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I'm sure he'll be fine, keep in mind Dennis Hopper was/is a burnout drug addict, he's been around the block.

Hmm...your Dino-Babes magazine sounds like a fairly-unimportant Chekhov's Gun to me. Also, I like your use of "Walk the Dinosaur" as the Koopas' leitmotif, if that's your purpose. EDIT: Consider this: Queen Latifah as Bertha. Remember, it's just an outline, a rough one at that-- some of t...

Well, I think I'm gonna take a short break for writing tonight, that's five pages I just churned out...enjoy! Everybody else, the Pascal Boys, Scapelli, and his two goons are knocked out, writhing on the floor in pain. The security guard has run off. â€œWe gotta go down there!â€ Luigi says, frighte...

Here's where the action starts getting really tight, enjoy! Iggy sighs, â€œYou gotta love rush hour in Manhattan,â€ to which the fifth Koopling, Ludwig-Von, responds with a question: â€œWhich way'd you come?â€ Iggy shakes his head. â€œIt's not important. The girl is here.â€ Ludwig-Von puts his ha...

I'm on a roll tonight, here's yet another page... Now we cut to Mario, Scapelli, the two goons, all cramped in the back of the car. The song 'Night Fever' by The Bee Gees is playing on the radio, Scapelli is feeling the need to sing along, as he (poorly) sings the lyrics: â€œOn the waves of the air,...

Things are getting exciting now, in this brand new installment of the outline, for your reading pleasure... Jump cut to outside a series of nicely restored, Brooklyn tenements against the Manhattan skyline, the Twin Towers' lights are starting to shine in the twilight, now. Then the sounds of teacup...

Today is Bob Hoskin's 67th birthday! A very happy birthday to Bob Hoskins, the first (and probably only) theatrically cinematic portrayal of Super Mario!

Ahoy-hoy!

Here's another small tidbit of the outline! Now we cut back to Mario, at the brothers' apartment, where he's putting on a nice leisure suit, he's got a toothbrush dangling out of the corner of his mouth. He walks to the bathroom and spits the toothpaste out, when there's a knock at the door. â€œIt's...

As for your "no fantasy" decision, Merritt, I think a few very limited fantasy-based elements--implemented/explained as you would science-fiction--might improve the story just a bit. For example, I've always maintained that the De-evolution process might be better explained as one of Koop...

1upmushroom wrote:So, you're not doing 2 versions, just one? Totaly Confused.

I made it very clear that I'm doing one version, and have decided not to do a 'fantasy-based' version at all.

I totally agree. I kind of wish they would have gone that route in the original film, since the WTC was heavily featured/mirrored anyways. And I keep getting this picture in my head of a very nicely done re-creation of 1993, in terms of clothing and style and stuff. Very similar to how Watchmen por...

You are keeping the twin towers in, you truly are an artist. Good stuff. Most people would be like, "Nope they're gone now, there's no way I can put those in there." Well I'm keeping the Twin Towers in for two reasons: One, the script takes place in an alternate 1993, where the '93 bombin...

Another page of the outline, continued from before... Now we cut to inside the lobby of the North Tower, Luigi is walking towards a big exhibit that has the same sign from outside: â€œDINOSAURS IN NEW YORK!â€ Hanging over a series of tables lined up with fossils laid out on them. Luigi walks over t...

Phlibbit wrote:Thank god. I think what you were writing all along is exactly where you need to stay. It has a lot more artistic merit, IMO.

Yup, well, like I said, I'm going to get on writing it, in fact I'll probably do some writing on it tonight, after reviewing it, so I can get back in the right mode.

I just gotta interject here, I think that regardless of people's personal beliefs, both creationists and evolutionists would probably agree that the way evolution is depicted in the film is downright ridiculous, therefor rendering the idea of the movie trying to push some sort of belief on anyone, l...

Wow, I'm surprised this thread is still going, actually I haven't gotten to write much of the outline lately due to college work and my Dad moving to a new house, but I'm glad to see there's still some interest here. I will be working on the harder, 'sci-fi' version of the script, as the 'fantasy' o...

Damn, that's a little out of my price range, though I am curious, did the actors from the movie voice their doll-counterparts?

Wow, I didn't expect that, of the five people to portray Mario, I never expected him to go first... Peter Cullen (Optimus Prime, Transformers) was the first incarnation of Mario, from 1983 to 1985 for "Saturday Supercade." "Captain" Lou Albano was the second incarnation, between ...

No, not exactly, it needs to be much more drawn out and has to have some semblance of continuity.

