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by Bill Graham Posted:February 4th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
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McG (Terminator Salvation) is in negotiations to direct the action-comedy This Means War, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Starring Bradley Cooper and Reese Witherspoon, the film has a nice start but the news I like the most is who wrote it. Timothy Dowling, who was behind the underrated and hilarious Role Models, is responsible the most recent draft of the script.
The Fox film has been in production hell, but McG’s calendar opened up when the remake of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo was shelved by Disney. The synopsis as per THR:
The tale of best friends who are also spies and fall in love with the same woman (Witherspoon). The men’s bond disintegrates, and their ensuing battle escalates.
It’s not yet known when the film will be in front of the cameras, look for updates as we get them.
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I can't believe he still gets another shot at directing after what he did with TERMINATOR SALVATION.
Want to ruin a franchise…any franchise….Charlie's Angel's, Terminator…and more to come…..
JUST HIRE MC G.
Terminator wasn't horrendous, but it wasn't that good either. I'm just pumped for the guy that wrote the script.
Not to slam the screenwriter Timothy Dowling, but he's not really reponsible for why “Role Models” was funny. I read his original script to “Role Models” (back in the day it was called “Big Brothers”) and it wasn't very good. It was actually basically a bad copy of “Wedding Crashers” in its humor, the Wheeler character was written like Vince Vaughn's character. Dowling is responsible for like the basic concept and character names, but his draft was not at all like the final movie. So I have to attribute all the funny to the rewriters: Paul Rudd, David Wain, Ken Marino. Give credit where credits due collider
I don't have access to the Role Models script. How did you get your hands on it? How can I know who to properly credit when Dowling is clearly given credit for Role Models, among others?
Dowling is cited as a screenwriter and given credit for story, thus, credit is given to him for helping make Role Models funny. Perhaps you can provide me the final script that Dowling worked on and then the final script from the film and I can compare. Until then, Dowling gets credit as being “behind” Role Models…
Dowling is mostly given credit due to him being the first writer on the project, per WGA Guild rules which basically almost always award the first writer with some credit unless the throw out like everything. And since the basic concept and character names are the same, that's way he got credit. I had the script when I worked at the production company that was at one point involved in the development, not sure if I have an electronic copy of it that I could send out. But watching various Behind the Scenes about “Role Models” and reading interviews by the director David Wain, it seems like Paul Rudd did a first pass on the Dowling script and then David and Ken came in to do more rewrites. I don't think Dowling really even had one joke in the final movie that I can recall, all the stuff (Paul Rudd's sarcasm, Jane Lynch's character, all of the LAIRE stuff, etc, etc) was not in the original draft. The subversive humor and originality came from Paul, David, and Ken. But Dowling did come up with the basic concept of two guys joining Big Brothers and was the first writer so that’s why he got credit.
I would also say that you can't say you really like a screenwriter if you've never actually read any of his scripts. A script is different than a final movie, especially if there are multiple writers on a project.
I actually quite liked T4 but I saw it as just the first part of a trilogy, one that we may never see finished off. T4 wasnt bad, it just wasnt the film we expected imo. The technology of the terminators needed to grow to get to the final T800 + robots, so much still to tell to complete the story.
MCG or who ever needs to finish what was started.
Watch T1 again, and youll find most things that were explained by Reece actually happened in T4. Harvesters etc.
The lasers and shiny tech is cyberdynes next move. Will we see it evolve?
No, it was bad.
Here we go again with WE RUIN IT PRODUCTIONS! Another alum gets another gig. This should be guud…errr…rather disastrous. LOL!
We have seen the WGA writing regulations pop up recently with Jason Reitman's Up In The Air. There have been alot of reports on that, and alot of early scripts have been looked over and dissected by other journalists.
I am not arguing that Dowling is the man responsible for Role Models' success. However, he WAS behind the idea (from what you say) and IS given credit. Without someone telling me otherwise and providing actual proof he didn't help make the film funny, I can't help but feel you are pissing in the wind.
If he was, in fact, a very insubstantial part of Role Models, it sucks that he is given credit by the WGA.
Finally, a film is a monumental piece of work done by alot of creative people. Isn't an editor a large part of what makes a film work? Isn't an actor also a large piece of that? What about the cinematographer? The stunt coordinator? The various screenwriters? So how much does a film reflect a director's vision? I can't know if I'm not on set and see that she/he was hands on with all the major pieces of a film. There are alot of pieces to a puzzle in terms of the final product, so unless I am all knowing or have reports giving me information, what am I to do?
I like that the screenwriter behind Role Models did the most recent draft for this film. That shouldn't require me to have read his scripts, should it? If so, that sets up a very long and arduous precedent for anyone liking the finished product of a director, writer, cinematographer, etc.
To sum it all up, we disagree.
We have seen the WGA writing regulations pop up recently with Jason Reitman's Up In The Air. There have been alot of reports on that, and alot of early scripts have been looked over and dissected by other journalists.
I am not arguing that Dowling is the man responsible for Role Models' success. However, he WAS behind the idea (from what you say) and IS given credit. Without someone telling me otherwise and providing actual proof he didn't help make the film funny, I can't help but feel you are pissing in the wind.
If he was, in fact, a very insubstantial part of Role Models, it sucks that he is given credit by the WGA.
Finally, a film is a monumental piece of work done by alot of creative people. Isn't an editor a large part of what makes a film work? Isn't an actor also a large piece of that? What about the cinematographer? The stunt coordinator? The various screenwriters? So how much does a film reflect a director's vision? I can't know if I'm not on set and see that she/he was hands on with all the major pieces of a film. There are alot of pieces to a puzzle in terms of the final product, so unless I am all knowing or have reports giving me information, what am I to do?
I like that the screenwriter behind Role Models did the most recent draft for this film. That shouldn't require me to have read his scripts, should it? If so, that sets up a very long and arduous precedent for anyone liking the finished product of a director, writer, cinematographer, etc.
To sum it all up, we disagree.