We have no money and we need art students to come in and work for free. So we found these two wonderful art students. Richard Kelly: I think Seann was the first actor to get on board the film, to play the twins. And in all the years since, theyve become even more essential, because the graphic novels were our blueprint. Other names. I will continue working on Southland Tales until the day I die, whether or not we get to make more of it or not. They were checking me out like crazy in there. And that, my friend, is God's work. Richard Kelly: We had one day with Justin: One very, very, very long day, and I kept adding stuff with him, because he was so essential to the movie, and then we brought him back to do voiceover. A montage of news footage introduces us to the world ofSouthland Talesthen ties the many stories together. 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. On May 10, 2013, TNT announced the series of Southland after five seasons (no season six). Throughout the series, real Los Angeles thoroughfares or sections are named (e.g. In 2005, director Richard Kelly was in a unique position inside the Hollywood ecosystem. Sir, can we please just have this footage for like $100? And finally, I just talked him into it. (Last week:A Field in England). We have to do advertising. 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. Todd Berger: At the time I was really into bocce ball. What was the official certification given to Southland (2009) in Canada? And theyre like, Okay, how the hell do you expect anyone to know that or to read these books? Well, were going to try to publish them before the movie comes out. It all stemmed from Veronica's internal monologue (and a little tip from her pal Wallace). You see the actor who ends up assassinating Miranda Richardsons character at the end of the film, the guy with the mohawk. And were out there getting the fires set up in the homeless camps. Its not for you, you know. [14][15] He also provided the voice-over for a Sky One advertisement for the channel's Law & Order airings. 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. I think they just went for it. Ditto the raconteurs of "Revenge," "Burn Notice," "Red Band Society" and any other series we omitted. Hes our doomsday narrator. So the second I realized the musical number was working, my gut wasI had already made that decision, but I hadnt asked Justin yet. Maybe there was someone at some point who wanted to cut it out, but anyone who wanted to cut that out of the movie was probably someone at some point who was like, Can you cut the Justin Timberlake dance number? I think those are the same kinds of people who were like, Can you cut the cars fucking? You know, like clearly someone who just has no business ever watching this movie, should just stay a thousand feet away from this movie for the rest of their life. The reaction to Southland Tales has become part of Cannes lore. It was called Southland Tales. Each actor gives the dialogue their own spin, with some playing it completely straight while others camp it up. One of the most challenging things aboutSouthland Talesis that it walks a fine line between self-awareness and pretention. Richard Kelly: A lot of people were like, Richard, this is too much. I think the person who owned the clip was in India, and he was making some ridiculous demand of money for the clip. 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: I asked [Justin] to be the narrator once we finished shooting the musical number. 2023 TV GUIDE, A FANDOM COMPANY. can't exist on a street that only goes as far east as the 2000 West block). Theres like three of us. I want them to have a movie with a full, complete story. In Roger Eberts review of Southland Tales from 2007, the critic remembered being dazed, confused, bewildered, bored, affronted, and deafened by the boos during the premiere. In 1994, when then-Congresswoman Olympia Snowe decided not to seek re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives for Maine's 2nd congressional district, Zirnkilton sought to replace her. No one can zing a Bluth like Howard's deadpan narration can. And I was going a little loopy, and we didnt have enough money to shut down the pier. Dwayne has so many different kinds of movie stars inside of him. And then I thought about how were telling the story about Iraqi war veterans and PTSD, and how thats interlaced into the story and thinking about veteran suicides and that horrible reality that we face, that our veterans face. Mark had to help me organize all that. Oh, gosh, Ive written this apocalyptic conclusion to my L.A. crime caper. And in the end, the movie doesnt really make much sense. And then we have like one hour left with Justin. And I was like, Okay, lets just try to justify the existence of these books and give the audience a tease of it in this little animated prologue. And we had no money. When they shot that, I was three blocks away, shooting the ATM being ripped out of the wall. And I think its its very cinematic, and it brings a whole new dimension to the movie. It was my big Los Angeles film. I was leaning hard into that. Ahead of a new Blu-ray of the movie thats being released this week (which includes, among other things, the first wide release of its infamous 160-minute Cannes cut), The A.V. And when we were figuring out how to do the doppelgnger body and how to pull it off, I think Lou made some phone calls. Richard Kelly: And before we wrapped that night, it was literally a 16- to 18-hour night at the Santa Monica Pier. We only had the festival clearances, and they wanted toreplace it with cheap catalog knockoff stuff that cost like $1,000 per song. Do you know the Michelin Man is white. She put so much time into rehearsal; she just wanted to be perfect. He graduated from New England College and began working for radio station WDEA in Ellsworth, Maine upon graduation. And she uses like garden shears, and she cuts my thumb off, and then blood sprays everywhere. There are communities and websites dedicated to solving the mysteries of the movies plot. A montage of news So I had all those schematics. When Veronica Mars called herself a "marshmallow," a legion of fans was born. 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. We know he'll be okay. Thats how much we were stretching every dollar and every hour that we were on set. Its about the end of the world, like the apocalypse, right? Now I know what it's like to be a chick.Cooper: If you want to be a chick that's a different bar. He both absorbs content, and is interested in things, and then also has a very strong personal vision. I'm Brooke by the way, The girl he stopped seeing so he could just f*ck you. This show is anything but. No teen character on TV is as reliable as Angela Chase, mostly because Angela Chase tells us exactly what she is feeling. We tracked him down and cast him in the film based on that, because when I saw that footage, Im like, okay, [Richardsons character] Nana Mae Frost needs to witness that footage of projectile vomiting, it needs to make her physically sick, and that foreshadowing, thats the man whos going to come in and assassinate her. Part of HuffPost Entertainment. The bar is okay with it, you know. But it helped ease everyone into the ambition of the movie. Narrator. So for a minute, in my soul, I really was like, Oh, my god, the Southland is real.. And at the center of it all: a pair of twins, Roland and Ronald Taverner, played by Seann William Scott. 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. That was the foundational plot device: the ride-along with the actor, the staged shooting with the squibs. will again meet its' demise if not for full and utter fan support. She is the modern urban professional's pope, holding it together on the outside (mostly) while falling down flaky, analytical rabbit holes on the inside -- and threading the show's plots by writing her titular column in voice-over form. 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. Why are we spending more visual effects money on this fucking movie?. In a lot of ways, it adds a whole lot. I never would have felt that he was feeling any of that pressure. Ive never seen an actor with that kind of work ethic, ever. So we were up for, I dont know, at some point it was past 50 hours? But you can take a couple. See production, box office & company info. Yeah, sure man, sure!. And I could tell right away he was a very good listener, and he was really excited and eager to push the envelope and do something really new and something he had never done before. You can give him really complex, intricate direction. It premiered on NBC, and according to them, the series takes a "raw and authentic look" at Los Angeles and the lives of the LAPD officers who police it. Fifteen years laterafter the whirlwind, sometimes guerilla-style shoot; after the push for an ambitious transmedia launch that saw explanatory graphic-novel prequels shipped out to Cannes; after a reception at said festival that left Roger Ebert deafened by the boos; after the immortal line, Im a pimp. And I think everyone just sort of looked at the graphic novel like, What is this?. 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