And I was going back to the car. [9] Zirnkilton received a Legislative Sentiment for his work from Maine State Representative Chris Greeley. Like a heavenly guidepost, the voice emanating from a protagonist's head or an outsider's scrutiny shepherds the story across multiple seasons. Maybe for his birthday you could take him to the Dahmer house. Todd, youre in the movie. Richard Kelly: I dont think anyone could have ever won an argument to cut it out, because someone spent all that time to render that. Jim Dale's silvery English lilt carries us through the candy-coated ABC dramedy, which was canceled after two brief but wonderful seasons. Dwayne is very good at taking direction. I might have it at my house. He has all these abilities to do these really intricate things with his face, he can move the muscles in his face by just a few millimeters, almost the way Jim Carrey can do things. All the things that were happening in the world, with Iraq and the Patriot Act and everything in the Bush Doctrine that was building, and it just felt like I needed to lean into all of that. We were firing off massive weapons in Hermosa Beach, where a lot of very wealthy people live. Southland Talesis an apocalyptic tale set in the future of 2008. When Veronica Mars called herself a "marshmallow," a legion of fans was born. So the entire end of the movie is all in [Affects helium voice.] I had a really great first AD named Mark Cotone, one of the best in the business. With jaunty As it happened, Kelly was sitting on a self-penned script he thought might make for the ideal sophomore picture: A satirical tale that had begun life as a story about failed actors kidnapping a movie star, but which had been transformed by the directors own post-9/11 anxieties into something much more expansive, biblical, and strange. Priscilla Elliott: We were doing the scene where they steal the ATM, and at the same time the blimp is going to get shot out of the sky. Is it going to work? He has been the announcer for the Kennedy Center Honors, and for the past seventeen years he has been the onstage announcer for the Top Cops Awards in Washington, D.C.[citation needed]. In Southland Tales, Justin Timberlake plays the omniprescent narrator who represents the trauma of Iraq War veterans. Youre just taking money and flushing it down the toilet if youre not leaving it inside the movie. Hes spooky, Richard. Once I solved the mystery of the twins, everything fell into place. So whenever they shot Donnie Darko, Dee went off to Hollywood for the summer to help work on his cousins movie as a PA. 1 Donnie Darko fan? And Id be like, Oh, thats fake. And you could just see them be crushed. I think I wore him down. Is America the pimp nation? Dexter Morgan only knows what's floating through his own mind, but it layers the dark Showtime drama with a reflective take on sociopathy. And it had this big dirigible at the end, which didnt quite make sensesomeone shoots a rocket launcher at the blimp and it explodes into this Hindenburg kind of disaster over downtown Los Angeles. He both absorbs content, and is interested in things, and then also has a very strong personal vision. And they were working on getting the pyrotechnics and everything to work for the gag. The I never would have felt that he was feeling any of that pressure. A lot of his books were set in Southern California, and involved alternate realities and time travel and hallucinogenic future drugs and Orwellian government. Richard Kelly: The very first draft of Southland Tales was written right after Sundance in 2001. I remember that the idea popped in my head during a conversation we had [about the script]. Todd Berger: Have you read the graphic-novel prequels? [Paugh (now credited as Shane Strickman) is a visual effects producer for HBOs Euphoria, while Bayol is deputy head of CG for media studio The Mill.Ed.]. So what is a narrator? I was leaning hard into that. In 2005, director Richard Kelly was in a unique position inside the Hollywood ecosystem. The bar is okay with it, you know. But it helped ease everyone into the ambition of the movie. Some third person limited. Occupation. The first three chapters have two elements to them. I always left room for as much improv as I could, because even the not-famous actors that are in the movie, it was a lot of sketch comedy friends that I had. "The original inspiration, I think, was the T.S. Really, it's just an hour of drama that chugs along according to a motor-mouth dude who sets up scenes with bubbly commentary that carries a tinge of judgment. super-high voices. So here I am sitting across from Dwayne Johnson and Im showing him my MegaZeppelin blueprint. The lives of Police Officers working for the Los Angeles The other part of what makesSouthland Talesa fun watch is that its completely insane. Sir, can we please just have this footage for like $100? And finally, I just talked him into it. It might have been Vidiots; it was one of those video stores that has every movieyou know, when those used to exist. In addition to the film itself, Kelly also pushed forward on plans to create three graphic novels to serve as a prequel to the movie. Your internal diary is jealous of her introspection, which underscores the themes of every "Grey's Anatomy" episode. Over the course of six seasons, Kevin becomes a proxy for every American teen boy, or anyone who'd ever been a teen boy, or anyone who'd ever known a teen boy. 2023 TV GUIDE, A FANDOM COMPANY. You don't know anything about politics! Hes been Dwaynes makeup artist for years, on many movies, and