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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
Well Greta at least got on the poster. That’s something. Helen Mirren still has her head on someone else’s body, so, yay!
I realize this is blasphemy to film bloggers, who’ve found in Greta their new Zooey…
But unfortunately I don’t think Gerwig is ever really gonna sweep the nation. Too indie, too mopey, too sleepy and low-energy. Garner is a name star, so I don’t get why it was such a travesty that a mumblecore chick that eight people in America care about was left off the poster.
Also this movie is going to TAAAAAAAAAAAAANK. What did the remake of ALFIE do? Because this will probably make less.
Gerwig is a cute blonde. People like cute blondes. It’s a thing, so she has that going for it, and SHE’S ONE OF THE STARS OF THE FILM! Keeping her off of the poster is just hokey.
Also, Brand, unlike Law at that MONTH OF LAW back in the day, is a bit more popular. If people really dig him then they will come out. If you can get the old folks to come out for Helen, then it should do alright.
Helen Mirren: I’m standing on a stool.
Greta Gerwig: I have huge hands!
Jennifer Garner: I’ve shrunk a full foot in the past week.
Russell Brand: Don’t look at my eyes, because you can see a little bit of pain coming out behind the giant grin. Just a bit. Not much. Told you not to look. Oh now that you’ll looked in my eyes we need to Photoshop this one-sheet again. It costs money you know.
Dudley Moore: This is what’s going to happen to your remakes, you know.
Jerry Lewis: Why are you here talking to me? I’m not dead. Oy, I need to change my medications!
Kril, you sir, you sir are tops for that.
How about Rebecca Hall as the freaking main character of Vicky Cristina Barcelona and not even on the poster anywhere?
Rebecca Hall is in VCB? Really? Huh.
Maybe Gerwig didn’t make the first poster because she got caught between the moon and New York City.
FOLKS!
‘ Too indie, too mopey, too sleepy and low-energy.’
Wouldn’t this also describe someone who has already stolen Teen America’s and your heart?
No, she has too much energy, but her social anxiety issues keep her from unleashing her true potential of awkward!
Jesus…that looks like a Willy Wonka poster. Glad Greta got on but that hands up “what are we gonna DO with you?!?” pose is the kind of shit that drives me batty in general. It’s akin to Kat Dennings facebooking Thor’s eating habits in that new “Thor” trailer.”
Is it so hard to get the cast in a studio to take a photo?
This movie seems more awful by the week…