Thanks for considering buying my book C Milian. Let me know what you think of it should you buy and read it.
Could another movie be done?
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Thanks for considering buying my book C Milian. Let me know what you think of it should you buy and read it.
I actually thought that they were going to be at last/this years TFF (Toronto Film Festival). I was sure that I read that some where, or I was just hoping that was the case. If they do bring that to a Film Festival, that would give them at least a jump shot in the right direction on getting something bigger to happen.
I have a story line. What's needed is a producer to drive it through. Paul Sorvino plays and understands pool. It would be good if he could be persuaded. Perhaps, he along with Scorcesse.
I like!! Maybe Dippy could deliver the "it's like a nightmare..." line, right after Cruise comes down off his coke high and realizes he is in a hopeless trap. Or his own "Nine Ball, corner pocket." line that he layed on Helmuth, but only poker geeks would recognize that.
Another idea, a pool reality show for TV. Just mic up Scott Frost and send a camera crew with him. That episode in Vegas where Scott played Dippy awhile back and you had the stiff, the car sale and repossession, wetting balls, fights with Samoans, etc. It would have to be a ratings smash.
no Mars is doing great right now, he is 100%, saw him a month ago we hung out for about a week. Sadly we had a falling out on a biz deal but no hard feelings. He is a good guy and works like hell on his projects. He has some good stuff up comming, blows away "Junkies".
I remeber the first night I met Mars ha and a few other guys show up at my house in Vegas, I had a great pool room there(Man I miss that room) He shows up and just takes over(in a good way) we start a partners game for $100/game I think it was $50 a man. It felt like I was in the movie or watching the movie. It was surreal. I watched the movie a few days later and then I felt like I was playing down stairs in the pool room. Mars plays himself in that movie and the intensity and in your face confrontational theme the movie had is all Mars. I will never forget that night. he had the SW from the movie with him, I played with it-its a very lite cue for a SW perhas 17.5oz-18 As I recall, he ordered it that way, Mars can play he isnt like Tom Curise or Paul Newman who cant play(they learned for the movie). Mars is a C+/B- player who gambles very good and dosent dog it for the $$$.
Junkies lost some late round financing so they lost 3 weeks of filming time and when he put the big name actors in it Chazz and the other guy, their agents wanted to "Protect" their actors. They wanted script changes etc. Mars Had to make all them happy some of which changed the movie-not for the best for pool fans. so it was a balance talent and rewrites. All in All good Job!
Tom,
Silly me! I thought I'd already bought and read your book. I was confusing you with Bob Campbells "Do It For The Game". I just placed an order for "Right on Cue" and am looking forward to reading it! I'm glad you made that post which made me check my book shelf.
How bout a Color of Money movie actually based on the Walter Tevis Book.
The Cruse Newman film was great but it had almost no relation to the book. They are completely different stories and it might be nice to see the book The Color of Money made finally after something like 30 years.
The Cruse Newman film was great but it had almost no relation to the book. They are completely different stories and it might be nice to see the book The Color of Money made finally after something like 30 years.
Funny this should come up just now, but I was reading a review of a new movie release (obviously not pool related) just a couple of days ago and out of the blue a whole movie idea, centered on pool, came to me in a flash. (I'm really not kidding.)
I thought about it for a while and I think it's a pretty good concept -- I mean you all would love it -- but I have no idea on how to write a screen play.
I'm tucking the idea away and will probably look into researching the whole screen play writing thing because I think I have a winner, and with some research, might be able to write something up over the next few years.
Lou Figueroa
as shocked
as anyone else
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Sherm, I got your notification and your book will be in the mail later today. I also sent you a rebate of $2.00. I've been offering it for some time on other posts.
Thanks for your purchase.
I have plenty more. $13 gets you a signed copy.
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The real "Color of Money" would be nice. Too bad Newman isn't around to enjoy it.
COM Spoiler Alert...
Spoiler Alert on the COM book..................I think a period piece done around the 20s or the Depression era would sell better...the costumes, the characters, the music, some compelling story line (I think Ralph Greenleaf and his wife make a pretty good tale) with real and imagined characters would get off the dime. Think Boardwalk Empire. The real COM is a pretty dark story and too centered just on pool and Fast Eddie's comeback. Minnesota Fats dying in his motel room before Fast Eddie can beat him is a bit anitclimatic, and him barely beating the hot kid in a regional tournament at the end just doesn't have the punch Hollywood craves.
Spoiler Alert on the COM book..................I think a period piece done around the 20s or the Depression era would sell better...the costumes, the characters, the music, some compelling story line (I think Ralph Greenleaf and his wife make a pretty good tale) with real and imagined characters would get off the dime. Think Boardwalk Empire. The real COM is a pretty dark story and too centered just on pool and Fast Eddie's comeback. Minnesota Fats dying in his motel room before Fast Eddie can beat him is a bit anitclimatic, and him barely beating the hot kid in a regional tournament at the end just doesn't have the punch Hollywood craves.