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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
that’s bloody brilliant, great send-up.
(but i can just see it now: some studio exec’s brain synapses will start firing: yeah, thundercats…kids really liked that saturday morning cartoon back in the 80’s…why HAVEN’T we done that LIVE ACTION???!!! lundgren killed in ‘masters of the universe’, we can re-release it as a double-feature with ‘cats’!…thunder, thunder, thunder, thundercats HOOOO! ka-ching!)
I wonder if that trailer is a send-up, or does someone like Thundercats so much they wanted to just make a really kick ass trailer for the movie they’d like to see?
At any rate, this trailer proves that Thundercats will bomb.
The dude has a Superman trailer that is pretty damn good also. I’m impressed that most of his work is the equivalent of rotoscoping in Photoshop, as my first assumption was heavy motion tracking. TCats took over a 1.5 years, apparently. We’re going to be seeing more of this level of work in the very near future.
Looking pretty Hollywood Elsewhere there, David.
I don’t think this is supposed to be satire, kids.
No idea what that is meant to mean, Tofu.
Big Perm: I’m curious why you think that “this trailer proves that Thundercats will bomb”?
Personally, I believe that many 80s cartoons such as these would, if done by filmmakers who value them, make incredible movies.
Big Perm: I’m curious why you think that “this trailer proves that Thundercats will bomb”?
Personally, I believe that many 80s cartoons such as these would, if done by filmmakers who value them, make incredible movies.
Big Perm: I’m curious why you think that “this trailer proves that Thundercats will bomb”?
Personally, I believe that many 80s cartoons such as these would, if done by filmmakers who value them, make incredible movies.
Wow – triple post!
I think many 80s cartoons could make fine movies. Never saw Transformers but giant robots work. I could see G.I. Joe working with the rigth filmmaker (not sure they got the right filmmaker for that one, so who knows). Thundercats…can’t see it. The very premise is stupid and the look of them sucks. A bunch of cat men! This trailer proves it…the shots of Brad Pitt and Vin Diesel as warrior cats are just awful and embarrassing. Not even Kubrick could make a decent movie out of the battle to defeat Mumra, or however you spell the bad guy. They even have horribly shitty names! Mumra, really?
Hey Big Perm, Scrooge wants his personality back.
I know I’ll be labeled a hypocrite and schizophrenic for past comments but that painstakingly executed labour of love brought a smile to this old cynics mug. It highlights the one thing that appears to be missing from todays comic book cine-swindles, and that is a sense of FUN.
The wormytv guy should get a lawyer and get a claim ready because this thing will stop being a gag and become a reality.
The reasons Big Perm mentions about why a live action version would never work are exactly why I think it would work. The premise is silly? So is every premise from Star Wars and every comic pop culture film from the past 30yrs. The casting choices this guy made were damn perfect.
of course it’s a send-up, it says right at the end it was made as a technical exercise and for a laugh (well, it actually reads ‘for a laughs’, either a typo or the grammatical gaffe of a non-english-as-first-language maker)
Yo DP any chance of a BYOB – TOP TEN 08 for people to drop in their lists? Love em or hate we all like to see em.
JBD, I have to disagree that this compares in any way to, say, Star Wars. Cat people named Lion-O fighting a space mummy named Mumra is just in a way other league of stupid. They look ridiculous. Who knows, maybe you can say the same thing about Batman or whatever, but I just can’t see any way that you can pull off Thundercats.
Also, it’s funny that you’d think this trailer stands out from so many others in that it looks fun, seeing as it’s just made out of other parts of trailers and has the exact same beats as every other action trailer out there, right down to that last chorus groan that gets louder until the title explodes onto the screen. What makes it funny is that it looks like just another stupid big action movie, but this time with cats! You could say X-Men 3 and Riddick were “fun,” but they weren’t very good either.
His SUPERMAN trailer is underwhelming, except for the idea of Karl Urban as Zod, which is genius wrapped in genius smothered in genius.
David, Wells posted the clip a day before you, that’s all. It had 80,000 hits, so I’m sure plenty of other places did as well. Just ribbing you. 🙂
His Superman trailer is great because the dude did the whole F’ing thing in PShopCS3, which requires serious labor. His rotos of Ang’s Hulk for Darkseid or Hyde from LXG have no apparent matte cuts and are proportional to the scenes, and the Welling shots match very nicely. If this shit was easy, we’d see more of it, but it’s time-consuming and demands an eye for detail.
Big Perm. To tell you the truth I’m not sure why the idea of cats going Michael Bay on our collective asses appeals to me but it does. The very fact that its stealing beats and subverting them over a goofy premise is what ‘sleighs’ me. Or it simply could be that I’m feeling festive.
However I do stand by my ‘silly’ generalisation… ” its got this massive hairy thing called a wookie and a gibberish speaking green midget with mental powers helping this leif garrett lookalike battle a guy with a big black helmet. ” sounds silly to me and it sure sounded silly to lots of regular joes who were scratching their 70s heads about its popularity.
It wasn’t only De Palma who laughed at Star Wars remember.
DID SOMEBODY SAY KARL URBAN???? i am so there
Except that Chewbacca and Yoda weren’t the leads.
Besides, I look at it like this…maybe the concept is goofy. But the actuality of Star Wars was awesome. However, this trailer looks to be about as good as a Thundercats movie could reasonably turn out. And it looks totally stupid.
I have to agree with Big Perm. Humans made to look like animals work in a quick-cutting trailer, probably because the shot length and trailer length is short. A full length feature with fuller length shots will leave many with too much time to realize that these recognizable actors are simply wearing make-up. Outside of fanboys, the movie would probably fall apart.
Would it, however, with unknowns? And why do Beast (Kelsey Grammar) and Mystique work? Full body redos?