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Michael Jackson’s Thriller 3D

I thought there was supposed to be an alternate ending. Was that just a fan rumor?

Im interested in the shocking surprise and I hope Landis brightens it up a bit-don't remember it being quite so dark back in the day. Lol.
 
I just had a thought of what the surprise is......... john landis joining in the zombie dance!!! :p :lol:
 
Hmm, I'm gonna make everybody here crazy with this one, but how about this as the shocking surprise - Michael refilmed the Thriller coreography in 2008 for T25 but for some reason it was never used. Not the time has come...:jump:

Probably it's something else though :rollin:
 
Hey with the way things are with the estate that wouldnt surprise me! :lol:
 
The "shock" moment is going to be just how far his arm and hand extend out of the screen when he's reaching for Ola Ray in the abandoned house at the end...it will be shocking how close he will really come to grabbing the viewer/audience..
 
No, no, the shocking surprise won't only be his arm reaching for the audience, but a hologram taking over at that exact moment and giving a live dance sequence.
 
I personally am guessing they are going to tie in Thriller 3D filming from This Is It with the original video... I mean that would be the most fitting thing I would think John Landis would visit doing this project..

Thinking "Hmm, well I want to do a 3D version of Thriller - Michael was working on 3D filming for Thriller for This is It.. What does footage does the estate have that I can incorperate into the film?"
 
THIS sounds as a shocking surprise
Billie Jean 78 said:
No, no, the shocking surprise won't only be his arm reaching for the audience, but a hologram taking over at that exact moment and giving a live dance sequence.
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This does not

KOPV said:
I personally am guessing they are going to tie in Thriller 3D filming from This Is It with the original video... I mean that would be the most fitting thing I would think John Landis would visit doing this project..

Thinking "Hmm, well I want to do a 3D version of Thriller - Michael was working on 3D filming for Thriller for This is It.. What does footage does the estate have that I can incorperate into the film?"
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^ would you say the same thing if there is actual 3D filming with MJ in it that we did not see? We did not see everything that was filmed..
 
KOPV said:
^ would you say the same thing if there is actual 3D filming with MJ in it that we did not see? We did not see everything that was filmed..
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Somehow I don't see this happening - Michael from 2009 in a 1983 video. Unless they do a Back-to-the-future kind of plot, but I doubt they would have enough material to do that.
 
^ thought of that, the thing to me is if they can turn Michael from a regular guy to a werewolf back to a regular person to a zombie than a person and than a person with evil eyes.. Who knows what they could turn Michael into lol!! Since we heard the ending would be different, who knows if the girl wakes up and she wakes and he is MJ 2009 checking on her or something.. They really could do anything with a little creativity..
 
But they would have to have filmed it with Michael. Who knows indeed what they managed to do with him in the lead up to TII!
 
As long as they didn't try to "contemporize" (using their favorite word) Thriller in any way with the "new" ending, I'll be happy. If the ending is something that was created and filmed when Michael was alive and he is part of it, then I'm all for it.


Is anybody here attending the film festival? I'm looking out for spoilers. lol.
 
^ Well they have not to my knowledge as of yet released the scheduled.. SO even if fans wanted to plan to go.. It's tricky! We don't know exactly what day/time!
 
Off topic but maybe interesting.... (MJ selected John Landis as Director after seeing 'An American Werewolf in London')

Max Landis (John Landis's son) has provided an update on his upcoming remake of An American Werewolf in London. The first rumblings of An American Werewolf remake first surfaced in 2009, but it wasn’t until Landis boarded the project last year that things started to move forward. The screenwriter was at San Diego Comic-Con 2017 last month promoting Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – and in an interview with Kevin Smith for IMDb, Landis said that he’s halfway through writing the script for An American Werewolf in London and that he still plans on directing the upcoming remake.

(Max) Landis also acknowledged that there were rumors about the American Werewolf in London remake joining Universal Pictures’ burgeoning Dark Universe – a shared monster universe that launched with Alex Kurtzman’s The Mummy remake earlier this summer – though he didn’t provide any concrete information on that front. Previous reports have stated that The Walking Dead executive producers Robert Kirkman and David Alpert (who also produces Dirk Gently) will serve as producers on the remake, with John Landis also serving as executive producer.

http://screenrant.com/american-werewolf-london-remake-max-landis-script/
 
KOPV said:
I personally am guessing they are going to tie in Thriller 3D filming from This Is It with the original video... I mean that would be the most fitting thing I would think John Landis would visit doing this project..

Thinking "Hmm, well I want to do a 3D version of Thriller - Michael was working on 3D filming for Thriller for This is It.. What does footage does the estate have that I can incorperate into the film?"
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That would be awful. Whatever he's changed needs to be footage from 1983.
 
I think the surprise will be an alternative ending.
Wasn't people saying that they shot an alternative ending back in '83?

If they really did, then I bet that's the surprise.
 
^ well Yes & no! what we really heard (if my memory is serving me right) is the way Thriller ends is not the original ending that they came up with.. SO if they filmed something for an 'original ending' than that would be a simple/easy way to totally change the video..
 
