Month: September 2005

From today’s The Writer’s Almanac, a quote from director John Sayles on “his first screenwriting job on a horror movie called Piranha”:

“My whole job was to contrive a reason why people, once they hear there are piranhas in the river, don’t just stay out of the river but end up getting eaten. That’s basically what they paid me $10,000 for.”

There are worse ways to make a living.

Now that The Producers, a big-time popular musical based on an earlier film is going to have a new big-time film based on it, how long before we hear talk of a Spamalot movie? My guess is 2008.

As much as I enjoyed Spamalot and love almost all things Python, I hope saner heads will prevail and it won’t get made. Or, if not saner heads, then at least the group veto each member of the troupe reportedly can exercise if they’re not keen on a project.

And I fear that if this film of The Producers in turn inspires its own musical…well, then all is lost and the world will implode upon itself.

Time has a really neat interview with Joss Whedon and Neil Gaiman up:

JW: I find that when you read a script, or rewrite something, or look at something that’s been gone over, you can tell, like rings on a tree, by how bad it is, how long it’s been in development.

NG: Yes. It really is this thing of executives loving the smell of their own urine and urinating on things. And then more execs come in, and they urinate. And then the next round. By the end, they have this thing which just smells like pee, and nobody likes it.

JW: There’s really no better way to put it.

Found through Whedonesque.