Poseidon Adventure Madness

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 4:34pm

Two upcoming adaptations of The Poseidon Adventure expected - an NBC/Hallmark mini-series (or perhaps TV movie) and a new feature film (retitled "Poseidon" - are expected to debut next spring.

The TV movie/mini-series is to star Adam Baldwin, Steve Guttenberg, Rutger Hauer amd C. Thomas Howell. The film is to star Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfuss and Emmy Rossum and directed by Wolfgang Peterson (Troy, The Perfect Storm, Das Boot). No doubt, we can expect lots and lots and lots of computer animation.

Neither version uses the same characters from the 1972 film, but rather characters from the novel or newly created characters.

Is nothing sacred?

Poseidon

Updated On: 8/10/05 at 04:34 PM

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 5:10pm

Manny??? Manny???

[Gothampc]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 5:13pm

"Neither version uses the same characters from the 1972 film"

What? No Shelley Winters belly flop?

[DAME]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 5:15pm

The movie just wrapped last week. It starts kurt Russel among others.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 5:19pm

Why? What's the point?

[Marquise]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 5:27pm

The characters from the 1972 film are the same characters from the original novel by Paul Gallico. The Hallmark/NBC Telefilm utilizes some characters and hybrids of some of the others featured in the 1972 film and the original 1969 novel. Petersen's big screen adaptation uses entirely new characters.

Updated On: 8/10/05 at 05:27 PM

[Gothampc]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 5:34pm

"Petersen's big screen adaptation uses entirely new characters."

Interestingly enough, their names are:

Jack Dawson
Rose Dewitt Bukater
Molly Brown
Thomas Andrews

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 5:43pm

boobs - Honest to God, that's my favorite moment in th e entire film. Shelly falls over the table, "Manny?...MANNY???...." That, and the weird cat-hacking-up-a-hairball noise she makes when she has a heart attack and then flops backwards into the water. "CACK! CACK!" *SPLOOSH*

Best disaster flick ever!

Marquise - I thought most of the characters from the novel were different, but it has been years since I read it.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 5:50pm

Gotham - That is SO not funny. Repent!

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 9:59pm

Funny, I just finished watching it on DVD.

Stella Stevens in a raunchy hoot.

What ever happened to her ass?

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 9/13/05 at 3:15pm

Josh Lucas names Emmy Rossum as the most difficult person he's worked with in this interview. I knew some of you would get a kick out of that. :-P

http://s26.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0EPK1YPI7ZR5K257MZE316ML9C

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 9/13/05 at 3:23pm

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY? The Poseidon Adventure should not be tainted by the manhandling of Kurt Russell.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 9/13/05 at 3:24pm

Seriously. Kurt Russell should be manhandling me instead.

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 9/13/05 at 3:25pm

Oh, MrMidwest, you can do sooooo much better than Kurt Russell. Give yourself some credit.

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 9/13/05 at 3:29pm

We rented the original recently and were laughing our asses off - it was so over-the-top in the acting department - I don't think Ernest Borgnine's character says a single line without yelling it. Utterly ridiculous - and of course, the same can be said for the dreadful Gene Hackman...
I, for one, am looking forward to the remake.

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 9/13/05 at 3:32pm

*gasp* You mock Gene Hackman? I mean, yes, mock good ol' Ernie and his slutacular wife. But to mock Gene?

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 9/13/05 at 3:44pm

None of them will ever top Shelley Winters! She sacrificed her life to save the others

Anyways about the original, I hated the way Stella Stevens died, that was weak and really irritating!

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 9/13/05 at 3:46pm

I wanted someone to push Stella Stevens into the void. Too bad she only fell. (She did fall, didn't she?)

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 9/13/05 at 4:08pm

"Oh, MrMidwest, you can do sooooo much better than Kurt Russell. Give yourself some credit."

Awww

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 9/13/05 at 4:16pm

SorryGrateful, yes she did fall

Here's is something I noticed about the first. The ladies were instucted to take off their skirts because they could not climb up that tree if they didn't take them off. However, not a word was said to Shelley Winters and her skirt and she got to climb up with it and did just fine. Something's fishy there!

[ConvinceMe2]

Posted: 9/13/05 at 4:16pm

Kurt Russell is the most underrated actor. But, that's a different thread.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 9/13/05 at 4:20pm

redhot - Of course the acting was over-the-top. It was a 1974 disaster flick. And that's one of the reasons the movie is a classic! I'm sure it will be over-the-top in the remake as well, but I fear heavy-handed direction and computer animation will just turn it into a bigger cheese-fest than the original. The special effects of the original and the set designs were amazing for its day and a great deal of the scenes still hold up well. When the boat turns over is still my all-time favorite scene in any disaster/action film. I even had the ViewMaster discs since VCRs didn't exist when I was a kid. I think I'll watch it again tonight.

Or maybe I'll watch Logan's Run again. Another classic announced for a remake...

[ProducersFan]

Posted: 9/13/05 at 4:22pm

Haha - The Poseidon Adventure is one of my guilty pleasures. I love the movie and finally bought the DVD a couple years ago at Wal*Mart for like $5. My roommates failed to see the wonder of it.

Now is anyone here also a fan of The Incredible Mr. Limpet? Another one of my favorites.

~Jessica

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 9/13/05 at 4:33pm

MTVMANN-- you know no one wants to see those fat ladies half undressed.

And, MrMidwest, trust me. You do. Smooches.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 9/13/05 at 4:39pm

while on the subject of titanic didn't a tv movie version debut on television before the James Cameron film as well?