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A Little Overenthusiastic About The Wild Posting?

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10 Responses to “A Little Overenthusiastic About The Wild Posting?”

  1. ZacharyTF says:

    Some religious nut post those or what?

  2. David Poland says:

    No… freelancers working for Fox… though Fox surely would not condone the choice to cover someone else’s ad up…

  3. jeffmcm says:

    Not officially, anyway.
    (I’m amazed that they let the guy who directed Dungeons & Dragons handle another movie.)

  4. Filmbaker says:

    Hey, if a convicted child molestor can do the “Jeepers Creepers” flicks and “Young Warrior” (about a young male gymnast) and Gregory Dark, a former porn director, can do “See No Evil,” I’m pretty sure letting the guy responsible for “Dungeons and Dragons” isn’t much of a big deal.

  5. jeffmcm says:

    Yeah, but you’re missing the point: Jeepers Creepers and Dark’s porn (I’m assuming) were profitable. D&D, not as much.

  6. Filmbaker says:

    Sure, “D&D” lost money, but the story of how Solomon, as a young lad, managed to score enough funding to purchase the rights himself, develop it (bouncing around talent like Coppola and James Cameron), write it, and get the money to actually make the damn thing is impressive. Don’t dismiss somebody for one crappy film; hell, half of the iconic directors today started with Corman, and some of their stuff isn’t stellar by any means.

  7. jeffmcm says:

    True enough, but considering that it was his dream project and considering how much time and love he put into it, it’s a shame that it ended up looking like something direct-to-video, with virtually no imagination or style whatsoever. Passion does not equal talent. I’ll give him a second chance with American Haunting – it has a good cast – but that’s it.

  8. Sultry says:

    Soloman’s talents may lie more on the business side of filmmaking than the creative side.

  9. KamikazeCamelV2.0 says:

    Aren’t they making a sequel to D&D?! That’s what I read. Direct to DVD obviously, but still…

  10. wild-posting says:

    This is not wild posting this ist vandalizing a billboard. Very annoying…

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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.

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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.”
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