Geostorm Trailer #1 (2017)

First five seconds I called this as a Deviln/Emmerich movie... I was half wrong. Looks like it's a Dean Devlin solo project. With as far out there in hokey-town that Emmerich has been travelling the past decade, it's probably good that he took the helm himself.

So this can go one of two ways. A miraculously entertaining and well made movie by a first time director that is well established in Hollywood's big budget cinema world, resulting in a blockbuster windfall for WB. Or a complete failure that no one goes to see and loses WB hundreds of millions.

Based on Devlin's history with disaster films that are now dated. And the fact he's writing, producing and directing (a deadly zero oversight combo that only Orson Welles could pull off for decades). AND the fact that the trailer looks completely dysfunctional and hokey beyond an Emmerich level. I predict the latter.

The Death of River Phoenix

River Phoenix's death was a completely fucked up ordeal. He and Red Hot Chili Peppers' John Frusciante had basically been speedballing for 3 days straight with no sleep before they headed into Johnny Depp's club, The Viper Room. His brother Joaquin his sister Rain, and his girlfriend Samantha Mathis were there with him. Chili Peppers' Flea came in later. Cocaine got passed around and it wasn't long before River was on the floor and 9-1-1 got called.

Poor Joaquin held his brother in his arms while he died seizing in the ambulance. Mathis was unconsolable in the hospital. I think that's why she only made one film over the next year.

Depp found out through a phone call, uttered "Oh my God" and hung up. Then like the next morning, the very next morning, The Chili Peppers, Depp, the club management, and basically anyone else involved had skipped town.

Poor Keanu Reeves, his best friend, had to hear it second hand on the news.

There's also a conspiracy that DiCaprio was seen in the club at the time of River's OD, and that Depp had arranged for Leo to slip River some bad drugs so that he could take his role in The Basketball Diaries. But really kids just OD all the time.