BLADE RUNNER sequel being penned by clueless industry hack

To Travis Wright; KINDLY GO FUCK THYSELF. Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is pissed, just look at him.

So EAGLE EYE is #1 with a weekend gross that beat NIGHTS OF RODANTHE and LAKEVIEW TERRACE. Big fucking deal. That hardly qualifies as the credentials necessary to improve a timeless Sci Fi masterpiece (and if you don't plan on improving on it, than don't bother even fucking touching it).

Now here's me quoting I WATCH STUFF, quoting SLASH FILM:

It's apparently being done in association with Blade Runner co-executive producer Bud Yorkin but without prior studio approval. From [Slash]Film:

“I recently attended a Q&A session with one of the writers of ‘Eagle Eye’ after a free screening organized by the magazine Creative Screenwriting. During the Q&A, the writer said that he and whomever it was that helped him co-write the ‘Eagle Eye’ screenplay were in the process of writing a sequel to Blade Runner, and had already contacted the producers of the original, etc., etc.

Wright's co-writer John Glenn has already disavowed himself of the project, which is smart considering everyone will hate whoever does this. It feels like some stranger coming in and trying to re-marry your divorced parent, and then you find out that stranger is writing a screenplay for Blade Runner 2. "Sorry, Mom, but you're marrying an asshole."

I WATCH STUFF writer, I love you. Really, I do.

And I think that might have been my highest count of f-bombs in a post thus far. I really am that upset by this.

Update: Almodovar's Noir(ish) 'Broken Embraces'

According to Variety's coverage of the production, much the of the "shadowy look" of 'BROKEN EMBRACES' was "inspired by a series of migraines that rendered [Almodovar] ultra-sensitive to bright lights."

Thank you migraines.

Plastic Surgery Collides; Sparks Fly

Recently, Michael Jackson and Pamela Anderson have been out on a few "dates" and are apparently hitting it off.

WHAT THE FUCK???!!!

Read about it here from people who care a helluva lot more about this kind of bullshit than I do.

But while I'm at it, check out this computer generated pic of what Michael Jackson probably would have looked like at 50 if he hadn't completely fucking lost his mind and mutilated himself into some bizarre Audrey Hepburn/Liz Taylor freak-bot monster-thing that feeds on fetal stem-cells.

Almodovar to make Noir(ish) film. Blogger says "fuck yeah!"

Penelope Cruz, who earned an Oscar Nomination on her last outing with Almodovar ('VOLVER', 2006), is attached to the new project titled 'BROKEN EMBRACES' (or 'ABRAZOS ROTOS').

According to the Hollywood Reporter today, the film, which Almodovar also penned, will be "in the style of a hard-boiled, '50s American film noir." To which I say, HELL FUCKING YES!!

It'll be just like DOUBLE INDEMNITY (Billy Wilder, 1944), except Neff and Keyes will be openly gay and boning on screen, and Phyllis will probably turn out to be a tranny named Phil. And they're all addicted to heroin. AND, one of them is trying to get a Double Indemnity Clause out of an AIDS death. ...on a train, or something. EITHER WAY IT'S GAY! Oh, the drama.....



Seriously though, I'm stoked. The idea that Almodovar (a true master of melodrama, betrayal, twisted identity conflicts, and also a man with what I consider to be one of the greatest aesthetic touches of any living [and working] director,) is creating an American Noir influenced film gives me new-found reason to wish that I worked in film and not the soul-sucking television industry.