Hopkins has said that he was struck by Bob Hoskins' performance like a thunderbolt; it made him feel out of date and started him re-evaluating his whole approach to acting.
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The cast and crew sued, setting a legal precedent; the producers, as a result, were more upfront about the plan on their next project- SUPERMAN THE MOVIE.
But that film had so many behind the scenes problems they basically ended up shooting it in two separate parts anyway!
He was also Helen Mirren's father on PRIME SUSPECT.
A special place in my personal Horror Hall Of Fame for being the only Van Helsing better than Peter Cushing (Finlay played the role in the 1977 BBC version opposite Louis Jourdan as a memorable Dracula)
Ah, but his Porthos did steal a scene or two.
ABC tried something similar a few years later with a tv spinoff of ANIMAL HOUSE (renamed DELTA HOUSE); but in this case, because M*A*S*H* had been a major critical and commercial hit, they'd actually managed to snag a big chunk of the original cast and behind-the-scenes team to work on it. They were genuinely…
Go back enough generations and his family is.
The Charlie Chan films are kind of an odd example in that Chan's family were played by Asians (including his prominently featured "#1 Son", Keye Luke).
There's actually an argument that Charlie Chan was an excellent role model; other than the fact he's played by a white guy using shaky english, it's an almost…
Sort of like giving Eli Wallach a pass for his "Mexican Bandito" roles in Westerns, i guess.
They're just trying to make sure their children never get any ideas that they personally didn't hammer into their little heads, that's all.
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The X-Men are a persecuted minority (and is generally percieved as a metaphor for homosexuality specifically), and their films and comics preach tolerance.(also, the entire premise is based on the concept of evolution)
No, I'm not being snarky.
on the other hand, "Mechanized Organism Designed Only for Killing" remains awesome.
"Technological Hierachy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity" still wins the prize.
"Film Director vanishes during trip to England; witchcraft suspected"
"Joel said as long as I made it as homoerotic as '300', I had his blessings!"
Well, Zack wants an excuse to pretend his film is blessed by the guy who made the highest grossing Batman film, in the hopes that it will convince Nolan's fanboys to buy tickets.
I'm sure if he'd made this in 1995, he'd be claiming Tim Burton had given him the thumbs-up, too.
By contrast, I'm pretty sure the makers of SUICIDE SQUAD called up Paul Dini at 3 in the morning and told him all the dirty things they wanted to do to his little girl Harley.
Given that DARK KNIGHT RISES is a film about how much Batman hates being Batman and has to be forced back into being Batman and even then is plotting how to fake his death so no one will ever ask him to be Batman again and basically gives his possible successor the keys to the Batcave, and then Nolan went around…