Posts tagged with actors
It kinda makes up for his casting of Chris Elliott.
Also: During the rigorous and problematic shoot, the cast and crew began calling the film by various derogatory names such as “Son Of Abyss”, “The Abuse” and “Life’s Abyss And Then You Dive”. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio reportedly suffered a physical and emotional breakdown because she was pushed so hard on the set, and Ed Harris had to pull over his car at one time while driving home, because he burst into spontaneous crying. (via)
Steve Martin used to work as a magician at Disneyland.
Seeing well-known, successful actors working jobs like these makes me happy.
What finally sparked the making of this movie (The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou) after 14 years of it staying in your head?
I wrote a little short story when I was in college. It wasn’t even a short story, it was like one paragraph that was just a description of this one character and Anjelica’s character and the ship, The Belafonte, and just the setting. So, I had that but I didn’t mean for it to be a movie. I was just trying to write a story and it never really got any further. It was actually Owen Wilson who kept bringing it up from time-to-time over the years and kept reminding me about it and got me into thinking about it some more. I remember one day on The Royal Tenenbaums seeing Anjelica and Bill Murray on the set together. All they had together was about 30 seconds but I felt there was a great rapport between the two of them that would be worth exploring.
a fruitful idea
i woke up this morning with an idea for the kind of blog that might score me a fat book deal. i made this image for my new site, it’s called pregnant-chicks-on-tv-pretending-they-isn’t-really-pregnant.com and it could make millions.
more here.
On January 22, 2001, Hunter S. Thompson sent the following expletive-filled fax to Holly Sorensen, then Production Executive at indie movie studio The Shooting Gallery. The furious written rant concerned the movie adaptation of Thompson’s novel, The Rum Diary, to which Sorensen’s studio had acquired the rights. Progress had been slow and confused on their part. So slow in fact that Thompson reached boiling point.
Note: The Shooting Gallery went bust later that year. The movie is still in production.
Transcript
HOLLY SORENSON / Shooting Gallery / Hollywood / Jan 22 ‘01
Dear Holly,
Okay, you lazy bitch, I’m getting tired of this waterhead fuckaround that you’re doing with The Rum Diary.
We are not even spinning our wheels aggresivly. It’s like the whole Project got turned over to Zombies who live in cardboard boxes under the Hollywood Freeway… I seem to be the only person who’s doing anything about getting this movie Made. I have rounded up Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Brad Pitt, Nick Nolte & a fine screenwriter from England, named Michael Thomas, who is a very smart boy & has so far been a pleasure to talk to & conspire with…
So there’s yr. fucking Script & all you have to do now is act like a Professional & Pay him. What the hell do you think Making a Movie is all about? Nobody needs to hear any more of that Gibberish about yr. New Mercedes & yr. Ski Trips & how Hopelessly Broke the Shooting Gallery is…. If you’re that fucking Poor you should get out of the Movie Business. It is no place for Amateurs & Dilletants who don’t want to do anything but “take lunch” & Waste serious people’s Time.
Fuck this. We have a good writer, we have the main parts casted & we have a very marketable movie that will not even be hard to make….
And all you are is a goddamn Bystander, making stupid suggestions & jabbering now & then like some half-bright Kid with No Money & No Energy & no focus except on yr. own tits…. I’m sick of hearing about Cuba & Japs & yr. Yo-yo partners who want to change the story because the violence makes them Queasy.
Shit on them. I’d much rather deal with a Live asshole than a Dead worm with No Light in his Eyes…. If you people don’t want to Do Anything with this movie, just cough up the Option & I’ll talk to someone else. The only thing You’re going to get by quitting and curling up in a Fetal position is relentless Grief and Embarrassment. And the one thing you won’t have is Fun…
Okay, That’s my Outburst for today. Let’s hope that it gets Somebody off the dime. And if you don’t Do Something QUICK you’re going to Destroy a very good idea. I’m in the mood to chop yr. fucking hands off.
R.S.V.P
(Signed)
HUNTER
cc:
Depp
Benecio
M. Thomas
Nolte
Shapiro
To add to the list of “look-a-likes” at my office, there is an animator at the studio who looks like Buster Keaton but taller and skinnier. Goddamn, what a hottie. Both the real Buster and Office Buster. He’s already very aware of their likeness—he keeps his Buster Keaton DVD collection on his desk.
We’re gonna be doin’ one thing and one thing only… killin’ Nazis.
Like father, like daughter…I try not to go the tabloid route, because I’d like to keep my nose out of the private lives of celebs, but this could not ignored. I hope my children want to make films or be involved in films somehow.
Everytime a production photo leaks from Tim Burton’s aborted Superman movie, a kitten dies.
Here’s what Nic Cage would have looked like as The Big Blue Boyscout.
Probably the most disturbing thing I will ever feature on this blog.
tarantinoesque:(via sarahbearkat : flickflickflicker)
“I didn’t do anything wonderful by doing his script. He did something wonderful by writing it.”
- Harvey Keitel, on his decision to produce the first film of an unknown video store clerk (1992)
