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 here is the DP/30 with director Atom Egoyan and screenw…. Ey, Poland, you big tease. How can you have anything other than a 60 min up close and personal with Amanda after than pic (had a serious thing for her since Veronica Mars)? Work on that.
Christmas came a little early this year.
AWWWWWESOME.
Right on cue, Lex. Right on cue (not that I disagree).
Screen Gems would have actually made a better fit for Egoyan’s tony lesbo psycho killer exploitation flick.
Indeed, such a (relatively) small part on Veronica Mars made quite the impression. It’s a shame Hollywood hasn’t figured out how to use Kristen Bell as well…
I adore Egoyan but the scene I saw made it seem like a gender reversed version of “Unfaithful” (which I loathed). Hope that the impression I got was wrong.
I agree with movieman that Screen Gems would have actually made a better fit for “Chloe”; but my guess is the Screen Gems just passed on “Chloe’….
I think “Chloe” is going to receive mixed reviews in the US, so it may not be a good fit for Sony Pictures Classics. While Sony Pictures Classics is excellent at releasing well-reviewed films, it is not good at helping its mixed-reviewed films to overcome bad reviews. The US box office result of “The Quiet” proved that all. (Sony Pictures Classics released “The Quiet” theatrically on behalf of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, which acquired “The Quiet” after the film was shown at TIFF 2005.)
I even think that Apparition may be more suitable to release “Chloe” than Sony Pictures Classics, since Apparition did excellent job to help “The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day” to overcome bad reviews.
I’m with Lex and SM on this one. AS is so damn sexy. Those eyes tear into my soul…
The movie is not great, but not terrible. Amanda Seyfried, however, is very very sexy in it.
Sorry, MaryChan, but the only thing that helped Boondock 2 to overcome bad reviews was the fanboys and fangirls who came to see it again and again and again. I’ve been playing it at my theatre now for six weeks, and I’m seeing the same people show up to see it. One girl told me on Monday it was the sixth time she was seeing it at my theatre in just three weeks.
Wow…. The series is very lucky to have fans like them.
Thank you for your infos, Edward.
I have a GOOD IDEA:
They should make a movie called PILLOW FIGHT with Amanda Seyfried, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Swift.
I can already see the POSTER now, like AMANDA in her JAMMIES and PIGTAILS blowing a GIANT BUBBLE while bugging her eyes and looking HOT.
This is CLEARLY a GREAT IDEA. I am registering the title and concept with WGA in the morning so you cannot steal it.
PILLOW FIGHT. You know you can totally see it now. SEYFRIED. STEW. SWIFTY.
Like they’re 18yo mall chicks who get GROUNDED and decide to have a SLEEPOVER and a PILLOW FIGHT that turns into a PILLOW FIGHT COMPETITION where they also paint each others’ nails and do their hair and talk about boys and CHEW BUBBLE GUM.
And MILEY CYRUS could do the soundtrack or even be in it.
THIS IS PURE GOLD. I am entertaining any and all offers but my STARTING OFFER for writing the screenplay is 100k. Or you can buy the INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY FROM ME for 60K and DO WITH IT WHAT YOU WILL.
PILLOW FIGHT.
JANUARY ’11.
MAKE IT HAPPEN.
is the pillow fight the big act three climax or are there a series of smaller less important pillow fights in acts 1 and 2? Is there like an initiatory structure where someone is introduced to the pillow fighting world and ethos (Boogie nights), and maybe there’s like the evil cobra kai pillow fighter and the older mentor pillow fighter? we need details.
There’s a great fake trailer to be produced from LexG and Torpid Bunny’s last posts.