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Chancellor_Ewok
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Date Posted:
3/13 12:33pm
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1906 (dir. by Brad Bird)
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Brad Bird+John Logan+Disaster Movie=EPIC.WIN.
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This movie will rule. 
Brad Bird has been nominated twice for a Best Original Screenplay Oscar, and has lost twice. This is almost definitely because he is a genius who chooses to work in animation, and has blessed us with The Incredibles and Ratatouille as a result. But now he may finally get his chance for true glory: He’s set to make his live-action writing and directing debut.
The Hollywood Reporter is confirming the story we brought you several months ago here, that Bird will be making 1906, set around the famous San Francisco earthquake and following a college student who investigates the father’s murder. Because Brad Bird has giant cajones, he’s re-writing an original script by John Logan, who wrote such major hits as The Last Samurai and The Aviator. The guy’s been nominated for as many Oscars as Brad Bird has, but to paraphrase Ratatouille, anyone can write screenplays, but only a few can do it as well as Bird.
The one downside to this would be if Bird abandons animation for live-action filmmaking, but it’s hard to imagine that happening. Bird is a smart guy who knows his strengths, which means both that he will never leave animation and that 1906 will almost definitely rule. Maybe it’s my overwhelming love for Ratatouille speaking, or perhaps my irrational love of disaster movies, but this project pretty much sounds perfect. Brad Bird, you are my master now!
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Zaz
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3/13 12:36pm
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RE: 1906
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It sounds great...great subject, too.
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Zaz
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1906
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Vortigern99
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RE: 1906 (dir. by Brad Bird)
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Feels like odd subject matter for Mr. Bird, but I'm game for anything he cares to create. He had me at "hello".
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Vengance1003
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Looks awesome.
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My paternal unit once talked to a man who had been through it...he was a midshipman (aged 16) on a Norwegian or Swedish sailing ship in the harbour. He was very elderly, but he recalled it vividly.
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Palpateen
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RE: 1906 (dir. by Brad Bird)
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It's a fresh topic, I can't recall a movie about the San Francisco earthquake in a long time. Sounds like he's using the Titantic template, creating fictional characters and setting them against a famous historical event.
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Zaz
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The last big one was "San Francisco" (1936), starring Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy and Jeannette MacDonald.
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Zaz
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Looks quite unusual
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Coruscant
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I have met and conversed with the writer of the novel and screenplay, James Dalessandro, on numerous occasions. My dad took this screenwriting class from him a few times and now they're really good friends. Went to Italy with a tour group and everything.
I have the script.
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Vengance1003
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If Brad Bird managed to make a rat look cute, than I'm sure this'll be fine.
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Drac39
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Odd choice but Bird is a very creative screenwriter and I'm game for him going out of the ordinary
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Chancellor_Ewok
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Coruscant posted:
I have the script.
Is it good?
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I've read Kage Baker's Son Observe the Time, which is set during the earthquake, and it has whetted my appetite for the subject. I'm interested to see how this one turns out.
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