Richard Kelly: When we took the film to Cannes in May of 2006, I had finished the first graphic novel and it was published, bound, and ready for distribution. And then an extortion attempt to try and get money out of this kind of crazed movie star, because these actors are very angry, and theyre just trying to do this as a way to lash out. The show first season centers on the experiences and interactions of patrol officers and detectives, and is more a character-driven drama than a police procedural. In addition, pop stars Justin Timberlake and Mandy Moore both have leading roles. They just thought it was two kids goofing around. Richard Kelly: Ive written a new script, and I think its really exciting. Spotted for six seasons of the popular CW drama: Gossip Girl dripping with antipathy. My cousin, Dee Austin Robertson, was helping me with a lot of the second unit surveillance video footage in the film. Ah, the dulcet tones of Laura Dern's spiritually awakened narrations on "Enlightened." Narrator Private Pilot Abilene (Justin Timberlake), is a soldier returned from Iraq with serious PTSD and a gnarly scar across his pretty face. That was one of the areas where the Hustler tank was born. Most cops manage to stay sane despite the chaos all around them, but in their hearts they know, everyone has their breaking point. One was named Chris Bayol, and then another art student named Shane Paugh. Scientists are saying the future is going to be far more futuristic than they originally predicted: Justin Timberlake, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Durrett, and Seann William Scott in Southland Tales, Im like, Wait a minute. We cast him based on his performance at the Hermosa Beach Ironman, where hes actually projectile vomiting in a mosh pit all over a bunch of other people. He was like, This sounds awesome. It was obviously a challenge to get made, because it involved a gigantic cow that could speak with limited vocal dialog. So we kept getting all this footage and it was working. Heres how you do the autofocus, heres how you record. During the three hours of the barbecue, we sent the kids out to capture footage. In 1994, when then-Congresswoman Olympia Snowe decided not to seek re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives for Maine's 2nd congressional district, Zirnkilton sought to replace her. One of the most challenging things aboutSouthland Talesis that it walks a fine line between self-awareness and pretention. So kudos to him. I had all the visual design concept art, I had designs for the MegaZeppelin that had been commissioned by the great concept artist Ron Cobb, who worked on so many great science fiction works. Southland Season 3 Episode 5. Soon, the script incorporated a wide variety of ideas plucked from the ether of early 2000s political anxieties: An energy crisis being manipulated by a sinister wizard baron (Wallace Shawn) for his own dark ends. Other names. Is America flirting with suicide? That only took maybe a few minutes to do, and that was it. We were doing a false 2008. I remember I had to get on the phone with this guy and play hardball negotiating that clip of the elephants fucking. Information and images about the show opening credits can be found clicking here. He was really hoping to get paid for this. It was just a blast to get to work with all of them, because theyre used to taking risks and doing wild, unhinged stuff in sketch comedy, and thats what I needed. It seems like it changes nothing but every once and awhile, you get to take a bad guy off the streets for good. I was still working on the script, and Rick Yorn [the high-profile Hollywood manager whose clients include Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, and, notably, Justin Timberlake] had set up a meeting with Benicio del Toro, and he thought the project was really wild. It had cognitive abilities, and it was this sort of mutant telepathic cow beast that had been engineered by this group of media technicians and scientists who come in to oversee the cows unveiling to the world. But [Lous] like, I can get that mold for you guys. And this tape of the states racially motivated shooting ends up getting released and causing civil unrest and a riot type situation as the Hindenburg explodes over downtown Los Angeles. Dwayne is very good at taking direction. And it became clear after the reception at Cannes that people were so confused, and that they saw that the movie was three chapters, but they were chapters four and five and six. So literally, the whole movie was hinging on this one musical number in my mind. You are also agreeing to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. "The original inspiration, I think, was the T.S. Release CalendarTop 250 MoviesMost Dude's suppose to made out of tires and they make him white. And if its a safe leap. We built this hobo camp and did all sorts of crazy shit, like we were fashioning meat skewers to look like rats so that they could have props that theyre cooking in the fire. He often responds to others in his head before uttering anything aloud. I think people just sort of shrugged, you know. WebFrothing at the mouth and snarling, Dolly begins to chase Buck, who flees in confused terror from her. Todd, youre in the movie. Priscilla Elliott: I mean, I know its kind of a mess, and I also dont really care? Richard Kelly: We had already shot some of the footage of the Ironman competition in Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach, all the beach stuff where you have all the people chugging beer and vomiting on each other. NBC executives disliked the character of Officer Dewey Dudek and wanted him to be killed off when the show was airing on NBC. The Our visual effects dollars were so stretched thin on more elaborate stuff that we could barely pull off. There's