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| Forums Index -> The Terror Tube -> DEATH MATCH, written by Messiahman & Ultimo Franco |
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Fri Feb 08, 2008 10:32 pm
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| The Buz wrote: | | Sirand wrote: |  |
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Fri Feb 08, 2008 10:47 pm
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| NMEwithin wrote: | Why the fuck Joe Knetter ever entrusted one of his stories to you morons I will never know....  |
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Sat Feb 09, 2008 12:24 am
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Don't all these "warden makes convicts fight etc." movies just all date back to The Longest Yard with Burt Reynolds, but with a football game instead of a fight?
Mean Machine with Vinnie Jones was an awesome variation on this using a soccer game. Shit, it was basically a Longest Yard remake...
In a related note, Farina and I recently watched "Let's Go to Prison" with Will Arnett and Dax Sheppard. It was like all the prison movie cliches all lumped together in one movie.
Not the funniest movie I've ever seen, but damn fine none the less. Of course it had the prison sanctioned fight to the death...
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Sat Feb 09, 2008 5:48 am
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| Messiahman wrote: | | Rorschach wrote: | | And might I ask: Is it a TNA wrestler that plays The President? I don't know of many 300 pound actors OUTSIDE of maybe John Goodman and Michael Clarke Duncan. Ving Rhames, maybe. Which is why I'm curious as to whether you guys got a wrestler for the part. |
No, he's an actor, and a fantastic one at that. The President is undeniably scary as hell. |
Awesome....like I said, I'm down for the UNRATED DVD when it hits. Call me crazy, but I'd rather see a film how it was INTENDED to be seen, and not some network suit's cut, you know? |
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Sat Feb 09, 2008 7:06 am
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Sat Feb 09, 2008 7:34 am
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| Rorschach wrote: | | Messiahman wrote: | | Rorschach wrote: | | And might I ask: Is it a TNA wrestler that plays The President? I don't know of many 300 pound actors OUTSIDE of maybe John Goodman and Michael Clarke Duncan. Ving Rhames, maybe. Which is why I'm curious as to whether you guys got a wrestler for the part. |
No, he's an actor, and a fantastic one at that. The President is undeniably scary as hell. |
Awesome....like I said, I'm down for the UNRATED DVD when it hits. Call me crazy, but I'd rather see a film how it was INTENDED to be seen, and not some network suit's cut, you know? |
Understood completely. I think what will primarily be missing is the nudity and the profanity (of which there is a veritable fuckload) -- Spike seems to quite enjoy the overt bloodletting, so most of the violence should remain intact.
Honestly, these TV movies have on the whole been creatively liberating. As opposed to features, where the development process usually takes years, and you have to deal with armies of people who want to put their fingers in the pie, television projects almost always have a locked shooting date. And they have to make that date or they start losing money. This of course means that the majority of your best stuff actually makes it to the screen without being worked to death in the notes process. In the case of DEATH MATCH, the film follows the script almost verbatim -- there's very little derivation from what we had on the page. The only way to even come close to accomplishing this in features is to work completely outside the studio system, and even then it's no guarantee.
Incidentally, the prison in DEATH MATCH and the events that transpire inside it are loosely based on the real-life horrors that occurred in California's Corcoran State Prison.
Read some scary shit about Corcoran here:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19960822/ai_n14069294 |
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Sat Feb 09, 2008 7:44 am
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There's even a waterboarding scene to piss off those pussy liberals!  |
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Sat Feb 09, 2008 7:56 am
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| thedudeabides wrote: | | Don't all these "warden makes convicts fight etc." movies just all date back to The Longest Yard with Burt Reynolds, but with a football game instead of a fight? |
Not to mention that the notion of an undercover man going inside as a convict goes back to the underrated BRUBAKER, though that film had a rather different spin than ours.
MEAN MACHINE was a blast by the way, and it WAS a remake of LONGEST YARD -- they even properly credit that film's writers. |
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Thu Mar 06, 2008 9:15 pm
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Johnny Messner in Death Match |
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Fri Mar 07, 2008 6:24 am
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Actually, this isn't a shot from the film itself. It was taken during a break right after Johnny flubbed one of the lines we'd written. So Franco and I, uhm, had some words with him. 
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Wed Mar 12, 2008 6:09 am
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Well, it was bound to happen. Death Match had its title changed. I have no idea why. It's all business. Anyway, it's now called Ring Of Death.
Same great taste, fresh new label. Ask for it by name! |
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Wed Mar 12, 2008 2:09 pm
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Ring of Death???
Death Match was a badass title! Ring of Death sounds like a DTV Van Damme movie.
Stupid execs.
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| NMEwithin wrote: | | Why the fuck Joe Knetter ever entrusted one of his stories to you morons I will never know.... |
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Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:50 pm
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Stacy Keach as Warden Carl Golan |
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Thu Apr 10, 2008 11:14 pm
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Stacy Keach as Warden Carl Golan |
God, without the moustache, he looks like Brian Dennehey.
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