J.D. Salinger Reviews/Pans Indiana Jones
Yes, legendary Catcher in the Rye author J.D. Salinger is still alive, and no, he hasn’t seen a super exclsuive screening of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull…
Our friends at FilmDrunk have discovered something interesting in a letter written in 1981 by Salinger, which is now up for sale on eBay. Salinger might be one of the great writers of all time, but in this letter, he proves he would have been a horrible movie critic:
“Have seen no good movies, except The Last Metro, which wasn’t exactly indelibly fine, but Deneuve herself maybe was, or came close. [Boosh? –Ed.] I got hooked into seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark, which might be excused for its unwitty, unfunny awful socko-ness if it had been put together by Harvard Lampoon seniors.”
Wait, did J.D. Salinger actually call Raiders of the Lost Ark “unwitty, unfunny awful”? Salinger received and rejected numerous offers to adapt The Catcher in the Rye for the screen, one of which came directly from Raiders director Steven Spielberg.
Rosario Dawson’s Occult Crimes Taskforce Searches For a Director
As you probably know, the Rosario Dawson created comic book O.C.T.: Occult Crimes Taskforce is coming to the big screen. We talked briefly with Rosario about the current status of project, and she says they are close to hiring a writer director.
It is going really well. It’s been really fascinating reading scripts from the perspective of a producer. I have an appreciation for what my agent and my manger have to do, pouring over so many scripts that are really bad sometimes. We’re looking for a writer/director on it. There have been some really great writers I’ve been reading, to be honest. But just reading so many of these scripts that don’t necessarily have a woman’s role in them and reading just in the perspective of finding a great writer has been really really cool. It’s been really nice, because I have an idea of who I want to be the writer/director on it and hopefully that will work.
We begged Rosario for more but all we got was:
I can’t just yet. When that happens I’ll be ecstatic to announce it, believe me.
In O.C.T., Dawson lends her likeness to main character Sophia Ortiz, who is a member of a New York Police investigation team that patrol a district of New York primarily populated by practitioners of magic. The “Otherground”, as the denizens refer to it, is the epicenter of an extant that connects the Earth with another dimension.
The Weinstein Co optioned the project in September 2006.