Hey, I didn't know if anybody here was familiar with Bizarro Fiction, an underground writing movement that focuses on ir realism, the forced action of writing the weird. For those of you who aren't familiar, I'll provide some links, but be forewarned: BIZARRO IS NOT FOR EVERYBODY. Most of the time i...

It doesn't help that I watch it on a 52" Plasma TV projected through a PS3, does it?

Maybe I am just chasing shadows.

ultimateemail5000 wrote:I don't see it. Is there anyway to touch it up with photoshop or something. It's just a blur.

That was the best I could do, sorry, but if you pin-point that on a TV, it's much clearer.

Okay, here we go. Check it out, I've enlarged and highlighted the area where Koopa's henchmen in Mario and Luigi's uniforms are... http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/ww197/MerrittTheFerret/VLCSNAP.jpg ...I definitely think that when they made this movie, their hearts were in the right place, but the...

MerrittTheFerret, I took a screenshot of what I think you're talking about (I used Hypercam, since I don't have anything else for taking pictures). Are you talking about the two guys on the bottom right of this picture?: No it's not quite there, but close. I'll take a picture and see if I can show ...

Cool it, guys. 1UpMushroom, you need to stop posting one and two-word replies to posts. OneUp, all I'm gonna say is "Don't start nothing, there won't be nothing." I don't want to have to take any sort of authoritative action with my moderating duties unless I absolutely have to. So just co...

Nicely done with the storyboarding, there!

It turns out that Daisy came to get the Marios because there's a new villain to deal with; namely Wart. Using DNA from the Marios., he creates a pair of clones which he names Wario and Waluigi. Just a bit of constructive criticism, from a writing standpoint: I would use Wario, but I don't accept 'W...

Take the scene where Koopa is talking about how for sixty-five million years they've been exiled to the wasteland, when in the streets below outside his window, you can see the guys who (apparently) work for Koopa, dressed in what will later become Mario and Luigi's red and green jumpsuits. It's lik...

1upmushroom wrote:Can you write more? Are you gonna?

Yeah, I'm going to write more, eventually...I've been busy with college and other things, as of late. But there will be more, in time.

That's a slightly different Goomba figure than the regular ones, isn't it? Interesting.

It's almost as if it were a monster trying to be a human being.

Soooo.... I (with me wifey) purchased a condo, in preparation for the upcoming (now in session) college semester. We're moved in and things are going smoothly, but we still have a long way to go before everything is in order for me to get anything *substantial* on the website again. However, I'll b...

Interesting update here... My brother and cohort in this fan-fiction screenplay, has decided to this in a slightly (totally) different direction. Recently we were digging through some old boxes in the basement, and we came across this... http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/ww197/MerrittTheFerret/sma....

Spike and Iggy have same 'condition,' albinism, which, in Sarasaland, the alternate universe, is considered one of the highest blessings. I meant the throat cancer thing. :lol: Oh, well, it's not really 'cancer,' as much as it is an unnamed cause, you're sort of left to wonder if it's cancer, but i...

I have only scanned through the outline, I'd rather read an actual script format of your vision. I like your vision though, It's cool your not like, YA I'M MAKING A MOVIE FROM MY SCRIPT. You're just writing it out of being a fan, least I think. Hope to read it soon, unless you posted it already and...

I have only scanned through the outline, I'd rather read an actual script format of your vision. I like your vision though, It's cool your not like, YA I'M MAKING A MOVIE FROM MY SCRIPT. You're just writing it out of being a fan, least I think. Hope to read it soon, unless you posted it already and...

Ah, yes, I'd forgotten about Spike's condition. It's just that I happen to visualize the Spike/Iggy double-act from the film proper when I read the dialogue. Sort of like how Bat-fans can only imagine Kevin Conroy's voice when they're reading a Batman graphic novel. Spike and Iggy have same 'condit...

The "sea turtles" exchange definitely fits with Spike (Larry?) and Iggy more than Mario and Luigi. And I like the establishment of the Koop-Ons as a parallel-world dollar bill. K-4 is one of the Kooplings, not Spike, but I see how you could get that confused. K-1 is Iggy. K-2 is Spike. K-...

Here's a few more bits and pieces for your reading enjoyment! :mrgreen: Then we slam cut to a street coming down a hill somewhere in Brooklyn, the scene is very briefly quiet, then we see the Marios' truck come flying over that hill, suspending itself in the air briefly, landing safely back at the s...

I think he's giving you a complement. You know, I'm getting a real "Watchmen" vibe from what you have so far. Or at least that's how the film is looking in my head, how it would be stylized and shot, etc. Yeah, I definitely see a Watchmen -stylized retelling of Super Mario Bros in my head...

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