Also, following a link, I find on Daily Beast:
According to Jones, at one point Bannon wanted to adapt William Shakespeare's brutal and bloody tragedy Titus Andronicus for the big screen. Jones says she pitched setting their adaptation "on the moon with creatures from outer space." Bannon was apparently so thoroughly taken by the prospect of intergalactic carnage that "that's what sold him on" her. (Bannon would later co-executive produce Titus, the 1999 thriller and Shakespeare adaptation starring Anthony Hopkins. This one had nothing to do with Jones and was not set in outer space.)
Annoys me since I always enjoyed that Titus.
IOTM even the idea of mashing up gang wars and Shakespeare would have constituted trend-following at the time, given Romeo and Juliet (1996), and presumably that wasn't a new idea either.
Hell, that's West Side Story. And it isn't Shakespeare
but we could also include The Warriors. It's not a bad frame, but in Bannon's hands, with non-white gangs? No thank you.
Right. Was thinking back for Shakespearean dialog I guess.
If you want to see Coriolanus updated to reflect contemporary tensions, without the racism, watch Ralph Fiennes's film of that name. It's really good.
Better thanits trailer. Those extras are actual Serbian soldiers, which lends the proceedings a certain...edge, shall we say.
I suppose a comparison between Bannon and a certain German failed painter is too obvious?
I watched about 10 minutes of the video yesterday, before I couldn't take any more.
You sorry ass gangsta who puts the vote before his own voice: know this: when two are up and none's superior, it's a who ride to the finish.[sic]
This must get made.
8 actually reads as though it was the product of a Markov chain process.
8 I hear Tommy Wiseau is available.
||How was your interview, Barry?|>
The recent Cymbeline movie makes the Britons into a biker gang. It's well acted and has some good stuff in it.
Overall I thought it went very well and much of it I thought I hit out of the park but one never knows. I can tell I was liked and they were impressed with a lot of what I have done and my presentation. There are always somethings one wishes one could have done better and I struggled with an answer for one question at a later stage interview with those who would be my colleagues (one of lie 8 or more interviews spread over 2 days) but that was late on the second day. And fortunately I made no fatal self-inflicted errors.
13 cont'd I have no idea of the applicant pool but I demonstrated ably that I am more than comfortable in the region, have a great deal of knowledge of it and I already have a network in place there to do the kind of collecting they want to do. I highly doubt they'll get anyone applying stateside with those qualities.
At first I thought you really liked Almereyda's Cymbeline. Congratulations on the good interview.
Arrakis, the planet known as Dune, is forever your place.
I know how to make the spice flow!
18: The sequel, God-Consultant of Dune, just wasn't as good. Congrats and I hope you get it.
But also I am going to break the 40 comment hijack rule to ask any LA commenters who may be reading where you would park your car near LA metro rail if you wanted to just leave it somewhere while you were around USC/downtown most of the day. I'm considering parking somewhere in Santa Monica and taking the Expo Line up. I'm driving down from the north and PCH seems better than freeway alternatives.
If you need to be at both USC and downtown, you might be better off driving to USC and taking the Red Line when you want to get downtown. Last time I was there (maybe two years ago?) there were metered lots on campus at a dollar an hour. There are public parking lots in Santa Monica, but the ones downtown are expensive.
23. I meant, "there are public parking lots in Santa Monica, but the ones in downtown Santa Monica, where the metro station is, are expensive."
It appears that parking doesn't fill up at the Metro lots on the Expo line - which surprises me given my experience with commuter lots - so I might just do that.
Incidentally, I could probably meet up with LA commenters tomorrow evening and probably should have planned ahead, but I didn't think I'd be going to LA on this trip.
Having now read the OP, I guess I'm surprised Bannon didn't go for action movies, maybe something like Coriolanus Force One.