Minority Report (2002)

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Minority Report.

Anyone want to talk about this?

I've got some links:
http://www.minorityreport.com/
http://minorityreport.8m.com/
http://upcomingmovies.com/minorityreport.html
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/minority_report
http://www.philipkdick.com/main.htm
http://uk.imdb.com/Title?0181689

Steve Speilberg (director), Tom Cruise (actor), Philip K Dick (book) -- What more could you ask for? It must be good.

Based on the premise that "Murder can be prevented" -- cops go back in time and stop the event.

Tagline: What would you do if you were accused of a murder, you had not committed... yet?

To be released on 21 June 2002. There was a trailer before Star Wars 2, but that was the first I'd heard of it.

"In the future, time manipulation technology allows cops to arrest people for crimes they have yet to commit. But when one of the cops finds himself accused, he must race to clear his own name....if he can."
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from the PKD site
"Minority Report, the short story by Philip K. Dick was first published in 1956 in the magazine Fantastic Universe. The story is to be made into a film, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise. The budget is rumored to be over $80 million with plenty of special effects in store. The Minority Report is positioned to be one of the biggest films of next year and one of the best science fiction movies of all time."
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If you are not aware, previous PKD books that have become films are 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' -> 'Bladerunner' & 'We Can Remember it for you Wholesale' -> 'Total Recall'.

Directed by
Steven Spielberg
Written by
Gary Goldman & Ron Shusett
and Scott Frank
based on the short story by Philip K. Dick

Starring
Tom Cruise
Colin Farrell
Samantha Morton
Meryl Streep
Max Von Sydow

Produced by
Jan de Bont
Gary Goldman & Ron Shusett (Executive)

Original music by
John Williams

Cinematography by
Janusz Kaminski

Film Editing by
Michael Kahn

Special Effects by
Industrial Light & Magic
A Twentieth Century Fox Film

Production Companies
Blue Tulip
Amblin Entertainment
Dreamworks
 
I am!!!! Don't really know anything about it apart from the trailer. I will read some of your links and come back later!
 
Ah, Minority Report! Among one of my three films to see this Summer; The other two being Star Wars 2 and Spider-Man; and the only one I've not seen. I'm looking forward to seeing it. I'm convinved that bloke Colin Farrell is a fine actor since seeing Hart's War so I wan't to see him in another ovie to see if he really good. This movie has to be seen. I've seen the trailer many a time. I like the colours in this movie very much. Everything seems so blue, I guess we have Janusz Kaminski to thank for that...this might put him up for an oscar nod for cinemtography some time next year. Spielberg's team of artists have shown time and time again that they can make great movies.

One thing about this I don't get is how do they know someone is gonna kill somone? What if someone was only thinking about it, but wasn't seriously gonna do it. or it entered their mind and then left just as soon. I guess that's what the film can answer for me.
 
From the trailer this movie seems to be about:

A futuristic police department that specialises in 'future-crime' or something like that. At one point in the trailer Cruise arrests someone for 'The future murder of your wife'.
It seems that someone (possibly one of his fellow employees, Colin Farrell) is trying to frame Cruise for a murder that has yet to be committed, and we follow Cruise trying to beat the system and prove his innocence.

How do they know these crimes will happen? Well, the way the trailer presented it to me was that they had a combination of computers and psychics (who were underwater - in tanks???) that were able to predict these future happenings.

Samantha Morton - a British actress whom you might know from Sweet and Lowdown plays the role of one of the psychic-types.


This movie is coming out in a few weeks on this side of the Atlantic - I will definetly be going to see it.
 
yeah, ok they are supposed to use psychics to be able to see the crimes. they're only job in life is to sit there until they get a vision of a murder. the one chick, i guess Samantha Morton, is the one who supposedly sees Tom murder some one. he kidnaps her so she can help him and tell him what she's seen. at least this is the way i understand it all.
 
