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July 16 2008

Buffy meets Cloverfield? Michael Vollman, lured to MGM by Mary Parent to revamp its marketing unit, has read The Cabin in the Woods.

"Parent sent him "Cabin in the Woods," a Joss Whedon thriller that will be directed by Drew Goddard. "I couldn't put it down," says Vollman. "It's 'Buffy' meets 'Cloverfield.' All I could think was--I can market the [heck] out of that."

theonetruebix | 22:43 CET | 30 comments total | tags: marketing combinations, cabin in the woods, mgm

It's unclear to me, I should editorialize, if he means the script itself is Buffy meets Cloverfield, or if he's looking at the two creators of the script and thinking THEY are Buffy meets Cloverfield.

theonetruebix | July 16, 22:54 CET

It's humour and horror and lived in and great. I think he means.

I heard a while ago that CITW is a great script.

gossi | July 16, 22:57 CET

I'm really so excited for all the buzz this movie has been getting! My dream scenario would be for Cabin to be a big hit and have a profound impact (positively) on the Dollhouse ratings. (Not that they couldn't be solid on their own.)

In fact, I imagine this is many people's dream scenario.

Knuckleball | July 16, 23:01 CET

Giant Dawn!

Simon | July 16, 23:03 CET

My dream scenario is that Dollhouse is such a huge hit that they beg Joss to bring back Firefly. And then decide to bring back Wonderfalls and Arrested Development too just for the heck of it. Since we're just dreaming anyways...

Okkay | July 16, 23:20 CET

There are dreams and then there are dreams.

theonetruebix | July 16, 23:21 CET

Those are good dreams to have.

Much better than the one about the aardvark and the pickle.

redeem147 | July 16, 23:46 CET

All I could think was--I can market the [heck] out of that.

I like this plan.

Sunfire | July 16, 23:48 CET

"[heck]"

Sorry. That's just funny to me. Or tragical. Not sure which. Censorship is a horrible disease, but it sure has some amusing symptoms.

GreatMuppetyOdin | July 16, 23:59 CET

I'm sorry, redeem147, the aardvark and the pickle dream was cancelled mid-dream and replaced by a dream with a dancing meerkat drinking a martini. Much sexier.

QuoterGal | July 16, 23:59 CET

[Heck] yeah, GreatMuppetyOdin.

gossi | July 17, 00:00 CET

I hope they let him use [hell] when he's marketing this horror movie to end all horror movies.

Sunfire | July 17, 00:01 CET

I'm not sure the word was "Hell", despite what they replaced it with.

ETA that now I notice that I don't think you were saying it was. Like I said in another thread, I have the dumb today.

[ edited by theonetruebix on 2008-07-17 00:06 ]

theonetruebix | July 17, 00:05 CET

No, I would have used hell there. You're right-- it could have been and likely was one of several other things.

Sunfire | July 17, 00:07 CET

My dream is that Cabin is such a huge success that Uni immediately okays the Goners script and preproduction starts as soon as Joss can fit it into his busy schedule. But then y'all already knew I'd say that. ;)

cabri | July 17, 00:16 CET

He's going to market the Super Adventure Club out of it.

gossi | July 17, 00:16 CET

Also, that picture of Tom Cruise's mouth and sunglasses combo is absolutely terrifying.

Craig Oxbrow | July 17, 00:18 CET

So THAT'S what Super Adventure Club actually believes.

theonetruebix | July 17, 00:19 CET

I'm guessing they edited out 'gwpapaa', to save their site getting stormed by crazy south park fans.

also notice that whedonesque is now the first hit on the word 'gwpapaa' on Google ;)

ETA: mispelled 'gwpapaa' there, the second time :p

ETA again: and, obviously, it should be 'gwpaapa', so I was wrong on all counts up there in my post (but not in my search for the word). Sheesh ;)

[ edited by GVH on 2008-07-17 00:30 ]

[ edited by GVH on 2008-07-17 00:37 ]

GVH | July 17, 00:29 CET

He's going to market the [wonderflonium] out of it.

Sunfire | July 17, 00:30 CET

I have no argy-bargy with self-censorship, it's a form of choice in and of tiself. aLbeit the substi-words should ahve some relevance to the word censored.

Albeit, in sound tracks, a meaningless garble shouldn't be used, viz Cruel Intentions on broadcast tV.

And those bastiches blocked my Back Button!!!!!!!!!

[ edited by DaddyCatALSO on 2008-07-17 00:30 ]

DaddyCatALSO | July 17, 00:30 CET

Nevermind.

[ edited by theonetruebix on 2008-07-17 00:33 ]

theonetruebix | July 17, 00:31 CET

I worked for a few minutes with Mr. Vollman at Paramount, and he is GOOD at his job. I'm excited!

[ edited by ProgGrrl on 2008-07-17 04:06 ]

ProgGrrl | July 17, 04:06 CET

A few minutes?

theonetruebix | July 17, 04:20 CET

I'm SO amazed with Dr. Horrible that I haven't had a chance to read about Cabin in The Woods. I would right now, but I'm watching Dr. Horrible again, so... later.

maxsummers | July 17, 04:33 CET

Again, if this truly can be boiled down to in its' simplest terms "Buffy" meets "Cloverfield" (or features as much or more humor than horror), I'll inevitably be disappointed.

Here's hoping that's a grand oversimplification of the script!

J Linc | July 17, 04:35 CET

@theonetruebix: ok it was more like 5-8 months. Who can remember. Time flies when you're...um...having fun.

ProgGrrl | July 17, 04:41 CET

maxsummers, in addition to the category here, I've got blogging about Cabin here.

theonetruebix | July 17, 04:50 CET

J Linc, so, something like Slither or Shaun of the Dead not your cup of tea?

shambleau | July 17, 09:25 CET

You can boil anything at all down to simplest terms, that doesn't mean you've described the film. And Hollywood types love their "X meets Y" descriptions, mainly because their common language is film and TV - maybe "Cabin in the Woods" is the "regular expressions meets recursion" of horror movies but no-one in Hollywood is going to get what that means ;).

Saje | July 17, 10:39 CET

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