Coming Soon: Rainbox Six, the movie

[Gringo]

Horay a Rainbow Six movie, but oh dear......


John Woo (Paycheck) will direct Paramount's adaptation of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six, featuring the shadowy John Clark CIA agent character, reports Variety.

The story centers on Clark joining with several colleagues to leave the CIA and create an England-based multinational org designed to battle terrorism.

Writers who have worked on the script since 1999 include Michael Shiffer, Bill Wisher, Art Monterastelli, Frank Capello and John Enbom, who was hired in March to script.

Paramount adapted Clancy's Jack Ryan character in The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger and The Sum of All Fears and acquired rights last year to Clancy's Red Rabbit, also centered on the Ryan character. It's also developing another Clancy thriller, Without Remorse, based around the John Clark character.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=4995

I can see something decent being flipped up to be ****, especially with John Woo at the helm. :fork:

[RoBBo]

yeah with john woo behind the camera it could be a total disaster. although i would like to see liev shrieber play clark again (sum of all fears), he was the only good character to come out of the sum of all fears.

[Gringo]

yeah with john woo behind the camera it could be a total disaster. although i would like to see liev shrieber play clark again (sum of all fears), he was the only good character to come out of the sum of all fears.

the only real decent Tom clancy film made is The Hunt For Red October, since then the 'sequels' have been getting more ****, and less like their books. And from what I've heard, is that the the film of The Sun of All Fears is nothing like the book.

I can see this film being turned into something very similar to SWAT, or even worse, Delta Force. :|
Going from place to place every day, killing some terrorists, sleeping with the women, then shrugging it off as if it was nothing with a corny one liner.

[RoBBo]

yeah sum of all fears was a rubbish film, havent read the book so i cant make a comparison but i agree since hunt for red october they have been going down hill.

[Seoulstriker]

I reallly enjoyed Patrior Games and Clear and Present Danger.

[Khabbi]

Rainbow six was a great book , so Im 100% sure that hollywood will screw it up :bash:

[Rilence]

there going to try and screw it up every chance they get :cantbeli: i'll bet you guys 500 bucks on it

[Gringo]

I reallly enjoyed Patrior Games and Clear and Present Danger.

They're ok, they make good entertainment in the way Bad Boys 2 did for me, but just drifted further and further from the books.

[king_nothing100]

WOOHOO! Akimbo pistols, and slow motion bullet time on the house.

[Macs.]

John Woo.

This movie will be everything, but not realistic.

This movie will suck.

[MEGR]

It will have Ding Chavez using his Karate skills to fight of terrorist ninjas.

[Pooga]

And it's gonna have the trademark shot of a lame movie: one of the good guys walking slowly and cooly away and something behind him blows itself up, and the guy's unfazed and keeps walking away.

[Seraphim]

Only John Woo movie I liked was Mission Impossible 2.

Paycheck was lame...slow-mo bullet coming out of the barrel, but not just the bullet but the whole cartridge.

[Damian]

John Woo.

This movie will be everything, but not realistic.

This movie will suck.

I agree with you but Mission Impossible 2 rules so we could hope that it will be at least a not realistic but good movie...

[Damian]

sorry double post

[MVSpartan117]

It could be such a cool movie..... :(

[Airborneranger4israel]

personally i lilke john woo
but he will screw up the movie becuase clancy does tons of research to make his stories as realistic as possible where as woo takes unrealistic to a whole new level,

Who directed hunte for red october, whover did should do raimbow six

also the sum of all fears was a great book and the movie was goood except for two things

1. the terrorists were arab's in the book not neo-nazi's, a hollywood excuse for being afraid of arabs lashing out that it gave them a bad image
2. Ben affleck was in it

[Minjin]

Sum of All Fears was a **** movie...if you compare it to the book. It is ok to occasionally kill some time but thats about it. I personally like the other Clancy movies in their own right, but the books are generally better.

I think John Woo will do okay if he gets some decent technical advisors who are willing to say "that idea is retarded" and whatnot. I like how he tries to throw some serious energy into action scenes. The lab shootout in MI2 was great. But some of his other work is definitely too farfetched.

Regardless, I will wait and see, and keep my fingers crossed.

[Sayeret]

I don't think this movie will be too good if John Woo directs it. I liked paycheck till the very end where you could see it was John Woo who directed it because everyone Ben Affleck was hitting would go flying. Like some people said it will probably have a lot of slow motion and terrorists being shot and flying forty feet across the room.


also the sum of all fears was a great book and the movie was goood except for two things

1. the terrorists were arab's in the book not neo-nazi's, a hollywood excuse for being afraid of arabs lashing out that it gave them a bad image
2. Ben affleck was in it


I didn't have any problem with Ben Affleck but I agree that the changing of the terrorists was lame. They shouldn't purposelly offend Arabs but they shouldn't change the book either. No one is fighting Neo-Nazi terrorists so I found this new plot to be really lame.

[StarvingStudent47]

If you ask me, you couldn't make Rainbow Six's plot any worse by changing it. Environmentalist terrorists? Come on guys. And you thought neo-Nazis were unrealistic? At least neo-Nazis have killed people in history. When have environmentalist extremists done anything worse than damage property and embarass themselves?

