The Only Living Boy In New York: A Bright Lights Big City Remake Fantasy Casting Picspam
Josh Schwartz is Remaking Bright Lights, Big City: A Fantasy Picspam
• Josh Schwartz will write and direct a new big-screen adaptation of Jay McInerney's 1984 novel "Bright Lights, Big City," which was already turned into a flick with Michael J. Fox. According to Variety, the story follows a magazine writer who uses drugs and alcohol to deal with a failed marriage and writer's block.
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The Cast
The Writer: James Franco as Jamie
The Party Boy: Emile Hirsch as Tad
The Model: Kelli Garner as Amanda
The Philosopher: Alia Shawkat as Vicky
The Look
Hipster-infested lower Manhattan. Lots of depth-of-focus shots and slow zooms. You know what I'm talking about.
The Sound
Kings of Leon: Manhattan
I like to dance all night, summons the day
But that's how I play, yeah that's how I play
I said who are you? Don't matter who you are
So we dance all night and dance all day
Conor Oberst: NYC-Gone Gone
Gone, gone from New York City
Where you gonna go with a head that empty
Gone, gone from New York City
Where you gonna go with a heart that dark
The Kills: What New York Used To Be
What easy used to be
What love used to be
What drugs used to be
What TV used to be
What music used to be
What luck used to be
What art used to be
What you used to be
Lady Gaga: Beautiful Dirty Rich
We got a redlight
Pornographic dance fight
Systematic, honey
But we got no money
Coconut Records: Minding My Own Business
You still look the same
I guess some things never change
But I don’t think it’s funny
You think that it’s funny baby
The drinks all taste the same
I say the drinks all taste the same
So you gotta get me home
And knock me on my feet again love
In Conclusion:
Please let this movie really happen. And please let it happen like this.
Love, me.