Post by Hollywood Heidi on Jun 16, 2007 14:06:24 GMT -8
Dec 15th, 2004, 4:04pm »
A release date has not been decided upon and production hasn't even started so who knows when this'll be out.
There are no actors set, which is usually the case with movies that haven't even started with production talk. There is also no set director, but the Wachowski brothers once were considering the job. For those living in a cave, they're the two guys behind The Matrix movies.
From Greg's Previews:
Based Upon: (6/11/03) This movie is based upon the character of 'Plastic Man', created by Jack Cole and originally published by Quality Comics from August, 1941 ('Police Comics' #1) to 1956. Two years later in 1958, Jack Cole committed suicide. DC Comics picked up the character (and the rest of the Quality Comics slate) in the 1950s but didn't first publish 'Plastic Man' stories until 1966. In the thirty years afterwards, DC Comics occasionally tried to reignite his popularity as a series, but had difficulties achieving that until he was included by Grant Morrison in his late 1990s run on 'JLA.' Besides comic books, Plastic Man also starred in the ABC Saturday morning cartoon, 'The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show,' which aired from 1979 to 1981. 'Plastic Man' was the first "stretchy hero," far predating others like the Elongated Man, Elastic Lad (Jimmy Olsen) and Mr. Fantastic of the Fantastic Four.
Premise: Recently released from prison for an act of environmental terrorism, Daniel 'Eel' O'Brien looks up his ex-girlfriend from college, Susan, whom he happens to know is now working for a company notorious for the threat it poses to the environment, in the form specifically, of Susan's work of "polymerizing" living creatures (most recently a mouse). What Eel doesn't know is that the polymerization is being attempted so that the company's nefarious owner, Icarus Argon, who wants to use the process to return his body to its former healthy status. Catching Eel in snooping around the labs, Argon has O'Brien used as a human guinea pig, which has the surprising result of turning him into a Plastic Man, capable of bending, oozing, molding and stretching in incredible ways. Hiding out at Susan's while he learns how to control his powers, Plastic Man soon discovers that the same process that transformed him might now lead to an ecological disaster on a massive scale... and only he can stop it.
Premise Notes: (6/11/03) This premise is, at least, the premise of the script the Wachowski Brothers wrote back in 1995. It's quite possible that they would make revisions before they actually started filming it (a lot has changed, both for the world and the Wachowskis, since 1995). It's also worth noting that there are some significant differences between their script and the 'Plastic-Man' of the comics. Most obvious is the change from Eel O'Brien originally being a thief trying to pull off a heist at a chemical factory who falls into a vat of acid (and then reforms under the care of a monk), though the movie's O'Brien is still an ex-con (just not a thief). The movie also abandons the central sidekick character of Woozy Winks.
A release date has not been decided upon and production hasn't even started so who knows when this'll be out.
There are no actors set, which is usually the case with movies that haven't even started with production talk. There is also no set director, but the Wachowski brothers once were considering the job. For those living in a cave, they're the two guys behind The Matrix movies.
From Greg's Previews:
Based Upon: (6/11/03) This movie is based upon the character of 'Plastic Man', created by Jack Cole and originally published by Quality Comics from August, 1941 ('Police Comics' #1) to 1956. Two years later in 1958, Jack Cole committed suicide. DC Comics picked up the character (and the rest of the Quality Comics slate) in the 1950s but didn't first publish 'Plastic Man' stories until 1966. In the thirty years afterwards, DC Comics occasionally tried to reignite his popularity as a series, but had difficulties achieving that until he was included by Grant Morrison in his late 1990s run on 'JLA.' Besides comic books, Plastic Man also starred in the ABC Saturday morning cartoon, 'The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show,' which aired from 1979 to 1981. 'Plastic Man' was the first "stretchy hero," far predating others like the Elongated Man, Elastic Lad (Jimmy Olsen) and Mr. Fantastic of the Fantastic Four.
Premise: Recently released from prison for an act of environmental terrorism, Daniel 'Eel' O'Brien looks up his ex-girlfriend from college, Susan, whom he happens to know is now working for a company notorious for the threat it poses to the environment, in the form specifically, of Susan's work of "polymerizing" living creatures (most recently a mouse). What Eel doesn't know is that the polymerization is being attempted so that the company's nefarious owner, Icarus Argon, who wants to use the process to return his body to its former healthy status. Catching Eel in snooping around the labs, Argon has O'Brien used as a human guinea pig, which has the surprising result of turning him into a Plastic Man, capable of bending, oozing, molding and stretching in incredible ways. Hiding out at Susan's while he learns how to control his powers, Plastic Man soon discovers that the same process that transformed him might now lead to an ecological disaster on a massive scale... and only he can stop it.
Premise Notes: (6/11/03) This premise is, at least, the premise of the script the Wachowski Brothers wrote back in 1995. It's quite possible that they would make revisions before they actually started filming it (a lot has changed, both for the world and the Wachowskis, since 1995). It's also worth noting that there are some significant differences between their script and the 'Plastic-Man' of the comics. Most obvious is the change from Eel O'Brien originally being a thief trying to pull off a heist at a chemical factory who falls into a vat of acid (and then reforms under the care of a monk), though the movie's O'Brien is still an ex-con (just not a thief). The movie also abandons the central sidekick character of Woozy Winks.