David Fincher To Direct Aaron Sorkin’s Steve Jobs Script
I never really like the combination of David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin on The Social Network. The pair seemed so different, an aloof auteur director and an energetic auteur writer. But people over 35 at the time really thought the movie was something special because it confirmed all their sad assumptions about Millennials, so the film earned over $220 million at the global box office. Well, it looks like the pair are going to have a chance to take on another tech legend. (Or should I say the tech legend?) Fincher is officially in talks to direct Aaron Sorkin’s Steve Jobs biopic for Sony. The script is said to focus on three long scenes taking place behind the scenes before Apple’s on-stage product launches. Hopefully this structure better lends itself to the meshing of the two styles. Unlike the folks in The...
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Sorkin Is Headed To Broadway And Hopefully He’ll Make It This Time
Now that Aaron Sorkin has The Newsroom all sorted out, it looks like he’ll finally be able to make time for Broadway. Sorkin let it slip that he was headed back to Broadway when in jest a Vanity Fair reporter asked him about writing dance sequences into his script. Here’s what he told Vanity Fair’s Hollywood Blog regarding dance sequences in his scripts: Well, I’m going to be doing a Broadway musical, and there will be plenty of extended dance sequences. Unfortunately when he was asked which musical he would be writing, he only had this to say: I’m going to tell you . . . just when we’re allowed to announce it. You’ll be the first to know. I can’t say anything else about it, though. So Sorkin will finally make his big flashy Broadway musical debut? It’s about...
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Does This Mean Sorkin Knows NEWSROOM Season 1 Sucked?
I’ve never made it past episode 5 of The Newsroom. The show always feel like a shallow liberal fantasy world, compared to the textured and nuanced liberal fantasy world of The West Wing, which I love dearly. And it seemed like every bit of writing was rehashed from another Sorkin show. Hey, even auteurs, including the rare auteur film/TV writer like Sorkin, fail sometimes. Now as we look to Season 2, Aaron Sorkin has opened up about the angst around the series, including a false start to the second season, to the Hollywood Reporter: For Sorkin, moving back and forth in the story via flashbacks proved a bigger challenge than he had anticipated. “I doubt HBO’s going to be happy with my telling you this, but I got off to a false start with season two,” he acknowledges, noting that only...
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Teaser: THE NEWSROOM Season 2
I hate The Newsroom. It’s the first time I’ve ever said that about anything Aaron Sorkin ever wrote. But this pretentious teaser trailer for the second season pretty much sums up the shallow, melodramatic and generally sexist nature of this liberal fantasy...
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BIG 6: WALKING DEAD producers talk, Michael Moore’s hate mail, more
Walking Dead producers talk Season 2, Frank Darabont’s departure and more Fans will still be pleased to know that the majority of the season was laid out by devoted fan Darabont before his abrupt exit from the show back in July. Darabont’s name remains in the opening credits as executive producer and Mazzara indicated that the credit would remain. Read the full HitFix post Michael Moore: I was the most hated man in America The hate mail after the Oscar speech was so voluminous, it almost seemed as if Hallmark had opened a new division where greeting card writers were assigned the task of penning odes to my passing. (“For a Special Motherfucker …” “Get Well Soon from Your Mysterious Car Accident!” “Here’s to a Happy Stroke!”) Read the full Guardian article An Interview with John Landis It’s a brave new world...
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MONEYBALL movie review
Moneyball (2011) — ***1/2 Moneyball isn’t your average sports film mostly because it can’t be. It is, after all, a film about two men who upend the traditional means for developing a baseball roster. The film daringly balances the usual sports film cliches with moments of existential drama. It focuses on management level problems but never forgets the players on the field. It’s cynical and romantic all at once. I can’t say I’ve ever seen a sports film quite like it. Any Given Sunday comes closest, but even Oliver Stone’s behind-the-scenes look at football fails to provide an emotional struggle like that of Billy Beane’s. Beane (Brad Pitt), a former top draft pick who failed to live up to the hype, is the general manager of the Oakland Athletics. After losing the major players from his 2001 playoff team...
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