Overstreet
Sep 9 2004, 12:05 PM
Peter T Chattaway
Sep 9 2004, 12:09 PM
This has to be some kind of sick joke.
Or did he find a nice comfortable upstart-young-uns groove for himself with School of Rock?
Clint M
Sep 9 2004, 03:38 PM
Maybe he likes doing this kind of film work? I appreciated the fact that while School of Rock was a pretty standard story, Linklater's touches made it a little more interesting.
Plus, maybe this is how he gets money/funding to do the films he really wants to do.
Edit: and then I read that the guys behind Bad Santa are behind this. Ick.
stef
Sep 9 2004, 04:09 PM
Having just seen School of Rock, i think the two deserve each other.
-s.
SZPT
Sep 9 2004, 05:10 PM
This is starting to remind me of John Hughes' career trajectory.
Peter T Chattaway
Sep 10 2004, 08:53 AM
SZPT wrote:
: This is starting to remind me of John Hughes' career trajectory.
Hmmm, I was thinking more John Sayles, except that where Sayles writes, Linklater directs.
SZPT
Sep 10 2004, 11:19 AM
Although Hughes is no Linklater, I do think that he showed real talent with movies like The Breakfast Club, She's Having a Baby, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, and (my personal fave) Some Kind of Wonderful.
Then he became involved in movies like Home Alone (& it's sequels), Baby's Day Out, and other sugar coated kid flicks with few that had any promise.
Linklater is now doing kid flicks, and I am starting to see a parallel.
Baal_T'shuvah
Oct 10 2004, 12:23 AM
I would have thought the staute of limitations on a lawsuit like this would have ran out years ago, but apparently not in New Mexico. Three former classmates of Richard Linklater's are filing suit for defamation of character because of their less than flattering portrayals in
Dazed and Confused.
Full story
here.
Baal_T'shuvah
Oct 25 2004, 08:23 PM
Greg Kinnear has reportedly joined The Bad News Bears cast...
| QUOTE (The Hollywood Reporter) |
Oct. 25, 2004
Kinnear at bat in 'Bears' redo
Greg Kinnear has signed on for "The Bad News Bears." He joins Billy Bob Thornton in the remake of the 1976 Walter Matthau starrer that Richard Linklater is directing for Paramount Pictures. "Bears" follows a group of Little League misfits who are transformed into winners. Glenn Ficcara and John Requa, the creative team behind Thornton's hit "Bad Santa," are penning the project. Geyer Kosinski and his Media Talent Group are producing. Kinnear most recently starred in "Godsend." His other credits include "Stuck on You," "Auto Focus" and the upcoming features "Robots" and "The Matador." He is repped by CAA. (Liza Foreman) |
I'm guessing as opposing team manager Roy Turner... or whatever their names will be in the remake.
Peter T Chattaway
Jul 20 2005, 11:49 PM
It's not often, in an ultra-mainstream Hollywood movie, that a character casually uses a phrase like "Mennonite anecdote". And the anecdote is one that I don't think I've ever heard before.
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