Shaun S Needham

Screenwriter & published author. [email protected]

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This intro had kids ready to run through drywall.

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The ending of RUSH (2013) is pure goosebumps. After two hours of treating Hunt and Lauda as opposites, the film ends by revealing how much they actually needed each other. Then Hans Zimmer’s score kicks in and sends the whole thing into the stratosphere.

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@DiscussingFilm He was in the running to play Jack Sparrow, so I have a feeling he will be just fine in this.

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Hugh Jackman has been cast as Long John Silver in a new ‘TREASURE ISLAND’ film.

Directed by Ridley Scott & written by Jack Thorne.

(Source: Deadline)

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The Rock (1996) was released 30 years ago! 🎥
#TheRock1996 #MichaelBay #SeanConnery #NicolasCage

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

The Rock turns 30 today, and the urban legends about the film are wild.

Connery is an older Bond in The Rock. Fun theory which I like, but the Connery had a cabin built and stayed on Alcatraz story is bull... he slept at the Hyatt Regency.

Chem weapons were “verified” by the military. Nope, the opposite happened.

Nic Cage “banned from action movies” before making The Rock. No, but there was real scepticism, so he chased roles to prove himself.

It was written solely by three people. Not really. It was massively overhauled by Tarantino, Aaron Sorkin, even Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais (the writer's of porridge) were pulled in to punch up Connery’s lines.

“An actor nearly died”. Wrong again. During the SF balcony stunt, horrified locals called the cops thinking an actual murder was happening in the hotel.

What is true is that it’s one of the best action films of the 90s.

And Connery’s last line here (and “An act of looneyshe”) is perfect.

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Happy 74th Birthday to Liam Neeson!

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120 Days Until Tom Cruise Returns to Theaters

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The journey is about to begin. Book tickets for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey from Monday June 15. In Cinemas 17.07.26.

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Largest Screens On Sale Tomorrow at 9am PT / 12pm ET. Experience The Odyssey shot entirely with IMAX film cameras in theaters 07.17.26.

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VAN HELSING (2004) has a 24% on Rotten Tomatoes and honestly, who cares? It’s a movie where Hugh Jackman hunts vampires, fights werewolves, teams up with Frankenstein’s monster, and treats every scene like the fate of the world is at stake. That’s the fun.

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What is the best performance by sunglasses in a movie?

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Steven Spielberg’s next film, Disclosure Day, is only 18 days away. In honor of the legend’s next film, I’ve gone ahead and ranked Spielberg’s 10 best films ever. If Disclosure Day even approaches this list, we’re in for a treat.

#10. The Fabelmans (2022; Spielberg)

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What a legend.

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Clickbait. Everybody got their autograph and selfie, the passage to the hotel was kept free for guests, and I still got to the airport on time. One man, no security. Handled. What’s your problem ?

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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning premiered one year ago this exact weekend. I gave the film four stars & stand by that review, despite the fact that most people don’t seem to appreciate the quality of this film. Christopher McQuarrie & Tom Cruise haven’t missed yet.

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Marty McFly’s introduction in Back to the Future (1985) is such a perfect character intro since in about thirty seconds you completely understand who he is. The scene does all the work without ever stopping to announce it.

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Commando (1985). Written to make the most of Arnold Schwarzenegger's larger than life persona, this '80s action extravaganza sees Arnie carrying huge logs one handed, throwing telephone boxes about, firing rocket launchers and taking his shirt off a lot.

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The opening parkour chase in Casino Royale (2006) instantly announced Daniel Craig’s Bond was built differently.

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Let me explain exactly why Nolan has never used email, because the answer reveals more about creative output than any productivity system ever written.

He writes screenplays on a computer with no internet connection. When he finished the Oppenheimer script, he flew from Los Angeles to Ireland to hand it to Cillian Murphy in person. He bans phones on every set. Tom Holland said the Odyssey cast had to sneak updates from crew members who hid their phones just to check football scores.

The man who refuses to send a single email has directed 12 films grossing over $6 billion. His latest, The Odyssey, carries a $250 million budget with Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Zendaya, and Robert Pattinson. Oppenheimer made $976 million and won Best Picture. He started with a $6,000 budget on Following, shot on weekends in 1998. Every film in between turned a profit.

John Leguizamo described what the Odyssey set looks like: Nolan runs it "like an indie film" because "he's not doing it by committee, not by what the studio says."

That's the whole game. Email creates committees. Every CC is an invitation for someone who shouldn't be weighing in to weigh in. Every Slack thread becomes a consensus exercise that files down the sharpest edges of an original vision. Nolan eliminated the infrastructure that lets notes and second-guessing enter the process at scale.

When the only way to reach a director is to walk into the room, every conversation becomes intentional. Nobody fires off a 2am concern they'd never say out loud. Nobody hides behind a forwarded chain. You either care enough to find him or you don't. That filter alone probably saves months of production overhead.

He told 60 Minutes he's "just living the same way that we all used to." The difference is he built a $6 billion filmography while doing it.