It’s fanmade trailer posted to YouTube on October 19, 2007… which you wouldn’t know if you just looked at the embed on The Wrap website. Internet 101, guys.
Oy.
Of course, compared to Bill Wyman catching one of Nikki Finke’s infamously self-serving overwrites… I guess dumb is better than malicious.
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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
– “…and when there was no meat, we ate fowl and when there was no fowl, we ate crawdad, and when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand.”
– “You ate what?”
– “We ate sand.”
– “You ate sand?”
– “That’s right.”
Wait a minute, am I reading that right? Are you calling Wyman malicious for going after Finke? I thought the enemies of your enemies were supposed to be your friends…
No… saying that Finke, in changing her content to continue to press the case that she was right and Patrick was wrong – over fucking nothing, right? – was malicious… and the mistake at The Wrap was just dumb.
Assumed that was the case. Not to get all subject/predicate on you but the “compared to Bill Wyman” wording threw me off. But you are right of course — malicious is exponentially worse than dumb.
So when are we going to see a trailer for Avatar??
I hope pretty soon. This is my most anticipated movie of the year. This movie is seven months away, I think we should have at least some moving frames of footage by now. Since this movie’s 3D is suppose to change the world, Cameron will probably want the trailer to be in front of a 3D feature, Up would make sense in that case.
I still think they will end up pushing back the release date.
Who the hell is Sam Worthington and why is he suddenly a giant star starring in all these giant movies? Terminator 4, Avatar, Clash of the Titans…never even heard of him and now he’s an A-lister????
I saw Worthington is some giant Crockodile movie, and that’s it. He was decent in it, but I would have pegged him as the next media-created star.
I preferred it when he used to hang with his dog Spot.
Sam Worthington also was in the running for James Bond, apparently. Yeah, no idea what he’s “famous” for or how he captured the attention of all these A-list directors and projects… I’m assuming he’s some British TV star that NO ONE in the states knows.
To me he’s just like a duller version of Jim Sturgess.
Though he has a long way to go before matching James McAvoy or our very own Bradley Cooper as the most unsolicited, “somebody really wants this guy to be a star but audiences don’t know who he even is” *movie star.*
It’s like Matthew McConaughey and Colin Farrell all over again. Stop the madness.
“I still think they will end up pushing back the release date.”
Me too, the longer we go without seeing any images or a trailer, the more i think that this will be bumped to Summer’10. One factor that no-one has commented on yet is that Zemeckis’ A Christmas Carol will have a lock on the IMAX screens over the festive weeks.
“It’s like Matthew McConaughey and Colin Farrell all over again. Stop the madness.”
Colin Farrell actually has the chops, though. And Mcconaughey used to before he grasped the romantic comedy dollar.
Yeah, a move to summer ain’t a bad idea. Fox only has one film dated for summer ’10 right now: The A-Team. Two others, Gulliver’s Travels (with Jack Black) and Predators (sigh) are pencilled in. Looks like they need a tentpole, stat!
and thats if they can even get the A-Team off the ground, they have been trying to get that property made for the last decade. Has a cast been announced? I used to look forward to Fox movies especially their summer action movies, but I think the Simpson’s movie was the last one of theirs I saw.
*insert Aussie patriotism*
Worthington is quite a decent actor in from movies such as Somersault (with Abbie Cornish for which he won an “Australian Oscar”) and Bootmen (nominated). He was cast in Avatar and Cameron then suggested him to McG for Terminator 4.
“It’s like Matthew McConaughey and Colin Farrell all over again. Stop the madness.”
I think Avatar is a bit different to SWAT, right?
Bootmen was the dancing- lets put on a show- movie right? I can’t beleive that was nominated for anything, it was one of the most ridiculous movies I have ever seen. They put on this big dance show for the town but the stage is located on the floor, noone but the first two rows would have been able to see any of the dancing.
This is not to put down Aussie filmmaking, I have heard nothing but wonderful things about Somersault and it is on my rental to do list (Abbie Cornish is a cute little thing and I would love to see her in more stuff).
barring a major meltdown ‘avatar’ will release on time, a small army working all day, every day is seeing to it. can’t you hear the CPUs humming?
re: worthington, i think his appeal at the mo is that he’s an unknown but gifted actor with presence and intensity, but he’s also quite nondescript and plain, perfect for playing that ‘every man’ convincingly (i don’t quite see how this theory translates for perseus in ‘titans’, tho, perhaps they’re going a different route from the ‘pretty hamlin perseus’ of my girlhood)
Rogue is a fun Saturday night flick and Worthington is fine in it, though the role is one-dimensional. I think he’s great in Somersault though, as is Cornish, and it’s a good little movie.
Spoilers for Rogue if you even care:
Considering Worthington’s character dies quite early on and that the movie itself is about a killer crocodile I think it’s safe to say that multi-dimensional characters were not at the forefront of his mind.
Er, end spoilers.
Somersault is quite good though and it’s proof that there is a reason why Cornish and Worthington have had these “next big thing” tags thrust upon them like so.
I thought his role was small in Rogue, but I wasn’t positive. It’s one of those movies I enjoyed for what it is and then pretty much totally forgot by the next day.