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Topic: New Howard/Horner - Project?
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Philipp
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The imdb is listing a new project for composer James Horner. It is titles THE ALAMO and is set to be directed by Ron Howard. Is this a remake ? Philipp np: in love and war (george fenton)
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posted 06-25-2002 08:12 AM PT (US) ip
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Graham Watt
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Oh, probably.
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posted 06-25-2002 12:50 PM PT (US) ip
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Marc Flake
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We've had some press on this down here in Texas. Not the Horner part, that's news.Ron Howard has announced plans to do a movie about the Alamo. Some of the discussion indicates it may also include the Battle of San Jacinto. Stephen Hardin, the author of "A Texian Iliad," has been a fixture at the news conferences that have been held. His book is about the whole Texas Revolution. He is NOT a proponent of those few historians who say that David Crocket surrendered and was sumarily executed after the battle. He does have a different version of Sam Houston than we have in textbooks here. There was a point, according to his research, when the Texas Army was supposed to turn east and and follow Houston toward Louisiana, but turned west to meet Santa Ana instead. Houston allegedly glared at the army marching past him, then followed THEM to battle. I've scored that scene a dozen times in my head and hope it will show up in the movie. Kevin Jarre of "The Mummy" and "Glory" was the first fellow credited with the scriptwriting duties. John Sayles of "Lone Star" is also on board, according to reports. Two others are listed on IMDB as part of the writing team.
[Message edited by Marc Flake on 06-27-2002]
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posted 06-25-2002 02:44 PM PT (US) ip
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Lou Goldberg
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I hate Ron Howard. I hate James Horner. The Alamo story is cool but with these guys on board it's gonna be a botch. A sad waste of celluloid and money.
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posted 06-26-2002 08:32 PM PT (US) ip
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Marc Flake
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One thing you can count on -- Texans will be watching this project very closely. Hell, we gave JOHN WAYNE a hard time about his movie. He wanted to make it in MEXICO for Pete's Sake.I like both Howard and Horner, but there will be a tendency for both to be rather revisionist in their visions. (I was imagining how Horner would score the final moments of the Alamo and couldn't keep "Glory" out of my mind.) One thing we won't see is the brutality exhibited by BOTH sides. What concerns me is the revisionist tendency to say that the Texians were more brutal than the Mexicans. There was a lot of anger fueled by fear after the Alamo and Goliad that led to the ferocity of the charge at San Jacinto. Whether revisionists believe it or not the Anglos and Tejanos were literally fighting for their lives. Santa Anna had a nasty habit to massacre those who opposed him, not only in the province of Tejas, but also previously in Chihuahua.
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posted 06-27-2002 06:57 AM PT (US) ip
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Lou Goldberg
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If John Sayles' Lone Star is any indication, the Alamo is still debated by both Texans and Mexicans. Who ever is watching, I expect Howard to use the thing to promote his usual crap sentimentality which in this case will probably mean crap patriotism.
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posted 07-01-2002 08:45 PM PT (US) ip
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Marc Flake
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Here's the latest news on the "Alamo" movie being made in Texas.
http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/columnists/art_chapman/3660342.htm Be sure to get the whole address. Looks like Howard's going to have as difficult a time as Wayne did.
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posted 07-16-2002 03:16 PM PT (US) ip
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Lou Goldberg
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If there were any brains attached to this project, they'd close it down right now. $100 million for a film nobody is going to watch. Do you know how many people that could feed?
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posted 07-17-2002 09:25 PM PT (US) ip
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Quill
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I'm sensing some negativity Lou...tell us how you really feel.
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posted 08-05-2002 05:53 PM PT (US) ip
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Marc Flake
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Here's the latest from Fox News on this project:It was studio editorial interference, and not budget matters, that kept Ron Howard from making his Alamo movie. The Academy Award- winning director of A Beautiful Mind told me last night that the real reason his $100 million epic starring Russell Crowe, Ethan Hawke and Billy Bob Thornton never got off the ground was because Disney would not let him make the movie he wanted to make. Previous reports put the blame on a burgeoning budget. But you know, if you thought about it, when did that ever stop a motion picture from being green lit? Howard, who came into New York from his suburban idyll to show off the IMAX version of his 1995 classic Apollo 13, talked to me at the new stylish Compass restaurant on a wide range of subjects. But The Alamo was first and foremost on our list. "I wanted to do a gritty, no holds-barred film about the wild gang at the Alamo. It would not have been the Cocoon version. It was going to be very graphic -- and Disney said no. They wanted a PG movie. They didn't want an R movie with controversy, so it became this battle that was brewing. Did I want to take this huge project knowing what I was up against? Because what they were going to do was say, 'Okay, go ahead, get going,' and then somewhere down the line think they were going to soften me into cutting the film into what they wanted. And even I have final cut on my films, it didn't seem worth it, to know that fight was going to be constant. With a movie like that, everyone has to be working together with the same goals -- and there are other directors who I'm sure started out wanting to make one kind of film and wound up making another."
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posted 09-19-2002 12:38 PM PT (US) ip
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