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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
I don’t get it.
Dave Gibbons was drawing the first few WATCHMEN comics in England when he moved house. He told the fellow he sold his house to that he was still expecting several packages to be delivered to that address and to please call him when they arrived, as one of them he was very eager to receive. So the fellow did and Dave drove to his old house, ripped open the box and, excited, pressed a copy of WATCHMEN #1 into the guy’s hands. The guy resisted, telling Dave he never read “comics” (as comic books are called in England) and Dave practically had to beg him to take a copy. A month later the guy calls Dave and tells him “Dave – WATCHMEN number two is here.. and it’s fantastic!”
That surely can’t be “the” poster….I think it’s a comic-con teaser poster. I LOVE the casting for the film and just ordered the entire 12 issues on Amazon (paperback ed.) for $7.00!
Wrecktum – what don’t you get exactly?
I assumed it was a theatrical one-sheet, which makes no sense. Upon reflection, if it’s just a comic-con one-off, then I understand.
But what I still don’t get is the lack of depth of field in the poster. And I don’t understnad why there’s an absence of any sense of motion in the illustration. I’d chalk it up to shitty drawing by teh artist but that would be absurd, wouldn’t it? So what gives?
I would wager serious money that is not the movie poster. That is specific art from one of the issues of the comics (they all had very strange perspective openings).
I doubt it has anything to do with the movie, other than people selling the original comic posters or did a reprint of the comic posters to go with the news that the movie might finally be in the works.
Wrecktum, I’m not sure if you’ve read the comic at all, but that’s very indicative of the cover art. It’s also a very important scene in the story.
The more I think about it, it could be by the movie guys to tell the comic fans that they’re not going to change all the strange and wonderful things that made Watchmen so special. Alan Moore fans could use a little reassurance after all the shitty movies made from his other comics.
A very important scene in the story, that the poster sums up very well. I am sort of shocked we have to wait til March 09 for this flick, but apparently Warners see that time of year as a honeypot. Yay for hyping a movie a roughly 19 months out.
If only Paul Greengrass was doing this…oh the imagination…
He’s being punched, near a wall, and things are flying all over the place. I dont understand the sense of motion remark.
Also, this is an original drawing by Gibbons, it’s not a panel from the original book.
And I think (and hope) the studio uses its 19 months to come up with creative posters. I’d love to see 12 different posters, like in the book, each illustrating one of the 12 chapters. The one above would perfectly sum up chapter one, not to mention the inciting event.
“He’s being punched, near a wall, and things are flying all over the place. I dont understand the sense of motion remark.”
The fist and arm are frozen is place. It looks like a wristwatch ad. Or maybe a left-handed black power salute. Certainly not a punch.
^ Please note from the above statement that I’ve never been a big fan of comic book art nor its pop art progeny (screw you Roy Lichtenstein).
Um noted.
Wrecktum: the image was captured at a very high frame rate, hence the sharpness of the image.
Is everything okay? You’ve seemed unusually contentious lately.