Bits and bytes
Here's some news scoops to tide you over until the late Tuesday night update hits your photonic screen. I spent today surfing the Web for info and got lost. First I caught up on the TV shows I've been missing (thank you Yahoo! for your evil TV section), then lost an hour or so on a spiffy site devoted to Oz, a cool HBO show I've recently developed a taste for. But after that, it deteriorated into visiting web camera sites. So instead of updating the main pages, here's a sample of some news items that've crossed my desk. The big update hits the main film pages sometime tomorrow, after I feed my pet Chupacapra.
"I just read your Director's Cut for March 8 and I am curious about the Blade Runner Down script. Is it possible for you to send it to other people because I would love to read it? What do you say?"
Well, I can't say much because of those 75 or so guns aimed at my head if I did start handing out scripts, Bri. No shame in asking and I didn't mean to use you as an example, but this has been a commonly-asked question since Day One, and it's seemed to have grown in popularity in the last few months. I cannot, under copyright laws, distribute scripts. In fact, I may read some but then that's it, and the person/entity/hugely-powerful-force-that-could-squash-my-corporeal-form-like-a-bug nicely asks for the script back. If I receive permission from the writer of the script, and it's not been sold to someone else, then it can get posted on CA. But that hasn't happened yet, and I don't foresee it happening anytime soon.
Legally, studios and production companies are within their rights to sue you for unlawful distribution of their privately-owned work. Since a lot of people working in studios (including some very nice people in legal affairs, hope you enjoyed that cake I sent you, *wink wink*) read CA, putting up a hot new Universal Pictures or Twentieth Century Fox script would be kinda like jumping outta a plane without a parachute, expecting to land and pick up an espresso. But it's an often asked question, and until I get time to design an official CA FAQ, this'll have to suffice.
I've heard about places on the 'net that point to places where you can purchase scripts, or (cough) read a script online. As for what those places might be (cough) Psst!!, well, I -- Drew's Script-O-Rama! Tell 'em (cough!)Sprocket sent ya! (damn that cold!) -- I guess you can find out yourself. (Thanks Brian. For being my unlucky subject of focus, you'll get the new Star Wars, Episode One treatment. Please pick it up at my future prison address.)
Ok, back to the BRD feedback. Most of it was concerning the Jeter book, which I haven't read. Some, like 'gautum' felt that it was "...a very mediocre novel indeed," and said "Any script based on it could not possibly be worth even a tele-movie." (Even with Tori Spelling as Pris? I dunno, man...) Others thought my choice to hire Alex Proyas was all-off, like 'Los Gordos'. "I think David Fincher would be a better choice to direct BRD. After all he is one of the world's biggest fans of the film and modelled much of Seven after it's inspiration. Proyas is competent and has a decent imagination but as far as performances from the actors and a richness of detail and atmosphere I don't think Proyas can touch him with a ten foot pole. Fincher would do the film justice because he would know exactly what he was getting into and what would be required to enhance ad match the depth and quality of the the first film. Also, he's got big B.O. dollars under his belt the studio big wigs would be sure to take note of." One fellow who hands me some trustworthy material even has a website that talks a bit about his thoughts on a BR sequel. 'The Gline' invites you to visit this commentary about a proposed BR sequel.
But of the ones that has read the script, they were staunch supporters of it. "I agree with you for the most part," 'Dynamic_One' wrote in. "Never read the book but liked the script. But Ford's a busy guy, and with Ridley Scott interested in the sequel he might not come back." Another anonymous individual wrote "With the right director it could be great or it could be a car wreck." Yeah, but name a project that isn't like that?
Still, for me it's one of the best action specs I've read in a while.
"Rob Zombie is taking his original concept of a new dark ages and doing it as low budget independent feature for producers Ed Pressman and Jeff Most. The lack of immediate studio interest in the Crow version contributed to this change. Rob's film will now be totally original while more conventional Crow movies are being developed by Pressman and Most. New scripts are being created all around. This new reality should be seen as positive; Rob will have a chance to create something without the usual studio interference; new Crow films will be put into production without delay."
Cool. I'm still gunnin' for the Crow Cereal one day.
Now, the scooper was a tad unclear as to whether this actually ran in the paper yesterday, or if the interview was held yesterday. (Or, for that matter, if I'm being slimed...)
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