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How cool was our trip out West this year? Damn...on top of literally seeing both Gwyneth Paltrow and Denise Richards within minutes of one another during my lunch with one of the studio folk at a Starbucks in Hollywood, hearing Chris Penn wheezing and running right past the Arrow and I during one of our strolls down Venice Beach and seeing Sylvester Stallone pick up some video award at the Vegas VSDA convention...this panel was one of the nicer surprises to complete out whirlwind package, as none other than Sly's action-hero competitor from the 1980s, Arnold Schwarzenegger, made an unannounced and electrifying appearance at the Con. Not knowing about any T3 connection at the Con this year, I was already pretty happy upon hearing that director Jonathan Mostow (BREAKDOWN, U-571) was showing up to present us with a few minutes of the presently-still-shooting production of T3: RISE OF THE MACHINES (the film co-stars Nick Stahl in the Edward Furlong role, as well as Claire Danes and Kristinna Loken as the Terminatrix), but when Arnie was announced...all bets were off. I was officially enjoying my trip all around, and that's even despite the wicked hangovers every morning (man's gotta relax, right?).
But before showing us the clip, Mostow said that he also wanted to bring a friend out to watch it with us and that's when he introduced the Austrian giant himself: Arnold Schwarzenegger. Arnie came out in his usual erect style, dressed up in a stylish suit and waving enthusiastically to the crowd, smile plastered from one end of his face to the other. The crowd jumped to its feet, and I almost dropped my beer right then and there (although thankfully, I caught it...phew!). So Arnold grabs the mike and says: "I told you that I'd be back last time and here I am!" Once again, the crowd went ape-shit and I was the biggest ape of them all. Arnold then turned to director Mostow and said, "Give Jonathan Mostow a big hand...he's fantastic!!" Once more, the audience went bonkers, as I continued to join in the adrenalin rush of it all ("wow, it's the real Terminator right there!"). It goes without saying that I would have gotten up on stage and given Mr. Mostow a hand-job if Arnie had asked at that point. Thankfully for all involved...he never did. So the crowd and Arnold settle down enough to shut the lights and wait to see the footage from T3. We see it all and other than not revealing one bit about the plot (it was basically a bunch of non-related scenes quickly edited up against one another), the clip didn't really do much for me. One thing I do remember thinking is how the Terminator's black leather jacket wasn't as cool as it used to be. It was too clean and shiny. Kinda like that year that the Fonz got his new glossy leather jacket and became "uncool" in my eyes, soon thereafter. Anyway, there was also no sign of the Terminatrix in the footage, but Stahl seemed to be conveying his "brooding" style across pretty well, and Danes seemed...well, boring as usual. Overall, I can't say that I was overwhelmed by the clips, but it didn't look as bad as I thought it would either, although the last line left something to be desired (actually, this was the only line in the entire trailer-- it was basically set against some crankin' music). Arnold, in full T3 gear says, "Desire is irrelevant...I am a machine". I don't know....I guess I'll have to wait and see more before I really get a sense of this one.
Jonathan Mostow was then asked how he felt after he got the gig to head up T3, and said that it was like "winning the lottery" and that it took him a couple of weeks just to believe that he truly did get it. Arnold was then asked which of his own films was his favorite, and other than rambling around the answer for a while, he finally said that he didn't have any one particular favorite, because they were all "different joys" to make. He did admit that both KINDERGARTEN COP and TWINS were the most "fun" to make though, since he loved working with Danny DeVito and that he could "smoke three stogies a day". He also said that he loved making TOTAL RECALL and the TERMINATOR movies, and that he also has "fun" when he sees the box-office results come in for some of this bigger films. "That's fun too." He admitted that his life was good and that "I hope that they just write "joy" on my gravestone, because that's what I've had in my life". And what about DOC SAVAGE, Arnold...are you going to do that movie? "Beats me", responded Arnold. "Frank Darabont (THE GREEN MILE, THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION) wrote the script and handed it in to Warner Bros but the studio said that it would apparently cost upwards of $200 million to make, so it's up to them at this point". With that and mucho applause from the audience, both men exited the premises but not before grand politician-in-the-making Arnold Schwarzenegger returned one more time, grabbed the mike and shouted "Asta la vista, fanboys!" to his adoring audience. It's at that point that I realized that the man's charm had pulled the wool right over my eyes during his short time on stage, but then again...it's the man's charm that gets people in to see his movies in the first place, so consider my sorry ass "sold" on the next installment of his kickass career, and count me in for any votes if he does end up running for office (yeah, yeah...I know I'm Canadian but I can still vote, can't I?? Can't I??). Asta la vista, indeed. |
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SAN DIEGO COMIC CON 2002 |
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The Hellboy
panel: The Bulletproof Monk
panel: The House of the Dead
panel: SONY/COLUMBIA The XXX panel: The Tooth Fairy
panel: NEW LINE The LOTR: The Two Towers
panel: WARNER BROS The Ecks vs Sever
panel: The Dreamcatcher
panel: The Terminator 3
surprise: UNIVERSAL The Hulk panel: FOX The Solaris
surprise: The X-Men 2
panel: The Daredevil
panel: The official
2002
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Anyway,
when Mostow first hit the stage, he talked about how excited he was to
be shooting the movie, he talked about how he was keeping it as
secretive as possible ("have you noticed that no script copies have
leaked on to the Net") and he said that he couldn't say much about
the story at this point, but that we should expect several "cool
surprises in the movie". He also said that the film was still 11
months from completion (tentative release date: July 4, 2003), and that
they still had to add all kinds of effects to it later. Now before
showing us a 2-minute clip of several snippets from the movie, Mostow
made sure to let everyone know that it would not have any effects in it
at this point, and that the score and other aspects would be changed as
well. He basically just wanted to give us a "taste" of the
movie...which was nice, I thought. He also said that it would be the
"first footage shown to anyone in the world of the film",
which was also cool to hear. Yay, we're special! :)
A
Q&A was then opened to the floor and right off the bat, some a-hole
gets up and asks Mostow this question: "Are you gonna ruin this
franchise like somebody else ruined BATMAN?" (referring to Joel
Schumacher, of course). Arnold just sat up there with a "what the
fuck is going on around here?" look on his face (you're in the
world of geeks now, Arnold!), while Mostow took
the high road and simply replied with a "I am a big fan of this
franchise and I hope that I can make a worthy third chapter."
Arnold was then asked about CONAN 3, and said that he "hoped that
it would happen" but that it was not in his power. He said that a
script had been written by John Milius (who wrote the original CONAN THE BARBARIAN),
but that it was up to Warner Bros to give the film the greenlight or
not.