Lucy in the Sky (Noah Hawley, 2019)

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flyonthewall2983 · Sun Apr 24, 2016 11:31 pm

Noah Hawley, creator of FX's Fargo, set to make his feature directing debut.

flyonthewall2983 · #2 Post by **flyonthewall2983** » Tue Mar 19, 2019 2:04 pm

Lucy In The Sky, the major motion picture directing debut of Noah Hawley.

#3 Post by **domino harvey** » Tue Mar 19, 2019 2:08 pm

Pale Blue Dot was an infinitely better title

#4 Post by **mfunk9786** » Tue Mar 19, 2019 2:44 pm

This guy's done a brilliant job with Fargo, something that had no right to be as great as it's been in all three of its iterations. And this looks great. So - great!

#5 Post by **mfunk9786** » Tue Mar 19, 2019 2:46 pm

From Rolling Stone:

The film is loosely based on the 2007 tabloid saga of Lisa Nowak, who famously drove from Houston to Orlando, wearing an adult diaper, to kidnap her ex-boyfriend’s new lover.

Okay, I'm 1000% in

flyonthewall2983 · #6 Post by **flyonthewall2983** » Tue Mar 19, 2019 2:49 pm

Someone on reddit claimed to have seen it already. Says it's very good and follows the Nowak story closely. But alas, no diapers.

PfR73 · #7 Post by **PfR73** » Tue Mar 19, 2019 3:20 pm

domino harvey wrote: Tue Mar 19, 2019 2:08 pm Pale Blue Dot was an infinitely better title

Pale Blue Dot was also the working title of Jason Reitman's Men, Women, & Children, when it was filming here in Austin, and also didn't stick with it.

#8 Post by **mfunk9786** » Tue Mar 19, 2019 3:29 pm

I find it difficult not to prefer Lucy in the Sky just because it means the movie will surely pull in more box office based on a more eye-catching title to the general filmgoing population. I'm sure the actress who just had a movie called Vox Lux bomb will appreciate it

Cremildo · #9 Post by **Cremildo** » Tue Mar 19, 2019 3:34 pm

Or maybe casual moviegoers will go see it during opening weekend thinking it's a Beatles musical, then realize it's an artsy drama/sci-fi movie, and the ensuing negative word-of-mouth will kill it instantly!

flyonthewall2983 · Tue Mar 19, 2019 4:11 pm

Maybe studios are iffy about the word "pale" in the title. Two of the definitions of the word are "deficient in color or intensity of color" and "not bright or brilliant". They practically read like negative movie reviews on their own.

#11 Post by **swo17** » Tue Mar 19, 2019 4:15 pm

What was Sagan thinking not naming this after a Beatles song?

Persona · #12 Post by **Persona** » Wed Mar 20, 2019 12:15 am

Um, I was looking forward to this, but that trailer just launched my hype into the stratosphere.

wowee zowee

#13 Post by **swo17** » Wed Mar 20, 2019 12:47 am

If only we lived in a world where naming a film after that Pavement album would sell tickets

The Narrator Returns · Wed Mar 20, 2019 1:05 am

I mean, Portman's problem in this is when she's grounded...

spectre · #15 Post by **spectre** » Wed Mar 20, 2019 2:18 am

mfunk9786 wrote: Tue Mar 19, 2019 2:46 pm From Rolling Stone:

The film is loosely based on the 2007 tabloid saga of Lisa Nowak, who famously drove from Houston to Orlando, wearing an adult diaper, to kidnap her ex-boyfriend’s new lover.
Okay, I'm 1000% in

I just saw the trailer and er, wow ... talk about burying the lede!

flyonthewall2983 · Mon Aug 26, 2019 6:37 pm

Final trailer

#17 Post by **mfunk9786** » Mon Aug 26, 2019 7:49 pm

therewillbeblus · #18 Post by **therewillbeblus** » Sun Sep 15, 2019 8:43 pm

Noah Hawley’s Lucy in the Sky is getting panned by critics, despite some love for Portman’s performance.

#19 Post by **mfunk9786** » Sun Sep 15, 2019 11:12 pm

Oh no, you aren't kidding - a 37 on Metacritic, what a mess

#20 Post by **domino harvey** » Sun Sep 15, 2019 11:14 pm

Would have been Certified Fresh if it was still called Pale Blue Dot

flyonthewall2983 · Wed Sep 18, 2019 9:37 pm

Apart from David Chase, are there any show runners who directed well-received movies? I seem to remember one that Matthew Weiner did basically fall off the face of the earth with no buzz around it whatsoever.

knives · #22 Post by **knives** » Wed Sep 18, 2019 9:40 pm

Michael Mann would seem a more obvious choice than David Chase.

flyonthewall2983 · Wed Sep 18, 2019 9:46 pm

I mean someone who was a show-runner first, and more someone from the recent ages of television where shows took much more cinematic steps. Miami Vice is a good early indicator of this, but Mann had already directed both television and features.

knives · #24 Post by **knives** » Wed Sep 18, 2019 9:55 pm

Well, that takes away Norman Lear as well I guess. Recently, JJ Abrams and Joss Wheadon seem to have done well for themselves.

#25 Post by **mfunk9786** » Wed Sep 18, 2019 10:42 pm

If he has another couple of opportunities on the horizon, I would still have some confidence that Hawley could pull off something interesting. That said, it's a minor miracle that Fargo is as compelling as it is, considering how much it trades in pastiche of the Coens' films. Even though I was enjoying it in the moment, the bowling alley scene in Season 3 makes me cringe just thinking about it.

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