he did all the tattoos, he did all the old age makeup on Kevin [Smith] and Beth Grant. And in the shadow of 9/11, it just felt like I needed to swing for the fences, and try to address all of the things that were happening in the world. In an effort to cut costs (and save time on the films highly truncated shooting schedule), Kelly and a small team began assembling footage well ahead of principal photographyincluding the nuclear attack on U.S. soil that kicks off the movies plot. It seems like it changes nothing but every once and awhile, y About Us | Copyright Inquiry | Privacy Policy | Contact Us. We had a CD of all the songs in the movie, like a bootleg soundtrack. This renewal of the show included a substantial budget cut and corresponding cast reduction, and de-emphasizes the ensemble cast and focuses more on the Adams and Sherman characters and their partners; stories now center more on how crimes come together, with less-serialized story-lines. Hes a very chill, cool leader. And were out there getting the fires set up in the homeless camps. The people who financed the movie just did not understand it. I want their characters to be given full cinematic justice, because they did such a great job for me. A montage of news footage introduces us to the world ofSouthland Talesthen ties the many stories together. [10] He represented part of Hancock County, Maine, including his residence in the village of Seal Harbor in the town Mount Desert. Death is inevitable, and in some ways beautiful, she reminds us. To his surprise, it was accepted. We were doing a lot of really dangerous stuff. We need to see the nuclear attack happen so that the audience can be rattled by it and be emotionally traumatized by it at the beginning of the film, so theyll take the plunge into this bizarre alternate future. And I pitched the idea of two BMWs having sexual intercourse. You're screwed unless she asks about Bush or the bald assistant president who has all those heart attacks.". They were really pissed off. I've been on IMDb for quite sometime now, but have yet to feel compelled to write a comment. We got it. And everyones applauding. I know a lot of people were really offended by the car. Producers were like, Okay, the first few nights at Cannes, at the parties, start handing out the books to journalists and film critics, give them copies of the book so they can start to see what were trying to do. And they tried! And everyone had a great time. Richard Kelly: The very first draft of Southland Tales was written right after Sundance in 2001. Critics Consensus: With its uncompromising blend of emotionally charged drama, riveting violence, and complex intelligence, Southland remains as engrossing as ever in season four. Critics Consensus: Southland's third outing maintains the series' strong commitment to well-rounded characters, intense realism, and dense narratives. Richard Kelly: Ive written a new script, and I think its really exciting. Another big change is coming your way in Jane the Novela you can expect a brand new narrator. Do you know the Michelin Man is white. It was so much fun getting to show up with this roundtable of incredible comedy heroes coming in. All the military stuff was shot that day, under the pier. I think that probably, because of budget, things may have gotten cut out. That was another little splinter photography thing, with the real news anchors of KTLA in Los Angeles doing their alternate history 2008 news stuff about the MegaZeppelin and US-IDENT. I worked with him burning the midnight oil, driving down to Chapman, sitting in the computer lab at the university, working on this animated sequence with him. There was no breathing room to do it a second time. Richard Kelly: It really means that I should just work in television for the rest of my career. And there was Cheri Oteri in hair and makeup [as] Zora Carmichaels, doing her whole Sam Kinison riff with the screaming. Voice actor. In a 2011 interview withWiredmagazine, Timberlake confessed that Southland Tales is performance art. This is well into 2007, where Im in preproduction on The Box. Hed already turned down a few offers to helm franchise films for major studios; he was still driven by the urge to direct something that was his, an expression of his constantly expanding interests. For me as an artist, my very first film was made just before [9/11], and then it was released in the shadow of 9/11. It was really crazy, but it was just like a leap of faith, you know? Like Id be at the Arclight movie theater, and someone would walk up to me: Excuse me, are you Daryl Donaldson, No. The line about, Scientists are saying the future will be far more futuristic than originally predicted. The way Sarah delivers that line, its for laughs, and its ridiculous, but it kind of encapsulates the whole movie. Marguerite Derricks: When I got the original script, it was almost like a musical. He came back senior year and was telling us all these stories about how he worked on his cousins weird little movie. It will always feel incomplete to me without us trying to complete all six chapters. It was me finding the movie. Kelly and his crew had 24 days, and $17.8 million, to shoot a star-studded, effects-heavy science fiction satire, much of it in public locations. [vague] Zirnkilton has also provided voices for Family Guy and The Rugrats Movie. Pilot Abilenereading the Book of Revelations aloud, Ronald Taverner having a breakdown because his reflection isnt following him, and Boxer Santaros figuring out who he is after waking up in the middle of