Comments | meresy: Ow, my soul...

meresy

Ow, my soul...

Aug 27, 2008 11:16

The third part of Ash Carter's Bruce McD interview is up.

Bruce, I love you, I really do. But, really.

REALLY?

( The part that now makes me afeard )

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meresy August 27 2008, 15:31:05 UTC

Yes! I endorse this plan.

Bruce! Let us do it. You can have a dozen screenwriters for free, here!

I'm hoping it will be... less what it sounds like and more Tracey Fragments? If he can cast Ellen it might be okay.

Mostly I'm afraid. *whimpers and clings to you*

hyzenthlay26 August 27 2008, 15:31:46 UTC

Hee. Aw, it's OK, Meres. It could be like a Juno type thing...Ellen Page can play Joe's daughter and Katharine Isabelle (or someone equally bitchy) can play Billie and they can be snarky and awful and a total repeat of Joe and Billiam growing up? Hugh and Callum only need to show up on screen for like two minutes total (and draw a paycheck) and it won't be too TRAUMATIC, right? *dons tinhat*

meresy August 27 2008, 15:38:26 UTC

*clings*

It might not be so bad? But it might also be really, really BAD, hyz. I just. I don't want them to roooooooooon it. D:

bohemian__storm August 27 2008, 15:40:39 UTC

...

I have nothing to say to that.

meresy August 27 2008, 15:41:54 UTC

*cries*

mrs_laugh_track August 27 2008, 15:52:58 UTC

See I have a different feeling on all this.

But we want the scripts and the projects to be great, and we’ve spent a lot of time knocking ideas around. So they won’t be Hard Core Logo, but there may be this little tracer of continuity. Just something to sort of amuse ourselves.

That's totally a good thing to me. Because like if it were trying too hard to connect then they would be more of a danger to damaging the original movie. But instead it's just going to be a great movie about a hot awesome girl band with a nod to HCL. Right on I say. Right on. Because really HCL was something special and trying to hard to recapture it would be so difficult but paying tribute to it by letting it touch what is clearly a separate movie is really cool to me.

(Er, of course these thoughts are possibly colored by the fact that in my head the movie is going to be kind of like my HCL cheerleader AU even though it probably wont be at all.)

brynnmck August 27 2008, 16:41:18 UTC

YES. That's how I interpreted that, as well (well, except for the cheerleader AU part ♥). The more they can keep this a passing-reference, inside-joke kinda thing, the better, I think.

Because really HCL was something special and trying to hard to recapture it would be so difficult but paying tribute to it by letting it touch what is clearly a separate movie is really cool to me.

Beautiful. Yes.

meresy August 27 2008, 16:45:19 UTC

The more they can keep this a passing-reference, inside-joke kinda thing, the better, I think.

The better I can ignore it if it becomes as camp as I fear.

Fact about Meres: I hate camp kind of a lot. I like the the orginal HCL far better when I forget it was ever trying to be comedy.

I just don't trust in their subtlety, at the moment. /m\

brynnmck August 27 2008, 16:55:57 UTC

The weird thing to me about all of this is that, after having heard them all talk about it, it's clear to me that they all understand what HCL was about, and what made it so compelling. (I think that's one huge way that shows and franchises go wrong: they don't understand what they've got. I don't think that's the issue here.) And they also understand that it's important to people, and that it's been pretty enduring in a business with a really short memory. So... that gives me a weird sort of hope, I guess. Though I will admit that Hard Core Solo sounds highly, highly dubious. (Sorry, Hugh. I love Joe, but a whole movie about him and Bucky and Bruce? WHAT?) And that, much as I love Bruce, he is generally not so much with the subtle. So... I could see it going either way ( ... )

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fillionaire August 27 2008, 16:08:02 UTC

I don't think it's possible for them to make the sequel that would make us all happy...the way it ended and too much time has passed. Just hopin that what they do come up with will not ruin HCL the original for me. Not that it's possible. I still love 'Highlander'.

meresy August 27 2008, 16:52:43 UTC

Yeah, but I just really, really, REALLY... don't want a comedy, I think. Black humour works, but I don't know that I trust, judging from this press, that they'll deliver any subtlety. I'd hate for the "franchise" to become similar in tone to that idiotic road movie so popular among the frat set, you know? /m\

Maybe we'll be pleasantly surprised.

malnpudl August 27 2008, 17:58:02 UTC

Don't trust the press. Ever.

Look at Bruce's catalog of work. He's never made a straight comedy. He's made quirky and freaky and surreal and gently weird and in-your-face warped and all sorts of other things, but he's never made camp or simple comedy. I don't think he has it in him.

At least that's the horse I'm betting on.

meresy August 28 2008, 17:07:45 UTC

It's his quotes I'm reading. Context is everything, of course, and writers can skew things but... maybe it's just Bruce's usual lassez-faire that's putting me off. I mean, he never struck me as a guy with some great ambition for fame before, so this stuff about money-making is highly dubious. He's joking. I think.

Maybe underneath he takes this as seriously as we do. :P It's just that... "bringing Joe Dick back in a clever way" really, REALLY dilutes the power of the original ending, you know? I'm not sure there's any way I can be totally sold on that.

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