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09.30.07 by Widge @ 4:16 pm  Okay, as promised, here we are back with another revamped Dreamcast. This time around it's Richard Matheson's vampire classic, I Am Legend. Which has one of the most chilling opening lines ever: "On those cloudy days, Robert Neville was never sure when sunset came, and sometimes they were in the streets before he could get back." Love it. Now, when we first did this Dreamcast ages and ages ago we told you they were going to screw it up, and I've seen the trailer and it's guilty until proven innocent as far as I'm concerned. I've got nothing against Will Smith, mind you. Smith looks like he might actually play a serious Neville and not, as reader Kede put it, ID4 Am Legend. However, I read a draft of the screenplay they decided to write for when Schwarzenegger was attached to play Neville and it was dreadful. And I somehow doubt that Akiva Goldsman (I, Robot, Batman and Robin) has done much to improve it. I would love to be proven wrong. But it's rare. So here we are. You know the drill. Two casts. How we would do it given the constraints of who we have on hand today and another Ultimate DreamCast where we bend the rules of space/time and can snatch anyone from anywhere and cast them. Categorized as: DreamCasts
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07.22.07 by Widge @ 3:25 am  Need to check out the cast list? Find both updated versions here. Why Good Omens? Packed with nine essential vitamins and Gaiman and Pratchett's trademark twisted whimsy, it's a Brit humor cornucopia. We wanted to cast it because it's in some stage of development somewhere in the tar pits of Hollywood, and yes, you guessed it--it's so far been in a sorry state, indeed. In fact, when I first presented this DreamCast to The Neil himself back in 1998, Gilliam had not been announced as director. When The Neil asked me who we had down for director, and I told him, his response was "I can neither confirm nor deny Gilliam's involvement with this project." A shining moment in DreamCast history. Anyway, if somebody could just fund Gilliam, he'd make the movie. I personally think Gilliam's idea of raising money for films via the Internet is a damn good one. I'd throw some serious coin in a tip jar for a Gilliam movie done right, wouldn't you? Categorized as: DreamCasts
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07.12.07 by Widge @ 2:34 am  Howdy folks. The DreamCasts are re-opening for business. We're starting with what it is, without a doubt, our most popular DreamCast ever: the Terry Gilliam-directed adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's classic "What if Monty Python did The Omen?" novel, Good Omens. Now, we're doing this a bit differently. We were sitting around Needcoffee HQ, and I was snorting ground espresso beans, when it struck me what we've been doing wrong this entire time. That's right...it's a DreamCast for Buddha's sake! Go ahead and dream like maniacs! So now every updated DreamCast will be two--two--two DreamCasts in one. You get the cast we would advocate if the project were to be shot today. Then you get the cast we would have on hand if we could go to any time period and, like some kind of casting version of The Monitor from Crisis on Infinite Earths, pluck any actor at any point in the timestream. We've gone apeshit, in other words. So here's the cast. Sadly, because comment spam bastards circle this site looking for chinks in our armor, we can't open up comments. Because if we did, the site would blow up. Instead, we'll have to direct you to the Gabfest if you want to give feedback. Or widge sucks at need coffee dot com. So, as always, if you haven't read the original novel, click over to Amazon and buy it. You'll be glad you did. Both casts appear after the break. The explanations for all this appear here. Categorized as: DreamCasts
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