It has not been a good week on the “Movies Elisabeth Wants To See” front. First there was that wretched news that Warner Bros isn’t particularly interested in RocknRolla, then Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince was delayed a whole year. And now, producer Gary Lucchesi told SciFi Wire that Game has been pushed back to the increasingly crowded summer of 2009.
Game is a futuristic thriller directed by the insane duo of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, and stars the ever-so-lovely Gerard Butler. While he’s reason enough to see it, it’s also the kind of frantic, maniacal movie making we’ve come to expect from Neveldine and Taylor. We were treated to some footage at ComicCon, and it was a hell of a lot of fun. Later in that same day, Butler described it (and his directors) as being not only in tune with Internet, science, and pop culture, but having a nightmarish sensibility. “You’re literally walking around the set at night and there are people hanging with hooks coming out of their skin and that’s your day filming. There’s blood dripping. I had blood on me. These people did it for fun.” Come on! Who doesn’t want to see that right now?
Well, if wishes were horses, and all that. Lucchesi said we should get a teaser by Christmas, and a solid date will be set very soon. But that doesn’t satisfy me — and so I’m just going to abandon my posting duties to build a time machine, and travel to the Summer of 2009. I’ll wait around for The Road and Australia, of course, but I fully intend to skip ahead a year to see Harry Potter, Wolverine, and Game. I’d come back bearing Star Trek news, but frankly, I would rather not return to a bleak Colorado winter. Especially when the movie selection is getting thinner and thinner.