The Richard Lester / Donald Bartheleme Collaboration That Never Was

Every few years, I return to Steven Soderbergh’s Getting Away With It, a book that juxtaposes Soderbergh’s journals in the time just before he made Out of Sight with a series of conversations between Soderbergh and Richard Lester. (If Lester’s name doesn’t ring a bell, watch A Hard Day’s Night or The Knack…And How to Get It or, er, Superman 3, all of which he directed.)

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The Dream of Dystopia 1985 is Alive in a Back to the Future 2 DVD

The Detroit City Council hasn’t built a half-man/half-robot to patrol the streets (if there was, I’m sure it would be voiced by Clint Eastwood), we aren’t yet at a Road Warrior level of totally fucked with our fuel supplies, and New York isn’t one big maximum security prison like John Carpenter imagined*. We also don’t have hoverboards, something promised to us in one of the most overlooked dystopian films of its time, Back to the Future 2.

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Michael Chabon In Hollywood

It’s funny how things changes when you learn one of your favorite writers is behind a project you were initially skeptical of.  In this case it’s finding out about Michael Chabon’s involvement with the upcoming Disney film, John Carter, has made me quite curious after seeing commercials for the film and muttering an “Ehhhh…”  Chabon co-wrote the screenplay for the film, and coupled with his upcoming work with HBO, it would seem he’s finally getting on the right track when it comes to getting […]

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