a lot of backstory to cover on any given episode of "Wife Swap," the British import where families trade matriarchs for two weeks in hopes of well, who knows why they do it. Oh no! Richard Kelly: And this is literally one week before principal photography was set to begin. [14][15] He also provided the voice-over for a Sky One advertisement for the channel's Law & Order airings. Hes done dozens of movies, huge blockbuster movieshe did Mulholland Drive for David Lynch. She speaks of love's boundaries and setting secrets free and "forever stumbling, forever wondering, forever young." Ultimately, I didnt think he was going to commit to the role, but it was cool getting to meet with him. Richard Kelly: In my mind, its a satirical response to the Bush era and 9/11 and the War On Terror. Narrator. Thats the universe that your movie exists in, the Kiss Me Deadly universe.. Jill had been in movies and TV before, but with Abby and Gianna, they had just been Groundlings. Even fictitious addresses aren't within the range seen on the real street (e.g. He just really loved what I did. To build one of those would have been way out of our budget, but we knew we wanted to at least try and build one with CGI. Most cops manage to stay sane despite the chaos all around them, You want to go ruin his day? But I kind of come back to 9/11. It was the best time. And I believe that cinema should be trying to approach things that matter, and not just be a superhero movie. Your Narrator is an American content creator, social media, and YouTuber who is best known for his videos of narration while playing games such as Fortnite and Minecraft that he uploads to his YouTube channel titled Your Narrator. That was the last piece of footage that got rendered, I think. Richard Kelly: So the instructions were: When Boxer emerges, hes very childlike and vulnerable, almost like a little boy lost, and then for the Jericho side of his personality, we looked at Ralph Meeker in Kiss Me Deadly. And were out there getting the fires set up in the homeless camps. Priscilla Elliott: We were doing the scene where they steal the ATM, and at the same time the blimp is going to get shot out of the sky. And then, right then, some kind of huge rocket from Palm Desert or some military base went up. You have to jump from location to location, and this is a movie with a lot of big, complicated, expensive locations, very public locations. Before anyone laid eyes on 12-year-old Kevin Arnold, we were greeted with the sound of his wise voice. A new government agency, US-IDent, controls and constantly monitors the American public. You see the actor who ends up assassinating Miranda Richardsons character at the end of the film, the guy with the mohawk. There was no breathing room to do it a second time. One of Southland Tales most memorable moments remains a car commercial for a fictional, alternative fuel source SUV, the Treer Saltair. But I will be working on this. And I just want a better future for Southland Tales. That was another little splinter photography thing, with the real news anchors of KTLA in Los Angeles doing their alternate history 2008 news stuff about the MegaZeppelin and US-IDENT. And everything Angela Chase feels is real: her crush on Jordan Catalano, her tension with her longtime friend Sharon, the prosaic pressures of high school. The people who financed the movie just did not understand it. I suppose my biggest concern is that one of my favorite shows (i.e. Kevin Arnold in his mid-30s, "The Wonder Years". He came back senior year and was telling us all these stories about how he worked on his cousins weird little movie. Theres a lot of really silly, nonsensical dialogue in the movie that kind of resonates. 2023 TV GUIDE, A FANDOM COMPANY. But those first three chapters are very real parts of the story. Can I bring you back to record some voiceover? And hes like, [Affects Justin Timberlake voice.] Search the world's largest fan wiki platform. Do you know the Michelin Man is white. And I think its its very cinematic, and it brings a whole new dimension to the movie. Vaughn Smallhouse and Fortunio Balducci and Dr. Soberin Exxall those character names are very referential to characters in Kiss Me Deadly, or actors who appeared in Kiss Me Deadly. I remember us discussing it being like a nod to the classic MGM musicals that we were doing, because there was a classic look about the girls [in the All These Things That Ive Done sequence] all having that kind of Busby Berkeley look where they all had the same wigs and they all looked alike. Which all stemmed from a meeting that I had with Benicio del Toro, maybe six months before I met with Dwayne. After the Cannes premiere, Kelly worked to finish, re-edit, and significantly shorten the filmincluding the addition of a lengthy exposition sequence dubbed the Doomsday Scenario Interface, which included much of the information, and several actual panels, from the graphic novels. Somehow, he always has a point. In Roger Eberts review of Southland Tales from 2007, the critic remembered being dazed, confused, bewildered, bored, affronted, and deafened by the boos during the premiere. But really, its for all the actors that showed up and did this for me, that showed up and took these risks. The lives of Police Officers working for the Los Angeles Police Department.The lives of Police Officers working for the Los Angeles Police Department.The lives of Police Officers working for the Los Angeles Police Department. The movie was a big statement in response to the anxiety that stemmed, and that continues to stem, from 9/11. It was really crazy, but it was just like a leap of faith, you know? Priscilla Elliott: We rented [the giant toilet in the neo-Marxist hideout]; it was from a music video. Kelly and his crew had 24 days, and $17.8 million, to shoot