However, everyone knows that the project's death was directly tied to the disastrous box office of Speed 2, De Bont's previous effort. With a budget ballooning over $100 million and purported script concerns, Fox ultimately killed the project. Over at Fox, they decided to sideline an event pic of their own, an alien western helmed by Jan de Bont called “Ghost Riders in the Sky”. Everyone gets more than they bargained for when the Apache make contact with a race of creatures that might be from another planet.Ībout: In 1998, Warner Brothers postponed one of the many iterations of “Superman” and pulled the plug on the Protosevich-scripted and the Arnold Schwarzenegger-leading, “I am Legend”. military wars against the Apache, two Civil War veterans set out to help a woman find her missing anthropologist father. But before you go anywhere, read Roger's review of "Ghost Riders In The Sky." If you're wondering how to write a logline, here's a good place to start. And that must represent a script that's already been written, as I'd like to speed up the timeframe of the contest considerably. You will only be allowed to submit 1 logline. I will say that there's been a major change. Maybe it was great.įor those of you curious about the logline contest, I'll be making the official official announcement next Monday. De Bont's last directorial effort was 2003's Lara Croft sequel, "The Cradle of Life." Can't say I saw that one. So when I hear his name associated with this project, I'm not surprised it never made it in front of the cameras. Everyone who signed up for that premise deserves what they got, but De Bont's the one who wrote it. Let's go back a decade shall we? Do you remember The Haunting? A 100 million dollar scary movie that managed to not be scary.in any capacity? Do you remember Speed 2? Jan De Bont actually wrote the sequel to a movie called "Speed" and set it.ON A CRUISE SHIP. I can't say I know much about this project, but I know that when Jan De Bont is attached to anything, that project is in trouble. Let’s go for 45.Let it be known: Roger does not like everything! And he proves that today. I raise my canteen/glass especially to toast the fans who’ve joined us on this trail of sweet music, laughter, and The Cowboy Way. I raise my canteen/glass to toast everybody who’s helped us live this astounding dream: agents, managers, engineers, stagehands, sound techs, lighting techs, promoters, caterers, bus mechanics, t-shirt printers, Mercantile sellers, and on and on clear to the western horizon. It takes a lot of good people, a lot of hard work, and lot of love to have this much fun for 44 years and counting. I could never have imagined it would work for 44 years. I always knew from that first night it would work. Yessir, they turned around to listen, and they’re still turning around and listening 44 years and 7617 appearances later. We carried those thirds in our wallets for decades until they finally disintegrated. The extra dollar we tore into three pieces. Herr Harry made change and handed us each $8. Herr Harry rang the bell at the end of the bar when we hit an especially pleasing chord or riposte.Īt the end of the night we collected “the door,” which amounted to $25. Then, like on The Voice, they all turned around, started paying attention-quiet during the ballads, chuckling during the cutting up. I believe it was when Ranger Doug yodeled that they began to turn around. We sang “Back in the Saddle Again,” “Tumbling Tumbleweeds,” “Red River Vally,” “Utah Carroll,” “Billy the Kid,” “El Paso,” “Song of the Prairie,” and every other cowboy song we knew in our first shot at western trio harmony.Īt first we played to the backs of the ten or twelve semi-inebriates along the bar. Forty four years ago tonight Ranger Doug, Windy Bill Collins and I toted our instruments, a saddle, a live saguaro, and a campfire onto a tiny stage in Herr Harry's Frank n’ Stein basement beer joint and Riders In The Sky was born.
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