Films You'd Like to See Winona in?

[CHRIS B]

I cut some films out that can't happen for Winona anymore.(Not that they were ever going to happen)

I would kill for her to do one of the first three... or all of them!


"The Ghost of Munich"
"Mark Twain and Mary Baker Eddy"
"The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt"
"Number 13"
"Topper"
"The Ice at the Bottom of the World" Role is already cast. I guess she could play another one, though.
"Poor Things" Has a cast.
"Untitled Woody Allen London Project" Cast just annouced as; Noami Watts, Penelope Cruz and Freida Pinto.... no Winona.
"Cities Of the Plain" The prositute is a teenager
"Middlemarch" I have no hope for this one. She won't be hired... Keira Knightly will. 
"Sympathy For Delicious" Has be cast with Juliette Lewis.

[CHRIS B]

"LUNA"

A woman lives in the branches of a redwood tree for two years to protect the surrounding forest from being destroyed by the timber industry. Based on the book "The Legacy of Luna" by Julia Butterfly Hill.

Winona could pull off that look!

[CHRIS B]

Just found this... Kind of weird...

The woman who went up a hill and came down a butterflyGeov Parrish
Published on January 05, 2000
The Butterfly has landed. Julia "Butterfly" Hill, 25, became an instant media celebrity last month when an agreement with Pacific Lumber ended her two-year tree-sit near Stafford, California, atop the magnificent 300-foot redwood she christened "Luna." Hill toured Good Morning, America, the Today Show, and other national media, proving she was not only a determined tree-sitter but also an articulate spokeswoman for direct action in the forest and the ethereal beauty and power of the redwoods.

For the length of her two-year tree-sit, Ms. Butterfly, 180 feet up a tree with little else to do but meditate and fend off the PL helicopters, used the tree-sit (and her cell phone) to call attention to the plight of the trees. She received attention for her issue in a way that similar (though less long-standing) efforts in the Pacific Northwest have not. The courage necessary for her to go through this trial of endurance, weathering isolation, winter windstorms, and harassment by PL, cannot be overstated. Her action was clearly a success. But she returns to earth on somewhat shaky terms.

The details of Butterfly's agreement with PL are being painted as a victory by media friendly to environmentalism. For one thing, she was not required, as PL originally demanded, to not speak publicly about her action and to forego all profit from it. (A book deal and a movie are reportedly in the works, the latter to feature Winona Ryder. It's hard to imagine how you'd fill 90 minutes on screen staring at a redwood.)

But there are some problems as well. PL's boss, Charles Hurwitz, also of Headwaters, Maxxam, Kaiser Aluminum, and failed savings and loan fame, has always proven himself a crafty negotiator; the talks that got Butterfly out of her tree were mediated by California Senator Dianne Feinstein, architect of the Headwaters deal, another bad sign.

The final terms went like this: Butterfly's supporters would pay PL $50,000 (the approximate value of one old-growth redwood when it's slaughtered). PL then agreed to donate that $50,000 to the famously pro-logging forestry program at Humboldt State University. PL also didn't prosecute for trespassing; agreed not to cut Luna; and agreed to give Butterfly (but nobody else) permanent visitation rights to "her" tree. PL also said it would not cut any trees in a 200 foot radius of Luna—except for salvage purposes. Connoisseurs of logging industry doublespeak will recognize "salvage" as a euphemism for "clear-cut," as in the Clinton Administration's "Salvage Logging Rider" of 1995.

This is the agreement that Butterfly hailed as follows: "an unprecedented, courageous first step towards ending the timber wars . . . a new era of peace and cooperation has begun between the timber industry and environmentalists—between corporations and communities."

Charles Hurwitz's new halo may come as a surprise to Kaiser Aluminum's 3,000 locked-out steelworkers in Tacoma, Spokane, and elsewhere—workers who have reached a fragile working relationship, evident during anti-WTO protests, with environmentalists. They may not be all that trustful of a new-agey hippie with a noun for a last name who tends to spout mystic and is now claiming corporations as a friend on the basis of one very dubious agreement. Hill/Butterfly came to Luna new to the environmental movement, a drifter from Arkansas who had a revelation that she was meant to work to save the redwoods. She can be forgiven her na?t?but this sort of talk is at minimum premature and at worst can be divisive to a movement that needs all the solidarity it can get.

While the publicity was assuredly useful, the actual victory of Butterfly's negotiated settlement turns out to be rather hollow: One tree won for all that effort, a tree that itself might not survive if all the trees around it are mowed down.

One source estimates that at $50,000 a tree, the environmental movement would have to pony up $3 trillion to save what remains of the Pacific Northwest's old growth. Factor in the sheer stamina and the resources needed for the deed itself, and tree-sitting doesn't appear to be, in eco-speak, a very sustainable strategy.

