[Correction on poll question...the rest of the Poll question should read: ...the chances that Beacon/Relativity can land a director for Morgan's Repairman Jack script?]

So, Chris Morgan (screenwriter) and Relativity Media (production company), both of the perennially un-announced Repairman Jack movie, appear to have yet another hit on their hands...in 2008 it was Wanted, this year it's Fast and Furious...the sequel to the 2001 street racing, gear-fest.

The new Fast and Furious has 7 out of 10 stars on IMDB after one week of release.

It also notched the biggest ever April debut-weekend @ $71,000,000. That amount, BTW is more than FF: Tokyo Drift (another Chris Morgan & Relativity project) took in during its entire box-office run.

It even beat the Bourne Ultimatum's opening weekend.

As of Friday's box-office, the film has already taken in over $100 million, more than recovering its budget of $85,000,000.00. And, with a weak list of premiering movies this weekend, by the end of its second weekend, Fast and Furious could-out earn the entire box office take of the original film.

What other movies are "as good" as the new Fast and Furious? The following movies are all rated as good or (slightly) worse, out of ten, on IMDB: Quantum of Solace, The International, Eagle Eye, Wanted, Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull , 48 Hours, A Knight's Tale, Backdraft, Bad Boys, Batman Returns (with Pfeiffer as Catwoman), Blade and Blade2, Bon Cop Bad Cop, Conan the Barbarian, Death Race (with Statham), Conspiracy Theory, Constantine, Desperado, Die Hard and Die Hard2, Ghostbusters, Hellboy, High Fidelity, Hostel, I Robot, Independence Day, Jurassic Park, Lethal Weapon2 and Lethal Weapon3, Men In Black, Mission Impossible and Mission Impossible III, Natural Born Killers, National Treasure and National Treasure2, Passchendaele, Payback, Pirates of the Caribbean and Pirates of the Caribbean3, Pitch Black, Point Break, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Rocky, Romancing the Stone, Shoot 'em Up, Silverado, Smokin' Aces, Sneakers, Stakeout, Stargate, Starship Troopers, Superman2 and Superman Returns, The Brave One, Hitman, The Italian Job (with Wahlberg), The Last Boyscout, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Mask of Zorro, Matrix Reloaded, The Mummy (with Fraser), The Recruit, The Tomas Crown Affair (with Brosnan), The Transporter, They Live, Top Gun, Ultraviolet, Underworld, Underworld2 and Underworld3, Vantage Point, or Zero Effect.

[catches breath]

So, while it's not Lord of the Rings, A New Hope, or even Iron Man, as far as action movies go, it's got some legs (wheels?).

The real question is, now that Chris Morgan is hotter than ever, is he hot enough to enable Relativity/Beacon to FINALLY get a director for his Repairman Jack script?

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Hope springs eternal,

-Wapitikev

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And of course, I've been given work. Grrmmmbbllll.

I loved this show. Thought in many ways it was better than the original series.

The original Brit series lasted two seasons, each running eight episodes long. The American version lasted seventeen episodes. It should have lasted 16, like the original, as it felt like the writers said "Aw, fuck it!"

They pulled what Ive come to call a Dark Tower, where the ending is the stupidest fucking thing possible.

Not only was it ridiculous, but they killed any hope of having an American version of Ashes to Ashes.

After LOST ends I will forever be done with The ABC Network. Fuck ABC!:mad2::mad2::mad2::mad2::mad2::mad2:

With all the raves I've been hearing about the new 3-D technology, I decided I needed to check it out for myself and damned if the raves aren't deserved-what an incredible picture-like you could walk right into the movie. I actually liked the action heading away from me more than the stuff coming at me. The movie itself isn't terribly original, any fan of Sci-fi will have seen this before, but it is a lot of fun. B.O.B. is hilarious and the action sequences are spectacular.

The Farrelly brothers are making a Three Stooges movie. I don't know how to feel. It has Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro and Jim Carrey as Larry, Moe and Curly (respectively).

In the meantime my favorite bit was Larry's "cooking" from Malice in the Palace.

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hi all,
been a huge fan of fpw books since i randomly decided to read a dusty version of the keep from my parents' attic some 10-15 years ago. i used to be involved in these forums before it became this cool new upgraded forum but have since gotten lost with other things.. been browsing all the topics for something to reply to but decided just to say hello this way i remember emailing fpw when i was just a wee little lad with dreams of writing, asking if the life of jim stevens closely mirrored the writing life of the real author, and other various silly questions, and actually getting responses! sadly i've become a lowly engineer, but thats ok--i still took away a lifelong dedication to all of fpw's work as well as respect for an author who gave (and i see still gives) his fans the time of day.

anyway, glad to meet you all!

steve

p.s. i snagged the aol/aim screen name 'Repairman Jack' when max character length was increased from 10 to 16 (previously rprmnjck) and have been using it ever since, even though my friends are always very confused when they see it...good to share it with people who don't think i'm just crazy.

The first one is a horror comedy with a serial killer who calls himself "The Breather". All I remember was him stabbing a girl to death with a paper clip.

The second I know I could find on imdb, but it's late and I'm lazy. Sam Raimi directed and it took place in Detroit. Oh, and the guy who played Bluto in the Popeye movie was in it. I remember him chasing this guy through a room full of doors.

Anybody help me out?

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