NewParamount can smell a burgeoning success with The Bad News Bears… so instead of just sending out the trailer, they added a little something to make sure we don’t care if we ever get back. Is it root, root, root for the movie?
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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?
So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.
And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.
There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.
I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.
But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”
My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher
“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.
~ David Simon
Hi, David, Long Time No See. Nice to hear you’re great these days. Million Dollars Baby rocks.
this is a remake i am excited about. hopefully they keep the same tone
It looks pretty decent. Maybe I should rent the original to see what it’s obviously up against…
Many people don’t remember that the Bears actually LOST the final game in the original movie. Wonder if they’ll dare keep that for the remake? Or will they wimp out like they did in the “Thomas Crown Affair” remake (and even the “Out-of-Towners” remake)?
yeah i hope Bad News Bears doesn’t wimp out and get all sugary. I remember Little League, it was hell out there. If I want sweet I’ll watch Ice Princess.
I don’t know Mr Leydon, I actually preferred the TCA remake, andything to avoid hearing Steve McQueen’s awful fake rich guy laugh.
I liked the Thomas Crown Affair re-make too…except for the ending. They shouldn’t end up together. that’s why “Affair” is in the title and not the “Thomas Crown Settles Down”.
Bad News Bears looks like a softer version of Bad Santa…and I’m fine with that.
I found Bad Santa to be very fun. Crude but funny. Should work well with the Bears.
Will the kids be as foul mouthed as in the original or will they transplant everything onto bad billy santa bob? You can bet yo ass that the racial slurs won’t be erupting from the pre-teen’s mouths. If they were smart they’d ask Jackie Earl Haley back for a small role. I’m sure it will be a fine piece of entertainment (and gross booku $) and will allow Linklater to take other more experimental avenues. His (and his casting dir) eye for new teen talent is undisputed. And then we have the TRAINING and JAPAN sequels and obligatory turgid TV series with Corey Feldman as the new coach.
I expect that The Bad News Bears remake will be more School of Rock than Bad Santa.
a mix of those 2 and it should be fine
I didn’t mean that in a bad way. I liked both of those movies.
linklater should have a good yr with this and scanner darkly
Dazed and Confused and School of Rock are two of my favorites. He really knows how to work with a large cast and get great performances out of each and every one.
Speaking of remakes and sequels – this just in – Columbia is producing THE 8TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD starring Keanu Reeves. Sure he’s got that med isle look down, but will Reeves have the charisma of previous Sinbad Kerwin Matthews or the wooden presence of a John Phillip Law?
Sailbad the Sinner is one of my favorite boat names, but Keanu as Sinbad…well he is getting better as he gets older I hope. A few body piercings should help the image. The woodenness can only get less than the true ‘petrified wood forest’ low-point, Little Buddha.
And I hope he doesn’t say “Wooah” anyplace.
The really important question: Can they lure Ray Harryhausen out of retirement to do the special effects? If Keanu gets to sword fight with a skeleton — man, I am so THERE.
for all his bad acting stuff out there keanu knows how to make really good movies. speed, bill and ted, point break, matrix,devils advocate, even the replacements was good.
Don’t think Columbia would take the punt ala Aardman on complete stop-motion for 8TH VOYAGE, even if Ray H choreographed a new skeleton battle for them. Perhaps they should get him to do the title sequence.. evocative with a sly nod to days of old. I suspect this 8TH VOYAGE will take a freaking tonne of money and I’m hoping director Cohen, really goes to town this epic tale with some real scenery and ships and utilises CGI wisely.
Keanu picks some entertaining movies, yes, still want to see Thumbsucker. But will he ever do Billy Jack?
I would love to ask Ray HArryhausen to do some special effects on my bikini to make it appear like Raquel’s in Million years BC. Maybe I will write him a nice letter (he’s still alive aint he?).
Reeves does pick pretty decent roles. For a guy with the bad actor rep he has done some pretty different movies. Comedy in Bill and Ted. Action in Matrix and Speed. Drama in Devils Advocate. All hits.
Here is the trailer to Scanner Darkly. Looks real spooky.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/warner_independent_pictures/a_scanner_darkly.html
Yeah, but after “Sweet November,” I think we can all agree that romantic coemdy probably isn’t Keanu’s forte.
BTW: Did anyone else out there experience a moment of Zen when he or she heard TNT describe “The Replacements” as a “New Classic”?
I threw up when I heard that Joe. IMO, The Replacements is one of the worst movies of the past 10 years or so. Every single second of it is painful.
