This trailer makes the film look like the movie that Tarantino and Rodriguez have been trying to make for years now… glorious grindhouse… but loaded with unfaded stars doing mostly secondary roles… and a Soderbergh non-actor slicing things up from the front to the back. Hee hee.
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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
SWEEEEET!!!
FOXY.
(Wasn’t she an American Gladiator?)
Sorry to be the one (again), but what exactly in this trailer screams sweet? Hopefully it’s just a case of the trailer being cut badly and being cliche. A female Bourne ID is what it screams to me. They turned on her, now she wants revenge. Albert Brooks, and Private Hudson in a SS film though? That screams nerdgasm for me.
What is sweet is we finally have a movie with a hot chick who can literally kick ass. No extensive use of stunt doubles and CGI. If Gina Carano can act, she is the real deal. I mean I like Angelina in her Tomb Raiders, Wanted, and Salt – but do you really think she could punch the crap out of somebody? Doubtful.
Looks like fun. Hated how they give away the whole Fassbender sequence though. I would have rather not seen the trailer and been suprised. It’s not like I’m not gonna eventually see it – it’s Soderbergh.
I think it looks fantastic, but don’t really see the “grindhouse” aspect Dave referred to.
Yeah, the story hook feels a little “Kill Bill”-y, but I don’t really think either of the “KB” movies exactly qualify as “grindhouse” either.
“Death Proof,” sure.
Michael Douglas IS Billy Zane!
Antonia Banderas IS Billy Drago!
Etc.
That’s what feels so grindhouse to me. Except in this case, they really are slumming.
Antonio Banderas is my BOY but he’s not slumming by being in a movie like this…I mean, look at his filmography. This is right in his zone. Maybe Douglas is slumming. But I bet he loves Soderbergh.
As for me, I like the trailer but if Soderbergh wasn’t involved I might not be super keen about it. Hasn’t this exact same movie come out about 50 times over the past six years or so? BUT, I ‘m sure Soderbergh would have only done this if he felt he had something interesting to add, and the fighting looks pretty nice. I’d check it out.
I’m a sucker for a good revenge thriller, and yes, Bill Paxton is in it. I’m sold.
The Carano Identity. The female Bourne is definately the vibe I got.
If that represents slumming for Antonio Banderas, what was this?
http://www.movingpictureshow.com/archives/mpsBallistic.htm
I’ve been amped for this one since the premise was released a year or more ago. How anyone cannot have a crush on Crush is beyond me.
Needs one major action hook though. You know, like a car flying into a helicopter or some such nonsense. 🙂
Anyone remember back around 15 years ago when they tried to turn bodybuilder Rachel MacLish into an ass-kicking action movie heroine? Naah, I didn’t think so.
JL, I’m sure my review for the paper I was working for at the time doubled the cruelty on Ballistic. Shame they only had enough space at the time to keep articles up for one week. Thankfully, these days, all I have to do is say, “Darth Maul in a turtleneck sweater” to get the point across.
How many scenes does everyone thinks there are where she threatens her “handlers” on a phone before they can trace her? I say two.
I’m still not convinced this looks particularly “grindhouse.”
Where are the bleeding, eyesore colors? The unintentionally atrocious dialogue (and performances)? The clunky cutting, dissolves and splices?
Isn’t a true grindhouse homage supposed to emulate (fetishize?) the
aesthetic imperfections of a ’70s drive-in/42nd Street movie?
This looks like an airbrushed 21st century art/genre flick with a really, really good (and uber cool) cast.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
If nothing else, the promise of “Haywire” means that 2012 may actually start on an upbeat note.
Oh great, two Soderbergh movies in a row where a major name is shown dying in the trailer.
Do the foley guys get like bonus pay for all the TWACKs and THUMPs and WHOOMPs and so on in these movies?
Yeah, looks a bit more like the recent Besson stuff than Grindhouse to me. Either way, I am SO there. But January?! This should be out ASAP.
The trailer’s lack of originality doesn’t bother me. I trust Soderbergh to deliver more than perhaps can be effectively conveyed in a marketing tool. We’ll see.
The dim coloring makes it look like it should be a direct to cable/tv/dvd movie, but the cast Soderbergh put together is incredible. Gina, looks like she’s gonna to kick some ass. That fight (obviously and not unexpectedly) spoiled with Magneto should be great to see.
Looks like an action movie made by someone who doesn’t like action movies.