a star-studded, effects-heavy science fiction satire, much of it in public locations. We were just like, Were just going to shoot our comedy club show for this movie and were going to have cameras there. And I think we signed releases and stuff, but we had Cheri Oteri and a lot of the Groundling actors there, and we shot a neo-Marxist comedy show where everyone had the Digits For Democracy shirts and the posters. Rodger Parsons (born October 19, 1943), previously credited as Ken Gates, is an American voice actor, narrator and writer. And it looked like a giant blimp on fire. And isnt that the mark of a true work of art? Barring the iffy Netflix revival, this show famously didn't survive three seasons of murky ratings, partly because its format was novel when "Development" premiered in 2003. The lives of Police Officers working for the Los Angeles Police Department. Whats happening?. So all that stuff with Timberlake was shot that day. Are you trying to start at episode four? And maybe there was a tiny bit of a joke about Star Wars or something, but its like, no, theres really a whole prequel, a transmedia graphic novel prequel. Southland Talesis an apocalyptic tale set in the future of 2008. We flew to Abilene. Priscilla Elliott: I think the word that we always used to joke about was scope creep. Thats Richard: scope creep. And well see what happens. And we went to dinner and we talked about it and he walked me over to a video store. In an effort to cut costs (and save time on the films highly truncated shooting schedule), Kelly and a small team began assembling footage well ahead of principal photographyincluding the nuclear attack on U.S. soil that kicks off the movies plot. Priscilla Elliott: Part of its wonderful strangeness is the wonder and the dreadthe glitter and the doom, we used to say. The movie follows an ensemble cast as they experience three days that lead to the end of existence. And I felt like I had momentum, that this needed to be a much more meaningful film, and not just about a bunch of out-of-work comedians trying to shake down a movie star. I remember I was on the phone with the gentleman from India with the elephant-fucking footage. "While other times the crime is not seeing the world as it is. Saturday Night Live is known for being a very political show, in the sense that they lean hard into political sketches. And hell go and hell study it and execute it flawlessly. Im standing on the top with Hustler on the side. This is well into 2007, and everyone was just, Were throwing good money after bad here. Robot," we learn that Elliot has constructed his own sense of right and wrong inside his thorny head. I meet Dwayne at the Firehouse Cafe. It can be a provocative moment in the movie. Everyone was coming up to me, like, Okay, Richard, we thought you were crazy, that this was a waste of time. But everyone, even the biggest doubter of that musical number, was like, We get it, you have to get this song, this is definitely working. Im like, Oh, my god, Ive got to go back and watch that.. And I was going a little loopy, and we didnt have enough money to shut down the pier. I think you can afford a couple if you have a vision. The pale horse of the apocalypse is an ice cream truck filled with assault rifles, for Christs sake. So what is a narrator? He has all these abilities to do these really intricate things with his face, he can move the muscles in his face by just a few millimeters, almost the way Jim Carrey can do things. In the former, the narrator tends to remain neutral, reporting without explicit commentary. Ultimately, it was the dark tone of the series, deemed inappropriate for its time-slot, that led NBC to shut down production and cancel the show after previewing the first six episodes of the second season. For every Star Wars, there is a Starcrash. Your internal diary is jealous of her introspection, which underscores the themes of every "Grey's Anatomy" episode. And Southland Tales was born out of thatand Im still trying to answer your question, like in one statement of what its all about. And then Shane was working on some of the news screens, because we had shot a lot of the KTLA news footage. If that is in the realm of possibility, in this business that we work in. But you can take a couple. I just dont want it to always be this compromised, unfinished thing. I need for it to have more socio-political weight behind the story, and I need to make this thing more ambitious. So the [Doomsday Scenario Interface] was really just, lets try and cobble together some of the essential elements of these three graphic novels that are very essential to the story in my mind. One notable element of the Southland Tales cast was the large number of Saturday Night Live performers who appear in the film: Cheri Oteri, Nora Dunn, Amy Poehler, Jon Lovitz, and Janeane Garofalo all show up (sometimes briefly), usually as members of the neo-Marxist revolutionaries. Im like, Wait a minute, what if theyre actually the same person? And he was like, What? You can give him really complex, intricate direction. For the last 2 & 1/2 weeks I've had these book smart, street stupid, bs experts telling me how I'm suppose to feel before I go back on the streets. But at least we had one graphic novel ready for the Cannes Film Festival. Yeah, sure man, sure!. Once I solved the mystery of the twins, everything fell into place. Just dont come near this movie. WebThe narrator describes what "you" do and lets you into your own thoughts and background. I figured, Lets just swing for the fences. And it just kept getting bigger and bigger. I might have it at my house. So it is sort of like my career was just getting off the ground as a filmmaker in 2001, and going to Sundance with my first film, and then seeing the world just so drastically shift. [8] He