Summit, Participant And Imagenation Target Oil Rig Tragedy

COMMENTS (18)

• I can see why (big news story, lots of outrage) but what exactly is going to be the narrative here?

  Comment by jer — Tuesday March 8, 2011 @ 4:13pm PST  Reply to this post

• Matthew Sand is one of the better bargains in town.

  Comment by Chris — Tuesday March 8, 2011 @ 4:23pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Matt Sand is a bargain? Taken him to dinner lately? Try getting out of Nishimura with the guy for less than $500. It ain’t easy!

    Comment by jk — Tuesday March 8, 2011 @ 5:39pm PST  Reply to this post

• Will they show Obama playing golf while the fish and birds died? Other that yelling, “Plug the dam hole!” He did nothing.

  Comment by Alex — Tuesday March 8, 2011 @ 4:34pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Yes, yes, in all of this Barack Obama is the real villain. You’re a fucking idiot.

    Comment by dvelopment — Tuesday March 8, 2011 @ 5:00pm PST  Reply to this post

  • yes, right after the part where they show the Halibiurton rig blow up because it wasn’t properly maintained due to deregulation efforts by Bush/Cheney

    Comment by bobweaver — Tuesday March 8, 2011 @ 5:26pm PST  Reply to this post

• this is great. Matt Sand is a real class act, and a terrific writer. congrats to everyone!

  Comment by The Truth — Tuesday March 8, 2011 @ 5:06pm PST  Reply to this post

• Without even reading the script I can imagine this will be another film vilifying the oil business and Republican/right wing politicians while promoting a green energy agenda. The fact that the owners of these production companies fly around in their private jets (fueled by those evil oil corps) will no doubt go without mention.

  Comment by The Hollywood Hypocrite — Tuesday March 8, 2011 @ 5:40pm PST  Reply to this post

  • I wonder if they’ll use electric cars and trucks to haul the film equipment and actors around? I’m sure if they shoot on location for the rig, they’ll all go out there in sailboats. Lighting, of course, will be powered by wind turbines, although it’ll be a bitch for sound. Then, finally, the coup de grace…everyone’ll show up at the premiere in stretch Priuses.

    Comment by taxPAYER — Tuesday March 8, 2011 @ 9:01pm PST  Reply to this post

• Congratulations from the Hub LA community

  Comment by Nick Kislinger — Tuesday March 8, 2011 @ 6:02pm PST  Reply to this post

• This landed on my desk and my job is to turn it into a big budget Jerry Bruckheimer/Michael Bay summer tentpole so there will be a small asteroid that slams into the oil rig at 10,000 mph and that causes the explosion then some giant robots should somehow try to plug the hole they could be aquatic transformers or something and swim down to the bottom of the ocean then bring in some aliens from neptune and some underwater aliens from atlantis then you have something audiences will want to spend money on. Nobody will go see it if the story is done factually they already watched it on TV last summer on the news shows. Glad to be of help, keep ‘em comin’!

  Comment by Deadline Creative Executive — Tuesday March 8, 2011 @ 6:42pm PST  Reply to this post

• Did these producers watch Sand’s last film — Ninja Assassin??? Yikes. And it had a page one rewrite.

  Comment by Captain Awesome — Tuesday March 8, 2011 @ 8:22pm PST  Reply to this post

  • When movies fail its the writers fault and when they are a success its because of the director and actors.

    jackass.

    Comment by pho phum — Wednesday March 9, 2011 @ 11:01am PST  Reply to this post

  • One thing is for sure, captain awesome is a fuckwit and needs to get a job. I wonder what the last thing he wrote and directed that got released were?

    Comment by fixtureman — Thursday March 10, 2011 @ 4:09pm PST  Reply to this post

• This oil rig disaster was predicted in the Nic Cage movie Knowing and it was predicted exactly precisely specifically he was watching the news on TV and the report was an oil rig fire in the Gulf of Mexico.

  How did that happen? Who can explain how that happened?

  Here it is on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sevz_fbFcnw

  Comment by Dazed and Confused — Wednesday March 9, 2011 @ 12:04am PST  Reply to this post

• Wow. Someone above called Sand ‘a great writer’ after his ‘Ninja Assassin’ fiasco?

  Either the person that said this is his agent/manager/Sand himself OR people in Hollywood are truly smoking some mighty powerful cannabis. How can someone be ‘a great writer’ after a page-one rewrite of their script still produces execrable results as ‘Assassin’? Only in Hollywood!

  But I digress.

  This movie has less of a major motion picture feel and more of those old Sunday night Movie of the Weeks on ABC I used to watch as a kid. I just can’t see folks forking over $10 to watch this on a date night with their significant other, especially seeing as how the most powerful visual elements of the story were all over the news.

  The Chilean mining story, by contrast, is infinitely more powerful and pregnant with potential in terms of drama than this story… Still, I wish all of the principals involved a hearty good luck. I am always sincerely happy when people get work in this town that is a cut way above ‘Weekend at Bernies II’ !

  Comment by bobby the saint — Wednesday March 9, 2011 @ 8:05am PST  Reply to this post

• To Bobby the Saint,

  You wrote “Wow. Someone above called Sand ‘a great writer’ after his ‘Ninja Assassin’ fiasco?

  Either the person that said this is his agent/manager/Sand himself OR people in Hollywood are truly smoking some mighty powerful cannabis. How can someone be ‘a great writer’ after a page-one rewrite of their script still produces execrable results as ‘Assassin’? Only in Hollywood!”

  Clearly you don’t know a damn thing about the movie biz, specifically the development process.

  So until you do, we’d all appreciate it if you kept your opinions to your self.

  Comment by Chris — Wednesday March 9, 2011 @ 2:09pm PST  Reply to this post

• Some might even consider him a famous bargain!

  Comment by Vigo — Wednesday March 9, 2011 @ 8:00pm PST  Reply to this post