And pitching him my vision for the movie. Marguerite Derricks: Hes just way ahead of his time. That was the foundational plot device: the ride-along with the actor, the staged shooting with the squibs. WebMovie star Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson) plans his next film with the help of ambitious porn actress Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and troubled policeman Roland And tie it back to Boxer Santaros. I need for it to have more socio-political weight behind the story, and I need to make this thing more ambitious. Cops are suppose to hold the line between chaos and civilized society. And he says, Hey, what size shoe do you wear? Kevin Arnold in his mid-30s, "The Wonder Years". So I had all those schematics. Dwayne has so many different kinds of movie stars inside of him. The lives of Police Officers working for the Los Angeles You know, the sun is coming up and youre driving on this huge tank. The first three chapters have two elements to them. Its difficult for me to just end it on that one statement. What happened with Southland Tales is a tale of caution as much as it is a tale of inspiration. And in all the years since, theyve become even more essential, because the graphic novels were our blueprint. I had a really great first AD named Mark Cotone, one of the best in the business. An American guerilla war waged, on one side, by family values-spouting conservatives with a sexual obsession for the surveillance state, and on the other by fractured leftist revolutionaries chopping off each others thumbs to steal a national election. isn't exactly omniscient -- he is often clueless about what is entering others people's brains. I've been on IMDb for quite sometime now, but have yet to feel compelled to write a comment. The movie follows an ensemble cast as they experience three days that lead to the end of existence. Oh, gosh, Ive written this apocalyptic conclusion to my L.A. crime caper. And we didnt have the rights to the song. The award-winning novel is her second; her first novel is The Necessary Hunger. Ill never forget it. Your character is in the movie.. Fifteen years laterafter the whirlwind, sometimes guerilla-style shoot; after the push for an ambitious transmedia launch that saw explanatory graphic-novel prequels shipped out to Cannes; after a reception at said festival that left Roger Ebert deafened by the boos; after the immortal line, Im a pimp. Zirnkilton is best known for providing the opening narration of all U.S. series in the Law & Order franchise.[6][7]. Ambitious but luckless, Chris navigates lower-middle-class life as the only black kid at school. Basically what happened was, when [Dwayne Johnsons character] Boxer goes onto the ship, he has his gun, and hes going to shoot himself, and then he shoots into the air and hits the helium in the blimp. So I was just begging. This guy is like Ralph Meeker. We were firing off massive weapons in Hermosa Beach, where a lot of very wealthy people live. You don't know anything about politics! Eliot poem The Hollow Men . The first three chapters are just as essential as the latter chapters, four through six. Yeah, sure man, sure!. We came back from Sundance really depressed, because we had no We were doing a false 2008. He said yes, right away. Producers were like, Okay, the first few nights at Cannes, at the parties, start handing out the books to journalists and film critics, give them copies of the book so they can start to see what were trying to do. And they tried! Richard Kelly: It really means that I should just work in television for the rest of my career. That was the last piece of footage that got rendered, I think. I think the visual effects team was like, Were going to do it. NBC announced that Southland had been renewed for a second season with an initial 13-episode order. Todd Berger: At the time I was really into bocce ball. So what is a narrator? No matter how many movies I direct, no matter how much television I create for the rest of my life, Southland Tales will always be my favorite. Theres a lot of really silly, nonsensical dialogue in the movie that kind of resonates. A spiritual predecessor to films likeJohn Dies at the EndandDetention, the movie goes completely off the rails from the opening scene onward, taking the audience along for the ride. If your movies are your children, you want your kid to have the best future. Zirnkilton was the narrator for TLC's Code Blue: New Orleans and the syndicated series Arrest & Trial. Ive always loved him. And he helped me deliver this movie. Marguerite Derricks: The end of the world. Another moment where youre like, Is this real? Lets put Hustler on the tank. I did the [decal for the] Hustler tank, and then I got to ride around on the beach on the tank all morning. I was like, Give me more, I want more SNL people. Todd Berger: I run into people who either say its the worst piece of shit theyve ever seen, or theyre like, Dude, its one of my favorite movies. And there doesnt seem to be a lot of in-between. So the [Doomsday Scenario Interface] was really just, lets try and cobble together some of the essential elements of these three graphic novels that are very essential to the story in my mind. And the movie has never gotten its chance to live and breathe in its full glory. Which then leads us to some deep form of existential dread. It was centered on a group of rejected, failed actor-comedians, because I was hanging out with a lot of comedy actors at the time. "Everyone always says the same shit at funerals," George states