Wes's India film
The truth is that I'm not much interested in seeing The Fantastic Mr. Fox, a long-in-development animated film that's based on a Roald Dahl story that Wes Anderson is (or was) planning to direct for Sony, from a script he co-wrote with Noah Baumbach. What everyone wants to see is Wes's India movie, which I hear is written on paper and pretty damn good. (I don't know anything else except for the locale.) The reason I'm mentioning the India flick is because plans are apparently afoot to shoot it sooner rather than later, meaning later this year or in early '07. The India shoot appears (emphasis on the "a" word) to be scheduled to happen at the same time as Drillbit Taylor, a comedy that Stephen Brill (Little Nicky, Without a Paddle ) is going to direct for Paramount with Wes's longtime ally Owen Wilson starring and Judd Apatow producing. It's a bit of an either-or, art-vs.-commerce issue for Owen, who wants to do the India pic but likes the idea of Drillbit because it's a big friggin' payday. (Uhm, a guy who gets around just wrote in and said Drillbit Taylor "is a funny script...keep that in mind." But I'm sure he means "funny" in a low, crude Stephen Brill kind of way.)
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on July 9, 2006 at 5:21 PM
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Dixon Steele says ...
I hear they're trying to get Nic Cage for the India movie.
Posted by Dixon Steele at July 9, 2006 7:36 PM
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Harvey says ...
Anybody know anything at all about the India movie other than the fact that it somehow revolves around India?
Posted by Harvey at July 9, 2006 7:39 PM
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Alfred says ...
Actually, "Drillbit Taylor" is adapted from 70 pages or so of material from original creator John Hughes, who left it behind @ Paramount as a rough draft. Updated by Freaks & Geeks' Seth Rogen, this will 99% certainly be better than anything Brill has ever touched before. `bout time we got some genuine Hughesness injected into today's mediocre teen fare. (Keep in mind also that Bottle Rocket's Futureman was inspired by the Chet bully in Hughes' Weird Science.) Next summer D.T. may wind up a clever male version of Mean Girls, or a "My Bodyguard" w/ cruel wit.
Posted by Alfred at July 9, 2006 9:26 PM
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Anonymous says ...
Whenever I hear about Brill, I always think of his cameo in sex, lies, and videotape and the story Steven Soderbergh tells about it on the commentary. The closest thing to actual "art" I've seen in any Brill movie was the Blowup poster in Little Nickey.
Posted by Anonymous at July 9, 2006 9:31 PM
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Ewan says ...
Anjelica Huston was on the BBC's Jonathan Ross chatshow last week and said she might be in the India movie. She didn't say too much other than it was set aboard a train and that there would be lots of snow.
Posted by Ewan at July 10, 2006 2:52 AM
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Howie says ...
Sony put Fantastic Fox into turnaround. Plus, Nic Cage fell out of the India move. Looks like it is now Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, and Adrien Brody.
Posted by Howie at July 10, 2006 8:24 AM
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Jesse says ...
"Whenever I hear about Brill, I always think of his cameo in sex, lies, and videotape and the story Steven Soderbergh tells about it on the commentary."
Could you elaborate?
Posted by Jesse at July 10, 2006 10:56 AM
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Ju-osh says ...
A lil' mudslinging:
In the Spike Lee biography released earlier this year, Lee is quoted as saying that he has spoken to both Terrance Malick and Roman Polanski, and that they all plan NEVER to work with Adrien Brody again, as he is apparently an insufferably vain, pretentious, thinks-he's-much-smarter-than-he-actually-is type of person.
Posted by Ju-osh at July 10, 2006 2:01 PM
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Harvey says ...
Do yourself a favor, Jesse, get the "Sex Lies" disc and listen to the commentary with Soderbergh and Neil Labute. It's a great track.
Posted by Harvey at July 10, 2006 7:37 PM
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Kevin says ...
Owen Wilson said in a cnn.com interview that he will be in Wes Anderson's India film.
Posted by Kevin at July 17, 2006 3:16 PM
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Posted by outsider
at November 22, 2006 8:58 AM