Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Is the Big Screen big enough for the Big Man?
BBC Newsline has revealed there are now two projects to make a movie about Paisley’s life. The Paisley family is co-operating with one project and Gary Mitchell has been commissioned to write the script. Another Co Down production company has recieved support from the Film and Television Commission to develop a script. It is unknown if Liam Neeson is still interested.
Fair Deal @ 07:52 PM
May I suggest Julian Clarey for the lead. John Inman would have been my first choice but sadly he recently died.
Posted by on Mar 20, 2007 @ 09:09 PM‘Something’s coming this summer...’
A tagline competition is surely merited.Posted by on Mar 20, 2007 @ 09:57 PM“Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the altar...”.
Posted by on Mar 20, 2007 @ 10:01 PMThey’ll never find an actor with a big enough head to truly play the role.
Posted by on Mar 20, 2007 @ 10:30 PMlol, Bemused. Pity “Never Say Never Again“‘s already taken.
Posted by on Mar 20, 2007 @ 10:38 PMA combination of “The King of Scotland” Amin, in the style of Ian Smith of Rhodesia, with the doctrines of Mugabe seems to be the best way to sum up the big mans bio?
Titles:
“A passage to Ireland”
“The last Jewel in the Crown”
“Dr Strangelove”Posted by on Mar 20, 2007 @ 10:42 PMWide screen version with extra loud surround dolby sound, what a prospect !!
Posted by on Mar 20, 2007 @ 10:44 PM“ Never say never again*
Posted by on Mar 20, 2007 @ 10:50 PMI saw that on the news this evening and thought that the Beeb had broadcast the story about a fortnight too early. If someone like Paul Greengrass
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0339030 was writing it it’d be an interesting film to watch.No doubt if there ever was a film about the Big Man it’s bound to feature a soundtrack by Willie McCrea -God help us all!If Gary Mitchell co wrote a film with John McBlain?
Posted by on Mar 20, 2007 @ 11:01 PMRobbie Coltrane to play Ian Paisley.
Posted by on Mar 20, 2007 @ 11:09 PMColtrane would be good actually.
Posted by on Mar 20, 2007 @ 11:36 PMJabba the Hut in the lead role?
Posted by on Mar 21, 2007 @ 12:20 AMColtrane’s a good call.
Brian Blessed or Richard Griffith? I can’t think of anyone else large enough and Nolan’s probably too busy with the radio work.
Posted by on Mar 21, 2007 @ 12:24 AMArt Hostage: “Dr Strangelove” ....
... ‘Or, How I Learned to Stop War-mongering and Love the ex-Bomber’.
;-)
Posted by on Mar 21, 2007 @ 12:26 AMRe: Coltrane, did any of you ever see the fantastic sketches he did in his early days with BBC Scotland of a character called “Mason Boyne”, the archetypal Glasgow tenement Orangeman who kept a framed picture of Paisley by the lightswitch so he could kiss it every time he either left or entered the room? Masterful stuff.
Posted by on Mar 21, 2007 @ 12:28 AMThe Mason Boyne character prompted me to suggest Coltrane.
I liked the way he spent all his spare time painting the leaves in his garden orange.
Posted by on Mar 21, 2007 @ 12:34 AMThe Long Good Friday
Posted by on Mar 21, 2007 @ 01:34 AMLook back in anger. Rebel without a cause .Pride and prejudice. Theme music “ Twelfth of never “. And many more -----------
Posted by on Mar 21, 2007 @ 01:40 AMmight I sugest instead of a title a tag line
the surest cure for insomnia modern man has ever produced
Posted by on Mar 21, 2007 @ 02:21 AMArt Hostage: “Dr Strangelove” ....
... ‘Or, How I Learned to Stop War-mongering and Love the ex-Bomber’.
;-)
LMAO
Posted by on Mar 21, 2007 @ 10:43 AMBuster Bloodvessel for the part of the Doc?
Posted by on Mar 21, 2007 @ 10:58 AMAparently “mini me” is going to be involved in the production and coughing up some of the cash. I suppose the cash will be needed for the potatoes to remove the warts. I think we will have to wait until he dies to get to the real truth about Dr Stangelove.
What about the fat bloke in Hellraiser (not the one with the pins in his head) the scary one,you know the fat one with the strange raidio thing in his head !!
Posted by on Mar 21, 2007 @ 11:13 AMWith Art Garfunkel playing Martin McGuinness (see pic in this week’s Private Eye)...doncha just love the big man???!!!??? Geddit???
Posted by on Mar 21, 2007 @ 11:15 AMHow about Brendan Gleason to play the Rev. He’s big enough for the role, and has the power in his range that no N.I actor could match. Besides, he should have played Michael Collins instead of big Liam. Only N.I actor I can think of who could pull it off would be Ciaran Hinds.
Posted by on Mar 21, 2007 @ 11:28 AMDr No.
Starring Brad Pitt as young Ian
Sylvester Stallone as mature Ian
Glenda Jackson as Eileen
Bob de Niro as Peter (’you lookin’ at me?’) Robinson
Olivia Nash as Iris
Jeremy Irons as Gerry Adams
Directed by Ken Loach
Cinematography by James CameronFilmed on location in Rathcoole
In Aramaic
Posted by on Mar 21, 2007 @ 11:38 AM