in the pilot. Ken Gates. Barring the iffy Netflix revival, this show famously didn't survive three seasons of murky ratings, partly because its format was novel when "Development" premiered in 2003. I remember us discussing it being like a nod to the classic MGM musicals that we were doing, because there was a classic look about the girls [in the All These Things That Ive Done sequence] all having that kind of Busby Berkeley look where they all had the same wigs and they all looked alike. There's a lot of backstory to cover on any given episode of "Wife Swap," the British import where families trade matriarchs for two weeks in hopes of well, who knows why they do it. The actings fun, the overall visual qualityis good outside of some awful 2005-era CGI, and the soundtrack is great. Ah, the dulcet tones of Laura Dern's spiritually awakened narrations on "Enlightened." We put up fliers and we put out through the art department, Any art students who know Adobe AfterEffects: Can you please help us with our visual effects in this movie? This is the biggest movie star in the world. It was the one thing that was crystal clear in my head, sitting across from him, watching him devour an entire bowl of broccoli. During his final term in the House of Representatives, Zirnkilton served in leadership as Assistant Minority Leader. Other names. Soon, the script incorporated a wide variety of ideas plucked from the ether of early 2000s political anxieties: An energy crisis being manipulated by a sinister wizard baron (Wallace Shawn) for his own dark ends. I would love to see it shine for another day. WebMost cops manage to stay sane despite the chaos all around them, but in their hearts they know, everyone has their breaking point. Your mom's a tough lady. I think he was nervous about doing that, but he went for it. This is well into 2007, and everyone was just, Were throwing good money after bad here. We had the most insane shooting days. And well see what happens. Your Narrator is an American content creator, social media, and YouTuber who is best known for his videos of narration while playing games such as Fortnite and Minecraft that he uploads to his YouTube channel titled Your Narrator. She may also, its revealed in the films accompanying graphic novels, be genuinely psychic. We tracked him down and cast him in the film based on that, because when I saw that footage, Im like, okay, [Richardsons character] Nana Mae Frost needs to witness that footage of projectile vomiting, it needs to make her physically sick, and that foreshadowing, thats the man whos going to come in and assassinate her. Throughout the series, real Los Angeles thoroughfares or sections are named (e.g. Priscilla Elliott: The first thing we did was set up all the research and the vision boards, finding references of all the tattoos, and what the different mechanisms might work and look like in the tanks. My aunt and uncle live in Abilene. Headlined by Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, and Sarah Armed with graphic novels, bootleg soundtracks, and a film that was only partially completedseveral key effects shots for its explosive climax were missingKelly took a long shot at submitting a 160-minute cut of Southland Tales to the Cannes Film Festival. A rookie and a seasoned no-nonsense cop are at the center of this police drama set in Los Angeles. You see the actor who ends up assassinating Miranda Richardsons character at the end of the film, the guy with the mohawk. Like, do you have permits to do this? Yeah, we have permits. In addition to the film itself, Kelly also pushed forward on plans to create three graphic novels to serve as a prequel to the movie. So kudos to him. Oh, today its the Jon Lovitz day. And I think we asked him to dye his hair blond. And I was like, No, I didnt know that. And then hes like, Yeah, youre in like four scenes and then Cheri Oteris going to murder you by running you over with her car while youre on off-road rollerblades. And Im like, Oh! And the AD looks to Richard across the room, and hes like, Richard, did you not tell Todd hes in the movie? And Richards like, Oh, right! They were talking about just taking the movie away from me and cutting it down to 90 minutes, with none of the pop songs that we had in the film. Youd have to ask Louis Lazzara, who is Dwaynes wonderful longtime makeup artist, who is very essential to this movie. All these tourists were walking by, like real people, and all the dancing nurses were coming in. The most well-known piece of fiction that employs second-person narration might be Jay McInerneys novel Bright Lights, Big City. Unlike other characters on the show, we share a deadly secret with the sympathetic serial killer. We know he'll be okay. It was obviously a challenge to get made, because it involved a gigantic cow that could speak with limited vocal dialog. [12][13] Zirnkilton narrated Ruby Ridge: Anatomy of a Tragedy on Investigation Discovery. In 2005, Dwayne Johnson was still simply, in most peoples minds, The Rock. Although hed starred in 2002s The Scorpion King, his most recent film, Doom, had been panned by critics, and he was still years away from attaining his now-secure planets biggest action star status. When they shot that, I was three blocks away, shooting the ATM being ripped out of the wall. He also worked on The Box, my third film. Voice actor. It was the best time. I was so excited for those guys. And I felt like I had momentum, that this needed to be a much more meaningful film, and not just about a bunch of out-of-work comedians trying to shake down a movie star. For someone so indecisive, no one reflects on her relationships or a day at work as eloquently as Meredith Grey. People are going to need that information, theyre going to need to know what happens in those books. And like, well, hopefully theyll be able to still follow chapters four through six. He both absorbs content, and is interested in things, and then also has a very strong personal vision. And then Shane was working on some of the news screens, because we had shot a lot of the KTLA news footage. