Do you think a movie about E.L. James would be interesting (comedy, director)

[ironpony]

Originally Posted by Hulsker 1856

Who wants to see a movie based on the life of J.K Rowling? Stephen King? Dan Brown? No one. They can crank out the bestsellers but they lead lives that, while I'm sure they find satisfying, aren't exactly the stuff of cinema.

Rare is the author about whom we want to see a dramatization of their life... unless they led an interesting life beyond their writing. Think Hemingway or London or Twain.

Well I saw the movie Hitchcock (2012), which is about Hitchcock. His life was probably boring but they made a movie out of it, and added entertaining aspects to his life.

Originally Posted by Sundaydrive00

But what would the movie be about, her reading and watching twilight over and over again and then getting on the computer and writing fan fiction? It doesn't sound like too good of a drama.

But you can say this about other true stories too. I like the movie Frost/Nixon, which is about a TV interview that happened. I thought to myself "how are they going to make a movie about an interview interesting? And they still did cause they used their imaginations.

[hertfordshire]

Hitchcock was more interesting on his days off than James could ever dream of being in her whole life. For one thing, he was actually a gifted director and filmmaker whose works were imaginative and carefully crafted. He was iconic. Recognizable just by his silhouette. She slopped a bunch of repetitive sex scenes onto paper. No comparison.

[Sundaydrive00]

Hopefully this isnt the feauture length film you were planning to make, OP.

[sawyersmom]

Originally Posted by hertfordshire

Hitchcock was more interesting on his days off than James could ever dream of being in her whole life. For one thing, he was actually a gifted director and filmmaker whose works were imaginative and carefully crafted. He was iconic. Recognizable just by his silhouette. She slopped a bunch of repetitive sex scenes onto paper. No comparison.

This!

[ocnjgirl]

Originally Posted by ironpony

Well I saw the movie Hitchcock (2012), which is about Hitchcock. His life was probably boring but they made a movie out of it, and added entertaining aspects to his life.



But you can say this about other true stories too. I like the movie Frost/Nixon, which is about a TV interview that happened. I thought to myself "how are they going to make a movie about an interview interesting? And they still did cause they used their imaginations.

Hitchcock was a sadist he wasn’t just the normal vanilla person. They didnt just make up all that stuff about him. You cant just make up things about a person that can be corroborated or that can be found to be untrue by people who are still alive and who dealt with him. The accounts of Hitchcock’s many idiosyncrasies were Hollywood legend years before this movie was made.

[ocnjgirl]

Originally Posted by ironpony

Well I saw the movie Hitchcock (2012), which is about Hitchcock. His life was probably boring but they made a movie out of it, and added entertaining aspects to his life.



But you can say this about other true stories too. I like the movie Frost/Nixon, which is about a TV interview that happened. I thought to myself "how are they going to make a movie about an interview interesting? And they still did cause they used their imaginations.

Using their imaginations it’s not the same as making things up. How are you going to make up things about a television interview that still exists on film?

You can make the true things a bit more colorful yes. But you can’t simply make things up. You can’t say someone had an abusive parent when they did not for instance.

[Iconographer]

Originally Posted by ironpony

Not a documentary but an actual biographical drama with actors. I just find it fascinating how she wrote a fanfiction based on her fantasies, as I read, and how it became such a best selling series.

I think that maybe it could make for an interesting movie about an average person who finds success like The Social Network, or The Disaster Artist.

Or maybe there is not enough material there, for a whole movie? What do you think?

I agree. It will probably take another 25-30 years, though.

[ironpony]

Originally Posted by ocnjgirl

Using their imaginations it’s not the same as making things up. How are you going to make up things about a television interview that still exists on film?

You can make the true things a bit more colorful yes. But you can’t simply make things up. You can’t say someone had an abusive parent when they did not for instance.

But they do make up things all the time in Hollywood about true stories. I mentioned Hysteria. In that movie, Mortimer Granville tries to save his love interest from having to undergo a court ordered surgery, but in real history, this never happened in his life, and it was done for purely cinematic purposes.

When The Social Network came out, Mark Zuckerberg complained how a lot of the movie was made up and not true, so it seems to happen still.

[ocnjgirl]

okay is what are you planning to make up? You realize if you try to present it as biography but make things up out of whole cloth, she can sue you? Also you’re not going to be able to make any sort of true story about a living person without interviewing her. You can’t just Wikipedia her and get facts about her childhood and how she thinks and who she is as a person.

Hysteria was presented as “based on true events” it wasn’t biographical.

It is small things Zuckerberg complained about, such as who he was and wasn’t dating at the time. You still can’t make things up that are significant such as she was abused, she went to orgies, to make her seem interesting. So what was your plan to embellish, and what would be your plan to research her life?

[ironpony]

Oh I wasn't going to write it, I just thought it would make for an interesting movie perhaps, if done well.

Why didn't Zuckerberg sue then?