Advertising posters are up in the UK now, I think the release date here is July 4th. (edit)

filmforce.ign.com
In May/June issue of Scr(i)pt Magazine, Oscar-nominee Scott Frank and co-writer Jon Cohen discuss their respective experiences scripting this summer's sci-fi thriller, Minority Report. Although the film was tackled by several other scribes during its long period in development hell, Cohen and Frank are the only writers credited with the final screenplay. "Scott and I wrote this screenplay, soup to nuts," says Cohen. The final script is "definitely the work of two writers."

Both Cohen and Frank admit in the interview, however, that neither of them were familiar with the works of Minority Report author Philip K. Dick when they were hired. Cohen admits that he'd "only vaguely ever heard of [Dick]. I did not even truly understand that Blade Runner or Total Recall were based on his work, which shows you how attuned I am to sci-fi." Likewise, Frank confesses that he "wasn't much of a sci-fi fan. Beyond, say, Dune, I hadn't really read much of it."

It doesn't sound like Dick's original story did much to change their aversion to the genre. Cohen says that he "kept the Dick story premise and the gimmick and a few lead characters, then completely changed everything. Dick wrote an impossible logic problem of a story. He was more interested in mental conceits than a propulsive visual story. I had to read it about a hundred times, and I still don't get it all." He concedes that he "just made it into a cool 'innocent man on the run' movie." Cohen says, "I loved the gimmick: Precrime is an organization that can predict a murder before it happens. You get arrested before you commit the crime. The head cop is accused of murdering someone, and must go on the run to figure it all out."
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Sounds like typical Hollywood, I don't like the sound of the "innocent man on the run movie", I would prefer the "impossible logic problem", but that's probably just me.
 
Innocent man on the run has lind of been done to death, hasn't it?

I think it comes out June 21 here in North America. I will definitely be going to see it asap.

There are a few shots in the trailer that made me think of Star Wars - specifically the 'space-ship' things that we see hovering near the White House. They reminded me of Jango Fett's ship in particular.
 
Sort of unrelated info....

Various websites report that teaser trailers for Daredevil will be attached to Minority report. One more reason to see this movie, imo :)
 
I had this email from Fox. Their website loads very slowly, and you need Flash or Quicktime.

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Relatives of the victim said the man was unaware he was in any danger, and that it is only thanks to Precrime that his family is spared the loss of a husband and father. When asked about the merits of the controversial crime prevention technology, Janet Brennet of the Citizen Coalition for Precrime said, How can we even have the discussion? Nothing is more precious than a human life and any system, even imperfect, that would save thousands of lives should be immediately adopted.

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Has anyone read the short story "Minority Report"?

Has anyone read the short story "Minority Report" by the acclaimed SF author Philip K Dick (Also responsible for "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep")

I haven't read it, in fact I had a look around for it a while ago and wasn't able to even figure out where it might be. Obviously the marketing palaver hadn't kicked into gear at that point.

I was just curious to know what people thought of the premise, and how the original story compares with Spielberg's interpretation.
 
I can only find it listed under 'The Variable Man' Philip K. Dick (Ace D-261, 1957, 35¢, 255pp, pb) , and also as a magazine story.

That's quite an old book, so it would be difficult to find. I have read a lot of PKD, but I can't recall reading this, and I think I would remember.

Like you, I'm surprised that there hasn't been a reprint to accompany this film.

Most of his stories concern Simulacrums -- his word for replicants or androids -- or else post-nuclear holocaust settings. Even 'We Can Remember It For You Wholesale' and 'Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep' were just small short stories.

From his novels, I would recommend 'The Man in the High Castle' which I still think could be made into a film, it would need to be updated for the technology though. I've also read 'Ubik' which is okay.
 
Anyone seen this yet?

I have heard that the title 'The Minority Report' refers to the fact that the precognitions of future crimes come from a group of three psychics or PRECOGS, one female and twin males. When they have precognitions they do not always agree. One of them may not see the future events that the other two see, or they may not see them in the same way. Being one differing view out of three, that precog's view would be in the minority. Thus it would be disregarded as the "minority report".

