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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
No studio wanted to take this on?
Seriously??
Looks delightful, and any movie w/ Katherine Waterston, Riley Keough (bow) and Adam Driver is A O.K. in my book.
Not to mention it marks the “return” of Soderbergh.
Soderbergh has gone from self-financing to self-distributing, down to recruiting a key collaborator on the release of Magic Mike: “Soderbergh formed film distributor Fingerprint with Dan Fellman, former President of Domestic Distribution for Warner Bros., with Amazon providing strategic P&A financing to augment the marketing of Fingerprint’s theatrical releases “The deal with Amazon is the final, crucial piece of the puzzle,” says Soderbergh. “The scale of this endeavor required a fearless, flexible co-conspirator, and Amazon has shown they have the appetite and vision to help us navigate these semi-unchartered waters. I’m both relieved and excited, which is one of my favorite states of being.”
that looks great.. absolutely shitty title, but great trailer
Yeah. Like I mentioned in the box office thread, Executives need to fucking take chances again, and that they passed on this? Demonstrates, how the MSCU, has scared these people into stupid, stupid decisions.
What makes everyone think that the studios passed on this? I know they’re an easy whipping boy, but doesn’t seem logical.
What seems more likely is that Soderbergh is purposely bypassing them so that he and Channing (both of whom, I believe, funded the film — as they did Magic Mike) can have more control and a bigger slice of the pie.
Think about – what studio would ever let him do that Amazon deal? Soderbergh’s always been about disruption and innovation. This is simply the latest way to do it. After the back-end money he and Tatum made on MM (by Soderbergh’s account, he made more money on MM than anything else he’s done), he must be intrigued to see how much further he can push it. This way he has total control of distribution and marketing and an even bigger slice of the back end.
The best corollary would be Louis CK and his TV show, Horace and Pete. He funded it himself and now stands to make all the future money himself — seems to have worked out well for him, given him selling it exclusively to Hulu.
On LL, I’d bet that with the Amazon deal done, they’re already in the black (or near it) on production costs. After P & A costs are recouped, they’ll go right into profit.
Sure this isn’t a Coen Bros film?
i have a sphincter-factor 9.5 reaction to crappy put-on accents and there’s some clenching going on watching that
(charlotte motor speedway, charlotte’s north carolina — as is the coca cola 600 looked that up — so crappy NC accents? could swear some of them sound like bad texas, maybe they start out in texas)