Just read in the WaPo that George Clooney is going to do a live remake of Network, the 1976 classic. I first saw Network just before the election and I loved it. I can't believe I only saw that film so recently.
Quite true. I saw it as a pretty scary film, seeing it for the first time in 2004 and knowing it was made in 1976. The news must have been pretty cool back then.Clooney told the AP that when he screened the film for a group of "young people," none of them recognized that it was a dark satire:
"I couldn't understand it, [then] I realized that everything Chayefsky wrote about happened. . . . And so, suddenly, the idea that the anchor is more important than the news story, and that you'd be doing sort of reality-based shows, all happened," Clooney said in the interview.
No word as to when this live event will air. When it does, it'll be on CBS.
Remember that live ER back in the day?
George Clooney just released a film he directed called, "Good Night and Good Luck". It's about Edward R. Murrow and his news stories about McCarthyism. Clooney was on The Daily Show recently talking about it. With his announcement about doing a remake of 'Network' it seems he's interested in the corporate corruption of media. Like a lot of us are... He elluded to as much, but was VERY carfull. My hats off to a famous person with an apparent subversive agenda in this day and age of right wing madness. ESPECIALLY in the corporate controlled movie/media business. Ah but people forget their ideologies so fast when lots of money is involved. It may be the only way to stop the right wing. Pay 'em off.
Posted by: Brian R. | October 06, 2005 at 04:24 PM
I saw that Daily Show, but missed most of the Clooney segment. It was an all-Hollywood week on TDS. The new additions to the show are nice. Seeing young Courddry is hilarious.
Posted by: albert | October 07, 2005 at 09:56 AM