The rest of the film is on the theme of thought-control, as well as this man-on-the-run, and has a high sexual content for the weak hearted.
 
I think "The Man in the High Castle" is the only book of his I have read - I picked it up second hand a few months ago. Very enjoyable, the storyline has really stayed with me, which is my marker for a good book.
Going to have a look around for this story a bit more though...
 
Minority Report - Reviews

Thought I would start a new thread for reviews, as I don't want to spoil for those who have not yet seen it.


First of all: What a film! All the expectation that I had for AI left me disappointed when I actually saw the film... in this case the opposite is true - I had very few expectations good or bad, I was pretty indifferent to Tom Cruise, and, if anything, I was almost expecting to be disappointed again.

Was I ever wrong...

Tom Cruise is, well, Tom Cruise, but the rest of the cast act their socks off. Colin Farrell nails his part, although I did find myself really listening out for his irish accent. One particular moment in an elevator is particularly great. Max von Sydow is wonderful too, and you might remember Cruise's second in command from the bridge of the Enterprise E in First Contact as Lt Hawk.

The effects were seamless - some really nice touches. The method of searching out the precog's visions was very interesting, with monitors that are controlled by particular hand movments.
There are plenty of twisty turns as Anderton tries to figure out who framed him and why. My companions seemed to be fooled by the obvious misdirection, but it seemed pretty obvious to me who wasn't responsible, at least. There is plenty of confusion (akin to the paradoxes surrounding time travel) of how you know a crime would be committed if you stop it before it even happens.
I have read a few of Philip K Dick's short stories recently, and I get the definite impression that his tale would not have ended in quite the perfect way that the movie does.


The bad points:
A trend I have been noticing more and more in movies recently is the increasing use of 'product placement'. Lexus, The Gap, Pepsi and Guinness all get in-your-face look-ins, but I am not sure whether they really bothered me or not - in at least one instance, the product place was actually important in moving the plot along.

The look of many of the indoor scenes - while very beautiful, was incredibly similar to those in the first act of A.I. The swathes of ethereal light were nice, but maybe a little overdone. Speaking of A.I. I think they used the same cars! Although I did read Lexus built them specially.

One Liners! Oh God they should have just avoided those. There were one or two too many. In general the plot didn't really sparkle, but it wasn't exactly offensive either.


I have lots of other things to say, but my head is kind of busy.
Anyone else got any reviews?
 
The advertising kicked into gear today:

Full minute long adverts on Channel 4, and this email from Fox:

"ONE WORD: WOW!" The Sun

"SPECTACULAR" The Mirror

"THE BEST FUTURE NOIR SINCE BLADE RUNNER" Empire magazine

After topping the US box office last weekend Steven Spielberg's new film MINORITY REPORT premiered this week at the Odeon Leicester Square in London. Tom Cruise, who plays Detective John Anderton, spent an hour and a half walking amongst the 3000 strong crowd - some of whom had waited 12 hours to see him - and they weren't disappointed as Cruise worked his magic once again! He was joined on the red carpet by Samantha
Morton, our very own home-grown star!

Not only do we have footage and images from the International Premiere on fox.co.uk but we have a STEVEN SPIELBERG TRAILER that is exclusive to the internet.

PREMIERE FOOTAGE:

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TRAILERS:

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OFFICIAL SITE:

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PRECRIME WORLD:

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And don't forget....EVERYBODY RUNS, JULY 4

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Re: Anyone seen this yet?

Originally posted by Dave
The rest of the film is on the theme of thought-control, as well as this man-on-the-run, and has a high sexual content for the weak hearted.
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Sexual content? I didn't notice any - not spoilering or anything, but really, there was much beyond a kiss or two... Hope no one was planning to see the film on that basis alone!
 
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