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
Is this for real? I didn’t know the MPAA had the power to dictate the placement of IMAGINARY trailers on the web. Would that they were doing so to protect us from it’s “USA’s Up All Night” badness, or the presence of Nicholas Cage.
The Halloween trailer is real.
‘Attached to’ Grindhouse, not ‘found within’
It took me a second to realize you were talking about the trailer for his remake of Halloween coming out later in the year and not the Werewolf Women of the SS one, too… I only watched the Halloween trailer once, but what was so violent about it? What’s weird is that they’re allowed to post red band trailers and there are trailers for foreign films on foreign websites that aren’t governed by the MPAA with nudity, sex and violence without problems. I guess this is the “new MPAA” they were talking about at ShoWest showing how reasonable they are.
I’ve seen plenty worse trailers than the one for Halloween. A trailer that had about one cool bit in it. The rest? Yawn.
And yawn for the movie itself. Who frickin’ cares about yet another HALLOWEEN, apart from people whose combined age and IQ still fall into double digits? And what are these moron filmmakers going to do when they’ve run out of 70s and 80s slasher films to remake?
uh, hello. The 90s!
I actually tried to spread a rumour that they were remaking Scream. Several people out of the small sample I tried it on actually believed me. Now that is scary.
Can’t wait for the 2017 remake of Scream.
…and for all the people who stream out of that movie, slagging it for how poorly it compared to the original, the vast majority of ticket-buyers will sincerely frown at you and say “There was another ‘Scream’?”
Oh, and in case anyone missed the MCN headline, there’s a remake of “Barbarella” in the works:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6552963.stm
Anyone willing to take bets on just how many young and stupid bloggers posting their reviews on RottenTomatoes will slag the movie for swiping the name of their villain from that tired old group of ’80s rockers?