The hype machine for TERMINATOR SALVATION (aka T4 aka Terminator 4) is kicking into high gear.
Wired has a whole bunch of articles on it, including a section from James Cameron where he reminisces on the production of original TERMINATOR movie. This quote jumped out at me:
“Casting Arnold Schwarzenegger as our Terminator, on the other hand, [...]
Over the past week, I’ve worked with three different people on three different projects. They have to deal with me, I have to deal with them.
Yep. That’s right. I used a picture of a cat. Moving on…
Most of the time it’s a smooth process. Cool ideas flow back and forth. Scripts and ideas get better. [...]
Over the last 3 days, I worked with a producer that wants to shoot Veal. So, three iterations later, we’re done. Wanna see what it looks like? Click on the VEAL link on the left side of the page. You can compare the first version to the final version.
M A R K
I wrote a new short. It’s called ‘V E A L.’
It’s a one location, 5 page short. Why? Well, I had one short, but at 15 pages and multiple locations, it isn’t in the sweet spot for the short market.
Plus, it’s one of those “betcha can’t do it” things. In 5 properly formatted pages (about [...]
There’s a song by Billy Joel called “Summer, Highland Falls.” A lot of people call it “Sadness or Euphoria.”
I can imagine the record exec: “Bill! WTF! Nobody has a freakin’ clue what the word euphoria means!” So they called it Summer, Highland Falls which is, like, a thousand times worse. But in that (brilliant brilliant [...]
Excellent post over on John August’s site: Notes on the state of the industry. An inciteful, yet quick read.