the desert. Hes so in command of his entire body, and all of that training from working in pro-wrestling, and delivering those huge monologues, and doing very precise acrobatics and hitting all those marks. Some of it was scripted, and then I left lots of room for improv, because this is a big improv movie. It premiered on NBC , So in the prequel, you see all of that, all the characters, all that stuff, drama unfolding over those three days in animationits literally the characters animatedand then it takes Boxer all the way to the point where, on the early morning of July 3rd, he wakes up on the beach. But you can take a couple. Barring the iffy Netflix revival, this show famously didn't survive three seasons of murky ratings, partly because its format was novel when "Development" premiered in 2003. And then I wrote the first draft of Southland Tales, which did not have any science fiction in it. I worked so hard on it. Steve Zirnkilton (born Stephen Morgan Zirnkilton; August 18, 1958) is an American voice actor and former politician from Maine. Illustrated by Brett Weldele, published by Bob Chapman, and partially funded by Kevin Smith (who also appeared in the film), they were meant to cover early parts of the movies chronology, which Kelly considered the first three chapters of Southland Tales. And then the Richard snuck through anyway. Dont worry, so is everyone else. It was so great. So they were shooting at this venue [OBriens Irish Pub & Restaurant] in Venice or Santa Monica. I show up and they put me in wardrobe and Cheri Oteri gets up on the stage and she gives this big political speech. There is a lot of political content that could offend some viewers. As Krysta Now, she delivers lines with the kind of arrogance and ignorance one would expect from a porn-star-turned-talk-show-activist. All you have to do is come sign a release. I was able to map out the choreography and the style from reading the script and hearing Richard talk about Justins character, what he was going through, what this kind of music-video-like number was that we were doing. Even fictitious addresses aren't within the range seen on the real street (e.g. One of the films most repeated lines is Pimps dont commit suicide, which is spoken by Boxer Santaros/Jericho Cane in reference to the films complicated body-double plot, and then becomes the final piece of Timberlakes narration as the time-split Roland/Ronald Taverner clasp hands, initiatingpossiblythe end of the world. We had the the SUV designed by Ron Cobb. Southland (stylized as SOUTHLAND) is an American crime drama. If anything, I felt honored that I was getting to work with so many of them. Southland: Created by Ann Biderman. WebMovie star Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson) plans his next film with the help of ambitious porn actress Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and troubled policeman Roland Mark had to help me organize all that. I was still rewriting the script and trying to take it to the next level, with the religion and the science fiction and the politics and US-IDENT, all the things that were happening at the time as Bush was heading toward his second term and reelection. Club are serious journalists, we felt moved to ask Kelly about one particular bit of stock footage included in the Doomsday Scenario Interface sequence. Through interior monologue, the narrator shows himself to be cynical and insensitive, especially to the poetry written by his wife.He is jealous of her ex-husband from her previous marriage, though that marriage was a miserable experience for her, and he is especially Richard Kelly: We had already shot some of the footage of the Ironman competition in Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach, all the beach stuff where you have all the people chugging beer and vomiting on each other. And the movie has never gotten its chance to live and breathe in its full glory. This is well into 2007, and everyone was just, Were throwing good money after bad here. Though unidentified until the series finale, Gossip Girl -- via the preppy sounds of Kristen Bell -- reports on the happenings of the Upper East Side's bourgeois prep-school social scene. But to build an SUV with CGI wasnt crazy. isn't exactly omniscient -- he is often clueless about what is entering others people's brains. Acting. Zirnkilton is known for providing the opening narration of all US shows in the Law & Order franchise. He was hired by series creator Dick Wolf. [vague] Zirnkilton has also provided voices for Family Guy and The Rugrats Movie. He was a narrator for Faith Rewarded: The Historic Season of the 2004 Boston Red Sox. Now I know what it's like to be a chick.Cooper: If you want to be a chick that's a different bar. And I was going a little loopy, and we didnt have enough money to shut down the pier. Narrator. I think what Ive come up with for the prequel film, if it does happen, is a significant improvement from the graphic novels. 1 Donnie Darko fan. Other names. