipitously based on the coolness of the weird and subversive idea.” That idea centered around the film franchise’s villain, Cobra, “having successfully taken over the world and reduced GI Joe to a conspiracy theory. But this is just how big IP development always is. Honestly, I was surprised it was reported at all.”

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There's no colon in the name, it's just G.I. Joe.

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2 hours ago, #SnowyVernalSpringsEternal said:

We really don't need GI:Joe in this day and age.

I always thought it was a silly, stupid franchise. Maybe because I haven't grown up in the 80s and the first time I was presented to this thing was with the hilariously bad 2009 movie, but G.I. Joe to me always seemed so lame.

 

I once saw this Transformer fan (another brand that is also dumb, but somehow less so than G.I. Joe) saying this online, it cracked me up.

 

"i was trying to explain to my younger brother what GI Joe was on the way out (since he asked), and i haven't seen him look so disinterested in something since that time our mom forced us to watch a Netflix documentary about social media addiction"

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Much like Peaky Blinders, Jack Ryan is also getting a continuation via film

 

 

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23 hours ago, Jay said:

 

I loved (and preferred) Bird Box (a similar type of movie with Sandra Bullock) but I feel, with Bird Box having no sequels, that A Quiet Place is the Bluray of the two while Bird Box is the HD DVD that lost the battle.

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10 hours ago, #SnowyVernalSpringsEternal said:

Bird Box got a spin-off sequel called Bird Box Barcelona.

 

So your analogy is flawed.

 

As flawed as VHS was compared to Betamax.

 

That's a Spanish spin-off and not really a direct sequel on the American original. Never watched it. And flawed analogy or not, I still feel duped! 

 

BTW, Betamax?! Generation Z and Generation Alpha have no clue what you are talking about. 

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16 hours ago, Tallguy said:

A Jack Ryan MOVIE? Maybe sometime in OCTOBER? (Sorry, just to be CLEAR, I'm only playing GAMES.)

Is that the SUM of your puns, or should we FEAR DANGER?

Are you going to HUNT around, for more?

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Ah. Movies about assassins and hitmen. Movies for people who don't like superheroes.

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Been thinking... Now that Robbie Robertson passed away (RIP), could this mean a Scorsese/Shore reunion? Even though they don't work together since Hugo in 2011 (though Wikipedia says Shore wrote music for The Wolf of Wall Street, don't know if this is true, but it doesn't seem like it is), Shore is the last living composer that Scorsese trusted before. It sure would be nice a reunion between the two.

 

On the other hand, Scorsese is one of those guys that often don't use original scores in his movies...

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2 hours ago, tomsmoviemadness said:

Martin McDonagh's latest.

With John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Parker Posey & Steve Buscemi

 

Poster as well

 

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On 09/03/2026 at 12:06 PM, Jay said:

Please, no! (I'm talking about the article you quoted! ;))

I don't want to see favorite heroes from favorite movies from my childhood being old, like DOD! :down:

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Zendaya and Robert Pattinson will be in not 1, not 2, but THREE movies together in 2026!

 

1 - The Drama

 

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2 - The Odyssey

 

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3 - Dune Part 3

 

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What are the odds?

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3 minutes ago, Jay said:

What are the odds?

Pretty substantial, I'd say, since they are the Liz Taylor/Richard Burton from the age of social media ;)

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2 hours ago, tomsmoviemadness said:

Martin McDonagh's latest.

With John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Parker Posey & Steve Buscemi

 

In Bruges crossed with politics?

 

1 hour ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

It looks better than... INISHERIN.

 

Inisherin was good, and looked fabulous.

 

7 minutes ago, Jay said:

Zendaya and Robert Pattinson will be in not 1, not 2, but THREE movies together in 2026!

 

7 minutes ago, Jay said:

What are the odds?

 

Assuming the films are mostly finished and won't be delayed - pretty high. ;)

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I really don’t get the Zendaya thing. Boney, monotone, stone-faced. Why is she in everything? There are more attractive women on Instagram, there are more attractive women when I go to the grocery store to buy rotisserie chickens and bagged salads. Why is she the Hollywood It Girl?

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23 hours ago, tomsmoviemadness said:

Martin McDonagh's latest.

With John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Parker Posey & Steve Buscemi

 

 

 

 

Stopped watching the trailer because I'm definitely gonna watch this! 

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17 hours ago, Xander Harris said:

I really don’t get the Zendaya thing. Boney, monotone, stone-faced. Why is she in everything? There are more attractive women on Instagram, there are more attractive women when I go to the grocery store to buy rotisserie chickens and bagged salads. Why is she the Hollywood It Girl?

I think Euphoria is a big part of the reason. That show really seemed to strike a chord when it first aired.

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I'm gonna have to pull a Jay before he inevitably does:

 

10 minutes ago, A24 said:

First look Martin Scorsese's What Happens At Night

 

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See article

 

On 19/03/2026 at 12:27 PM, Jay said:

 

So DiCaprio's Oscars 'stache was for this movie

 

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Cremeritis?

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31 minutes ago, Edmilson said:

I'm gonna have to pull a Jay before he inevitably does:

 

 

Cremeritis?

Considering A24 is Alex Cremers, it would make sense ;)

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