July 23, 2005

Clonus update! Fiveson speaks!

The Seattle Times has the story.

Reached at his home in Ashburn, Va., "Clonus" director Robert S. Fiveson said Wednesday that he'd sneaked into a preview screening of "The Island" the previous night. "I went in hoping and praying that it was enough different than 'Clonus' so that I could just put my mind at rest and move on, but I can't. Because astonishingly enough, it not only seems to rest on the very skeleton of the film, ... there were enough (similarities) in the movie in the first third that I thought this cannot be happenstance or casual."

Whoa, he lives in Ashburn. If you'll excuse me, I'm going to go drive to his house and ask him what it was like to work with Darrin #2. (Kimberly's out of town... I need someone to annoy.)

James - 12:00 AM
Comments

"And the chase scenes were almost in the same order and same locale"

Uh, The Island trailer shows a hover-bike chase. The most outlandish chase I remember in clonus is someone tripping into a pile of garbage in a back alley in the valley.

RM - Jul 23, 2005 - 8:45 AM

Holy crap - I think Fiveson actually commented on the original post. First the Washington Post, now a director of an almost-major motion picture. Furdell.com cannot be stopped.

Big Pinz - Jul 25, 2005 - 8:36 AM

Nor reasoned, nor bargained with, etc. etc.

James F - Jul 25, 2005 - 10:59 AM

Hey us MSTies need to get together. Clonus may not have been the best movie ever. But this is not tollerated and we need to let Fiveson know he has our backing in nailing Bay. Or next they are going to make a 150 million dollar version of Manos.

Matt - Jul 30, 2005 - 2:30 AM