My understanding is that it was less that Waterworld was not successful at the box-office (a $264M worldwide gross isn't bad in 1995 and it was the #1 movie when it opened) but that it had massive cost overruns ($175M instead of the budgeted $100M; this is without taking into account marketing...
In 1967, Vladimir Komarov was sent up on the ill-fated Soyuz 1 mission and became the first in-flight fatality in the history of manned spaceflight when the parachutes failed to deploy correctly. Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, was the assigned backup pilot. According to Gagarin biography...
It's possible that a flight instruction may have helped convict Simpson, but I'm not convinced it would help much. For one, he was traveling north on 405 when the police caught up with him and appeared suicidal. I don't know the jury instructions on flight but I can't imagine that such evidence...
I don't know enough about criminal procedure at the Federal or state level to say anything definitive but I can't imagine the prosecution can do that or would want to if they could. Generally speaking the longer you wait the cloudier and less reliable evidence becomes, especially eye witness and...
It's possible (though certainly not probable) that a Nicolas Cage Superman movie wouldn't be bad. Superman Lives was in development/pre-production in around 95-96, when Cage was firing on all cylinders — The Rock, Con Air, Face/Off, and City of Angels all came out around then. So while Cage's...
While I do like the idea of an earlier possibility, I don't think connecting the Donner-era Superman movies to the Burton's Batman would work. For one thing, Superman III came out in '83, well before Mongul really hit his mark in 1985's "For the Man Who Has Everything." He'd been in a few issues...
I definitely think it's better and more practical. There's still some stuff I disagree with but could probably work if written well (Darkseid being a GOD would have very little reason to ally himself with this puny human on a backwater world, for instance; then again, someone like Mongul might...
@xxmagex: It sounds great in concept, but practically I think you've got too much going on for it to really work. In particular whoever you have acting as Batman would be doing back-to-back Batman films in 07-08 and then having a relatively quick turn around for 2010/12. I don't see it...
I rather like this timeline, even if I wish Paul McGann was Lupin (mostly this stems from his performance in Luther where he is a little more rough around the edges than say the '96 Doctor Who movie).
The thing about the three year summer is that 2000-03 were pretty life-changing years for...
I'm new here so I hope I'm not breaking any sort of etiquette here by posting a couple of questions. I love this whole timeline and pretty much just want to know more.
Whatever happened to Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak? I remember they ran into some sort of intellectual property problem early...