As a catalyst, though, it can be hugely effective. That was proven this fall at Watch Mountain and Fossil Creek, two parcels of old growth included in a controversial public land exchange with Plum Creek. The land was slated to be given to Plum Creek for certain destruction. Instead, a tree-sit began at Watch Mountain, near Randle, with widespread community support. Eventually, Plum Creek was faced with such extensive public opposition that it renegotiated the swap to essentially exclude the two parcels.

So all hail Julia Butterfly. She didn't get much out of the deal for the trees in question, but for the larger forest, she may just prove to be a catalyst—a very necessary catalyst for saving a natural wonder that is disappearing rapidly for no reason other than shortsighted corporate greed. And who knows—maybe it'll make a good movie, too.

http://www.seattleweekly....nd-came-down-a-butterfly/

[Gary]

Winona up in a tree. Yeah I'd watch it.

[NoniousTheNonian]

It's hard to imagine how you'd fill 90 minutes on screen staring at a redwood

Flashbacks of how she came to be an enviromentalist interspersed with events of the tree sit?

[eagle-rare]

   How about Winona stuck in a well?

   Stuck in a traffic jam?

   Waiting in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles?

   Bowling?

   I appreciate what Julia Hill accomplished , I will always support someone who makes a stand,even if it is for a tree. Get involved,good for her.

   But is there a movie there?

   How about Winona taking her SATS?

   

[CHRIS B]

   How about Winona stuck in a well?

   Stuck in a traffic jam?

   Waiting in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles?

   Bowling?

   I appreciate what Julia Hill accomplished , I will always support someone who makes a stand,even if it is for a tree. Get involved,good for her.

   But is there a movie there?

   How about Winona taking her SATS?

   

  Yep, I'd see any of those!

[phil]

Winona reading a fat phonebook.
Especially the yellow pages.
With lots of closeups.

[eagle-rare]

Winona in a well,"sigh", I wish, but  only if she turns into a wolf, or maybe a Transformer. Something will blow up,right?

[NoniousTheNonian]

   How about Winona stuck in a well?

The remains of a young woman are found in an abandoned well.  Investigators piece together the cause of the victim's demise and discover something more complicated than a simple murder kidnapping.

   Stuck in a traffic jam?

A young woman is frantic about getting out of a traffic jam caused my a massive pile up.  A fellow stuck motorist tries to calm her down and discovers that the mob is after her and the "accident" was no accident.

   Waiting in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles?

A seemingly innocent women waits in line at the DMV to clear up an "issue".  She's actually part of an identity theft ring with connections to terrorism.  She eventually becomes aware of this and wants out.  But certain people don't want her out and instead would prefer to make her "dissappear".

   Bowling?

A divorced woman goes to get the mail one day and finds out she inherited her grandfather's bowling alley.  The alley is practically in ruins and sits in a part of town that's run down.  She works to fix the alley up, revitalizing not only the alley and the town but also her own life.

   How about Winona taking her SATS?

A young girl is seen in front of a school commitee.  They praise her for her remarkable SAT scores.  She is practically a child genius and they say she will go places.  Unfortunately she doesn't and the story reccounts the tragic circumstances that led to a wasted life.

The stories are there, just need a little imagination

[eagle-rare]

  But something blows up,right?

[NoniousTheNonian]

  But something blows up,right?

The thrid one for sure if it follows an action/intrigue style.

[CHRIS B]

Looks like Val Kilmer's plans to direct the film "Mary Baker Eddy and Mark Twain" is begining to move forward!

As I said before, I would LOVE to see Winona in the role of Mary...

A NOTE FROM VAL...

February 3, 2010 - MARK TWAIN & MARY BAKER EDDY NEWS

Dear Friends,  
      
On February 11, together with Mike Davis, library researcher, and Chet Manchester, who also has written a screenplay on Eddy, I will be in Boston at the Mary Baker Eddy Library, to discuss the development of my upcoming film "Mark Twain and Mary Baker Eddy".

Contemporaries and equally well-known in their time for their influence on society, Mary Baker Eddy and Mark Twain's worlds intersected in a battle of ideas. Their voices stood out in a culture going through dramatic change. Twain was fascinated by Eddy, and Eddy was committed to bringing liberation to the human condition that Twain so expertly satirized.

This program is part of the Mary Baker Eddy Centenary Series, "Strength of Spirit - Engaging with Mary Baker Eddy 100 years later". Admission will be $15 for seating in the Hall of Ideas and $8 for overflow seating or $10/$5 for Friends of the Library. For reservations, and more information, please go to the Mary Baker Eddy Library Website.

[eagle-rare]

But something blows up,right?

I would like to see her in that movie. Great role,great story,great characters, I think she would connect with Eddy.

[CHRIS B]

Word has it that Val Kilmer wants Cate Blanchett to play Mary Baker Eddy. I really wanted it to be Winona, but Cate is a wonderful actor and I'd be happy to see her in the role, as well!