As much as the Bad News Bears remake looks GREAT (and it does) I just can’t see how they can keep the rampant racism in it that was all over the original. Drinking, getting hit in the nuts, and bad parenting are all fair game…but some of the slang and open racism that made the original so damn funny simply would not survive in this PC day and age.
Here, here, Don.
PC-ness is killing movies today (that and product placement). It’s probably one reason why people like Bad Santa so much.
“Are you saying there is something wrong with my gear?”
“Your gear?”
“My F—stick!”
Don, are you saying that the 1976 movie was offensive to you? Because I think if they included that infamous line from Tanner, it would immediately become my favorite movie of the new Millennium – not because I’m a racist, but because the freakin’ movie had BALLS. Plus, I would love to hear the howls of protest from PC types.
Is there ANY chance in hell Paramount lets this one out with an R rating? Pipe dreams, Massey, pipe dreams.
if they make the bears PC it would break many a hearts. tanner better not tone down the rhetoric
If it is not going to be offensive and crude, they should just not remake it. They already did that. It was called Hardball and starred Keanu Reeves.
reeves was a bad replacement for matthau and the black kids from the ghetto a sad fill in for the white trash boys from chicos bail bonds
Yeah, but “Hardball” may have seemed a lot funnier and/or better than it was because, if you remember, on the weekend that it opened, people were really, REALLY desperate for escapism
I hope the Linklater version is not like Hardball. A studio film that pulls every single punch except for the little cute kid getting shot in the ghetto.
Hardball was strangely watchable. Like all Reeves movies. Even Constantine was enjoyable and the previews made it look terrible.
Keanu has a bad rap, but I for one think he’s an ‘interesting’ actor. I’ve liked him since I saw Much Ado About Nothing when I was in school. I’m not going to stand up and claim he’s the best actor ever but he does have some talent and has indeed gotten better over the years.
OK, fellow film fans, riddle me this: Has any actor in the entire history of movies ever had a better year than Thomas Mitchell did in 1939? And before you rush to answer, consider this: Mitchell won an Oscar for playing the drunken doctor in “Stagecoach” in 1939. The same year, he also appeared in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” “Only Angels Have Wings” — and this little movie called “Gone With the Wind.”
Well it depends on what you would call a better year.
I would say Jean Gabin in 1937 with Pepe Le Moko and The Grand Illusion (& 2 other movies including Gueule d’AMour and art house fave in EUrope) had a great year since these movies are still copied
Boris Karloff managed to be in 16-17(?) movies in 1931 i think. Most of them were either good classics or so bad they were good.
Ida Lupino directed 2 movies, starred in a couple and directed part of a TV series when there were almost no women doing so
Laurel and hardy had stellar years almost every year from 1926-late 30s.
SIdney Poitier in 1967: In the heat of the night, Guess who’s coming to dinner and To sir with love all won major awards/got many noms
a couple Moderns:
Meryl Streep was in 2 multinominated movies in 1979 (K v . K and Manhattan)
in his short life, John Cazale with GodfatherII & The conversation…1974
Emma Thompson was in three multinominated movies (herself included) for 1993…In the Name of the Father, Remains of the day, Much ado about nothing.
Joe, that is so easy. It’s no contest. Jude Law in 2004. Enough said. It will go down in history as the single best year an actor/actress has ever had.
the pauly shore stretch thru the early 90’s. encino man, jury daty, son in law, bio dome, in the army now
classics
True enough, Bob. But he didn’t make them all in the same year.
Very hard to come up with one actor with a year like that especially if hes starring in films. Supporting players can do more work. Well I guess you can say Foxx from this past year. With two roles Oscar nominated. Thats pretty impressive.
Mitchell had a pretty good year in 1940 as well, including THE LONG VOYAGE HOME, OUR TOWN, SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON, and what I consider his finest performance: as the drunken playwright in Ben Hecht’s delirious masterpiece ANGELS OVER BROADWAY.
Mitchell had a pretty good year in 1940 as well, including THE LONG VOYAGE HOME, OUR TOWN, SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON, and what I consider his finest performance: as the drunken playwright in Ben Hecht’s delirious masterpiece ANGELS OVER BROADWAY.
Tough to make more than two good movies in a five year period let alone the same year.
How about Spielberg with Jurassic Park and Schindlers List in 93 then a few years later with Minority Report and Catch Me If You Can?
I agree with you, Mark– Spielberg’s got a knack for going two-for-two in a year. He’ll probably never top ’93, but this year he does have War of the Worlds in summer and the Munich Olympics thing in December.