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” ā 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 ā 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 ā he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” ā and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging ā I was with her at that moment ā 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 namedā” “Yeah, sure ā 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 Iām on the phone with you now, after all thatās 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 didnāt seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. Thereās not a case of that. He wasnāt using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had ā if that were what the accusation involved ā 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. Iām not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, āYou know, itās not this, itās thatā? Because ā let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. TimesĀ piece, thatās what it lacked. Thatās 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
Oh dear god I hope this is a case of HotBlog being hacked.
That pink rectangle is pretty hot.
I got cut off – in fact, the rectangle makes it much more prurient than I think it would be otherwise. It’s more suggestive. And an adorable designer pink, instead of the standard black.
The 2nd ad does reek of kiddie porn. The ad up top reeks of
Got Franchise?
Got Prequel?
Got Tons of Hype?
Got Enough Money Made Yet?
I don’t get the problem with the first ad.
That Superman is so…..fey.
It’s not a prequel, and it’s rather lacking in the hype department, no matter how many Entertainment Weekly covers they give it.
I saw two of my cousins this past long weekend. One is 14 the other 16, both are male and very much into pop culture, movies etc.
They loved V for Vendetta, Get Rich or Die Trying etc.
I asked them if they were looking forward to the new Superman movie.
As I experienced before…they looked at me and said “There’s a new Superman movie coming out?”
This movie seems to be so off the radar with so many people who should be psyched for it…and Mr. Routh just looks so wrong for this role.
As for the Breyer’s ad…the mind that created it is ten different shades of pathetic.
It’s things like that that really make me fear for our culture.
But if it had been girls over the age of 18, they probably would have gotten job offers, not cease-and-desist letters.
Eight-year-olds, dude…
Seriously, what’s the big deal with the first ad? Does DP not realize that this is part of a Got Milk campaign that has also had tie-ins with movies like Batman Begins and Hulk?
It’s called the casting couch, JL, except instead of a couch it was Bryan Singer’s hot tub. (Remember, DP never got Brokeback Mountain either.)
>>>>Seriously, what’s the big deal with the first ad?
The white substance on Superman’s lip reminds people of the rumors surrounding how the actor playing the new Superman came to be cast in the role by Bryan Singer.
You said it better than I did, Grandcosmo. Kudos.
Yes, yes, Bryan Singer is gay so the movie must be gay. Sigh…
And I don’t think Routh is Singer’s type.
How else to explain the casting of someone so young and smooth and Hollywood-handsome in the role? Especially since he seems wrong for a part that’s supposed to be a few years later than Christopher Reeve in Superman II?
Well, he’s the same age as Christopher Reeve was when Reeve first played the role, so I don’t know if that’s particularly gay. You have a point about the timeline, but Singer has explained the stars’ youth as a concession to the franchise (Bosworth’s is the most galling to me).
As far as Hollywood-handsome, you were expecting what exactly?
That was the wrong word. But ‘concession to the franchise’ is correct, because he just looks too teenage, and these concessions could be one of the undoings of this movie.
So much more Brokeback Mountain teaching people to be more tolerant. š
I don’t see the problem in the SUPERMAN ad. Is there anything more wholesome out there than milk and Superman? It makes for great cross advertising. Very in step with their milk campaign. And since we’re discussing it on a movie site, it works for the film too.
He looks like Jason Schwartzman to me.
I HAVE A COPY, OF THE BREYER’S [KIDDIE PORN TYPE] ADVERTISEMENT, IF ANYONE CARES TO HAVE A COPY OF IT….. EMAIL ME, & LET ME KNOW….