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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
So, there’s finally a superhero film made to satisfy Jeff Wells’ sensibilities?
Wow, big brain guy and ultimate douche. Aww… finally… a Green Lantern movie is actually happening.
Shoulda been Solomon Grundy.
*tsk tsk* You’ve got those positioned wrong!
Anyhow, mustaches are pretty evil in real life too.
Tip to makeup and wardrobe: little Hitler mustaches make guys look ten million times more evil. Why aren’t you putting more little Hitler mustaches in films?
They just did with Michael Jordan and that Haynes commercial just did not go over that well.
Wrecktum: http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/cgi-bin/seigmiaow.pl
The villain of Cats & Dogs 2?
About time they threw some money behind a BATTLEFIELD EARTH remake.
Shame on you Don Lewis. SHAME!
I wouldn’t be surprised if B:E turned out to be one of the fifty-thousand things Guillermo del Toro plans on doing next year.
storymark — if you want Wells to approve of a superhero movie, cast Jorge Garcia as the villain, dress him in low thread-count shirts, and shoot him only using grainy, unrestored film stock.
Green Lantern? Meh!
Green Hornet is what I’m interested in!
Pete, you know may be alone in your love of that Green Hornet film? Seriously, geeks are just hating on that film like crazy but wherever Monsieur Gondry goes, I am going to follow, and those geeks can stick it!
IO (and this is not a put down) thought you were the resident geek around here?
Green Hornet gets super points for having Hans Landa in his first major role since that bear jew movie with the subtitles.
Green Lantern seems to be striving for the same type of epic cinematical ‘realism’ that the batmans do- guess that means that the rest of Warner’s DC output should follow suit, making an eventual (?) team up movie perhaps easier to accomplish than the Avengeritos
AE, I love the so called GEEK PROPERTIES but I do not always fall in line with geeks and there’s just ridiculous geek hate out there for The Green Hornet. I think Rogen as an action hero just puts some folks off. The same folks are probably put off by Michael Cera as an action star, and it would seem those people are crazy. Nevertheless, I am looking forward to the Green Hornet because it’s Gondry doing action! That’s reason alone to be excited.
Alright fair enough! 🙂
Yes any new material from Gondry is reason enough to be excited. There’s no reason why Rogen as action hero shouldn’t work, and I’d say that based on his creative output the dude generally seems to know what he’s doing. If anything the only thing Hornet’s got going against it is that the premise is essentially Batman, but corny.
Easy hurdle to jump if the quality’s there.
I’m excited about anything Gondry does too even though I am not a Rogen fan.
Yes. The moustaches….look like porn star moustaches from the 70s, eww.
But I really loved Casino Royale so I will see Lantern too.
“Escape my sight…no evil shall.” Who designed this ad — Yoda?
ha ha Yancy.
Master Yoda has many talents.