[digrar]

10 and 20 second building take downs aren't going to make great footage for Rainbow 6. I suppose they could slowmo them and stretch it out to five minutes for each mission.
Without Remorse would make a better movie IMO. Now who is going to play a young Kelly/Clark?

[Gringo]

I don't think this movie will be too good if John Woo directs it. I liked paycheck till the very end where you could see it was John Woo who directed it because everyone Ben Affleck was hitting would go flying. Like some people said it will probably have a lot of slow motion and terrorists being shot and flying forty feet across the room.


also the sum of all fears was a great book and the movie was goood except for two things

1. the terrorists were arab's in the book not neo-nazi's, a hollywood excuse for being afraid of arabs lashing out that it gave them a bad image
2. Ben affleck was in it


I didn't have any problem with Ben Affleck but I agree that the changing of the terrorists was lame. They shouldn't purposelly offend Arabs but they shouldn't change the book either. No one is fighting Neo-Nazi terrorists so I found this new plot to be really lame.

Does anyone else think that the austrian bad guy, when giving his speech on how he's going to make "america and rusisia fight each other", sounds like Elma Fudd?

[Gringo]

10 and 20 second building take downs aren't going to make great footage for Rainbow 6. I suppose they could slowmo them and stretch it out to five minutes for each mission.
Without Remorse would make a better movie IMO. Now who is going to play a young Kelly/Clark?

Without Remorse would make a better film then Rainbow six.

[mocking_loudly_died]

If you ask me, you couldn't make Rainbow Six's plot any worse by changing it. Environmentalist terrorists? Come on guys. And you thought neo-Nazis were unrealistic? At least neo-Nazis have killed people in history. When have environmentalist extremists done anything worse than damage property and embarass themselves?

Greenie terrorists? - oh man, that sounds ****ty; the 80's were about blowing up Russians, the 90's were about blowing up Chinese and ex-soviet splinter groups and 00's should be about Islamic nutters.

I'm sorry, but that’s the way I read my history of action flicks.

[Gringo]

If you ask me, you couldn't make Rainbow Six's plot any worse by changing it. Environmentalist terrorists? Come on guys. And you thought neo-Nazis were unrealistic? At least neo-Nazis have killed people in history. When have environmentalist extremists done anything worse than damage property and embarass themselves?

Greenie terrorists? - oh man, that sounds ****ty; the 80's were about blowing up Russians, the 90's were about blowing up Chinese and ex-soviet splinter groups and 00's should be about Islamic nutters.

I'm sorry, but that’s the way I read my history of action flicks.]

In the 60's it was criminal masterminds with for large underground complex's and a hairy pussy(cat).

[someonetookjesus]

John Woo is a **** director, right up there with the likes of such ****s as Paul W.S. Anderson. This movie will suck.

[HavocIRL]

Who do you think they'll get to play Chavez?

I'm thinking Sean Connery will be Allister Stanley and maybe Harrison Ford for John Clark.

[StarvingStudent47]

Who do you think they'll get to play Chavez?


If it's Ben Affleck, someone will pay dearly. That's all I can say.

[Minjin]

Who do you think they'll get to play Chavez?

I'm thinking Sean Connery will be Allister Stanley and maybe Harrison Ford for John Clark.

I think Connery is a bit old for that part...isn't he like 75 or something like that? I mean he is ridiculously awesome, but still...

And I agree, Without Remorse will be a WAY better movie. It was the first Clancy book I ever read and I love it.

[MEGR]

Colin Ferrell? Or....How aboot Ashton Kutcher.. Really draw in the teeny boppers. Ughhhhhhhhhhh. I think Antonio Banderas fits the look pretty well.

[AmericanDude04]

When you take to much away from the book that you are doing a movie on most of the time you take out the things that made the book so damn good.

[Gringo]

Colin Ferrell? Or....How aboot Ashton Kutcher.. Really draw in the teeny boppers. Ughhhhhhhhhhh. I think Antonio Banderas fits the look pretty well.

Colin Farrell could play one of the Irish Terrorists.

[Sayeret]

Colin Farrell could play one of the Irish Terrorists.

rofl

[Ratamacue]

I lost all faith in John Woo after seeing Windtalkers.

[mocking_loudly_died]

I lost all faith in John Woo after seeing Windtalkers.

That movie was so bad.

I'm an old skool John Woo fan - The Killer.
Though his obviously not the first choice for a special forces movie - then again all special forces movies generally as a rule suck.

[StarvingStudent47]

Though his obviously not the first choice for a special forces movie - then again all special forces movies generally as a rule suck.

Predator was pretty cool. They were special forces, right? :)

[mocking_loudly_died]

Though his obviously not the first choice for a special forces movie - then again all special forces movies generally as a rule suck.

Predator was pretty cool. They were special forces, right? :)

Oh yeah; those guys rocked - minigun backpacks would have been great for the colonial space marines.

