By David Poland poland@moviecitynews.com
Dead Guys…. Get Your Dead Guys!!!
Do we really think they’ll be able to resist giving both of these guys Oscar nominations?
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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
The answer is no.
I was just thinking about when this movie was gonna come out. I think the Best Actor race is going to be brutal. I think Fox Searchlight would be best served if they held this one over until next May. Give it the MONRISE KINGDOM treatment. As it stands I see Best Actor being Phoenix, Day-Lewis, Foxx, Hawkes, and the lead from the Haneke movie. We’ll also see some major campaigning for Langella and Gere.
If you’re talking Langella for ROBOT AND FRANK it’s a nice thought, but no way. He’s icier than the robot in that movie. Don’t older actors have to have emotional cataharsis in films to get attention?
And that Hopkins as Hitch pic is uncannily spot-on whereas Toby Jones just looks weird.
really? They think he can get in against Day Lewis, Phoenix, Washington, Hawkes, Jackman, Trintigent and Foxx?
Oscar loves him some stars playing famous people.
Am I the only one not feeling LES MIZ?
After being nominated 4 times in the nineties, and then nothing after that, if Hitchcock is any good, it will be irresistible to not nominate Hopkins playing a Hollywood icon. Hollywood loves homages to themselves.
My Academy wish thus far is I hope Gyllenhaal and Pena get some love. I hope that End of Watch follows the likes of The Departed and No Country for Old Men of filling that gritty crime drama slot that delivered on all levels.
speaking of dead guys, i’d love to see an oscar nom for the original phoenix (if they can get Dark Blood into a cinema for a week before the end of the year).
Ira, I think you need to workshop your jokes on your home computer for a while before bringing them to the main stage here.
Greeaaaat. Ira played out his schtick on Well’s site, so he’s brought it here.
yay.
“This is the end, beautiful friend, the end…”
Ira’s posts are DEAD ON.
arisp-
they are….and then they’re unbearably redundant and way, way too frequent.
IRA PARKS SAYS:
IRA PARKS SAYS:
Abracadabra, I sit on his knee. Presto, change-o, and now he is me…
what brought you on over from Elsewhere Ira, and why now?
and incidently whatever happened to IO partisan?
“What brought you on over from Elsewhere?”
The damn locks were changed. My laundry was on the lawn. A note on the door said, “Eff off.”
Jeff knocked his virtual hat off the bed.
Swing and a miss on impersonating me, Ira. I generally consider discussing box office dull as hell.
Start screaming about white pussy and the light will be left on all night for you.
Kweh?
JOE LEYDON SAYS:
If I get my hands on this bitch-ass punk Ira Parks, they will need dental records to indentify the corpse.
IRA PARKS SAYS:
IRA PARKS SAYS:
Magic is fun…we’re dead.
This “Ira Parks” character is pretty f**king tiresome.
Move on.
TOBY JONES SAYS:
Do you wankers realize this is the SECOND time I’ll be trailing in the wake of a more prominent actor playing the same dead geezer? Can’t be mere coincidence – God likes to bugger me.
Ron Burrage who played the Hitchcock “double” in 2009’s “Double Take” would have been inspired casting.
He certainly looks more like Hitch than Hopkins, and there wouldn’t be the distraction of Hopkins’ “all-of-his-previous-roles-until-now” baggage.
Just saying.
But I’m impressed that the filmmakers turned this around so quickly. According to IMDB, production only started in mid-April of this year.
I love this kind of movie, though–and “Psycho” is one of my all-time faves–so I’m definitely in.
Timothy Spall woulda been perfect–wouldn’t even need padding!
So what did Ira say that was deleted? Oops, never mind…