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BLIND ITEM
We here at The Whine Colored Sea are super well-connected with all the high-powered industry types. Or something. We've been sworn to secrecy about a potential project for one of our favorite filmmakers, so, uh, we'll have some fun keeping this one vague. Try to spot this one:
Which punch-drunk auteur got Focus Features to snap up the rights to David Grann's sprawling New Yorker piece "The Lost City of Z"*?
And in a completely unrelated note, I stumbled across an online version of an Esquire piece I never thought I'd see again. In December of 1999, the magazine asked various critics (and Martin Scorsese) "Which young filmmaker is The Next Scorsese?" The answers run from the obvious (Todd McCarthy picks, ahem, Paul Thomas Anderson) to the sad (Andrew Sarris opts for Kevin Smith). For the record, Martin Scorsese says The Next Martin Scorsese is Wes Anderson.
* I can't find an online link to the piece, but it appeared in the Sept. 19, 2005 edition of The New Yorker. Trust me when I say it's an unbelievable feat of writing/journalism. Grann synopsizes it thusly: "For centuries, adventurers have searched for evidence of a lost civilization in the Mato Grasso region of Brazil. Many of them have been swallowed up by the 'green hell' of the Amazonian rain forest--which has been described as 'the last great blank space in the world.'"
Smacks of Aguirre, Wrath of God Just a skosh.
Very interesting. I'm going to go scrounging around for a copy of that issue.
u brought Find Your Magali out of hiding!
It's one of the New Yorker's magazine-only features. One my friends is a subscriber, so I can get a copy from him.
I read another (http://www.gadling.com/entry/1234000717059133/) synpsis of the piece:
"...a lengthy (even by New Yorker standards) story by David Grann on the century-old effort to locate the British explorer Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, who disappeared in the Amazon jungle in 1925 with his son and a companion. I stayed up until late last night — after eating a plate of sausages and turning pages as quickly as I could with greasy fingers — to get to the end.
Grann himself ventures into the dense jungle to find out what happened to Fawcett, whose disappearance is one of the great unsolved mysteries of the century. It's a marvelous tale weaving together the history of Amazonian exploration, the story of Fawcett's likely demise and the current state of affairs in the Amazon, where rampant deforestation has utterly changed the state of the forest (certain areas explored by Fawcett that were once thick forest are now clear and smooth as a baby's bottom). Grann encounters several of the same tribes Fawcett met, one of whom may have killed him, and tells the story so well (it is the New Yorker, after all) that you'll immediately be tempted (as I was) to do a bunch of Fawcett research of your own."
I'll stay skeptical. It doesn't correlate with his filmography. It's an exciting idea though. For me, the good news is I am at a university that has a library with New Yorker's entire catalogue of magazines. I'll read it likely tomorrow.
yeah, this seems crazy. but no crazier than an adam sandler comedy did, or oil! did either. so if there is any truth to this then he seems really set on adapting SOMETHING. i'd kinda prefer if he only made 'original' movies instead of leaping off from other peoples stories, but we'll see.
hell just as long as hes making movies im good
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he'll just as long as hes making movie's im goo'd
hell just, as long as, hes making movies, im good
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Gonna go to the public library to check that out
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... uh, i mean h'ave m,ercy
This is how threads get to six pages before something else interesting happens.
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Stop that rhyming now, I mean it!
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sorry, what are the rules...
HEY, WASN'T I IN A MOVIE WITH....
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...i belive it was Demolition High, which was talked about in Magnolia, directed by PTA!!!! WooHoo, were back on track!!! Thread saved...
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Finally got around to reading the article this afternoon. It is indeed really good. It would make a great movie, too. It would definitely be very Herzog-ish, but I think an equally accurate precedent would be John Sayles' Men With Guns. Don't you hate it when you see people walk by outside your window at 4 in the morning but you're not sure if they're really there or not because you're so tired? It's creepy and annoying. I'm going to bed. Anyway, it's a great true story, although having read this and Oil!, the latter is clearly much more PTA-ish. And this thread is all based on conjecture anyway. Damn, there it went again, outside my window. Where's my samurai sword?
PTA has said many times that he won't direct something he didn't write, but he would gladly let other directors use his writing... and I don't think he is the kind of guy to go against something he has been so openly passionate about. Hence, all 4; written and directed by PTA.
This is the most likely reason he isn't slated to direct There Will Be Blood, and the reason he probably won't direct the Grann adaptation.
But you never know, maybe he made an "adaptation clause" in his personal doctrine....
By the way, Klaus Kinski is a MADMAN.... but i love him.
Well, I swore I wouldn't touch pussy-pink in my life...things change, you roll with flow...
Quote from: GhoulardiPTA has said many times that he won't direct something he didn't write, but he would gladly let other directors use his writing... and I don't think he is the kind of guy to go against something he has been so openly passionate about. Hence, all 4; written and directed by PTA.
This is the most likely reason he isn't slated to direct There Will Be Blood, and the reason he probably won't direct the Grann adaptation.
But you never know, maybe he made an "adaptation clause" in his personal doctrine....
By the way, Klaus Kinski is a MADMAN.... but i love him.
I think it was a vague comment before. Who knows whether he was open to the idea of adaptation then or not. I have to tend to believe he was considering he was serious about adapting the novel, "A Conspiracy of Paper" at the time. Whether this project or not, I think his next project will into adaptation of something once thought impossible before. Either "Oil" or this.
Actually, I'll bet money he does this project first. Less ambitious and it will let him get his feet with a new topic.
I wasn't talking about the adaptation of the novels, i was talking about him directing the adaptations. He has no problem with writing, it's his vision that he doesn't want to combine with someone elses (i.e. using something that he didn't write as camera fodder...totally not his style)
But as i said before, you never know...anything is possible, and thats a fact. Personally, i think it would be great if he directed Oil!, it reads like a story that he would have written had he been a little child back then.
Quote from: Ghoulardiit's his vision that he doesn't want to combine with someone elses
right, so that's why he has no problem associating his visual style with every director he's ever admired..
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You're confused... he clearly meant he wouldn't direct a SCREENPLAY written by another screenwriter. He's not talking about adaptation.
the last 8 posts made me actually laugh out loud
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At least you didn't write, "That made me lol"..
Quote from: MyxoQuote from: squintsthe last 8 posts made me actually laugh out loud
At least you didn't write, "That made me lol"..
lolz, whats wrong with saying that?