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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
i can never unsee this so, thanks a lot
Yeah, this looks truly repulsive, but I’ve got a hunch it’s gonna bank some major bucks over the holidays.
P.S.= Am I the only one who can’t stomach James Corden?
No Movieman, I loathe him too. Which was why I was surprised I enjoyed Peter Rabbit. Maybe because I didn’t have to endure his fat smug face?
Glad someone else loathes Corden as much as I do, Pete, lol.
On the bright side, at least Meryl Streep isn’t playing the Judi Dench role.
Utterly awful. Just the hardest possible pass.
I am in. God help me.
I don’t think it will be good in a real movie way. But Hopper is going to bring his tinkerbell Kings Speech sincerity and his Les Misarable ambition and deliver a Greatest Showman guilty pleasure. This is very much Mamma Mia which is a horrible movie by all benchmarks except it is watchable and puts a smile on your face (unlike the Producers musical which was like watching a fish die on a hot sidewalk).
Though I am with everyone on Corden, yeech. He suffers from Billy Crystal syndrome where he seems to be his own biggest fan and thinks everything he does is adorable.
It’s set to open opposite the new “Star Wars” movie.
Gotta feeling Universal will reconsider that date and move it to Xmas Day when all musicals are supposed to open, lol.
Plenty of audience especially with a smaller Christmas day slate. Good on someone actually challenging Disney, especially since the last two SW openings showed some kinks in the armor. The rest of the industry has ceded too much space to them for much too long.
I’m not going to call myself a James Corden fan, but I did think he was legitimately great in Into The Woods; had great comic timing/chemistry with Emily Blunt, and also gave the film a fair share of its heart.
Of course, this is before he had his talk show and became overexposed and really started annoying everyone.
As for the Cats trailer, the less said the better. If there was a god, this would kill Hooper’s career.
I didn’t mind Corden in “Woods” (and actually thought he showed a lot of promise in that Miramax movie where he was a British “American Idol”-style contestant: blanking on its name).
But since “Carpool Karaoke” and his late night chatshow, Corden has become downright insufferable. One of the most cringe-inducing human beings on the planet.
Please.
Let his 15 minutes be up ASAP.
Hcat: I agree that Disney needs to be taken down a few pegs.
If they keep it up, they’ll own every major studio left in Hollywood (Paramount, Universal, Sony, etc.) before Trump is out of office.
We must all be missing something with Cats. I mean, the trailer came out so confidently…”you will believe” in what exactly? That Cats have human anatomy?
But somehow, as weird and distasteful this thing is, I feel like it will make money (kinda like how the stage musical was weird and distasteful and yet still ran on Broadway forever).
does not a single person involved in the ‘cats’ production have functioning eyeballs to point out the super weird and creepy uncanny valley of composited humanoid cats?
We’re in hell. J-Hud is finally in another musical and it’s Cats! :/