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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 according to the braintrust over at DC: Supes is a Brit and Wondie is a blonde. Their comics might not suck like Marvel at the moment, but they sure as hell lack the ability to cast their characters properly.
ETA: Wow, they couldn’t even cast a woman who is naturally WONDERFUL. Ya dig?
Yikes, “in” Wonder Woman is right — that bad PhotoShopping makes it look like she slipped into a Lynda Carter skin suit.
Seriously, after delving into this matter deeper, I really am calling epic fail on this casting.
Everyone keeps referring to Adrienne Palecki as a blonde, but that is only a matter of hair color. She sported brunette locks on the final two episodes of Friday Night Lights, and I thought they suited her quite nicely.
While she probably would not have been my first choice for Wonder Woman, she made Tyra Collette fierce. I wouldn’t mess with her.
1) Enough with the FNL people already. It’s like casting all of the people from the Wire. 145 people combined watched both shows. Let it go and cast the SHITLOAD OF AWESOME PEOPLE FROM ALL OF THE QUALITY SHOWS THAT MORE THAN 145 PEOPLE WATCH! No wonder Michael Emerson had to settle for a CBS hour-long. He apparently starred on a show that was TOO POPULAR.
2) It’s not about her acting as much as they clearly had no idea how to cast Wondie and they cast a woman who has built-on parts (She at least seems to have a better pair these days).
Seriously, the script has a scene, where Wondie is self-conscious about her chest. Think about this for a second. They actually cast a woman whose obviously self-conscious about her chest to play a Wonder Woman, self-conscious about her chest. David E. Kelley apparently knows something about HILARITY ENSUING!
DC needs to call Marvel and beg them for some help in the casting department, because these folks cannot cast for shit. This excludes the Smallville team, who even with this actress when she appeared on their show as Faux Kara, have rarely if ever fucked up casting their version of the DC-U. Why those folks are not involved with all the casting of every DC film and TV series, is beyond me.
IO? IO?
It’s Wonder Woman.
For NBC. Meaning it’s gonna look like some low-rent dogshit that was filmed on the Fear Factor stages.
Also, wait, Michael Emerson wasn’t able to parlay LOST into *10 years* of shows for the same network? Considering ABC seems to go out of their way to shuffle the same people (Julie Bowen, Elizabeth Mitchell, James Denton, Nathan Fillion, Harold Parrineau, Ron Rifkin, Sofia Vergara, Marisol Nichols, Kyle McLachlan) from one show to the next, that’s pretty odd. Usually once you work for that network, it’s like being a Made Man.
She’s 27, 5’11, ran track in high school and is not a real blonde.
That’s about as close ethnic as they were going to cast.
Wow, that was quick. David’s photoshop job is the 10 pic that comes up under Google images when you search for Adrienne Palecki (or more accurately, AdriAnne Palecki).
Of the three main FNL chicks, Minka is the hottest but how about Coach’s daughter?
MMMMMMMMMMMMMM. AIMEE TEEGARDEN YEP YEP.
All right, I’m gay, but…how is Connie Britton not the hottest woman on that show?
Connie Britton is too old. I see a lot of guys acting like she’s some cougar, but there’s no such thing. I didn’t even think she was all that back in her BROTHERS McMULLEN days, and that was 16 years ago. Teegarden is like 21 years old. PERFECT. And Minka.
As with every hetero guy on the planet, my first preference would ALWAYS be 18-24.
Depending on the state I’m in, you could also dial that down to 16-21.
ZING.
I was listening to the Kevin Smith/Ralph Garman “Hollywood Babble-on” yesterday and they read some excerpts from David Kelly’s “leaked” WONDER WOMAN TV show and good GOD….sounded like the worst thing ever. Aly McWonder Woman all the way. Not sure if this posting is a tie-in to that TV show or what, but I hope not.
Lex, it’s WONDER WOMAN! Good lord man, get a handle on your life!
ETA: What Don wrote. Seriously, the casting, the script, and the show-runner are all wrong for this character. A character that would print money for DC/WB if they got her right.
Hey, it’s Dale from Flash Gordon!!!!!
Come on, I’m the first one to pikc that one up? 🙂
There is only one woman who could do justice.
And that woman is Kristen Stewart, on the big screen, and directed by Ridley Scott.
Why would I want to see Wonder Woman on TV, with a C-level TV actress, written by David E. Kelley in full annoying Ally McBeal mode? BYGONES POWER.
Let me guess, all the characters have names that are spelled funny. Does Kelley do that to avoid getting clearances, or because he really thinks it’s spelled ELLENOR?
David Kelly as in David E Kelley?! Why not get whatsherface who wrote Gilmore Girls? Every week Wonder Woman would always face the same enemy, her mom.
You know, I liked the first 2-3 episodes of the Bionic Woman re-boot. And I mean exactly 2-3 cuz somewhere in there I lost interest and stopped watching and wasn’t surprised that the show didn’t end up lasting that long. But I’m not sure what did it for me. I was excited by the previews and the casting or at least thought it could be promising. Here, I don’t know. Believe it or not, I actually don’t watch Friday Night Lights so I can’t really speak to her but the little bit I’ve heard about the project has kinda scrunged my nose up like the way most people reacted when they heard there was going to be “a facebook movie”.
I bet it will have the same sort of branded Truama/Heroes/3rd Watch/The Event look to it. And probably an overall story arc that’ll spin its wheels. I just wonder what sort of standard players will be in the mix? The journalist or agent male who kinda suspects the truth who works so hard to get Wondie to trust him? The general or agency head who wants to exploit her like a secret weapon? The single, neighbor wants to take her out to bars and meet guys all the time but then can’t understand why girls night out is always cut short?
I hate to be a hater sight unseen but if I do watch the first episode, I guarantee my remote will not leave my hand.
“I bet it will have the same sort of branded Truama/Heroes/3rd Watch/The Event look to it”
That’s exactly what I meant when I said it’ll look, LIKE ALL NBC ACTION SHOWS, like it was shot in that depressing downtown L.A. back alley where they filmed FEAR FACTOR. That Christian Slater thing had that look too, and so does Chuck. Something about NBC’s broadcast signal is ALL WRONG for this kind of show. I bet there’ll be a lot of white stairwell bars. NBC *cannot* do action.
Hey, what WAS with that frump from the Bionic Woman? Who the hell was that? And why didn’t she get in shape to play a superhero?
Michelle Ryan is not a frump and she indeed was in shape. She’s just a big woman and that’s another actress who would have been a better Wondie.
Michelle Ryan – Great Shape!
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http://www.michelleryanpics.org/img/michelle_ryan_n11.jpg
http://www.westcoastshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/4-22-michelle-ryan.jpg
Yeah, David E. Kelly. The script has Wonder Woman like, singing along to Greenday that she tuned in on the radio in her invisible jet and working out to Beyonce and shit. Just…awful stuff.
oh my god, say it isn’t so
(geoff: that’s a bingo, that was driving me crazy who she looked like, dale indeed)
She is Ugly.