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Awesome. I felt like there was so much untapped potential with the Mighty Ducks. The first three movies barely scratched the surface.
 
Dragonlordxxxxx said:
THE MIGHTY DUCKS TV Series in the Works from Original Trilogy Screenwriter

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The Mighty Ducks franchise may be coming to the small screen. Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that ABC Signature Studios is in early development for a series based on the 1990s dramedy about a youth hockey team. A network is not yet attached.

Sources tell THR that ABC Signature head Tracy Underwood, always looking to identify Disney titles and intellectual property that can appeal to a global audience, put Mighty Ducks in development after being approached by original trilogy screenwriter Steven Brill and original producer Jordan Kerner. Brill will pen the script in-house for ABC Signature. If that comes in well, ABC Signature would package the project with talent and shop it to streamers this year. Brillstein Entertainment's George Heller and Brad Petrigala will, like Brill, be credited as EPs.

Feature film star Emilio Estevez is not currently attached as a script has not yet been written. What remains unclear is if the potential Mighty Ducks TV series is a sequel or reboot as the logline for the half-hour or hour project is being kept under wraps.

Sources stress that the Mighty Ducks TV show is in its early stages and will not be taken out anytime soon. As for a potential home, insiders note that ABC Signature could take the project out to other broadcast or cable networks in addition to shopping it to streaming platforms. (Another option could be to keep it in-house and set it up on Disney's forthcoming stand-alone SVOD service that will be home to Marvel and Star Wars movies as well as original scripted TV shows based on Star Wars, High School Musical and Monsters, Inc.)

The Mighty Ducks was released in 1992 by Walt Disney Pictures. Produced on a budget of $10 million, the Stephen Herek-directed movie starred Estevez as Gordon Bombay, a Minneapolis attorney who winds up coaching a pee-wee hockey team as community service after a drunk-driving arrest. Despite negative reviews from critics, the film went on to be a box-office hit, grossing $50.7 million domestic. That led to two sequels — 1994's D2: The Mighty Ducks (with Estevez) and 1996's D3: The Mighty Ducks, which was built around original film star Josh Jackson's Charlie Conway. They grossed $45.6 million and $22.9 million, respectively, with the success of the first feature inspiring producers Disney to name Anaheim's 1993 NHL expansion team after the franchise.

Should the ABC Signature effort come to fruition, it would be the second time The Mighty Ducks has been explored for the small screen. An animated series was launched in 1996 on ABC and as part of its syndicated programming block The Disney Afternoon. The 26-episode series last aired on Toon Disney in 2004.

Reboots continue to remain in high demand as broadcast, cable and streaming services look for proven IP in a bid to cut through a cluttered scripted landscape that is expected to top 500 shows in 2019. Key to them is having the original producers attached, which Mighty Ducks has with Brill and Kerner, as well as ownership of the IP.

'The Mighty Ducks' TV Series in the Works from Original Trilogy Screenwriter and Original Producer (Exclusive)
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No Emiliooooo, no buy from me.
 
2nd episode in for J.K. Simmons' COUNTERPART and I already love the series.

Love the attention to details and the realistic scenarios that played out like the cold open where Other Side Howard stuffed his ears with tissue(?) before being escorted in the Bulgarian's car. I thought there was going to be an explosion but it was just he was expecting to shoot his way out in the car and the noise would have been deafening inside the small confines of a car. That is so cool. In most or all of the TV shows or movies, you just see people shooting inside the car with no ramifications to the ear.
 
THE LEFTOVERS' Nicole Kassell to Direct WATCHMEN Pilot for HBO

Damon Lindelof is enlisting a familiar face to direct the Watchmen pilot. Nicole Kassell, who helmed a pair of episodes of Lindelof's The Leftovers, has been tapped to direct the pilot for the prolific showrunner's adaptation of Alan Moore's beloved graphic novel.

Picked up to pilot in September, Lindelof is writing the script and executive producing the potential series via his Warner Bros. Television-based White Rabbit banner. Kassell will also exec produce on top of directing.

Kassell directed two key episodes of HBO's The Leftovers: season two's "No Room at the Inn" and season three's "It's a Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt World." She directed the pilot for TNT's Claws and counts helming work on HBO's Westworld and Vinyl, FX's The Americans andAMC's Better Call Saul, as well as the finales for ABC's American Crime and the upcoming Hulu J.J. Abrams/Stephen King anthology Castle Rock. On the feature side, Kassell's directing credits include The Woodsman, which she co-wrote with Steven Farber. She is repped by WME, Management 360 and Frankfurt Kurnit.

First published in 1986 and collected in 1987, Watchmen was created by Moore, artist Dave Gibbons and colorist John Higgins. The series was named one of the 100 best novels by Time magazine. Rumors of HBO tackling Watchmen first surfaced in 2015, when the pay cabler noted it was in preliminary discussions for a TV take on the property.

