Finally reading this weekend’s NYTimes article about “Pineapple Express” director David Gordon Green. It follows the same old line everyone’s towing basically: Why did an indie director go pop, into the mainstream, take on a comedy? etc. etc.
Green’s pretty adamant and unrepentant about some of his bad taste in movies (he does love “Tango & Cash,” and once told me he adored Michael Bay’s “Bad Boys II” about 3-4 years ago much to my shock). “I was into some trash. It wasn’t even prestigious trash, like the taste that Tarantino has. I mean trash.”
However, one instance of hard news in the piece: Green’s planned adaptation of John Grisham’s nonfiction book “The Innocent Man” has gone into limbo. After Warner Independent Pictures was shut down earlier this year in May the project seemed to get lost in the shuffle. If it’s happening at all anymore remains to be seen, but maybe that’s for the best considering all the number of projects on his plate in the last few years (not to mention all the Danny R. McBride projects that have popped up since). Hey, there’s always the “Suspriria” remake, right?
Plus David Gordon Green doing John Grisham? Wouldn’t that mean two-threee weeks before the film’s release of: why??? questions posited about forty thousand times? It would be far too much. Three cheers for shut-down projects that save us from press regurgitation!