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” â 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 â 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 â he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” â and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging â I was with her at that moment â 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 namedâ” “Yeah, sure â 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 Iâm on the phone with you now, after all thatâs 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 didnât seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. Thereâs not a case of that. He wasnât using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had â if that were what the accusation involved â 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. Iâm not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, âYou know, itâs not this, itâs thatâ? Because â let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, thatâs what it lacked. Thatâs 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
It also has the unfortunate matter of having a similar title to the next Hannibal Lecter movie (the prequel)… but it does sound interesting. Here’s the website:
http://www.behindthemaskthemovie.com/
It sounds like Man Bites Dog.
Enough with the dead teenagers movies already. If someone wants to be innovative, let ’em do it with a western or a war movie or sumpin’.
i was curious about this film as the director was so self effacing and charming. But you are right a terrible title and a somewhat confusing trailer. Personally I think people are so over the mockumentary format that this appears to be lessen cousin of Craven’s Elm St post modern #7 spin. I’d be very surprised if it eventually does 20m at the b/o – unless whoever picks it up plays on the underdog riff, as this doesn’t seem to have the stats to launch with a bang. Needs nuturing and lots of support from genre scribes. Also Dave Midnight screenings are notorious for false vibes about a films potential.
there’s a rave for it on AICN by young quint who I actually think has pretty good taste for a youngster. So maybe it wasn’t just the beers dave was sloggin back at the downtown đ
“It sounds like Man Bites Dog.”
God that movie was bad. Horrible.
If they rename this movie The Blair Slasher Project I will chow down a bag of cocaine.
Sure does sound like Man Bites Dog. Jeff’s on the ball.
Camel, horrible how? I thought it went too far and was very disturbing (I saw the cut with the rape scene, which I’ve heard was missing from some versions) but it was well-made, ahead of its time and it knew what it was doing. It said everything Natural Born Killers wanted to, and might have if Oliver had laid off the drugs.
I can’t believe they’re making the Lecter prequel. Hannibal was one Lecter tale too many, and I’m one of the suckers who couldn’t wait to buy it in hardcover.
Man Bites Dog was a good movie that was “horrible”. i was in France at the time and there was much talk of it in Belgium and France. It was so disturbing because it was hard not to believe it was for real at times.
Thanks, Poland for making people aware of the film. You’re right, it isn’t flawless but we worked our asses off and we’re pretty proud of it. I hope people enjoy it.
By the way, the show is Invasion on ABC. I play the one-armed deputy, Lewis Sirk. Its a great show. Check it out.
Nathan
Will INVASION see a second season? It started really slow but the build has been worth it. It will play much better when it is on DVD when you don’t have to wait 2 months between new episodes.
I’d really like to know what Sanchez thinks.
Everyone on production of Invasion seems confident it’ll get a second season. Its been picking up the pace and the audience base, and the future episodes to air will continue to get bigger, better, stronger, and faster. Just wait. There’s great stuff to come!
I’m sure he would have let you know, Jeff, whether it was pertinent or not. And so would bob, and Angelus, and Lester…