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. And, of course, everything goes wrong. That only took maybe a few minutes to do, and that was it. Hes been Dwaynes makeup artist for years, on many movies, and he did all the tattoos, he did all the old age makeup on Kevin [Smith] and Beth Grant. Really, it's just an hour of drama that chugs along according to a motor-mouth dude who sets up scenes with bubbly commentary that carries a tinge of judgment. Richard Kelly: Believe it or not, it was a crazy idea that I had when I was working with Tony Scott on Domino. I was still working on the script, and Rick Yorn [the high-profile Hollywood manager whose clients include Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, and, notably, Justin Timberlake] had set up a meeting with Benicio del Toro, and he thought the project was really wild. It premiered on NBC, and according to them, the series takes a "raw and authentic look" at Los Angeles and the lives of the LAPD officers who police it. 1 Donnie Darko fan? And Id be like, Oh, thats fake. And you could just see them be crushed. So then I talk to my visual effects team: Can you have [the cars] have sex in this commercial? And we were all on the same wavelength, just trying to make this really bold statement, in light of everything that was happening in the world in 2005. Even fictitious addresses aren't within the range seen on the real street (e.g. There were a couple of second unit shots where I literally just could not be in two places at one time. And I think everyone just sort of looked at the graphic novel like, What is this?. The first draft was very much like an L.A. crime caper. Most cops manage to stay sane despite the chaos all around them, but in their hearts they know, everyone has their breaking point. But adult Chris makes no bones about being the butt of everyone's jokes, and the series is stronger for it. And I just kept building in layers of the story. Some of it was scripted, and then I left lots of room for improv, because this is a big improv movie. We need to see the nuclear attack happen so that the audience can be rattled by it and be emotionally traumatized by it at the beginning of the film, so theyll take the plunge into this bizarre alternate future. For those of us who revel in the weird pop-culture soup this came from, its one hell of a movie. Priscilla Elliott: I think the word that we always used to joke about was scope creep. Thats Richard: scope creep. Permalink: Southland cops know when the Santa Ana winds blow, you learn jus Added: February 02, 2011; 2/1/11. Advertisement: Roland Taverner, his (alleged) twin -- a racist cop -- is sitting unconscious in the main room, having been kidnapped and drugged by the Neo-Marxists. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Abilene was played by pop music superstar Justin Timberlake, in one of his first starring film roles. WebThe protagonist and narrator of Raymond Carvers Cathedral is a middle-aged unnamed man. [For Sarah,] doing the talk show just before, it let her work out the comedy chemistry with the other actresses. And theyre like, Okay, well No ones going to see this movie., Todd Berger: I remember being so excited. Richard Kelly: We had one day with Justin: One very, very, very long day, and I kept adding stuff with him, because he was so essential to the movie, and then we brought him back to do voiceover. And hell go and hell study it and execute it flawlessly. If that is in the realm of possibility, in this business that we work in. Just dont come near this movie. You won't be mistaken for Sherlock Holmes. Theres like three of us. It all started to sort of make sense as this big grand systemic narrative in my mind. And I pitched the idea of two BMWs having sexual intercourse. And we went to dinner and we talked about it and he walked me over to a video store. After the Cannes premiere, Kelly worked to finish, re-edit, and significantly shorten the filmincluding the addition of a lengthy exposition sequence dubbed the Doomsday Scenario Interface, which included much of the information, and several actual panels, from the graphic novels. She put so much time into rehearsal; she just wanted to be perfect. As it happened, Kelly was sitting on a self-penned script he thought might make for the ideal sophomore picture: A satirical tale that had begun life as a story about failed actors kidnapping a movie star, but which had been transformed by the directors own post-9/11 anxieties into something much more expansive, biblical, and strange. Richard Kelly: I dont think we even had to rent out the bar, because we knew the owners. Each viewing offers new insight, plus the chance to look for the many socio-political, literary, and musical Easter eggs Kelly in the film. Priscilla Elliott: I think the idea was to do something that was going to be commercial, was going to save his career on some level. This is well into 2007, where Im in preproduction on The Box. 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