Quick clips for Thursday August 7
I'm looking forward to this movie-to-TV adaptation...wait, what?!
For every MASH, which transitioned to the small screen so well my in-laws still won't quit watching the damn thing, there is a Blade, which was so wretched Wesley Snipes wouldn't watch it and Wesley Snipes has whatever the inverse of taste is. So, color me surprised by my excitement for Variety's announcement that AMC is turning Francis Ford Coppola's brilliant (and freaking totally underrated...how a Coppola movie is underrated I'll never understand) The Conversation into a TV show. Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects) and Erik Jendresen ("Band of Brothers") have been hired to write the show, which will follow electronic surveillance expert Harry Caul. In the movie version, Caul was played by Gene Hackman, who more-or-less reprised the role in the most entertaining of Will Smith's stupid films, Enemy of the State. So long as they play up the paranoia and don't turn this into one of those awful serialized "CSI," "Cold Case," "Criminal Minds," "Law and Order," crime-of-the-week circle jerks, this should be vastly entertaining. Then again, I'm told that AMC's current series "Mad Men" is incredible, and I haven't watched that once. I also never watched "The Wire." I also sometimes wear a mud mask. Sorry, I felt like I was on a confession roll.
Hey, let's stick to insanely casting one nowhere-near-production movie at a time
If this keeps up, I'm going to have to change this into a Tarantino-only blog, and my only visitors will be foot fetishists and guys who thought Grindhouse was a drama. Still, when I hear about oddball casting, I just get all tingly-woo. It's my weakness, which is far better than my cousin's weakness (Laffy Taffy jokes). Anyway, The Hollywood Reporter is...reporting (dammit...one day THR, one day) that BJ Novak, who plays coke-head Ryan on "The Office" (and produces and writes that show), is going to star as one of the soldiers in Inglorious Bastards, the best movie that will likely never, ever be made or finished. This casting goes with the rumors of Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio that have already been circulating. While this does smack of the strange against-type performances that Taratino loves, the script for the film has been circulating around Hollywood looking for a home...which isn't usually when casting decisions get made. Plus, rumor has it the response to the script has been a mix of confusion and laughter (then again, try to envision Kill Bill based on script alone). All I'm saying is, if you're going to cast someone from "The Office," cast Jenna Fischer as "girl who stands there" and I'll be happy.
The single best Bond song ever
Remember how much I lamented the Alicia Keys/Jack White soon-to-be-abomination for 007's return in Quantum of Solace, a title which makes Octopussy seem normal? Well, here's the track I'm backing, which was created by a guy named Joe Cornish (who has a TV show in the UK and is rumored to have a hand in Edgar Wright's upcoming Ant Man adaptation...which is based on the Marvel comic...oh, and Edgar Wright is the guy who did Shaun of the Dead with Simon Pegg...who is playing Scottie in the new Star Trek...which is being directed by JJ Abrams...who created "Lost"...you know, I could do this all day). I'm just saying, there's no way that anything could top this, outside of my long-awaited Tiny Tim/Lupe Fiasco dream duo.
For every MASH, which transitioned to the small screen so well my in-laws still won't quit watching the damn thing, there is a Blade, which was so wretched Wesley Snipes wouldn't watch it and Wesley Snipes has whatever the inverse of taste is. So, color me surprised by my excitement for Variety's announcement that AMC is turning Francis Ford Coppola's brilliant (and freaking totally underrated...how a Coppola movie is underrated I'll never understand) The Conversation into a TV show. Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects) and Erik Jendresen ("Band of Brothers") have been hired to write the show, which will follow electronic surveillance expert Harry Caul. In the movie version, Caul was played by Gene Hackman, who more-or-less reprised the role in the most entertaining of Will Smith's stupid films, Enemy of the State. So long as they play up the paranoia and don't turn this into one of those awful serialized "CSI," "Cold Case," "Criminal Minds," "Law and Order," crime-of-the-week circle jerks, this should be vastly entertaining. Then again, I'm told that AMC's current series "Mad Men" is incredible, and I haven't watched that once. I also never watched "The Wire." I also sometimes wear a mud mask. Sorry, I felt like I was on a confession roll.
Hey, let's stick to insanely casting one nowhere-near-production movie at a time
If this keeps up, I'm going to have to change this into a Tarantino-only blog, and my only visitors will be foot fetishists and guys who thought Grindhouse was a drama. Still, when I hear about oddball casting, I just get all tingly-woo. It's my weakness, which is far better than my cousin's weakness (Laffy Taffy jokes). Anyway, The Hollywood Reporter is...reporting (dammit...one day THR, one day) that BJ Novak, who plays coke-head Ryan on "The Office" (and produces and writes that show), is going to star as one of the soldiers in Inglorious Bastards, the best movie that will likely never, ever be made or finished. This casting goes with the rumors of Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio that have already been circulating. While this does smack of the strange against-type performances that Taratino loves, the script for the film has been circulating around Hollywood looking for a home...which isn't usually when casting decisions get made. Plus, rumor has it the response to the script has been a mix of confusion and laughter (then again, try to envision Kill Bill based on script alone). All I'm saying is, if you're going to cast someone from "The Office," cast Jenna Fischer as "girl who stands there" and I'll be happy.
The single best Bond song ever
Remember how much I lamented the Alicia Keys/Jack White soon-to-be-abomination for 007's return in Quantum of Solace, a title which makes Octopussy seem normal? Well, here's the track I'm backing, which was created by a guy named Joe Cornish (who has a TV show in the UK and is rumored to have a hand in Edgar Wright's upcoming Ant Man adaptation...which is based on the Marvel comic...oh, and Edgar Wright is the guy who did Shaun of the Dead with Simon Pegg...who is playing Scottie in the new Star Trek...which is being directed by JJ Abrams...who created "Lost"...you know, I could do this all day). I'm just saying, there's no way that anything could top this, outside of my long-awaited Tiny Tim/Lupe Fiasco dream duo.
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