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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 22, 2024 18:58:15 GMT
Basically it's like murdering your mother and father and then dumping their bodies on top of each other so they can be together forever 
In the years since, Towne has consistently affirmed that he now believes Polanski’s reimagined ending is the appropriate one. Now in his ’80s, the screenwriter has even returned to “Chinatown” himself, working with Fincher to script a prequel series that explores Gittes’ days as a newly minted detective patrolling the neighborhood that would come to haunt him.
“All I’m likely to say is yes, all the episodes have been written for Netflix,” Towne writes in an interview with Variety. “Working with a force of nature like David Fincher, tho’ occasionally humbling, is never less than enlightening.”
variety.com/2024/film/features/chinatown-50th-anniversary-robert-towne-prequel-david-fincher-1236043979/
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Post by stephen on Jun 23, 2024 2:13:28 GMT
Honestly, I don't know why people are so up in arms about this. If Robert Towne felt there was material to mine in the character and David Fincher of all people wants to play in the '20s, we should be celebrating this. I loved Netflix's Ripley series, and if this is half as good as that, I'll be pleased indeed.
I'm very interested who they'll want for Gittes.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Jun 23, 2024 5:45:06 GMT
Not against this project in principle, but I think I’d rather see Fincher spend his time on something else. Whatever happened to the TV series about cancel culture that he was wanting to develop? |
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 23, 2024 12:47:28 GMT
To frame this project a different way: * Unlike Ripley - this isn't a novel that had 2 films - and several OTHER novels with the character (and films) so it's a bit differen from the Greatest Film Ever Made (ymmv).......Robert Towne had a lot of years to come up with something and he didn't come up with anything great in the sequel (The Two Jakes) either...just sayin' * An interesting note - well to me and maybe to Mattsby who likes ruminating on things like this I reckon - 4 of (my) GOAT films - Chinatown (my #1), The Conversation (#2), Blow Out (Top 20ish maybe, higher?), Memento (Top 20ish maybe, higher?) are basically "sequels to a movie we never saw and that is referenced WITHIN the movies, explicitly"........for example what Harry taped on the boat in New York in The Conversation that resulted in murders.......or Blow-Out with Travolta's wiring of the cop etc...... A big part of those great movies appeal is us only getting "part" of the story.......and not coincientally all 4 are original screenplays btw......and all 4 allow us to guess how damaged and haunted the central character is - based on what we're reading into it"...... Chinatown ingeniously doesn't just hide this in plain sight, it also uses an incredibly sparse description OF it too |
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Jun 23, 2024 13:18:15 GMT
I imagine this'll turn out better than it should with Fincher on it, but I generally hate the concept of prequels with some exception (Furiosa most recently). I like stories that lend some degree of unknowable information about its characters. For 50 years nobody has been saying that we need to know the intricacies of Gittes's past. The story of Chinatown is already the most interesting one to tell, and it's made all the more interesting by what we don't know.
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Post by Brother Fease on Jun 23, 2024 14:40:59 GMT
Chinatown is my #3 favorite film of all-time, and I doubt it'll ever leave my top 5. I very much agree with mikediastavrone96 on this. Why do we have to make prequels or sequels or requels for everything considered "great" or "marketable"? Back in 1990, they had a sequel to Chinatown called The Two Jakes, and it wasn't that good. The bar is going to set very high for this television series. It will be very challenging to top or come near Nicholson/Dunaway/Huston/Polanski/Towne. Everything about Chinatown was so perfect. I can't say I am "looking forward do it", but by all means, give us something special and unique. My suspicion is that it's going to be a traditional detective story with the title character being J.J Gitties.
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Post by stephen on Jul 3, 2024 23:04:14 GMT
Word on the street is they want Tom Pelphrey for Gittes.
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