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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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 Posted - 06/20/2008 : 09:46:44 AM
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It's not exactly like the original was high cuisine, but c'on.
Well, there's at least three things to be said about this one:
1) The title, "Rise of a warrior", seems to hint that this one will be a prequel to the first Scorpion King, which was a prequel to The Mummy Returns. From making sequels of sequels, we've ended doing prequels of prequels. I'm not sure that's an improvement.
2) According to the IMDB, Dwayne Johnson refused to be involved, which means the investors will be less likely to give the movie a reasonable budget. Read "this is going to suck".
3) The director is nobody else than the often Jabootu-inspired Russell Mulcahy. Apparently the success of Resident Evil Extinction wasn't enough to bring him back into first division. Actually I think it was a decent effort, but looks like the Higher Powers have other plans for Mulcahy, he'll have to spend a few more years doing direct-to-DVD stuff before they forgive him for all that crap he made during the 90s and 00s. |
Edited by - Neville on 06/20/2008 09:49:17 AM
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TheFoywonder
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 06/22/2008 : 04:35:13 AM
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If I may quote my own blog from about two weeks ago:
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Because someone demanded it (and I suspect that someone works for Universal), DVD shelves August 16th will be graced with a prequel to THE SCORPION KING, which itself was a prequel to the events of the sequel THE MUMMY RETURNS. The plot to this prequel/sequel reportedly chronicles a younger version of the character originated by The Rock and how his character came to be the Scorpion King. Odd; wasn't that the plot of the first SCORPION KING? So he wasn't yet "the scorpion king" by the end of THE SCORPION KING but he will become "the scorpion king" by the end of THE SCORPION KING 2 that's set before the events of THE SCORPION KING?
The Rock... Excuse me, Dwayne Johnson, had better things to do than return for a direct-to-video sequel (assuming you consider GET SMART "better things") so they've replaced him with the guy who was the Blue "Time Force" Power Ranger. That's him in all his tiny glory way down there below the busty babes with swords and Randy Couture's giant, Kurt Angle-ish noggin.
I also like that they feel the need to slap "ALL-NEW MOVIE" at the bottom of the cover art as if people are going to be completely unaware of that fact.
Speaking of Randy Couture, the Ulitmate Fighting Champion co-stars as the film's villain yet still gets top billing because, well, he's the biggest name starring in the movie. Even Michael Clark Duncan had better things to do that come back for this.
If the pot hasn't been sweetened enough for you then let me tell you that the director of this unwarranted prequel is Russell Mulcahey, he of RAZORBACK, HIGHLANDER, HIGHLANDER II: THE QUICKENING, THE SHADOW, and, most recently, RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION.
Interestingly enough, this DTV prequel, which may actually be called THE SCORPION KING 2: RISE OF THE WARRIOR, will be R-rated unlike its predecessor that I actually felt suffered considerably due to being PG-13. I mean the title character is supposed to be the world's deadliest assassin and the first film was little more than a glorified Egyptian-themed episode of "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys".
Geez, what's next? A DTV sequel to that lousy Wesley Snipes flick ART OF WAR preferably starring some rapper nobody cares about anymore in place of Snipes? What's that you say? ART OF WAR II: BETRAYAL starring rapper Treach hits DVD shelves in August? Well... I guess I'll just shut my mouth right here.
Now Playing in Foyeurism at Foywonder.com: PILOT ERROR 2: EXO-MAN & INFILTRATOR - Two more failed pilots from the past starring power-armored heroes
Plus: B-WARE THE BLOG is alive at http://www.livejournal.com/users/foywonder |
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
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Posted - 06/22/2008 : 05:20:09 AM
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