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
From phone – I complained three years ago when The Dark Knight main poster highlighted the Bat Pod, partially because the visual center of attention was a giant wheel. This could be a slightly bigger ‘problem’ of the same vein. Obviously if the movie works, no one will care on Monday, but did no one look at the costume and realize that the visual center of attention was not the big S but the big uh… penis? Heck, at least Joel Schumacher was being somewhat self-satirizing. Oh well, Warrior is about to start. Hope I like it as much as you did.
what does that oval button do? The one just above his dick.
Considering it’s Snyder, I gather with the film’s actual lighting and digital grading the suit will probably look darker, and the package will be less obvious.
one element i like— the dirt that seems to be smattered across the costume like it would be on the side of an airplane that has just landed. if they do this though, shouldn’t they put some bugs on supe’s face? maybe un-coif him?
i like it.
The super bulge is really hot. Best Superman so far!
Eye-scarring and ridiculous. Arrows to the penis and random belt buckle, (with no belt!) duly noted by those above. Also, now he has lizard skin and the tightly crimped and coiffured hair of a silent film starlet. I don’t know what the thinking is behind the bizarre hairdo choice.
The nerds win this round. The red panties were a bit less silly than all this. I still think a good panties-less design can be done, one that doesn’t include lizard skin and arrows to the penis, so bask in your temporary vindication nerds. This will be sorted out by the time a Justice League movie rolls around.
Edited to add: The more I look at it, the more he seems like Aquaman, with the fish scales and ugly wrist fins. Why they felt the need to give him the ugly wrist design is a mystery. Are they supposed to be like Wonder Woman’s bracelets? Do they deflect bullets? Why are they there? That’s a bigger design blunder than belt buckle with no belt.
what is Kurt Russell smoking in Used Cars? Mores? Shermann’s?
Madam it’s probably meant to reflect the futuristic and alien nature of his origins… plus as Tim noted it’ll look quite different through Snyder’s lens.
I think it doesn’t look bad. The rugged look works in making the character iconic in a different way. Obviously it’s meant to be of a piece with Nolan’s batsuit, much in the same way Donner and Burton’s iterations shared pop sensibilities.
They’re obviously going more comics iconography (Jim Lee etc) and less Christopher Reeves. Different strokes but all in all he looks like Supes to me.
I didn’t think it was possible for a director to be more blatantly gay in sensibility than Bryan Singer, but I stand corrected.
Yeah, good thing they didn’t want Matt Bomer gaying up this incredibly manly costume.
LOOK AT HIS DICK.
I can see what they were going for. It’s not a suit, but a skin. It might work with Snyder’s lighting. I think it doesn’t feel right because they’re pushing the Ziggy Stardust angle.
Starman 2013
Obviously a movie can’t be judged by an image, and as others have said it will look different in the final film. But that suit in the image above is hideous. Just seriously ugly. Not at all how I imagine Superman looking (I am not at all familiar with the comics). I look at that and laugh. He looks absurd. I am really skeptical about Cavill in this role.
I kinda like it. Has a distinct alien feel, and is reasonably faithful, while adding a lot of visual detail.
I still think it needs a belt or something to break the visual lines, and the buckle/button thing looks really silly without a belt. But otherwise, Im liking it.
“But I wonder, did I feel this way about the first view of the Burton Batsuit?”
Dunno about you, David, but my reaction at the time, and that of most people I know, was “Holy shit that’s awesome! Maybe Michael Keaton won’t suck after all” And people still love that one – some $300 action figure was just announced, and collectors are going nuts for it.
I preferred the Batman returns one myself – better Bat-logo, and a more armored look rather than fake muscles.
Batman Returns was definitely the best Bat Suit. I liked the slightly silver look to it as well.
I like the texture of the suit. There’s something slightly off about the S that I can’t quite put my finger on but not enough to really complain. It’s not bothersome. Let’s put it that way. The picture overall kinda looks like a painting I’d find hanging w/some other pasty noblemen from the 18th century at lacma. But really, I said I wasn’t going to complain. Bulge and beltless buckle aside, this is more what I’d understandable for 2011.
Clearly, that button at his waist inflates his ‘little Superman’.
Maybe we’re being set up for a joke in the movie. Like this is the first pass at a suit, and then they he discards it for another one that’s awesome. Just trying to stay positive…
Since when did Superman comb his hair like Ace Ventura?
“The again, if we can see the vein popping in his arm, how far away can nipples in cold rain be?”
You say that like it’s a bad thing. 😉
Those who greenlighted this film will be fired. Nothing to do with his dick either. No one cares about a flying hero. Enough already with this franchise. Times have changed. The suit doesn’t help either.
If we can see the vein in his arm, how come we can’t see a vein on his dick, let alone the shape of his dick? I don’t know about you, but if I put on a skin tight suit, my “bulge” don’t look like that.
PENIS