Lindsay Lohan: "Hot, Ready, and Legal!"

I'm never making a microbudget with any of you fart-through-silk 'artists', that's for sure, esp. not with my own money.

is it just me or did it just get real in here

Man, I worked on small budget movies where the line producer would have ordered me to persoanlly blow Soderbergh if they could just get him to talk to the DP for 15 minutes much less spend 72 hours of his valuable time to re-edit the friggin' movie...

I respect Shrader, though. He probably didn't take umbrage at an offer so much as felt that 72 hours wasn't enough time to 'fix' the movie and the condescending thing was to offer so little.

The director is Shrader. Sure if it's you or anyone else who's struggling to get their movie made they'd do it. But given who Shrader is, his work up to this point, the fact that even when he's desperate he's still Paul Shrader and he knows it and he wants HIS name on it even if it tanks, it makes sense that he would turn down Soderbergh. This isn't just any small-budget movie. It's Shrader's small-budget movie

Anyway, cool article. I love that he brought up 'The Misfits'. My gf's a huge Gable fan and she basically blames Monroe for killing him. The comparison between Lohan and Monroe and the implication that Deen is an old-fashioned studio-style pro was pretty interesting. I wonder what LiLo even knows about Gable apart from GWTW.

it makes sense that he would turn down Soderbergh.

Why did he screen it for him in the first place?

i assumed for a critical point of view

undoubtedly for his two cents, and yeah i think you're right that he was shutting down that specific scenario (in the article he talks about how he'd need 72 hours to even go through the footage) rather than any input whatsoever

how many directors screen their movie for other directors with the intent of 'please edit this for me'

also maybe steven soderbergh just wandered in all "hey i heard a veteran screwball is filming with porn stars, what up"

lol otm

shrader shone the soderbergh batsignal (ie cock and balls)

how many directors screen their movie for other directors with the intent of 'please edit this for me'

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, January 10, 2013 10:29 PM (42 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

didn't Terrence Malick toss around the new world and thin red line to a bunch of people cuz he hates editing?

haha really? tbf it is Malick so that's kinda exception that proves the rule territory :)

thin red line was like the longest thing i've ever seen

<3

yeah he hires a ton of editors but i don't see any evidence of him actually handing over the cut to anyone

I think the final cut of TTRL is Sean Penn's cut basically

the 5-6 hour version was the last one Malick really signed off on

he doesn't want you to engage with his work so much as take paid leave from your job to enjoy his films, lol

i heard penn helped but that malick was there before during and after for yay many months. he doesn't just toss the project over and say "fuck it"

(in the article he talks about how he'd need 72 hours to even go through the footage)

I misread that then. Yeah, Shrader's right that this would just be a delay and an additional minefield.

he doesn't just toss the project over and say "fuck it"

When you think of the hours, the sweat, the grit, the fights and the cajoling required to make a film, any film, no-one does this would doesn't essetially think that the movie is irredeemable.

ah ok he kept editing after Penn did his cut. Penn's description of it was a little self-serving I guess.

more i think about it, the more i bet soderbergh just wanted to copy all the lohan nude footage

imo jim caveziel got final cut on TTRL

surely the dinosaurs had some say in it

that nyt article is like the greatest gift i've ever received

I wasn't surprised LiLo and Schrader are broke, but what did Bret Easton Ellis do with all his money? (Never mind, I can guess.)

― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, January 10, 2013 2:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

i dont think it implies that schrader or ellis are broke, just that their careers have seen better days

the whole thing's just way too good to be true. it'd make an awesome movie, with schrader lohan et al playing themselves. i knew i was in for a treat when i got to this part:

At their second meeting, Lohan complained to Schrader about a biopic she was shooting for Lifetime, in which she played Elizabeth Taylor, one of her role models. She proclaimed the director a jerk, her co-star a nightmare and the crew unfriendly. On it went. Schrader listened for a while. He looked stricken. He softly tapped his balding head on the table. Lohan asked him what was the matter.

Pope, hoping to buck up morale, suggested raffling off two Samsung tablets used in the film. Schrader — whom the crew nicknamed the dyspeptic Lorax­ — wasn’t onboard.

They say Ellis's condo is underwater, but he's always been a guy into designer stuff. Costs a bunch.

as a guy who's been a huge schrader fan for a long time, i feel slightly terrible for him, but hes such a perfect comic figure in this

yea the dyspeptic lorax is not a nickname anyones ever been nicknamed irl

that was one of many moments where i was forced to contemplate how much of this i was willing to believe. i decided: all of it

be honest who itt would blow steven soderbergh tho

not it

Ha. Just remembered my friend from hs is playing 'David' in this movie!

He is not a porn star, however. Was shot on CSI and did Steak 'n Shake commercials

be honest who itt would blow steven soderbergh tho

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3olhdqaB01qedb29o1_500.gif

"C'mon ilx, you know you want it!"

someduderbergh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxShyePUF_I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVBgW1HYlcI

I loved this exchange:

Schrader mentioned that he was still trying to cast a psychiatrist, a small but pivotal role.

“I called Jeff Goldblum and Willem Dafoe. They’re not available. So, any ideas?”

Lohan squealed and said, “How about Jared?”

Schrader nodded approvingly.

“Jared Harris?”

“No, Jared Leto.”

― Solange and thanks for all the fish (Nicole), Friday, January 11, 2013 3:23 AM (18 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This bit was great yes... but the next line right after was:

Pope grimaced. (Schrader eventually cast Gus Van Sant.)

!!! Screw Soderbergh, Gus Van Sant should edit this obvs.

lol yes the Jareds thing was great. Also, Jared Harris came up in irl conversation earlier this morning and it made me think of this.

the part about the other actors being able to see her script with their names crossed out and other actors' names written in was also great

really want to just buy the film rights for the NYT story and make it into the next hilarious Emma Stone movie

Wouldn't put it past HBO to rush out a movie about the making of the Canyons a year after the Canyons came out

Burden Of Deen's

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