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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” ā 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 ā 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 ā he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” ā and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging ā I was with her at that moment ā 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 namedā” “Yeah, sure ā 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 Iām on the phone with you now, after all thatās 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 didnāt seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. Thereās not a case of that. He wasnāt using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had ā if that were what the accusation involved ā 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. Iām not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, āYou know, itās not this, itās thatā? Because ā let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. TimesĀ piece, thatās what it lacked. Thatās 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
Outside of the political nonsense, we live in a world, where WARNER BROTHERS MADE A FUCKING HARRY POTTER MOVIE, WITHOUT HARRY POTTER! They also announced, that this series is getting four more damn movies, which had to leave people wondering why they should see this one. Seeing as, we all know, THE REAL STORY OF THESE MOVIES STARTS IN THE DAMN SEQUEL!
We really live in a world, where they spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a movie, that is fucking inconsequential to the OTHER FOUR MOVIES THEY WANT TO MAKE! This film, the DC films, are just glaring examples as to why Warners, are ran by some amazingly incompetent execs. Who live, for international box office bailing them out.
Not a big Harry Potter fan, I think I just saw the first, the fifth and the last but was I was slobbering to see Fantastic Beasts. A new story that I didn’t feel left out from. I LOVED it, phenomenal filmmaking. Transported me to another world. The creatures were breathtaking. I cant believe how into it I was. Pure enjoyment. I’m hooked.
Anybody else shocked by those Nocturnal Animals numbers. $12,000 a screen for the weekend. $54,000 for Manchester by the Sea in 4? I expected much higher for both.
I had 7 people in my 10:30am showing of FB. Snuck into 1pm showing of Hacksaw Ridge (my 2nd time) and was surprised to have about 50 people in the theatre. HR is at the top of my list for this year (for now) and glad to see its still pulling people in.
Phenomenal filmmaking??? You should see more movies.
Great post Arisp. Feel like a good person now? Just had a good day at the movies and wanted to share. Thanks for being a prick.
“Outside of the political nonsense, we live in a world, where WARNER BROTHERS MADE A FUCKING HARRY POTTER MOVIE, WITHOUT HARRY POTTER! They also announced, that this series is getting four more damn movies, which had to leave people wondering why they should see this one. Seeing as, we all know, THE REAL STORY OF THESE MOVIES STARTS IN THE DAMN SEQUEL!
We really live in a world, where they spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a movie, that is fucking inconsequential to the OTHER FOUR MOVIES THEY WANT TO MAKE! This film, the DC films, are just glaring examples as to why Warners, are ran by some amazingly incompetent execs. Who live, for international box office bailing them out.”
JS, in the immortal words of Bill Murrary, “Lighten up Francis.”
Yeah there are MUCH bigger things to be upset about right now as I’m sure we would both agree….but what you just stated is just bizarre, let’s apply that logic elsewhere:
A LORD OF THE RINGS STORY…WITHOUT ARAGORN AND FRODO!
A STAND-ALONE STORY ABOUT MALEFICENT….WHERE SHE’S NOT A VILLAIN!
A MARVEL STORY SET IN SPACE….WITHOUT ANY AVENGERS!
A SPIDER-MAN REBOOT….WITH THE SAME ORIGIN STORY!
A JURASSIC PARK SEQUEL…..WITHOUT JEFF GOLDBLUM OR SAM NEIL!
A MINIONS MOVIE……WITHOUT GRU!
A DC-BASED FILM FEATURING HARLEY QUINN AND THE JOKER…..WITHOUT BATMAN!
What do all of these “crazy” concepts have in common? $700 million plus worldwide at the minimum and mad profits. And singling out Warner Bros for going to bizarre lengths of milking a brand is just silly when we still having waiting in the wings over the next several years:
– A young Han Solo movie that nobody was asking for
– An elderly Indiana Jones movie that nobody was asking for
– Another Toy Story sequel WITHOUT Woody and Buzz
– A “live action” adaptation of Beauty & the Beast featuring….unsettling CGI renderings of talking Anthropomorphic kitchen appliances
– A young John McClain movie that nobody was asking for
– A third Spider-man reboot that nobody was asking for…though this time, he’s in HIGH SCHOOL (again)
– Another Alien sequel/prequel WITHOUT Ripley
Hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent on ALL of the above projects, really no point losing sleep on ‘Fantastic Beasts. š
Sad to see Edge of Seventeen struggling. This was a bad weekend to release it. It deserves attention.
Geoff, did you miss the whole point of my post? Seems like you did.
Geoff, Warren Oates said that immortal line, not Bill Murray. Otherwise, carry on.
Shit you got me – I should have remembered that was Sargeant Hulka.
Am I the only one who doesn’t get the appeal of Eddie Redmayne?
His entire performance schtick is bobbing his head, fluttering his eyelashes and avoiding eye contact w/ fellow actors.
Redmayne is so terminally twee he makes Tommy Steele look like Tom Hardy.
I liked a lot about “Fantastic Beasts” (who knew Dan Fogler could be so charming?), but Redmayne annoyed the hell out of me. Too bad Daniel Radcliffe wasn’t interested in returning to the magical world of J.K. Rowling.
Yeah, no idea what STX was thinking with this SEVENTEEN release date. Poor Hailee Steinfeld…critically acclaimed music and a movie in the last year, and no one listens or watches. At least she has Taylor Swift squad status to cheer her up!
I’m with you, Movieman. Redmayne makes no impression on me. He’s annoying. He has one of the most manufactured Oscar wins ever, too, robbing Michael Keaton, IMHO mind you.
Redmayne gets on my nerves, too. His propensity to smile all the time is an acting affectation that doesn’t make sense to me. He was ridiculous in The Danish Girl. I feel Keaton was egregiously robbed of an Oscar for Birdman, too.
Re: Eddie Redmayne…if I didn’t know any better, I would think you guys were describing Hugh Grant’s acting “style” — no eye contact, constant nervous smiling, eye fluttering, etc
Yes, Lane. That does sound a bit like Hugh Grant, lol.
But Grant was always damn charming doing that schtick.
Redmayne? Not so much. (Not at all actually.)
And hell yes. Keaton was robbed in 2014. “Birdman” deserved to be HIS Oscar that year, not Tommy Steele Jr.’s.
“And hell yes. Keaton was robbed in 2014. āBirdmanā deserved to be HIS Oscar that year, not Tommy Steele Jr.ās.”
I would agree with that but there’s a slight chance that he could get his Oscar with The Founder this December – if THAT film wins Best Picture, that would create a very unique streak for him: being the star of three Best Picture winners in a row, has any other actor pulled off that feat? Last I remember, Russel Crowe starred in consecutive Best Picture winners for 2000 and 2001 with Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind…
And the Insider in 1999, so he did have three in a row.
Hopkins had three in a row with Lambs, Howards End and Remains of the Day
And though only supporting in two of the three the above mentioned Grant had Remains, Four Weddings and Sense and Sensibility.
and just reread and you said winners not nominees….