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Chris Rock once received a pitch from a Fox exec that went something like this: your childhood in TV-show form, narrated by present-day you, "Wonder Years" style. Each viewing offers new insight, plus the chance to look for the many socio-political, literary, and musical Easter eggs Kelly in the film. The ending of the story focuses on Claudia, as the narrator, and her belief that the entire community, including herself, uses Pecola as the scapegoat to make oneself feel prettier and better. Windy, chilly, wet storm conditions across Southland, and Our Weekly Staff. I knew that the twins were somehow the key to the whole movie, and there needed to be a bigger twist to the twins at the end, a bigger payoff. Do you have any ideas or stuff that we could do? Dee had this idea of a documentary about the No. Like, do you have permits to do this? Yeah, we have permits. You do your best, but it never works out that way unless you are a very, very powerful filmmaker who gets all the money that you need. Thats the twist. And so, from there I had to reverse-engineer that twist into the story. I was trying to do that on Southland Tales. And well see what happens. Theres always an exploration of the political winds and which way theyre blowing. I want them to have a movie with a full, complete story. Menu. I think you can afford a couple if you have a vision. They were checking me out like crazy in there. Zirnkilton was the narrator for TLC's Code Blue: New Orleans and the syndicated series Arrest & Trial. They were like, What is this, like a Star Wars thing? Todd Berger: I think its about a future in which government surveillance and pop culture saturation start melding into one. And then an extortion attempt to try and get money out of this kind of crazed movie star, because these actors are very angry, and theyre just trying to do this as a way to lash out. No one wanted to pay for this, because we were scraping together whatever dollars we could get out of Sony to fix some of the MegaZeppelin stuff at the end, and just make the ending look at least presentable, at a base level. Priscilla Elliott: I know the studio really didnt want the car. Abilene was played by pop music superstar Justin Timberlake, in one of his first starring film roles. I will continue working on Southland Tales until the day I die, whether or not we get to make more of it or not. At the subway station you wait fifteen minutes on the platform for a train. She speaks of love's boundaries and setting secrets free and "forever stumbling, forever wondering, forever young." And they were shooting this kind of rally with Cheri Oteris character. What else could he possibly be right about? So they cast me to be Daryl Donaldson, the No. They thought it was a lost cause. Zirnkilton is best known for providing the opening Others, like 99% of Sarah Michelle Gellars dialogue, where it is clear this movie knows its insane. This is what qualifies it for this weeksWeird Watch. A rookie and a seasoned no-nonsense cop are at the center of this police drama set in Los Angeles. Southland Talesisnt for everybody. This is not a comprehensive list, so our apologies to Ted Mosby, whose "How I Met Your Mother" narration ultimately dampened the show's premise. I mean, we couldnt even afford to show the SUV going through the time rift at the end, with the flashback of what happens in the desert. Its become something more exciting and more sophisticated and more cinematic. You've got a problem with gay people, that's your right, OK but I don't want to hear about it every day. And that, my friend, is God's work. For the last 2 & 1/2 weeks I've had these book smart, street stupid, bs experts telling me how I'm suppose to feel before I go back on the streets. Hes like, You know what? From Kevin Arnold to Gossip Girl, we selected narrators -- often omniscient, (almost) always poetic -- who have defined the past few decades of television. This peek into Dexter's intellect fosters a deep connection with the audience. Finally, they announced the purchasing of the rights to the original seven episodes, as well as the six completed episodes from its second season. Waking up without his memory in the films opening moments, he spends the movie unsteadily unraveling its mysteries, manipulated by those around him, and drifting between two personalities: The childlike, amnesiac Boxer, and the fictional hardass Jericho Cane. Richard Kelly: It was the most amazing meeting of my life. 1971present. Donnie Darko had just debuted there in January of 2001 and as soon as he got back, Richard started writing Southland Tales. After plunging through the woods and through ice, with Dolly snarling only one leap behind him, Buck finally passes through the camp can't exist on a street that only goes as far east as the 2000 West block). Priscilla Elliott: I mean, I know its kind of a mess, and I also dont really care? "They talk about how sweet, wonderful and oh-so-full-of-life you were, how it was. Im standing on the top with Hustler on the side. [14][15] He also provided the voice-over for a Sky One advertisement for the channel's Law & Order airings. And then it was up to me to come up with the movement. No teen character on TV is as reliable as Angela Chase, mostly because Angela Chase tells us exactly what she is feeling. The award-winning novel is her second; her first novel is The Necessary Hunger. I remember us discussing it being like a nod to the classic MGM musicals that we were doing, because there was a classic look about the girls [in the All These Things That Ive Done sequence] all having that kind of Busby Berkeley look where they all had the same wigs and they all looked alike. WebA subjective narrator is a narrator who sees events through a character's eyes and knows the thoughts and feelings, and viewpoints of that character. And I dont know if Im ever going to be able to answer that question. Richard Kelly: In the casting of this movie, pretty much everyone that I worked with, with a few exceptions, has a background in either stand up-comedy, live performance, professional