Model Turned Bounty Hunter Domino Harvey Found Dead

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And funnily enough a bio-pic about her, written by Richard Kelly (the Donnie Darko guy) and starring Keira Knightley (the Pirates of the Caribbean girl) is due to be released in August.

The film Domino - scheduled for release this August but now likely to be put back while Tony Scott, its director, adds a new, tragic ending to it - is likely to further confound the world’s understanding of its subject, Domino Harvey.

Before she was found dead in the bath at her West Hollywood home, Harvey had made clear her hatred of the film, starring Keira Knightley. Proudly lesbian, Harvey disliked what she saw as soft-porn titillation in the film and she regretted selling the rights to her life story for just £26,000. The film cost £30 million.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1674269,00.html

My guess is Hollywood made the film, but then realised there was no suitable ending to be found. Their response? To send Ninjas to kill Domino (in her bathtub) so they would have a good ending and make millions of dollars. It also meant that she would be conviently incapable of bad-mouthing the film at its release.
 
I have heard of her and the movie about her, but never new the whole story....after reading the article, I think it would be a good movie, then I remembered I'm protesting Tony Scott because he might remake The Warriors........
 
this is her.. right?

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Matlock said:
"soft porn titilation"

i'm there
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if only this movie wasn't directed by a waste of air like Tony Scott and about something as done to death as a bounty hunter I could get excited about it

I suppose additional Keira bathtub shoots are artistically necessary
 
Kaijima said:
You're going to the special hell for that one.
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ANIMALS!

On a more serious note, I don't see how the director could go through with making a film on which the basis has clearly stated his/her/it's intense hatred of. If I was about to enbark on such a film and learned of this information, I would immediately cancel the production on the film- what's more disingenious than making a film about something that clearly despises the adaptation?

Films that got flack later on after the movie was shot, however, (The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, Fight Club to a lesser extent) are a-ok in my mind. When an author licenses out their work or themselves for the opt, they have no say after the initial screening. Other than that, and adage of snoozing and possibly losing comes to mind.
 
Jim Bowie said:
On a more serious note, I don't see how the director could go through with making a film on which the basis has clearly stated his/her/it's intense hatred of. If I was about to enbark on such a film and learned of this information, I would immediately cancel the production on the film- what's more disingenious than making a film about something that clearly despises the adaptation?
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Yeah, and let's hang Michael Moore up by his giant mounds of flab.</sarcasm>

Heck, didn't even the Tolkien family dislike Jackson's adaptation?
 
Actually, the movie was delayed to November several months ago. What I've read about it makes it sound weird enough that I'll probably see it, but it looks like a bomb.
 
I remember seeing the trailer for this before another movie and I thought it looked really stupid. I can't believe it's actually based on a real person. I agree though, it looks like a potential huge bomb, although this morbid news about the death of the real person might get some additional interest in the film now.
 
FoneBone said:
Actually, the movie was delayed to November several months ago. What I've read about it makes it sound weird enough that I'll probably see it, but it looks like a bomb.
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The film has been moved back though to it's original August 19th release date so it doesn't collide with Knightley's Pride & Prejudice, plus she apparently has a "time off" period around that time to promote the film.
 
Manics said:
I can't believe it's actually based on a real person.
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Yeah, I'm stunned by this news as well. When I saw the trailer, I thought the name "Domino Harvey" was one of the stupidest Hollywood movie names of all time. Little did I know, there was actually someone in real life saddled with that name. No wonder she became a drug addict bounty hunter. Can you imagine all the shit she must've got as a kid?
 
themadcowtipper said:
I have heard of her and the movie about her, but never new the whole story....after reading the article, I think it would be a good movie, then I remembered I'm protesting Tony Scott because he might remake The Warriors........
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Do you really think he could ruin The Warriors that badly? I think that what I have in my mind as the remake which includes an all star rap artist cast as being worse then any ideas Mr. Scott may have.
 
Minotauro said:
Yeah, I'm stunned by this news as well. When I saw the trailer, I thought the name "Domino Harvey" was one of the stupidest Hollywood movie names of all time. Little did I know, there was actually someone in real life saddled with that name. No wonder she became a drug addict bounty hunter. Can you imagine all the shit she must've got as a kid?
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It's still not as bad as what Shannyn Sossamon named her kid. Audio Science.
 
SolidSnakex said:
It's still not as bad as what Shannyn Sossamon named her kid. Audio Science.
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Okay, yeah, I think we have a new winner. Good God.

And I thought "Apple Martin" was bad.
 
Simo said:
The film has been moved back though to it's original August 19th release date so it doesn't collide with Knightley's Pride & Prejudice, plus she apparently has a "time off" period around that time to promote the film.
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Yeah, I saw that after I posted -- I stand corrected.
 
Stop shitting on Tony Scott. The man invented stylish glossy movies with their own depth. His best is probably Crimson Tide but beyond that he gave us Top Gun, Last Boyscout, Spy Game, Man on Fire, and True Romance. His photography is amazing and his movies still manage to engage the viewer.

I'm there opening day for Domino even if the reviews are utterly brutal.
 
I love how they don't say how she died. I feel like they are gonna keep it under wraps so the movie will have a suprise ending. Like her own family will have to go see the movie to find out.
 
Warm Machine said:
Stop shitting on Tony Scott. The man invented stylish glossy movies with their own depth. His best is probably Crimson Tide but beyond that he gave us Top Gun, Last Boyscout, Spy Game, Man on Fire, and True Romance. His photography is amazing and his movies still manage to engage the viewer.

I'm there opening day for Domino even if the reviews are utterly brutal.
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I hate all of those movies thank you, and I hate Tony Scott

Man on Fire was god awful and the cinematography was torture
 
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