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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 now Crowe is in Superman as well? I sort of admire Warners constant casting overkill. Having the whole of the british film industry go through walk on roles in the Potters, hiring James Caan for a thankless 8 line role as the president in Get Smart, and what, we need a british guy to play a butler? absolutly get Micheal Caine, maybe Morgan Freeman can play the Q role.
Drop the Zero and Get with the Hero:
Lose Amy Adams, call in K-Stew.
YEP YEP.
Ingenious casting, because if you want to cast a determined brassy Type-A role, Stewart is the way to go.
All I know is– and I do not care– Amy Adams is going to be doing that screwball camp fast-talking shit and probably wearing some big flouncy hat. It is the kind of thing that old fuck critics who wear sweaters LOVE because a) most of them are gay, and they like camp, tart-tongued women, and b) it reminds them of that old Screwball era with Howard Hawks dialogue. But that will be STRIKE ONE against the movie at the box office. In 2012, NOBODY likes fast-talking women with MOXIE. They like DEMURE and SUBSERVIENT. If Adams comes barreling into this thing like Emily Watson in TRIXIE, run for the hills.
I agree that Adams will be a distraction if she basically transplants her Miss Pettigrew character to the modern day. Hopefully they will go a different way with it. And while Adams is a decent fit for the role, I think its a shame she doing it since it keeps her from doing a better, more challenging or interesting project.
Like Leap Year 2: Four Years Later, there’s a hundred ways they could take that.
And Watson was not very good in Trixie but she doesn’t make the top ten list of the things wrong with that movie. How Rudolph got that cast, got the financing, and someone actually released it is a total mystery to me.
Also what is this new Superhero movie thing where the guy is a FUCKING SUPERHERO yet opts to date some cougarish middle-aged woman? Hayley Atwell was hot as hell in The Duchess when she was making out with Keira, but she looks like Chris Evans’ mom; And Henry Cavill looks about 19 while Amy Adams looks 43.
I like to think if I had SUPER POWERS I’d be able to find my way to the nearest Hollywood nightclub or 12th grade cheerleading practice to pick up chicks, not marming out with some wrinkled single mom.
Variety is saying Hugh Jackman will probably do “Les Miz” and they’re not sure if he’ll play Javert or Jean Valjean. Have they not seen the show? Of course he’ll be Valjean, who has a significantly more interesting part and better songs.
Crowe as Jor-El, eh? Who’ll be Lara? Meg Ryan might be good — no, scratch that…
Lex: I hope Amy Adams’ Lois will be closer to her persona in THE FIGHTER. I love her (I even sat through the pointless LEAP YEAR — and, no, I’m not gay), but agree she’s odd casting, particularly opposite Cavill.
Dame Judi Dench IS The Waitress in the WB remake of Five Easy Pieces!
Les Miz: The Motion Picture sounds like the worst idea EVER.
Chris Harcwick has a podcast called nertist ….
he talks to lots of comic / actors / nerds – most
of the audio is 1 hour long .. he’s gotten
Zooey Deschanel , Jeri Ryan , Julie Benz, Patton Oswalt
Andy Samberg
they are basically 50 % DP/30’s .. Chris talks about
their movies / tv shows but also goes off topic a lot
of the time ..which is good . Zooey Deschanel talks about
her singing – Jeri Ryan talks about cooking and dead bodies .. some fun stories – this is stuff DP won’t cover cause they are more personal stories
there’s over 25 podcasts + they are 100% free to
download
if your a movie critic – you should listen to these for
research .. cause there’s a lot there
http://www.nerdist.com/category/podcast/
No, Dame Judi should have the Karen Black part. Angela Lansbury for the Waitress!
>Les Miz: The Motion Picture sounds like the worst idea EVER.
doesn’t this stuff happen with plays / musicals all the time ? can’t the guy who made Moulin Rogue make this into a big hit ?
Katie Holmes singing on my own … on Dawson’s Creek
where’s the emmy for this ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpV8avjVtxo
Didn’t they JUST make Les Miserables like 10 years ago, with Neeson and Thurman, and it was a huge bomb?
Lex: but THIS one will have SINGING!
hey DP – i don’t quite get your emmy dp/30’s … there’s
like a 90% these people won’t do another DP/30 in the next
year + your missing on a whole bunch of networks like discovery / mtv .. right now i only like 50% of these vs the movie ones where i like 80% of these
like with Michelle Forbes – she mentioned her other tv series Durham County which i never heard of but you didn’t ask any basic questions …plus you blew it on the Star Trek questions – that should have been 4 minutes ..
i have no problems with Forbes – but is the onlly reason
she can get nominated is because of the crying factor cause of a kid – same thing with Kate Winslet in Midred Pirece and Nicole Kidman in Rabbit Hole .
crying + kids = automatic award . critics fall for this
every year ..am i totally wrong on this ?
Xmen the First Class movie review – this guy doesn’t like it.
this guy needs a dp30 ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ff-vdxh-Iw
Anybody see the newly released Cowboys & Aliens trailer? It’s shorter than the April version but actually managed to bore me. I almost couldn’t sit through it (viewing it online). Didn’t seem like it improved anything on the prior one.
First big bomb of the summer = Green Lantern
Second big bomb of the summer = Cowboys & Aliens.
This is an inevitability. I mean, it’s clear as day.
I called Cowboys a true stinker from the first glimpse of its horrendous Favreau faux western veneer. And Lantern is just dreadful shit. Please send nerd cinema back to its fucking hole and kick some sand in its face Hollywood.
I wish WB would release Claude Lelouch’s Les Misérables on Blu-Ray.
violent blue trailer … doesn’t make much sense.
if this had a famous director would this get a dp/30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ERZyDd_mQY
hey movie critics – how many movies do you watch just to get rid of it factor .. movies you know will get 50% or lower on rottentomatoes .. for July ..
i’m guessing these movies will get 50% or less
Horrible Bosses , Zookeeper and Smurfs
so are you going to rush out the first day or before to see these movies ?
don’t you want hollywood studios to send you something better … maybe it just ends up on dvd instead and you review it but more people will still see those movies with 50% or less.
I’ve been seeing many slams of Kinsley’s review for “Page One” but nobody is saying why it’s a bad review.
He describes the movie like it’s a Frontline episode that went off its ADD meds…so, it’s not?
cnn Anderson Cooper is getting his own talk show – so that’s it cnn news is failing.
the only news that comes out of cnn is cnn international .
so why isn’t somebody making a documentary about this ?
DP – how about a DP/30 with Anderson Cooper … i’m sure you watch and read more news but none of the biggest tv news stars have gotten a dp/30
are tv news people not allowed to be intervied unless its by Oprah…? at least Colbert does the best job at this
hmmm… DP any thoughts ? good joke right ?
Darren Aronofsky Might Be Natalie Portman’s Baby’s Father
http://idontlikeyouinthatway.com/2011/06/darren-aronofsky-might-be-natalie-portmans-babys-father.html
On a completely unrelated note: I am thinking of switching over from a Blackberry to a Droid. But I fear it will be a massive pain to sync with Microsoft Outlook on my PC and laptop so I can have all my contacts, notes and calendar notations on the Droid. Anyone out there with suggestions?
Put the devices down and read a book.
i saw the trailer for 30 minutes or less ..
Jesse Eisenberg is in it ..and he already had
a few dp/30 ‘s .,. so he don’t need one .
but there’s like 4 new actors …which kinda do
so my pick is Dilshad Vadsaria and Jordan Trovillion for DP/30 .. maybe they’ll get famous like Emma Stone did
and finally got a dp/30 after Zombieland..which is the
same director as 30 minutes or less