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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
This is refreshing, especially because it brings us back to the day of kids’ movies that aren’t all fart jokes and mugging. If Disney is going to help open kids’ minds to the wider world around them, it’s a great idea and I applaud them.
Booooooooooooooooooooring.
Please tell me they get David Attenborough for Earth voiceover. No one else can compare, not even Morgan Freeman…
Pardon my LexG/IO moment here, but – David Attenborough is GOD!
I grew up watching him in nature documentaries (I was very much into nature/georgraphy/animals growing up – still am). He is the master.
I’m always up for these sort of films getting high profile attention. As Jeff said, I’d rather people go see something like Earth (begging for IMAX treatment, no?) than, like, Are We There Yet?
Hmmmm…. are they seeing an opening in the Imax market? This could be a tie-in with the Disney Digital 3-D thing, a way to keep DLP projectors tied up with Disney product. It took Hannah Montana to bring Digital to Western Canada, maybe this will crack the market in a few more places.
Disney announced a similar group of movies for IMAX a few years back. Nothing came of it.
Again… they really don’t seem to have a plan for bigger screens or 3D set. And Disney was very aggressive about pushing the 3D thing for animation a couple of weeks ago, so I believe them.
Personally, I think differentiation form IMAX is important for this to work the way they want it to… just have the tehatrical experience… it should be enough.
Disney is going to need it since they milked ESPN for all its worth and are now starting to piss off the fanbase, just as NBCU did with Sci fi.
As for the kiddies and tweens this is an interesting article from Portfolio. More of a piece for Sweeney, supposed heir apparent to Iger but it lays out a good road map of what is happening inbetween those mouse ears.
Disney is going to need it since they milked ESPN for all its worth and are now starting to piss off the fanbase, just as NBCU did with Sci fi.
As for the kiddies and tweens this is an interesting article from Portfolio. More of a piece for Sweeney, supposed heir apparent to Iger but it lays out a good road map of what is happening inbetween those mouse ears.
http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2008/04/14/Disneys-Evolving-Business-Model
What??? No wiener dogs?
http://www.wienertakesall.com
How can they say they are doing animal docs and have no wieners? Tsk.
For instance, the cross-branding of ABC Sports and ESPN is relentless and effective.
ABC Sports was folded into ESPN 3-4 years ago. All sports telecasts on ABC — even the Indianapolis 500 and NASCAR — are produced as “ESPN on ABC”.
Pretty cool branding. Can’t wait to see the films.