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Post by K-Box on Aug 10, 2010 18:10:21 GMT -8
Holy shit, I am in love with the viral marketing for this movie, and goddamn, Bruce Boxleitner has really become one hell of an actor in his old age: If you're impressed that they actually took the time to bring Cindy Morgan back for this party, guess who's playing Clu 2's henchman Rinzler? Holy shit, you guys; they RErezzed Ram. |
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Post by jensaltmann on Mar 17, 2011 2:23:55 GMT -8
The DVD will be out in June. I'll interview the director next Wednesday, and
BRUCE BOXLEITNER
on the 29th.
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Post by michaelpaciocco on Mar 17, 2011 5:23:32 GMT -8
Whoa. Whoa. ....yeah, you have fun with that. I demand details (particularly if you start talking about B5).
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Post by jensaltmann on Mar 17, 2011 8:03:02 GMT -8
I don't plan to bring up B5, unless I get really desperate for stuff to ask.
But you know, I had a somewhat sobering thought this afternoon.
I'm the top writer/interviewer for a third string movie magazine. I don't get to talk to the Big Names, the A-List celebrities. When I was at the Avatar junket, for example, I didn't get to meet James Cameron or Sam Worthington. I got to meet Stephen Lang and Zoe Saldana. I don't get to meet Sylvester Stallone or Jason Statham, I get Danny Trejo, Sean Bean and Bruce Boxleitner.
At some of these junkets, I meet journos who regularly interview the A-list. For them, it was business as usual. They talk to James Cameron all the time, and are on a first-name basis with him. Just another day at the office.
Me? I'm strictly small fry. If I'm lucky, I get to talk to the upper B-list. But I wouldn'd trade with those A-list journos. You know why?
Because I still get excited. When I'm told I get to talk to someone like Sean Bean, or Bruce Boxleitner, or Danny Trejo, it's a big deal for me because I like their work, I see the movies they make, and in a way you can say I'm a fan. Sure, I would love to talk to James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender about the new X-Men movie. I don't get them. I get the guys who play Beast and Havok and Moira McTaggert.
But I have fun. I love doing that, I've been told I'm really good at it (probably because I enjoy it). And I'm fanboy enough that I get excited about talking to these people. The B-List. And I'd rather do the B-List and enjoy it than get blasé about doing the A-list.
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Post by Mario Di Giacomo on Mar 17, 2011 8:23:55 GMT -8
No, really desperate is bringing up Scarecrow & Mrs. King.  (Ghod, I'm old) My dad has a saying: "Enjoy what you do, and you'll never work a day in your life." Considering he retired at almost 80, I think he may be on to something. |
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Post by jensaltmann on Mar 17, 2011 8:27:55 GMT -8
No, really desperate is bringing up Scarecrow & Mrs. King. No, that's not desperate, that's funny. I actually considered doing that. |
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Post by paulpogue on Mar 17, 2011 10:36:12 GMT -8
You guys are amateurs when it comes to desperation. I'll see your four-seasons-and-quite-a-hit-at-the-time "Scarecrow" and raise you a "Young Blades"!
Hope you have a lot of fun, Jens. I agree that talking to the second stringers is often a lot more fun. I've done my share of junkets in my time and talked to Woody Allen and Jerry Bruckheimer, but I'm a lot more interested in Treat Williams, Jason "before he was big" Isaacs and Orlando "just a LOTR flunkie as far as the other were concerned at the time" Bloom.
Oh, and Ridley Scott, but he's totally A-list so he's a little different. Though he still ACTS like a B-list guy; he's almost completely without ego.
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Post by jensaltmann on Mar 17, 2011 11:16:23 GMT -8
You guys are amateurs when it comes to desperation. I'll see your four-seasons-and-quite-a-hit-at-the-time "Scarecrow" and raise you a "Young Blades"! That wouldn't be desperate. That's so obscure, it'd actually be impressive.  Maybe I can ask him how it happened that Liam Neeson got to play the Bruce Boxleitner part in the Diplomatic Immunity remake Taken.  It's not even that I think that talking with B-listers is more fun than talking with A-listers. Heck, talking with B-listers can be quite exhausting. Sean Bean, for example, is terminally shy. It's very exhausting to do a phoner with him. No, the point was that even after doing this for 16 years, I still go "Fuck, yeah, I get all psyched up because I get to talk with (enter celebrity name)," even though I don't get anywhere near the big guns. (Unless they get to be big later -- I'm waiting for confirmation of a Duncan Jones interview, for example.) I get geekgasms over talking with Bean, Trejo, Boxleitner. I think the biggest name I met so far was Frank Marshall. No, the point is that I really really hope I'll never lose this enthusiasm. And that I think I'm too much of a geek to ever lose this enthusiasm. This and the press previews is what I'll miss when I get a day job. |
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Post by michaelpaciocco on Mar 17, 2011 15:22:03 GMT -8
I just think part of it is all that the A-listers have their boilerplate interview stuff down so pat they could probably be in a coma and give you their spiel. B-Listers, you get more color, more insight.
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Post by jensaltmann on Mar 17, 2011 23:23:08 GMT -8
I just think part of it is all that the A-listers have their boilerplate interview stuff down so pat they could probably be in a coma and give you their spiel. B-Listers, you get more color, more insight. I noticed that with M. Night Shyamalan. What he told, he had clearly rehearsed over and over. No stammering, no thinking, just push button and playback. That's why I like it when they stammer and take a moment to think about what they say. Me, I try to beat the by-rote thing by being unpredictable. Usually have enough time to do my homework, so I do. When I interviewed Frank Marshall, I got the usual stuff when we talked about the movie, but then I switched gears (as I had planned) to talk about him and his background, and the interview changed, he became more interested and funnier. I hit his human side. |
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Post by K-Box on Mar 20, 2011 0:41:20 GMT -8
Which is what makes you a good journalist, Jens.
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Post by jensaltmann on Mar 20, 2011 3:39:11 GMT -8
Which is what makes you a good journalist, Jens. Interaction 101: people like to talk about themselves. |
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Post by paulpogue on Mar 20, 2011 6:50:13 GMT -8
You know, looking back at a lot of the Tron Legacy marketing with an eye towards K-Box's contention that Bruce-Box has turned into a great actor in his old age: I think B-Box manages to infuse the line "Wouldn't it be something" with more pathos and unspoken backstory than any given half-hour of the rest of the movie.
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Post by jensaltmann on Mar 28, 2011 23:12:22 GMT -8
And another Tron 3 teaser.
MCP is back?
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Post by paulpogue on Mar 29, 2011 4:45:27 GMT -8
You know, aside from just plain wanting a sequel, I dearly hope there's a Tron 3 simply so all the marketing lessons this movie came up with won't be wasted. This is the the most nerd-friendly marketing campaign EVER, from the teasers to the Flynn's Arcade recreation to the Alan Bradley press conferences.
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Maybe I can ask him how it happened that Liam Neeson got to play the Bruce Boxleitner part in the Diplomatic Immunity remake Taken. 