(Picture: Myles Goode)
It’s a question asked by countless film producers every year; how do I win an Oscar for Best Picture?
Eight films are in the running for the biggest accolade at the Academy Awards this Sunday, and each contender is very different.
Among the nominees for this year’s Best Picture are a film where a man is stuck on Mars (The Martian); a film where a woman is stuck in a room (Room); a film where a man is stuck in a permanent car chase (Mad Max: Fury Road); a film where a woman is stuck in Ireland (Brooklyn) and a film where a man is stuck inside a horse (The Revenant).
See? All very different.
But if you look through the Best Picture winners of the past 30 years – from Out of Africa to Birdman – patterns do emerge.
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So we decided to dissect the information on those 30 previous winners and pinpoint what exactly makes a Best Picture.
The result is our own movie, complete with a title, a director, a cast, a setting, a genre and a running time, which we are hoping could go into pre-production immediately and make a tilt at the Academy Awards in 2018 – you read about it here first.
This is how we crunched the Oscar numbers to create our own Best Picture contender…
Disney Star Wars: Episodes VII, VIII and IX
Posted in COMMENT, NEWS with tags Dark Force Rising, Disney, George Lucas, Heir To The Empire, Lucasfilm, Star Wars, The Last Command, Thrawn, Timothy Zahn on November 20, 2012 by Ross McD***WARNING! HERE BE SPOILERS!***
Yes, yes, we know E online said the new Star Wars movies would have ‘completely new’ storylines and not be based on anything already written. But you know what? Christopher Nolan said he’d die before he’d cast Robin in a Batman Film. According to the credits if Airplane 2, we were supposed to get an Airplane 3. Heck, even George Lucas said he was making a farm-set porno called Blue Harvest. Filmmakers are liars, you see. Don’t forget it’s their job description to fool audiences! There is a massive expanded Star Wars universe catered for via some excellently written novels, but none come close to the Thrawn Trilogy, written by Timothy Zahn and generally regarded by fanboys to be the canon’s episode VII, VIII and IX – Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising and The Last Command.
So what are they all about? Who are the major players? And who will play them? Continue reading →
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