Writers named for Getting Up film

Team behind next year's King Tut reforms to stick it to the graffiti-hating Man in big-screen take on Contents Under Pressure.

According to an article in The Hollywood Reporter, MTV Films' big-screen adaptation of Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure has found its writing team. It seems the pair of Sean O' Keefe and Will Staples will put the story together. Although the two don't have any previously released writing credits to their names, they are collaborating on a pair of other movies at the moment--Renny Harlin's The Northmen (due this year) and Roland Emmerich's King Tut (set for a 2007 release).

25 Comments

  • HaVoC_DX

    Posted Sep 9, 2008 2:09 pm PT

    IT SHOULD BE JUS LYK DA GAME

  • echoem001

    Posted Aug 14, 2007 3:22 am PT

    anybody remember turk 182. i'd like to see a good film about graff, but thats the thing will this be a good film about graff. marc echo being involved hopefully would mean there would be good graff.

  • Saga-san

    Posted Jun 24, 2006 5:55 am PT

    Hold Up .. The game was LEET man.. got a bit repetitive towards the end, but hey... ya still remember the first tony hawk pro skater? same story..

    But a MOVIE????? Come on, i bet its gonna be over dramtized:
    " look at the poor kid, he doesnt have a father anymore so he has to spend all his money on spraypaint en wreck the city"
    They'd better have an interview with delta, cope2 or loomit !

  • ApostleOne

    Posted May 22, 2006 8:42 pm PT

    Yo.. I wouldn't be cappin' on the movie before it even comes out. Yeh, its being done by MTV Films (and yes, they do some crappy movies) they may even 'commercialze' it like one of you said. But with such a deep story that the game had, i think it has some potential. I've never gotten my hands on any of the graff movies or documentaries back then, but im hopin this one won't be so bad. But if i even see 50 Cent's name up in there, i won't even watch it at all..

  • gatsbythepig

    Posted May 19, 2006 6:01 pm PT

    why won't this atrocity go away

  • latino693

    Posted Apr 18, 2006 5:21 pm PT

    WTF!!!????Hustle n flow wasnt THAT bad.....And a great stroy like marc eckoe's,who know,maybe it will be more easy to make a great movie.......i tink.....oh and blazer,looks like you havent played getting up man.....

  • jiggster147

    Posted Apr 18, 2006 12:28 pm PT

    We can only hope it doesn't suck as bad as we already know it is...

  • Blazer88

    Posted Apr 18, 2006 2:56 am PT

    Ummm,....wow,.this will suck,..just like the game.

  • masterchief_123

    Posted Apr 17, 2006 7:03 pm PT

    auwsome man, i new they were going to make it into a movie, its such a good game and has a great story, i cant wait.

  • charlieyow

    Posted Apr 17, 2006 6:05 pm PT

    Wow. That was quick.

  • meggido

    Posted Apr 17, 2006 5:37 pm PT

    Meh...doubt it will be any good.

  • sweet_jcs

    Posted Apr 17, 2006 5:34 pm PT

    if you want to see an okay graf film, check out bomb the system (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337585/). I am sure this movie will suck since it is being done by MTV films.. and bryehngeocef, Hustle and Flow was a horribly commercial take on hip hop.. such a bad film, bad acting, bad writing, bad lyrics.. you know it's hard out here for a pimp, gotta pay the money and the rent? seriously? wow, that's got oscar written all over it..oh wait.......

  • LomgHair

    Posted Apr 17, 2006 4:10 pm PT

    MTV films have ONE good film to thier name, Jackass: The Movie

  • damned_beast

    Posted Apr 17, 2006 3:51 pm PT

    oh my god... why do they make movies on gangster games... make a good one on far cry, with a new director....

  • mrcanfwhoopass

    Posted Apr 17, 2006 3:34 pm PT

    a joke of a game...

  • SuperH75mil

    Posted Apr 17, 2006 3:24 pm PT

    Nothin' against the game or the idea for the game, but this really does have "crap" plastered all over its forehead. I mean, it COULD go out and be another 8 Mile or some such (don't care whatcha' say, 8 Mile was excellent), but I don't really see MTV Films pulling it off. They'll probably bog it down with Hollywood "urbanization."

    "Thanks for that riveting yet ultimately ignorable commentary, Cast-Aside Movie Critic John Doedermiester. In other news, a local baby cheddar block was sexually assaulted outside Police Precinct 69 in New York, today. The loafer parents of the block claimed the perpetraitor made several explicit and inappropriate references to tagging the child with "cheez wizz." For more on this story, we go live to a sudden nuclear explosion outside our..." *static*

  • Banana_Kid

    Posted Apr 17, 2006 3:20 pm PT

    Next.

  • Meantoaster

    Posted Apr 17, 2006 3:08 pm PT

    Dead man on campus wasnt too bad a movie either. Don't get me wrong, i hate the music monopoly as much as anyone.

    But i digress. Getting up: The Movie??? gonna suck..

  • bryehngeocef

    Posted Apr 17, 2006 2:55 pm PT

    MTV Films has made some decent movies actually. Hustle & Flow would be the most recent.

  • boblighte

    Posted Apr 17, 2006 2:54 pm PT

    Remember when MTV Films made good movies? Yeah, me neither.

  • tutukun

    Posted Apr 17, 2006 2:52 pm PT

    It's gonna be another hippop gansta movie. They probably gonna cast 50 cents as the main guy

  • nellyp

    Posted Apr 17, 2006 2:50 pm PT

    it is a movie based on Marc Ecko's Getting Up Contents Under Pressure and you are wondering if it will be good or not!!?? UGH!!!!

  • wilkinsg

    Posted Apr 17, 2006 2:45 pm PT

    I wish we knew what genres these people have experience with, as well as just what their overall experience is so it would be easier to call whether or not it will be good.

  • mr_montoya85

    Posted Apr 17, 2006 2:44 pm PT

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  • hundredfirst

    Posted Apr 17, 2006 2:42 pm PT

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