Amy Adams, Dog Lover
So Amy Adams is going to be in Underdog.
Will she be wearing a snout as Polly Purebred?
And is this “selling out” or “doing what a girl has to do for a $500,000 bucks?”
April 23, 2024
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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
Only the richest actors can sell out because they are the ones who can say no. Amy Adams may never see that kind of money again.
It’s called gettin’ paid, son!
Isn’t Underdog an animated film? I hope to all that’s holy it’s not live action.
$500,000?
Hell, I got that on me!
Poland, she’s already starring in a high profile upcoming Disney flick. This is her second. Why is this one selling out but the first (Enchanted) is not?
It’s “combination of CG and live action”, with the lead being played by “the voice of Jason Lee and the acting skills of Peter Dinklage.”
Goulet, if that’s the case –
What a career BOOST for Amy Adams! From an Oscar nomination to SFX artists gluing little motion-capture dots all over her face.
Amy – fire your agent. Now!
The real question is, which aging actor will sell the last bit of his soul playing Simon Bar Sinister, a la DeNiro in the Rocky & Bullwinkle movie?
The real question is, which aging actor will sell the last bit of his soul playing Simon Bar Sinister, a la DeNiro in the Rocky & Bullwinkle movie?
Actually it is like Rocky & Bullwinkle. Jason Lee is, indeed, the voice of the animated Underdog. Dinklage is playing the live-action Simon Bar Sinister. And Amy… can’t be Polly Purebred, can she?
Maybe it’s a variation on the Piper Perabo role in B&R.
And we all know how well that turned out.
This is what happens when you get career managing tips from Cuba Gooding Jr.
Maybe she can look forward to picking up whatever roles Jennifer Love Hewitt turns down…