Comments on: John Carpenter Wants Amy Adams To Star In His “Gothic Western” (In His Dreams)

By: Drew Taylor

Drew Taylor — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:54:56 +0000

Yeah… nothing luxuriously widescreen about this shot from \”The Searchers\”… Oh wait…

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDReviews22/a john ford john wayne the searchers/new searchers john ford john wayne 3021.jpg

By: Jack Ford

Jack Ford — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:54:56 +0000

Last I checked, John Ford was not known for his \”luxurious widescreen framing\”…

By: cable guy

cable guy — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:54:56 +0000

Zack – I don\’t think Amy has an aversion to dark material. She\’s playing the Benny-addicted wife of William S Burroughs in On the Road. The scenes in the novel where Neil and Jack stay with Burroughs and his wife in New Orleans are quite sad, with them living in squalor, wasted on drugs, with children running feral. Amy Adam\’s character even has an apocalyptic drug induced vision of a burning New Orleans. I don\’t know how much of that material will be in the movie but one of the shooting locations was New Orleans….

She is also in the upcoming Paul Thomas Anderson film The Master which covers some pretty dark material.

By: jj

jj — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:54:56 +0000

the problem is not just that carpenter is working with shitty scripts for decades, it\’s that his way of filmmaking is simply stuck in the past. sadly I can\’t imagine that he\’ll pulla friedkin and produce a few quality movies before his passing.

By: Byron Sauer

Byron Sauer — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:54:56 +0000

Other than a few great standard Carpenter gooses THE WARD was like a poor mans community college production of SHUTTER ISLAND. Looking back all he has is THE THING, HALLOWEEN & ESCAPE. While great for cult status it doesn\’t present a memorable filmography thirty years later. Craven is another victim of early cult status but he worked his way beyond direct to video hell with SCREAM. Carpenter tried his lucky break with ESCAPE FROM LA but it was the same play for pay drivel that didn\’t click with mainstream audience in the 90\’s and everything after was just a slow death in the cineplex. He deserves one more great hit but its not looking promising.

By: Zack

Zack — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:54:56 +0000

Adams also has apparently turned down a part or two out of distaste for dark material, so that probably doesn\’t help Carpenter\’s chances either.

By: Costigan

Costigan — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:54:56 +0000

Love Amy Adams, very attractive and sexy.
I look forward to seeing her as a cougar Lois Lane in Man of Steel.

By: Leonardo

Leonardo — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:54:55 +0000

I Want this movie to happen, with or without Adams, but if she wants to be in it wwould be awesome.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:54:55 +0000

Amy needs to do some dark stuff. I\’d love to see her as Lucy Westenra in Dracula.

By: Jack Ford

Jack Ford — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:54:55 +0000

Drew: Yeah, that\’s about as wide as Ford was able to go, and still stay within his comfort zone. For \’proof\’, check out numerous akward compositions in his \”How the West Was Won\” segment. Ford was not known for his widescreen framing, and anyone claiming that must be unfamiliar all writings on Ford and his 100+ first features. Also, Caprenters terrific Scope compositions (his gift is still in display in The Ward, btw) have little in common with those Beaver stills you linked to.

\”and his films often share a kind of compositional identity with early westerns with an emphasis on the kind of luxurious widescreen framing that Sergio Leone and John Ford employed\”.

Everything else about this sentence is stupid as well. Are you suggesting Leone made some of those \”early westerns\”? Carpenter has drawn a lot from westerns when looking at his scripts, but \”early westerns\” are among the last things I think of when looking at his images. I see little comparisons to Leone in his visual works as well, but maybe that\’s just me.

By: Time

Time — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:54:55 +0000

Crows feet and baggy jowls. Yikes. Amy is aging horribly.

By: jesse

jesse — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:54:55 +0000

SyFy should just hire him to shoot their adaptation of the Oni comic The Sixth Gun.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:54:55 +0000

@Byron Sauer: \”Looking back all he has is THE THING, HALLOWEEN & ESCAPE.\”

I guess you\’ve never seen ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13, THE FOG, STARMAN, BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA, PRINCE OF DARKNESS, THEY LIVE and IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS.

Your loss.