TNB: Fight over who will get the profits until there aren't any profits left to have.

And since when does a child have a say in what gets made about their parent? It's not like they have custody. If I want to write a book about Woody Allen, do I have to get his kids permission?

Decadence wrote:

GooberMcNutly wrote:

And since when does a child have a say in what gets made about their parent?

What the article fails to mention is that Martin Luther King, Junior, copy-righted every speech that he made.  His children now own those copy-rights.  Thus the need for DreamWorks to obtain authorization.  Can you imagine a movie about his life not including the "I Have A Dream" speech?

I can, but it'd be rather... non-canonical.

George Orr wrote:

jesusluvspegging wrote:

I can, but it'd be rather... non-canonical.

I find that idea rather intriguing.  For instance, the MLK movie could climax with a chopsocky fight to the death with the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan...who happens to be...an ACTUAL DRAGON!  Kablooie! 

Only instead of Spielberg, you'd have to get Michael Bay--remember the great job he did with Pearl Harbor?

...and his awe-inspiring ineptitude in Transformers, which I finally saw over the weekend.  What a half-assed, shit movie.  Terminator 4 had much the same problem.

I'm intrigued by the kung-fu fight idea.  You could have him and King fighting it out with those big, ornate indoor flagpoles like you see in courthouses.  You know, the ones with the bigass bronze eagles and shit on top of them?  Klan guy's using a Confederate battle flag, King's using Ol' Glory.  Meanwhile, the battle of Gettysburg rages around them.  In a thunderstorm.

I mentioned that they were time travelling, right?

OK, but Harriet has to turn out to be a bad guy.

EDIT: and I do mean bad GUY

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