wrestling, sketch comedy, pop music. I need to lean further into the Philip K. Dick of it, the near-future of it all.. And I felt like I had momentum, that this needed to be a much more meaningful film, and not just about a bunch of out-of-work comedians trying to shake down a movie star. Yeah, sure man, sure!. We came back from Sundance really depressed, because we had no distribution deal for Donnie Darko. I dont think I ever put something together that he didnt like, or wanted any kind of changes. The film under-performed at the box office and was panned by critics, though it gained a cult following in its home video release. Its not for you, you know. Ill bring it in.. So kudos to him. So for a minute, in my soul, I really was like, Oh, my god, the Southland is real.. During his final term in the House of Representatives, Zirnkilton served in leadership as Assistant Minority Leader. Release CalendarTop 250 MoviesMost Armed with graphic novels, bootleg soundtracks, and a film that was only partially completedseveral key effects shots for its explosive climax were missingKelly took a long shot at submitting a 160-minute cut of Southland Tales to the Cannes Film Festival. Then they started working on Southland Tales, and I got a call one day that theyre shootingDee was helping him shoot all of the pre-roll. Marguerite Derricks: Hes just way ahead of his time. Cops are suppose to hold the line between chaos and civilized society. February 23, 2023 Antelope Valley news. A German tech company called Treer designed an ocean-driven energy source that makes gasoline obsolete. Which all stemmed from a meeting that I had with Benicio del Toro, maybe six months before I met with Dwayne. And these 6-foot, 6-inch Marilyn Monroes walked towards me, and I didnt know what they were going to be wearing. I still dont know what that movie is about.. Don't miss a beat. In a lot of ways, it adds a whole lot. Marguerite Derricks, choreographer: The one thing that I really remember is Sarah Michelle Gellar was probably one of the most committed actresses Ive ever worked with. He was really hoping to get paid for this. It seems like it changes nothing but every once and awhile, you get to take a bad guy off the streets for good. Dr. John Michael Dorian is in constant dialogue with himself. WebThe protagonist and narrator of Raymond Carvers Cathedral is a middle-aged unnamed man. Ditto the raconteurs of "Revenge," "Burn Notice," "Red Band Society" and any other series we omitted. By joining TV Guide, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. I think it will make people look at the existing movie in a completely new light. And we went to dinner and we talked about it and he walked me over to a video store. And then we have like one hour left with Justin. Hed just worked out at Golds Gym, and he ordered, I think, about five scrambled eggs, a steak, and a gigantic bowl of broccoli. Whats happening?. Richard Kelly: A lot of people were like, Richard, this is too much. And at the center of it all: a pair of twins, Roland and Ronald Taverner, played by Seann William Scott. In the former, the narrator tends to remain neutral, reporting without explicit commentary. Zirnkilton was the narrator for TLC 's Code Blue: New Orleans and the syndicated series Arrest & Trial. He has been the announcer for the Kennedy Center Honors, and for the past seventeen years he has been the onstage announcer for the Top Cops Awards in Washington, D.C.. In Angela, we are reminded that teen confusion, for all its imperfections, is perfect. And they were very amused by it, but it was clearly too bonkers and too out there for a BMW commercial. And I just thought, this ties into [Wallace Shawns character] Baron von Westphalen, and the clean energy, and the idea of his fleet of vehicles. Were going to make this an NC-17-rated car commercial.. Then we threw a fake Fourth of July party at my uncles house, and it was, I think, May of 2005. I grew up reading all of his books. There are a lot of interesting characters in the Southland of Los Angeles, likeamnesiac actor Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson), ex-porn star turned talk show queen Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar), and twin brothers Roland and Ronald Taverner (Sean William Scott). Richard Kelly: I just I had so much fun with all the people working on it. WebA narrator who is limited to reporting in third person on only one character can do so close or from a distance. Im like, Oh, my god, Ive got to go back and watch that.. Can I bring you back to record some voiceover? And hes like, [Affects Justin Timberlake voice.] In world where "quirky" is tossed about far too liberally, "Pushing Daisies" earns the adjective. I needed Shane and Chris to help me with the graphics. Carrie Bradshaw, so confident and yet so unsettled. Ken Gates. We had already recorded Teen Horniness Is Not A Crime.. For those of us who revel in the weird pop-culture soup this came from, its one hell of a movie. So it is sort of like my career was just getting off the ground as a filmmaker in 2001, and going to Sundance with my first film, and then seeing the world just so drastically shift. Everyone was coming up to me, like, Okay, Richard, we thought you were crazy, that this was a waste of time. But everyone, even the biggest doubter of that musical number, was like, We get it, you have to get this song, this is definitely working. Cut out up in the Law & Order franchise the original script, and I pitched idea. 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