- Cape Rolling Out Bloomfield Road Art Trail (8/21/19)1
- Donors Pledge Almost Two Grand To Replace SEMO's Possibly Sentient ‘Gum Tree' (8/16/18)
- SEMO and The Will To (Become A Consultant) – Part 2 (6/14/18)
- SEMO and The Will To Do (You Really Want To See That Legal Notice?) – Part 1 (6/4/18)
- Judge, Jury... Trashman (6/1/18)
- Diary of Cape Girardeau Road Deconstruction (5/11/18)
- Trying To Save A Tree From City “Improvements” (4/30/18)2
Gone Girl A Hoax, Argo 2 Actually Being Made
I don't want to burst anyone's bubble, but Gone Girl is not being filmed in Cape. It's a ruse. Sleight-of-hand. The wool is being pulled over our collective eyes.
Yes, a Big Hollywood Movie is about to be made here, but it's not Gone Girl. That rumor is just a cover for the real movie, the movie about a story that a lot of important people who live half way between St. Louis and Memphis don't want the world to know and only a movie about a fake movie that is actually another movie can do the tale justice.
Details are sketchy, but thanks to IMDBleaks.com -- a distant relative to wikileaks.com, but with a focus on the entertainment industry -- I discovered what is truly going to be filmed in Cape Girardeau - Argo 2.*
It makes sense. The economic model of the Hollywood entertainment industry is very simple: If you create a successful movie, then you immediately make a sequel, no matter how bad of an idea it might be.
Remember Goodwill Hunting 2, about the guy who constantly scoured thrift shops in hopes of finding a big score and fulfilling his lifelong dream of appearing on Antiques Roadshow? You probably don't. It was so awful it went right to video, but it was made because its namesake -- also starring Ben Affleck -- was obscenely profitable, grossing 13 times its budget.
And by that same definition, Argo is a successful movie. It cost about $45 million to make and brought in four times that amount. That ROI practically demands a sequel must be made.
Do you really think it is a coincidence that Ben Affleck is cast in this movie and his last major on-screen appearance was Argo? I think not. Sequels have to be made right away to maximize interest and drive ticket sales. Strike while the fire is hot.
Now some folks might point out that Affleck is no longer sporting the stunning beard he wore in Argo. But what few people realize is that it was all fake, a combination of Hollywood hocus-pocus, hair-extensions and CGI. That's why the tentative release date for Gone Girl -- wink, wink, nudge, nudge -- is 2015. It will require over a year of painstaking CGI to fine-tune close-ups of Ben Affleck's beard.
IMDBleaks.com even had an early rendering of a teaser movie poster for Argo 2. If it's not a bubble buster to all the Gone Girl fans clamoring for a movie, I don't know what is.
* No relation to the Hungarian movie of the same name. No foolin'. Look it up on IMDB.com.
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