HBO Enlists 'The Leftovers' Helmer Nicole Kassell to Direct Pilot for 'Watchmen' TV Series
 
Dragonlordxxxxx said:
THE LEFTOVERS' Nicole Kassell to Direct WATCHMEN Pilot for HBO

Damon Lindelof is enlisting a familiar face to direct the Watchmen pilot. Nicole Kassell, who helmed a pair of episodes of Lindelof's The Leftovers, has been tapped to direct the pilot for the prolific showrunner's adaptation of Alan Moore's beloved graphic novel.

Picked up to pilot in September, Lindelof is writing the script and executive producing the potential series via his Warner Bros. Television-based White Rabbit banner. Kassell will also exec produce on top of directing.

Kassell directed two key episodes of HBO's The Leftovers: season two's "No Room at the Inn" and season three's "It's a Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt World." She directed the pilot for TNT's Claws and counts helming work on HBO's Westworld and Vinyl, FX's The Americans andAMC's Better Call Saul, as well as the finales for ABC's American Crime and the upcoming Hulu J.J. Abrams/Stephen King anthology Castle Rock. On the feature side, Kassell's directing credits include The Woodsman, which she co-wrote with Steven Farber. She is repped by WME, Management 360 and Frankfurt Kurnit.

First published in 1986 and collected in 1987, Watchmen was created by Moore, artist Dave Gibbons and colorist John Higgins. The series was named one of the 100 best novels by Time magazine. Rumors of HBO tackling Watchmen first surfaced in 2015, when the pay cabler noted it was in preliminary discussions for a TV take on the property.

HBO Enlists 'The Leftovers' Helmer Nicole Kassell to Direct Pilot for 'Watchmen' TV Series
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Holy crap.

She's incredibly good.

She also did a couple of episodes of Rectify, although I doubt even that will convince @Peteyandjia to watch a superhero show.

And she directed this, which had a really uncomfortable story.

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Dragonlordxxxxx said:
2nd episode in for J.K. Simmons' COUNTERPART and I already love the series.

Love the attention to details and the realistic scenarios that played out like the cold open where Other Side Howard stuffed his ears with tissue(?) before being escorted in the Bulgarian's car. I thought there was going to be an explosion but it was just he was expecting to shoot his way out in the car and the noise would have been deafening inside the small confines of a car. That is so cool. In most or all of the TV shows or movies, you just see people shooting inside the car with no ramifications to the ear.
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The show's great and I'm really enjoying it, it's incredibly slick, but let me ask you...

Do you have any idea what's going on?
 
Loiosh said:
The show's great and I'm really enjoying it, it's incredibly slick, but let me ask you...

Do you have any idea what's going on?
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Of course I know what's going on in Counterpart. J.K. Simmons plays long-lost twin brothers. One is a wuss and the other one is a tough guy who works at the Shaffer Conservatory in New York. The tough guy wants his wuss brother to man up. Then there are the twin sisters. One twin sister is jealous of the other sister’s musical career. It's just your typical family drama.

But the other possible boring and more ridiculous premise of the series is that there are two alternate worlds caused by the inexplicable splintering that happened 30 years ago. Cut to the present, one world looks like ours while the other looks like what would happen if Germany was a super power. A very guarded portal exists that people can cross to each other’s worlds. The public is not aware of the two worlds except for the secret government agencies between the two worlds. The two government agencies have an uneasy but friendly pact. For some unknown reason yet, there’s an assassin named Baldwin from the other side that’s killing off people in our world that's listed in her kill list. Other Side Howard (J.K. Simmons) is trying to stop Baldwin from fulfilling her mission.

As I said, it’s too preposterous. I think my long-lost twins story is the correct version.
 
Watched The Brave finale. Pretty decent, I hope it gets renewed.

Also watched the finale of Valor, not sure why I even bothered, the writing was pretty shitty.
 
The Hollywood Reporter's Review of Altered Carbon

Bottom Line: Sci-Fi gold. Ambitous, dense and thrilling, Netflix's new sci-fi epic starring Joel Kinnaman, James Purefoy and Martha Higareda is a binge-worthy potential blockbuster.

If HBO's Game of Thrones was the gold standard of budget, world-building source material and unfettered vision, then the channel's own pricey, stylistic venture, Westworld, was the next iteration .

Altered Carbon is very clearly Netflix's colossus. Based on Richard K. Morgan's 2002 cyberpunk sci-fi novel of the same name, Altered Carbon is a complicated, intriguing, ultraviolent, sex-filled and compelling blast, a visual delight that periodically gets tripped up with its writing but never enough to detour the experience.

Altered Carbon is flawed, but it's also fantastic. This is binge-ready sci-fi for the masses.
 
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Quentin has mellowed out and became tolerable, then likable. I am more annoyed with Penny who kept on insulting Quintin.
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Penny is, and always will be, a complete arse. Nice seeing Marlee Matlin still there too. Best have lots of scenes where Alice has to get undressed this season.
 
BisexualMMA said:
Pacino is really taking on some interesting real-life characters in the last number of years. Definitely nice to see more of that and less of Righteous Kill / Misconduct.
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He's definitely taking better jobs than De Niro.
 
The 'Murican Office without Michael Scott is garbage.
 
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