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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
Gonna be your man in motion…
This movie looks weirder and weirder with every trailer.
I think it’s a great trailer. Effectively creates a mood using a wonderful piece of music. Plus, I love Eisenberg and this looks like a plum role for him. Just hope it’s better than the book.
And anyone who doesn’t love it as much as me is ignorant and hates life.
I’m not on board. So full of itself.
This. Is. A. Serious. Movie. ZZZZzzzzzz.
Isn’t Sorkin’s script supposed to be great? I think I read that somewhere. Even if I thought the trailer sucked it’s still Fincher and Sorkin. Good enough for me.
Hate Sorkin. Loved the script. It’s gonna be good.
No Stella, it just makes you look like a jerk and has you smell of cheese. Geez Stella, did someone not give you your capri sun today?
It’s a Fincher– shocker, it’s ALL BROWN!!!
Great director and all, but, dude, Christ– Next time out, maybe some nice aqua blues or some magentas or hot pink. Much as monochrome bullet-tinted movies lull me to sleep, or Woody Allen’s ’90s-era butterscotch haze…. I never understand why a “visual genius” like Fincher wants to restrict himself to that one shade of sewage brown for ALL his movies.
Lex, it’s the colour of HIS DREAMS!
“Express Yourself” wasn’t in sewage brown!
And here I thought the joke was obvious. Go figure.
It goes both ways SB, or did you not catch the Capri Sun reference?
Fair enough. My bad.
Yeah I knew you were taking a shot, I found it funny, and decided to throw something out there as well. Again, compared to most folks on here, you are and have always been a rather decent human being.
I wasn’t trying to take a shot as much as pull a funny. Sometimes that is hard to do over the web plus I’m generally not very funny. Thank you for the kind words too IO. Very nice. Likewise.
The first 50 seconds is perfect Fincher. It almost makes me wish Facebook was around when the original Radiohead song was out, because Fincher doing a video for that song around that concept would be brilliant. But that’s not what this movie’s about. Looks like a lot of standard stuff, but hopefully, they’re keeping its best qualities hidden for now (Though the creator of Facebook asking to be recognized on his own board was nice).
Fincher. Automatic pass until he does a superhero movie.
Speaking of supers, anybody else think that Ruffalo is genius casting for Hulk Smash?
Fincher is the man who gave us Kristen Stewart.
He also gave us the CRADLE OF LOVE video.
And FIGHT CLUB.
The man is GOD and gets an eternal pass to do as he pleases for ever and ever.
Even if that means casting Jesse Eisenberg in a leading role; For a guy who wants to be ALAN J PAKULA so bad, Finch should know Pakula never would’ve made a movie that starred Robbie Benson, Leif Garrett, and Christopher Atkins.
Two thumbs up for Joe Straat’s comment. That is what I was thinking as well. Awesome first 50 seconds. Though we have seen it somewhat elsewhere before. See Google’s superbowl commercial. Afterwards the trailer is just saying that the movie is about facebook and its creation as if all users of facebook have to go and watch it now. There were other social sites before facebook just less successful particularly in US. So it was not a brand new idea at the time. I wish it would go back to first 50 seconds and explore why we really need facebook and issues it brings. You know – why we are always looking for new forms of communication – email, chatrooms, icq, social networks. I think Fincher is a brilliant director when he has the right script. His whole visual style works for dark movies such as Fight Club or Seven. Panic Room and Zodiac had somewhat unfinished stories. He really needs a major twist to make them work. According to imdb he will be working on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. That is annoying. I don’t understand why a new movie needs to be made because people cannot read subtitles or get annoyed by the voice dubbing.
Not an Eisenberg fan Lex? I think he is quite a gifted young actor. Love him in Squid and the Whale, Roger Dodger, and Adventureland. Enjoyed him in The Hunting Party and Zombieland. I think he’s perfectly cast in The Social Network. Fincher knows what he’s doing.