Tag: Mars Attacks!
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Nicolas Cage Claims He Personally Chose Tim Burton To Direct The Failed DC Film Superman Lives
I’ve never been much of a superhero movie fan, but one I’d have gladly queued up for back in the 1990s would have been Tim Burton directing Nicolas Cage in “Superman Lives.” Along with Alejandro Jodorowsky’s wildly ambitious non-starter “Dune,” it must go down as one of the greatest what-ifs in cinema history, especially during that…
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Tim Burton Wanted To Adapt Violent ‘Dinosaurs Attack!’ For The Big Screen
Tim Burton (“Batman”), alongside Steven Spielberg, were filmmakers that embraced early digital effects in the 1990s to create creatures, Spielberg with man-eating dinosaurs in “Jurassic Park” and Burton with creepy little aliens in his 1996 satire “Mars Attacks!.” Well, it looks like Burton also had a dino itch he wanted to scratch, too but in…
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The Quarantine Stream: ‘Mars Attacks!’ Proves Tim Burton Didn’t Always Need a Gothic Circus To Have Fun
(Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic.) The Movie: Mars Attacks! Where You Can Stream It: HBO Max The Pitch: Based on the comic book of the same name, this sci-fi comedy modeled after classic B-movies finds Earth…