Proof of concept?
Unlike feeble excuses to keep Billie Piper's "acting" career going, fill vacant post-pub Friday night slots on Channel 4 with badly-researched YouTube fodder, or provide Meryl Streep with opportunities to literally ham it up, there is a place in mainstream media for material derived from Internet phenomena. Whether or not you think the forthcoming Facebook movie represents a cynically opportunistic stretching of thin material to breaking point, a key trick lies in smart casting.
astartesyriaca and I thought this example was almost too good to be true when we first heard about it, and - yes - the show may yet succumb to lily-livered CBS watering-down, and suck as a result. But in the meantime?
Yeah. That works. *G*
More here: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3ie935cc06a4035022666f553e0936ab6a and here: http://laughingsquid.com/?p=43619
astartesyriaca and I thought this example was almost too good to be true when we first heard about it, and - yes - the show may yet succumb to lily-livered CBS watering-down, and suck as a result. But in the meantime?
Click to viewYeah. That works. *G*
More here: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3ie935cc06a4035022666f553e0936ab6a and here: http://laughingsquid.com/?p=43619