Post by Rey Kahuka on Aug 19, 2020 18:29:13 GMT
Well thanks, much appreciated. Surprised and glad that someone cared to read my rambling digressions.
I missed it in the theater back when going to a theater was a thing that you could do, but Gilliam did finally make and release his Don Quixote film last year. As I understand it he totally reinvented the concept and it's entirely different than the movie he started to make in the documentary.
That doc is great though. It's a perfect document of how hectic and random a film production can be, and just how many things can conspire against a filmmaker in the midst of that.
I'd highly recommend the Dr. Moreau one. You definitely will not come away liking Val Kilmer any more than before... or John Frankenheimer. There are insane stories all over that one, and from everything I've read there are way more that didn't make the doc. I never knew that two actors refusing to come out of their trailers until the other one came out first was a real thing, but they apparently lost full shooting days to that nonsense. And this was Brando in his full insanity. Crazy stuff. Richard Stanley is a really interesting and bizarre figure, and he may have been able to wrangle all of this madness had he been allowed to do so. I'm glad that he has finally gotten a chance to direct again nearly 25 years later.
The Burton Superman doc is also worth a look. You may come awya with more questions than answers about what that movie would have been, but the personalities and the process of figuring the stuff out are highly entertaining.
Anyway, thanks for giving me the impotence to check out the backstory of Alien 3. I don't know that I ever actually saw the whole thing, and all I really knew about it was that Fincher had a terrible experience and has disowned it.
I'll be learning more about that in the near future now.