Comments on: Six Degrees of Murder

By: dcairns

dcairns — Sat, 10 May 2008 10:17:08 +0000

As soon as you say filmmakers & serial killers the natural impulse is to have the filmmakers killed off and hunted through the desert in a sort of Blair Witch hippy slasher movie. I bet THAT could get made.

“In 1969 some film students went into the desert to make a Roger Corman exploitation film. Forty years later their footage was found.”

It might also be the only way for Joe Dante to get his “Making of The Trip” film made.

By: dcairns

dcairns — Sat, 10 May 2008 10:15:08 +0000

“In 1969 some film students went into the desert to make a Roger Corman exploitation film. Forty years later their footage was found.”

It might also be the only way for Joe Dante to get his “Making of The Trip” film made.

By: David Ehrenstein

David Ehrenstein — Fri, 09 May 2008 22:58:45 +0000

Well as the cops are planning to dig for more human remains at the Spahn ranch you’re script may be timely all over again.

By: chris schneider

chris schneider — Fri, 09 May 2008 22:44:23 +0000

This reminds me of one of the few ideas for a script that ever occurred to me — and, yes, speaking as someone who has read a lot of scripts, I realize that “ideas for” scripts and actual scripts are two separate things entirely.

My idea: tell the story, set in the late ’60s, of people filming Z-budget action pictures — people not unlike Al Adamson and his retinue — in a movie ranch at the same time as Charles Manson and his tribe were visible in such territories. It would be sort-of like Zieff’s “Hearts of the West,” only set in the era of Jim Morrison and (early) Joan Didion.

All of this would be a way of picking up a little *zetgeist* without indulging in the same ol’ “Helter Skelter” imagery.

I mentioned this to a writer/director friend of mine. He was singularly unimpressed.

By: dcairns

dcairns — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:11:44 +0000

That’s been the case for decades now. Alex Cox was so outraged by the discovery he tore up Hopper’s Republican Party membership card. Touched by the gesture, Hopper let him keep the torn card.

By: David Ehrenstein

David Ehrenstein — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:52:04 +0000

But of course. Especially now that he’s become a right-wing Republican.