Marvel Universe stuff

spronk said:

thats pretty good, but what happened to "make her black and make her gay"

Click to expand...

She's actually the daughter of one of our football coaches when I was in highschool. From small town Texas. Never realized it until a buddy of mine who does stunt work in Atlanta mentioned it to me.

Believe he talked to Coach Sink some about trying to navigate the industry when she started out on Stranger Things. Just kind of a weird, small world moment I guess.

Harshaw said:

My cousin was an actor for a bit back in the 90's and his biggest role was Guran in the Phantom movie with Billy Zane. Whenever I saw him during that time period he would never really want to talk about the Hollywood business stuff. Not long after he did The Phantom he quit acting and became a Priest.

Click to expand...

I'm trying to remember what character that was. I mean I remember watching that movie when I was younger.

I know I've had a lot of conversations with my friend just about how everything works. He actually had pitched and gotten funding to do a movie sometime last year and they were supposed to film it I want to say this coming summer, but then he realized there's still a lot of planning and headaches involved. I think you got like a million and a half or a million to fund the whole project.

If it ever gets off the ground I'm sure I'll post it here. I really hope it works out for him, but he says Hollywood is a pretty screwed up place, and that's not even being out in California. He's just done a lot of TV stuff for HBO, started doing sports movies specifically football related things, and just other random it's not work on broadcast TV.

I think he was in a handful of marvel films and some of the hunger games shit. What I find surprising is you can ask him on some of these projects who's a real asshole to work with and who was surprisingly nice, and a lot of his answers were pretty surprising.

I just find some of that stuff pretty fascinating from a project management standpoint, and he's told me some pretty crazy stories about just complete inefficiency and aneptitude when it comes to you doing things. Tyler Perry is supposed to be a machine, maybe does too if not three takes and then calls it and he just is pumping out films, even if they're crappy but he's always making money.

I remember he said The walking Dead was probably the worst deal he ever worked on just as far as way too many cooks in the kitchen and everything being a chaotic mess. This was back during the prison era, and a buddy of his from his stunt troupe was the one who died having a 16-ft or so fall I think off of the ramparts of the prison. I guess it was a pretty big deal at the time. That's why he said I should count my blessings for as far as I fell and survived.