[Rantanplan]

Though his obviously not the first choice for a special forces movie - then again all special forces movies generally as a rule suck.

Predator was pretty cool. They were special forces, right? :)

Oh yeah; those guys rocked - minigun backpacks would have been great for the colonial space marines.

Vasquez was cool even without a Mingun

[StarvingStudent47]

Predator was pretty cool. They were special forces, right? :)

Oh yeah; those guys rocked - minigun backpacks would have been great for the colonial space marines.

Vasquez was cool even without a Mingun

Vasquez was awesome even when she just had a pistol and a steel-toed boot.

Not sure if anyone noticed though, but I said Predator instead of Aliens. Doesn't matter, Aliens was by far the better movie. I just bought that s--- on DVD and it's a great thing to watch over breakfast.

[Gringo]

I lost all faith in John Woo after seeing Windtalkers.

That movie was so bad.

I'm an old skool John Woo fan - The Killer.
Though his obviously not the first choice for a special forces movie - then again all special forces movies generally as a rule suck.

some would argue with that if I mentioned, BlackHawk Down......

[digrar]

Or the Odd Angry Shot.

[Gringo]

It seems Special forces films generally **** rule is similar to the Sequals generally **** rule.
A few are able to break that rule.

[ch703]

i hope it has alot of kicking in doors and double tapping. Oh and "tango down" and "flashbang out!" :D

[ronin2172]

personally i don't think it'll matter who directs the movie...the book sucked IMHO...it was over long, the villians master plan was just too complex, I pity the screenwriter who tries to adapt that into a workable screenplay.

Y did the villians feel it was necessary to stage terrorist attacks when the plan was to spread the virus by the misting/cooling system installed at the Olympic stadium? And how did Clancy who does so much research stage terrorist attacks in countries who have units more than capable of dealing with CT work (Spain with the GEO and Austria with GEK COBRA) and would not require or ask for Rainbow's help.

The only way this movie will work is if they do a whole new story/plot that utilizes the main chracters (Clark, Chavez, and Co.). Since the cold war is over Clancy has been taking a slow and painful journey ito creative hell with his fiction work. The book that would have been nice to adapt would have been Cardinal of the Kremlin, but of course current events overtook that one quickly, and made the plot irrelevant.

[Seraphim]

If John Woo actually went to a weapons ranged and actually use a firearm...he might make better movies.

[talib_killa34]

RED STORM RISING would have been a killer movie if it had ever been made (but done right) !

They should do one anyways, just as a historical "what if" movie like "Red Dawn".


Or do a "Ghost Recon" flick too...Mmmmmm!

"Clear and Present Danger" was my personal fav, although "The Sum.." sucked heavy balls!

[AFG]

I lost all faith in John Woo after seeing Windtalkers.

That movie was so bad.

I'm an old skool John Woo fan - The Killer.
Though his obviously not the first choice for a special forces movie - then again all special forces movies generally as a rule suck.

i was laughing on the floor when i saw the wounded Nick Cage fire a 1911 colt (7 bullets) and kill 8 Japs when they were rushing down on him in the very last scene. oh jesus that movie sucked

[HooyahCQB]

I think they should get the Chavez from "Clear and Present Danger". I also want William Defoe to play Clark. He's old enough




"Without Remorse" will be a bad a$$ movie if done right!

No idea who should be Clark though...and I hope it stays set in the 70s...not like the modernization of 'The Sum..'

[Ratamacue]

I lost all faith in John Woo after seeing Windtalkers.

That movie was so bad.

I'm an old skool John Woo fan - The Killer.
Though his obviously not the first choice for a special forces movie - then again all special forces movies generally as a rule suck.

i was laughing on the floor when i saw the wounded Nick Cage fire a 1911 colt (7 bullets) and kill 8 Japs when they were rushing down on him in the very last scene. oh jesus that movie sucked
Well, technically, if you have one round already in the chamber and then load a full mag, you'll have 8 rounds in the pistol. ;)

[Sayeret]

i was laughing on the floor when i saw the wounded Nick Cage fire a 1911 colt (7 bullets) and kill 8 Japs when they were rushing down on him in the very last scene. oh jesus that movie sucked

That movie was probably one of the worst I've seen in a while. I remember laughing at some of the scenes because it was so stupid. Like there was a part where a land mine explodes and sends a twenty feet wall of flames into the air.

[digrar]

How about Arnie blowing up buildings with claymores in Commando.

[mikec62001]

I don't know if any of you have seen the "OPS CENTRE" another of Tom Clancy's books adatped into a movie. I have the video...seems pretty low budget....not many famous actors in it....just the black boxer in Rockie and the old one in *** and the City is in it. The only good part is the end bit....Army SF takedown a ship....its not bad...like I said..that's the only part I enjoyed out of the whole film. Not sure who the director was.

I think that Clear and Present Danger and Patriot Games were pretty good movies....the SF parts were pretty good in both movies....

I was very disappointed with The Sum of all Fears.....I thought it was a big crap...I really hope they don't mess up Rainbow Six and should make it as much like the book as possible, and cast decent actors and maybe take the stroylines from the book to use in the film.