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And here's today's update on the behind the scenes backroom wheeling and dealing on Robert Altman's recently announced project Physics Forums:
"Well, if you've seen my films, you know I am attracted to situations involving many, many characters," explained Altman in a recent interview. "As far as I know, no one has taken advantage of the online forum as the basis of a film. It's going to be a huge challenge to translate a story like this to the screen, since none of the characters ever actually interacts in person. I like to get big names to people a film full of small roles. Physics Forums is developing into something that I can take 5 or 10 steps further. I may have 5 or 10 people play the same character, as imagined from other character's perspectives. Imagine a post by, let's call him Physics Guy X, comes up on the monitor. We pan back from the monitor to reveal Galeel White reading the post, imagining the voice of Robert DeNiro. But when we cut to Juliette Lewis, she hears the same post being read by, say, Jim Carrey. Then we cut to white bearded Wilford Brimley, peering intently at the same post, pausing to take a quick angry suck off a joint, while a bit of ash falls on his tie dyed T-Shirt, hearing the same post read by Rick Moranis. It will be something like Rashamon in a cyber-setting."
Casting Director, Sylvia Weinstein declined to be interviewed except to say it was still only about 5% cast at this point and she was too busy with the project to stop and answer quetions. "Gosford Park was a picnic, compared to this," we heard her mutter, "I'm tearing my hair out. Wayne Gacy as Zoobyshoe? We'd sign him in a second if he weren't dead. Those clown shoes are already the right size."
"Well, if you've seen my films, you know I am attracted to situations involving many, many characters," explained Altman in a recent interview. "As far as I know, no one has taken advantage of the online forum as the basis of a film. It's going to be a huge challenge to translate a story like this to the screen, since none of the characters ever actually interacts in person. I like to get big names to people a film full of small roles. Physics Forums is developing into something that I can take 5 or 10 steps further. I may have 5 or 10 people play the same character, as imagined from other character's perspectives. Imagine a post by, let's call him Physics Guy X, comes up on the monitor. We pan back from the monitor to reveal Galeel White reading the post, imagining the voice of Robert DeNiro. But when we cut to Juliette Lewis, she hears the same post being read by, say, Jim Carrey. Then we cut to white bearded Wilford Brimley, peering intently at the same post, pausing to take a quick angry suck off a joint, while a bit of ash falls on his tie dyed T-Shirt, hearing the same post read by Rick Moranis. It will be something like Rashamon in a cyber-setting."
Casting Director, Sylvia Weinstein declined to be interviewed except to say it was still only about 5% cast at this point and she was too busy with the project to stop and answer quetions. "Gosford Park was a picnic, compared to this," we heard her mutter, "I'm tearing my hair out. Wayne Gacy as Zoobyshoe? We'd sign him in a second if he weren't dead. Those clown shoes are already the right size."
