Yes, there is something that smells odd about Scott Stuber & Mary Parent announcing their exit from Co-Chair slots at Universal only seventeen months after taking the job. Even after all the pretty-much-what-the-release-said stories ran yesterday, people are still rumbling, looking for a
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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
imagine should be able to write their own ticket
Spam Master here
Sorry David, you just need to ask me for the 411 and I will provide to you always free of charge.
Mary and Scott wanted Stacy Snider’s job.
Stacy is not going everywhere.
Here they get to work less, sit down and still maybe be there when she is finished.
It really IS that simple.
Exclusivity is not as rare as you suggest.
95% of us her at Fox are exclusive.
You get a little more.. and they GIVE you movies if you are lucky…but it is not rare.
I am Spam Dooely and I FEED my people.
Who would have thought that the Know it All would pipe up here??? I am truly in shock.
Mark
KnowNothings are often shocked when confronted by knowledge from their betters.
I am Spam Dooley and I feed my people.
Dave – just saw your b/o predictions. Are you serious?
Domino $107m [70]
The Wedding Crashers $105m [130]
Kicking & Screaming $101m [70]
The Bad News Bears $100m [85]
The Island $90m [115]
Mr. and Mrs. Smith $89m [125]
Kingdom Of Heaven $87m [105]
Dark Water $83m [45]
Fantastic Four $80m [90]
The Adventures of Shark Boy $78m [100]
Monster In Law $65m [80]
Red Eye $63m [30]
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Universe $48m [70]
Not sure about that one, Dave. I think there was too many cooks in the kitchen at Uni. Stacy and Ron just wanted to consolidate.
I don’t buy the spin, not for one minute. Give me a break! This is what I call the 7 Year Switch. Let’s announce a promotion and then after 18 months, pull the plug and convert them to 5-year term lot producers. Please. They wanted out or they were fired, either way, it’s Six Sigma Stigma. Fact is aside from Fockers and Bourne, their slate last year was troubled and thin, and Van Helsing and Chronicles of Riddick left a lot of people in the Black Tower scratching their heads and watching their back. This year, they’ve got the $220M + Kong and Kicking and Screaming. After that, it’s hopes are spread around older skewing films like Interpreter (yawn) and Cinderella Man, a few teen flicks and really not that much else to boast about. As for the “exclusive” deal, I’d stay too if I had a super rich production pact with guaranteed funding and a commitment with put pictures. Apparently that’s what it takes — especially after your bosses have embarassed you by shutting down your big, high profile film about to go into production. Maybe there was a flirtation with Paramount. But Wright, wRONg and Stacey would never let them out of their contract.. Instead, they are keeping their “talent” in the company fold and forcing them to stick to their deal. Beats letting them go and potentially causing an embarassment should they produce a hit elsewhere.
Scott Stuber enjoyed the casting couch too much. Michael De luca told him to slow down or he will be embarassed like De Luca was at the infamous Oscar party years ago. So instead of major scandal breaking out regarding the casting couch, Stuber and the 3 Blonde twins so “tried” to get roles in American Pie 4, Stuber became a producer where having auditions on the leather sofa is just as normal as lunch at Le Dome.
Well Spam, why ask if I already had it right?
Davey- Huh? Where do you say they wanted Snider’s job? Oh , right! You don’t.
Arash- how true! Why don’t you reveal that word is that the closeted Travolta’s second child with Kelly Preston is actually Scott’s? FOR LOVE OF THE GAME indeed!
I am Spam Dooley and I feed my people!
spammer was that an apology to david??? ur learning, little guy.
How was that an apology?
He was wrong!
I am… oh bite me.
Bite you? Geez, is THAT how you feed your people?
Way to be a man Spam and apologize. Good boy.
Angelus
Calling a black man a “boy” is beneath everyone except bicycle boob.
Shame on you and your racist ways.
I am Spam Dooley and I FEEEEED my people!
Yes Spam, but that’s the ANGELUS from AOL! He’s
like has ANGELUS, at AOL! That just mind boggles
me as a Buffy/Angel fan. However, dont be calling
people boy! How about fella? Maybe dude?
I am Life and Death Brigade, and I dance for my
people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
spammer ur definately a boy. a 12 yr old boy. now i know i’m turning on L and D B by saying that but the truth is the truth.