A request for MR Roderick Usher

[Roderick Usher]

Originally posted by bwind22
Sweet! I'm sure having known actors interested in your stuff makes the studios take a closer look too.

No Playboy parties though?

No playboy mansion...yet.

Actually the role Vinessa wants is in a movie I already sold and is going into production in Missouri (it's a tax rebate thing) the first week of dec.



Vod
Glad to hear it, man. This is usually my most productive time of year as well. I say usually, becasue I'm bone-dry right now. I've got bupkiss.



Anyone who wants a laugh can check out Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep this sat on SciFI. I wrote the first two drafts (it was originally a modern-day Scilla and Charibdis tale) and then passed the work off to a friend, who was subsequently replaced by another writer. It's directed by Tibor Tackas (THE GATE) so I'll be watching to see if there's ANYTHING left from my original.

[Vodstok]

Originally posted by Roderick Usher

Anyone who wants a laugh can check out Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep this sat on SciFI. I wrote the first two drafts (it was orogially a modern-day Scilla and Charibdis tale) and then passed the work off to a friend, who was subsequently replaced by another writer. It's directed by Tibor Tackas (THE GATE) so I'll be watching to see if there's ANYTHING left from my original.

I have been keeping my eye out for this since you first mentioned it :) I think we are sending Bree to a nice weekend getaway tomorrow night (she needs a break from me and the baby BIG TIME) so i should have the tv to myself :)

BTW.... did you comeup with the title? :)

[Roderick Usher]

nope - the title when I was attached was
"untitled giant squid project"

but I was pushing for "Sucker"

[bwind22]

Ill DVR it and check it out.

[Vodstok]

Originally posted by Roderick Usher
nope - the title when I was attached was
"untitled giant squid project"

but I was pushing for "Sucker"

That would have been great :D



either way, it would have to be better than Peter Becnhly's "The Beast".

God i couldnt stand that man... a marine biologist that waited almost 30 years to say "oops, maybe it was a bad idea to write a book and a movie that would actually INCREASE the number of people and sharks getting killed in the world." Dick...


I love the one word titles by the way... "Justice", "Bearwood", "The Safe" (technically 2, but....)

I actually named "Father Dillon's Funeral" because i wanted something wordy for a title for a change :D

[urgeok]

Originally posted by Vodstok
That would have been great :D
God i couldnt stand that man... a marine biologist that waited almost 30 years to say "oops, maybe it was a bad idea to write a book and a movie that would actually INCREASE the number of people and sharks getting killed in the world." Dick...

in all fairness - i doubt very much he knew the impact that writing that book would have...

[Vodstok]

Originally posted by urgeok
in all fairness - i doubt very much he knew the impact that writing that book would have...

I think my biggest problem was his attitude about it. He was pretty much "So what?' about it until a little before he died. if he had just been an author, i wouldnt have cared (i dont blame speilberg for the movie), but as a scientist, there is a certain obligation there. it would be like a doctor making a completely untrue story about a disease people commonly fear and then shrugging when i causes a panic...



It's kind of liek what Happened to Steve Irwin. Whithin a week, some dumbasses were out killing stingrays out of "revenge" :rolleyes:

Human nature is hardly that unpredictable.

[urgeok]

Originally posted by Vodstok

It's kind of liek what Happened to Steve Irwin. Whithin a week, some dumbasses were out killing stingrays out of "revenge" :rolleyes:

have you seen the little joke gif.s circulating now of him swimmingmadly from a stingray...


human behavior is VERY predictable these days

[Vodstok]

Exactly. it's probably a big reason why horror is so popular. how many horror movies deal with undeserving people having something terrible happnening to them? So much of it is assholes and sluts getting their just-deserves; basically bad things happnening to bad people. It's getting increasingly rare that the stories involve people just minding their own business and getting blindsided by something awful. i think that was part of wht i liked about Wrong Turn and the new THHE, non eo fthe characters were really out looking for trouble, or had that appaling of personalities, so it really sucked for them when they died.

So far out of the stories i have published on my site, only Justice has an asshole getting somethign bad sderved to him, and even then, the good guy suffers too. (pats self on back)

[bwind22]

Originally posted by Vodstok
Exactly. it's probably a big reason why horror is so popular. how many horror movies deal with undeserving people having something terrible happnening to them? So much of it is assholes and sluts getting their just-deserves; basically bad things happnening to bad people. It's getting increasingly rare that the stories involve people just minding their own business and getting blindsided by something awful. i think that was part of wht i liked about Wrong Turn and the new THHE, non eo fthe characters were really out looking for trouble, or had that appaling of personalities, so it really sucked for them when they died.

So far out of the stories i have published on my site, only Justice has an asshole getting somethign bad sderved to him, and even then, the good guy suffers too. (pats self on back)

I liked Wrong Turn a lot too. I think I liked it because the characters seemed like regular people (Kinda like you said), but I also like that they pretty acted like normal people and didn't really do anything where you are like... "Well, why the hell would you go in there?" They reacted to their really shitty situation in much the same way I think just about anybody would.