Leviathan - not quite a movie

[Graham Kennedy]

So apparently somebody is shopping this around Hollywood in hopes of getting a movie made. I gotta say, it does show promise...

[Mikey]

Meh. The look is cool, but I don't foresee much of the plot going anywhere useful. I'd also imagine that the fictitious ecology of creatures that size will be ignored completely, detracting from the finished product.

[Graham Kennedy]

I dunno. Could turn out like that, but then you could say that about pretty much any movie in the early planning stages.

You could add in a whole ecosystem - there must be one after all, a species couldn't realistically exist in isolation. Something for the Leviathans to feed on, smaller predators, a plant equivalent, etc. Human habitats, both large and small, scattered around... could have a real "frontier western" vibe to it. You could have all sorts of stories and interesting characters in that.

One way to go would be to do what would ammount to a "Space Moby Dick". Kind of obvious, but it could turn out pretty good if done right. Seems like it's set on a gas giant... I have an image in my head of the story taking them down and down into it, discovering all sorts of things on the way down. Who knows where it could go!

[Mikey]

I didn't even mean anything quite so elaborate. Just... well, let's look. The "leviathans," based on their defense behavior, lack of fear of unknown creatures, and dentition, appear by any account to be predatory - at the very least, omnivores with a predilection for hunted food. It would just be a bothersome lack of attention and care if the movie depicted them (for one example) as living with multiple non-mated specimens within hectares of each other. Touches like that are so easy to be correctly addressed ina film - but so rarely are, and that irks me.

[Jim]

The CG was quite good.

[McAvoy]

It is Jim.

Hell as far as I am concerned they can make it Avatar 2.0 but with giant flying lizards. I would let watch it.