I could not have written about this millennial generation. I’m a generation away from Bret, and he’s a generation away from these kids. I changed relatively little of it.ĭid you connect with it on a personal level? Do you know people like these characters? I liked his script, I liked his voice, I liked his cadence. I thought Bret was gonna rework some of the characters he already had, but he had a new idea.
And in the end we each put in $30,000 and we got money from Kickstarter. We’ll make cinema for the post-theatrical era.” So it began as a partnership. Film economics are changing: You write a script, I’ll direct it, we’ll pay for it ourselves. And so I just wrote him an e-mail and I said, “You know, fuck it, Bret. And the money fell through, and it was the second time in a row that I’d had a film fall through, and Bret had also had stuff fall through. A year and a half ago, I was gonna do a film that Bret had written called Bait, kind of a shark movie, with Spanish money. More Grantland Q&As Click here for all of our interviews with fascinating people from the worlds of sports and pop culture. It didn’t happen that way. What else do I have to do with my life?Ĭan you tell me about the first time you read Bret’s script for The Canyons? Were you immediately drawn in? Earlier this week, Grantland talked to Schrader about his odd, late-breaking legacy wrinkle. But, thanks to porn star James Deen and the specter of Lindsay Lohan and that infamous New York Times piece on the movie’s unbelievably verkakte production, it’s certainly something.
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“And my response to that is, ‘Don’t you understand that it’s a wonderful film?’ … I know full well that in my obituary, the first line will mention Taxi Driver, unless I kill the president or something.” Well, OK, no, he didn’t go Travis Bickle on anyone - but it still might be time to update that obituary.Īs you’ve certainly already heard, The Canyons - Schrader’s bizarro team-up with Bret Easton Ellis - is not a very good movie.
How do you live up to that?’” said Schrader - who’d enjoy a long and healthy career both writing ( Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ) and directing ( American Gigolo, Affliction). “People have actually said to me ‘It must be terrible when one of your first scripts becomes a classic. In a 2005 interview with Venice, Paul Schrader discussed cementing his legacy with just his second produced screenplay.
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