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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
Is Russell the only person allowed to use Led Zeppelin? He’s beginning to own them cinematically the way Scorsese has done with the Stones for the last few decades.
Bale sure likes acting up a shit storm in Russell movies, doesn’t he?
It’s like he’s making up for all those lost years of minimalist acting shackled behind the cowl of his Dark Knight costume.
I do love the whole groovy ’70s/”Boogie Night” vibe, though, and that’s a terrific cast for sure.
Count me in.
i couldn’t figure it out at first with the changing angles/shots (and i honestly don’t think i’ve ever seen it before) but Bale’s hilarious hairdo features a dual comb-over going BOTH DIRECTIONS, like from two parts – one on each side of his head – going towards each other over the top…how the hell does that work? that may be the funniest thing i’ve ever seen.
If this movie was directed by Andrew Stanton, the Led Zep would be a mannheim steamroller style bowdlerization.
Heavy Goodfellas type feeling. Amy Adams is bringing it. She’s making Sally Lawrence look kinda slow and bovine.
Syd Mead did design work in Elysium. You may remember his work from such movies as Blade Runner.
You better get in line and bring a notebook.
I’m sure this will be great, but the trailer doesn’t tell you much of anything, beyond…
1. Amy Adams is hot.
2. Jennifer Lawrence is hot.
3. Hair is important.
4. Adams and Bale go to a dry cleaners or something.
5. There’s crime and money and booze and guns and warrants and a sting caught on camera.
6. Led Zeppelin rocks.
I’d hate to hear the average viewer respond to the question “What’s it about?” after seeing this though.
tbunny: “Sally Lawrence”? Really? Jeez, how famous does an actor have to get? 🙂
It’s a teaser, Yancy, for a movie that doesn’t come out for more than four months. I’m sure the second and third trailers will sell the story beats.
I apologize. For some reason I thought her name was Sarah Lawrence then I thought Sally and obviously wasn’t thinking very clearly.
frontrunner.