Poll du Summer…
(Apologies to the early voters for resetting the poll… and thanks to Scott, who pointed out that I had left out one major summer title)
May 3, 2024
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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” ā 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 ā 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 ā he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” ā and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging ā I was with her at that moment ā 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 namedā” “Yeah, sure ā 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 Iām on the phone with you now, after all thatās 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 didnāt seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. Thereās not a case of that. He wasnāt using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had ā if that were what the accusation involved ā 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. Iām not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, āYou know, itās not this, itās thatā? Because ā let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. TimesĀ piece, thatās what it lacked. Thatās 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
In case this was unintentional, you left off Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.
Where’s Kung Fu Panda 2? The first earned $631M WW and I see the sequel passing half of the movies on your poll (and possibly giving Cars 2 a run for it’s money). Apes, Super 8, Cowboys? Are those really going to earn $600M+ WW? I would be astonished and executives of those respective companies would get wet dreams with those numbers.
Fear the Panda. It will be in the top 5 of the summer, and it will outgross Cars 2 worldwide.
I had Tranny3 as #1, then Potter and Pirates as #3. I picked Apes, Cowboys and Green Lantern to round out the bottom 3 but now Iām not so sure. I may have Super 8 too high. That Apes trailer looked pretty good. I actually thought A-Team, Predators and Machete were all better than Knight and Day and Fox just backed the wrong horse last year. I mean I know WHY theyād gear everything towards Knight and Day, Iām just wondering what kind of support theyāll give Apes.
Hang2 I think has the best shot of upsetting the apple cart. I know comedyās not supposed to translate and all that but if itās close to as good as the first and people decide to sit out same olā, same olā Potter and Pirates, I wouldnāt be too surprised if it hits top three domestically. Even over some kid animation.
I say the top five are:
1. Pirates
2. Potter
3. Cars
4. Trannies
5. Panda
As said elsewhere by me, Pirates will be lucky to do 50 this weekend, 130 domestic TOTAL. NO ONE wants to see that.
Any chance of another redo with Panda, cause I think it will be huge. Top 5 probably.
Top 5
1. Transformers
2. Potter (very close to Transformers)
3. Pirates
4. Kung Fu
5. Cars
Triple Option, doesn’t Hangover 2 look like the same old same old? I have a completely different veiw of Hangover’s potential;believing that it will probably gross less than the first worldwide.As for top earners, I think Harry Potter win probably be tops since it routinely gross around 900 milllions and because this is the last installment, I see it clearing billion easily.My top are…
1.Potter 7 – 1.3
2.Pirates 4 – 1.1
3.Transformers – 900 million
4.Cars 2 – 800 million
5.Rise of the Planet of the Apes – 600 million
All the rest of the movies look like they will fall somewhere between 200 million and 450 million, though I really want Super 8 to be big for it’s Close Encounters of The Third Kind feel.