Vaiti
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Sooo, Warner Brothers is making this.  For those not in the loop for what "this" is. It's only one of the most awesome stories ever told. And it started as a comment. On reddit. Rome, Sweet Rome follows the tale of a modern day Marine Expedition Unit that gets flung back in time to the age of the Rome Empire. So who is going to produce this crazy ass film? Well none other than Gianni Nunnari, producer of such titles as 300, Immortals, From Dusk Till Dawn and Se7en. Here is a link to the original comment which started all this. Article about itThis idea could be totally ruined and screwed put in the wrong hands, but with Gianni behind the wheel, he would have to be purposefully trying to fuck this up to make it bad. edit: thanks lakov, fixed spelling |
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Kirth
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I think the intersection of people who browse reddit regularly and people who browse f13 regularly is me, you and luckton. Still the original story was pretty interesting and cool it got picked picked up as a movie.
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Fordel
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Do the marines bring their guns too?  |
and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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Kirth
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Do the marines bring their guns too? Guns, tanks/Humvees, helicopters. Basically anything you would find on a forward marine base? is that the correct term? |
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Fordel
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I'm going to hijack your thread and ask, how the fuck do I read reddit?
It looks like a giant mess of quote trees and up/down voting. I do not understand it.
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and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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Mosesandstick
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You just get used to it. It'll happen.
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Kirth
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I'm going to hijack your thread and ask, how the fuck do I read reddit?
It looks like a giant mess of quote trees and up/down voting. I do not understand it.
Reddit Enhancement Suite. use hide, switch between top and new, etc.... like MaS said, you get used to it. |
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Vaiti
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That and RES. Reddit Enhancement SuiteBrowser add-on that makes reddit tolerable to get around. I was confused by your confusion, then checked my link and people have fucked up the comment thread by replying to the parent comment to congratulate the author of the comment on his success. Went ahead and helped them down from there. Basics of reddit are link/pic and comments. You can upvote and downvote both. Upvoted stuff goes up, down goes down. That you likely knew. While reading comments you can clickity the little [-] between the vote buttons and the users name to collapse the comment tree down. Makes browsing through the comments pretty quick. |
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devildog
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This is a pretty damn interesting idea and definitely something i will be looking forward to.
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Furiously
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Long as they don't do the "final countdown" thing and not do anything.
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Fordel
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I don't understand how to read twitter either, it might just be me.
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and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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Lakov_Sanite
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producers of suck titles as...  |
~a horrific, dark simulacrum that glares balefully at us, with evil intent.
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angry.bob
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This is a pretty damn interesting idea and definitely something i will be looking forward to.
Just watch the 60 year old Twilight Zone episode. Replace Romans and Rome with Indians and Little Big Horn. |
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Ingmar
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Or read any of about 20,000 Harry Turtledove novels.
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The Transcendent One: AH... THE ROGUE CONSTRUCT.
Nordom: Sense of closure: imminent.
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Sand
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Wonder how the original writer on Reddit got paid for the story?
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Kirth
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I think he got contacted by an agent who negotiated the deal for him.
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K9
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I think the intersection of people who browse reddit regularly and people who browse f13 regularly is me, you and luckton. Still the original story was pretty interesting and cool it got picked picked up as a movie.
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Vaiti
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I think he got contacted by an agent who negotiated the deal for him.
Exactly like it happened. Happened while the comment thread was still active even. |
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Sand
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I think he got contacted by an agent who negotiated the deal for him.
Exactly like it happened. Happened while the comment thread was still active even. My question was missing the word "much". I wonder how much he got paid. |
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Kirth
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I think he got contacted by an agent who negotiated the deal for him.
Exactly like it happened. Happened while the comment thread was still active even. My question was missing the word "much". I wonder how much he got paid. 10000 Aureus.  |
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Der Helm
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Pretty sure I read a book with a similar premise back in the late 80s. In that case a company of soldiers got transported to another planet that resembled roughly the time of the Roman empire. Don't remember much else, I think I liked the book quite a lot, but I was around 10 years old, back then. |
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Triax
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Pretty sure I read a book with a similar premise back in the late 80s. In that case a company of soldiers got transported to another planet that resembled roughly the time of the Roman empire. Don't remember much else, I think I liked the book quite a lot, but I was around 10 years old, back then. Janissaries, loved the book as a kid as well. Not quite the same plotline though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janissaries_(novel) |
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Chimpy
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So someone watched the Philadelphia Experiment and decided it would be cool to send them farther back in time?
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'Reality' is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes.
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ShenMolo
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Which is why Holywood bought it, because it's a story that worked already. Most big studio movies are repackaged.
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Chimpy
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Sorry, I got Philadelphia Experiment mixed up with The Final Countdown which is the one where the late 1970s era aircraft carrier gets sent back to WWII.
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'Reality' is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes.
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Kirth
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Merusk
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Wait...Reddit's EULA gives license to the site owners for ANY material you post there and creative people looking to make a living off their work still post there? Idiots.
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The past cannot be changed. The future is yet within your power.
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Jamiko
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Reddit has said: I believe one of the reasons for that is that we couldn't technically host your comments as you could sue reddit for infringement if some type of usage agreement wasn't in place. I am not a lawyer, but I'll ping the lawyers to check.
We're actually in the process of revamping the user-agreement, as it contains several clauses which aren't really relevant to us.
cheers,
alienth And: Also it would be completely against our interests to sabotage something awesome created by a Redditor. I assured the author of RSR as much back when this whole thing started. From here. |
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