later settled in Seal Harbor, Maine. Narrator Permalink: Most cops manage to stay Richard Kelly: The very first draft of Southland Tales was written right after Sundance in 2001. Richard Kelly: We didnt have a backup plan. So I had all those schematics. Part of HuffPost Entertainment. Everyone at the barbecue really wasnt aware that that was part of the core shooting of the film. The line about, Scientists are saying the future will be far more futuristic than originally predicted. The way Sarah delivers that line, its for laughs, and its ridiculous, but it kind of encapsulates the whole movie. Theres like three of us. In a 2011 interview withWiredmagazine, Timberlake confessed that Southland Tales is performance art. At the subway station you wait fifteen minutes on the platform for a train. He is best known as the English narrator for the Pokmon television series . That was probably the happiest moment of my film life. Ron Howard is practically a member of the Bluth family, even though his identity as a narrator is never explained on "Arrested Development." Zirnkilton is known for providing the opening narration of all US shows in the Law & Order franchise. Producers were like, Okay, the first few nights at Cannes, at the parties, start handing out the books to journalists and film critics, give them copies of the book so they can start to see what were trying to do. And they tried! And theyre like, Okay, well No ones going to see this movie., Todd Berger: I remember being so excited. You know, the sun is coming up and youre driving on this huge tank. And Richard, really, god, he was so supportive of everything I did. I am so grateful that someone gave me the resources to make this. Okay, now we have to rip an ATM machine out of a wall. I was so excited for those guys. They were really pissed off. What was the official certification given to Southland (2009) in Canada? FRISCO, Texas As of today, the Southland Conference has a new look that reflects its ongoing surge in national significance, athletic excellence, and member unity. WebMovie star Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson) plans his next film with the help of ambitious porn actress Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and troubled policeman Roland Were just going to go for it.. We tracked him down and cast him in the film based on that, because when I saw that footage, Im like, okay, [Richardsons character] Nana Mae Frost needs to witness that footage of projectile vomiting, it needs to make her physically sick, and that foreshadowing, thats the man whos going to come in and assassinate her. Each viewing offers new insight, plus the chance to look for the many socio-political, literary, and musical Easter eggs Kelly in the film. For someone so indecisive, no one reflects on her relationships or a day at work as eloquently as Meredith Grey. Advertisement: Roland Taverner, his (alleged) twin -- a racist cop -- is sitting unconscious in the main room, having been kidnapped and drugged by the Neo-Marxists. Freaks & Geeks, The Class, Undeclared, etc.) So having Dwayne study Kiss Me Deadly, and then licensing clips from Kiss Me Deadlylike literally putting it in the movie. I still dont know what that movie is about.. During his final term in the House of Representatives, Zirnkilton served in leadership as Assistant Minority Leader. I didn't know. And when we were figuring out how to do the doppelgnger body and how to pull it off, I think Lou made some phone calls. Hes been Dwaynes makeup artist for years, on many movies, and he did all the tattoos, he did all the old age makeup on Kevin [Smith] and Beth Grant. For me as an artist, my very first film was made just before [9/11], and then it was released in the shadow of 9/11. Because my character is in one of them, I have now been portrayed in a graphic novel. Menu. Donnie Darko had just debuted there in January of 2001 and as soon as he got back, Richard started writing Southland Tales. A rookie and a seasoned no-nonsense cop are at the center of this police drama set in Los Angeles. He used to produce with his company, RSA, these BMW commercials that were like short films, and they would bring in big directors to direct them. can't exist on a street that only goes as far east as the 2000 West block). Richard Kelly: I asked [Justin] to be the narrator once we finished shooting the musical number. Do you know the Michelin Man is white. In Southland Tales, Justin Timberlake plays the omniprescent narrator who represents the trauma of Iraq War veterans. And it didnt seem like it was going well. And you cant take too many leaps of faith on a movie, because youll end up face down on the pavement. Howard's narration was among that originality, considering it was rare for sitcoms to use callbacks and in-jokes to extend the story. We came back from Sundance really depressed, because we had no distribution deal for Donnie Darko. Maybe for his birthday you could take him to the Dahmer house. In 2020, Kelly began talking about his plans to reinvent the Southland Tales prequel chapters as a second film, that would serve as a companion piece to the original. 1 Donnie Darko fan. The most well-known piece of fiction that employs second-person narration might be Jay McInerneys novel Bright Lights, Big City. It was in the Cannes Film Festival, starring Dwayne Johnson and all these actors. For every Batman, there is aCondorman. Because in my mind, it just feels like its a six-chapter story. TNT aired consecutively all the episodes produced, and shortly after the airing of the last of them, announced it had picked up the show for a ten-episode third season. Depressed, because we had no distribution deal for donnie Darko record some voiceover who flees in confused terror her. 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