DECLARED REIGN OF JUPITERROR, CAPTAIN OF THE JAMMIN’ JONESES
YES!
Tag: jupiter ascending
We started our first day with Eddie ahead of schedule, and by the end of the day, we were a half-day behind. And when our UPM had to fill out the report, he filled in the place where it says ‘Reason for falling behind schedule.’ And he wrote, ‘The directors have fallen in love with Eddie Redmayne’.
Andy Wachowski on working with Eddie Redmayne on Jupiter Ascending
It can be difficult for people from underdeveloped worlds to hear that their planet is not the only inhabited planet.
The obvious explanation for how Jupiter Ascending got made:
[phone rings]
Mrs. Wachowski: Lana, it’s Mom.
Lana Wachowski: Uh, hi Mom.
MW: Lana, listen, your dad and I were cleaning out the basement and we found all the handwritten screenplays you wrote in 8th grade.
LW: Um…ok?
MW: So I was reading them, and there’s this one about a space princess who falls in love with a rollerskating wolf soldier…
LW: OMG.
MW: …and anyway, I was thinking, y’know maybe this would be a good movie for you and Andy to make. Cause, to be honest, sweetie, I never understood that Matrix movie. Like, why is he bending the spoon? It’s a perfectly good spoon. It seems wasteful. And that Keanu—
LW: Mom, I am not making the space princess story I wrote in middle school into a movie.
MW: I mean, fine, all right; if you and Andy have other plans, you have other plans. I just thought it might be nice. Something different after Cloud Compass.
LW: It was Cloud ATLAS, Mom.
MW: Well, if you did the space princess movie, she wouldn’t even need a compass. Because it’s in space, and you can go up or down or—
LW: Okay, okay, fine; I will talk to Andy about making the space princess movie.
MW: Oh, well only if you want to. Oh, and Lana?
LW: What Mom?
MW: Think about casting that nice boy from Magic Mike as the rollerskating wolf soldier. Channing Whats-His-Name. The one with the neck.
LW: …
MW: …
LW: Ok, Mom. Channing Tatum as the wolf soldier. Got it. I’ll go and—wait, Mom, Andy’s calling me on the other line. Hold on. Hey, Andy.
Andy Wachowski: Hey, uh…what’s up with this space princess screenplay?
LW: Whoa, wait, how do you already know about it?
AW: Mom just faxed it to me with a picture of Channing Tatum.