It’s a little sad, but also strangely fitting, to hear that Michael Jackson’s Thriller is finally getting a 3D transformation.

Yes, the 14-minute video for the title track of the late superstar’s biggest album has entered the third dimension, 34 years after it debuted as a global TV phenomenon.

Michael Jackson’s Thriller 3D will premiere later this month at the Venice Film Festival, along with the companion doc Making of Michael Jackson’s Thriller. (Don’t be surprised if both films also show up at TIFF next month, although there’s been no announcement to that effect.)

Talk about being late to the party! Announcing that you’re making a 3D version of a 2D film in 2017 is about as cutting edge as a butter knife. You could hear the yawns from here to Venice.

This is a sad thing to say, because the video used to be the coolest of the cool. Michael Jackson’s Thriller bowed to raves in 1983, with critics applauding not just Jackson’s singing and dancing — backed by a horde of choreographed zombies — but also director John Landis’ treatment of it as a tiny perfect film, rather than another disposable pop video.

I remember attending a friend’s party the night the video premiered on TV. At the appointed hour, we all stopped to watch the video’s premiere and then to rewatch it again and again — my friend had taped it on VHS.

The video went on to win a Grammy award and other kudos. It looked like the future of videos and film. Now it just looks like the past for 3D.

The plain fact is that the 3D fad is over, done, dead, even if Hollywood hasn’t fully admitted it yet — although moviegoers have. New figures by the Motion Picture Association of America show an 8 per cent drop in tickets sold to 3D films in the past year, despite the fact a record 68 movies in 3D were released. Moviegoers are voting with their wallets.

One of the summer’s biggest films, Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, is viewable only in 2D format. It will be the same “flat” reality for Blade Runner 2049, the Denis Villeneuve film that is one of the fall’s most-anticipated blockbusters. And Imax Entertainment recently announced that it will be cutting back on screenings of 3D films, after disappointing box office for such non-attractions as The Mummy and Transformers: The Last Knight.

Expect other industry players to soon follow suit. And ask yourself this: When was the last time you willingly ponied up several extra dollars for the pleasure of wearing a pair of plastic goggles to watch a movie made darker and less distinct by 3D?

For many people, it would be about seven or eight years ago, when Avatar and Alice in Wonderland were heralding a new era of 3D, reviving a format that had been tried and rejected decades earlier, during the supposed “golden era” of 3D in the 1950s.

The revival never really caught on, in large part because many theatres wouldn’t commit to using the brighter (and more expensive) bulbs needed to properly project 3D. And forget about 3D TV, which even fewer people went in for. Who wants to wear plastic goggles in their living room?

I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve thought 3D added anything of value to a film viewing.

It’s time for 3D to just go away again, as quietly as it did before, while we figure out if virtual reality and holograms really are the Next Big Thing.

But here’s the strangely fitting thing about Michael Jackson’s Thriller 3D. It’s a video about zombies dancing in a graveyard along with Jackson, a.k.a. the King of Pop.

They’re the walking and dancing undead, although they don’t really know it. Which is exactly where 3D is right now.

https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/2017/08/10/the-thrill-is-gone-for-3d-movies-howell.html
 
^ to comment on 3D..

Hollywood is now pulling away from 3D.. IMAX non 3D films have been getting bigger responses than 3D.. More investment is being more so shifted in making a grand imax experience with the best sound, best picture, and basically trying to bring it to life as much as possible.. with 3D while entertaining, a lot gets lost. pictures are not as crisp and focus gets drawn to specific things while other things get drowned out..
 
From what I see from the comments on a few websites I frequently visit, many people are interested in 3D. And there are alternative options for people that aren't. I personally love it. And the home 3D technology is the best that it's ever been. The picture on my TV is wonderful. The problem is now they are pushing aside 3D so they can hype 4K technology (even though they could co-exist).
 
There's no denying 3d is yesterday's news and thriller 3d is at least 5 years too late but it's a nice thing to have. If they also release a 4k version that would be really news worthy. If they have the films there's mj reason ut couldn't be 4k.
 
Is there any official schedule for screening Thriller 3d?

Is September 4 at 22:15 correct?
 
There are repeated assertions on here that 3D is 'yesterday's news'. Fact is, it remains big business in multiplexes across the UK.

The 3D bubble MAY have popped in the home market, but at cinemas we're still slap bang in the middle of the 3D reign. I personally don't care for the format (with exceptions) but the way some people go on here suggests that 3D is on the way out - it's still a massive format and big money maker for cinemas exhibiting films.

Indeed James Cameron ploughed money into a 3D conversion of Terminator 2: Judgement Day this year and local cinemas here have noted huge demand with screenings selling out over a month in advance. IF there's data out there to suggest the format's popularity is waning in cinemas then I'd be interested to hear it.
 
I've only seen one 3D movie and that was Martin Scorsese's "Hugo." It wasn't so bad on my eyes, and I've read that people with glaucoma can't watch 3D-but I didn't get the full effect either, I don't think. My sister and her family only go to 3D movies-they absolutely love it.

I'm way more interested in the fact that Thriller and the Making of Thriller have been restored-looking forward to getting the DVD.
 
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