Two for the price of one!

Greetings, Programs!

I realize I've already satisfied my quota for today, but I'm motivated to write more. Imagine!

As anyone who's known me for more than ten minutes can tell you, I'm a huge fan of the Tron films. Tron: Legacy was, for me, both a flash back to my teenage self watching light cycles race on the Grid for the first time, and a reminder of why I chose to write and make films in the first place. The man who envisioned and directed T:L, Joseph Kosinski, is actually the subject of this post (ah, eventually she gets to the point).

Now, there already exists in the blogosphere some excellent investigations into who Joseph Kosinski is, mainly because when he was attached to T:L, few knew the name readily. Check out the link I just posted to see the work he did pre-T:L, which was his first feature film.

So what's next for JoKo? Oblivion! I mean the film, "Oblivion," about a lone soldier (Tom Cruise) on a bleak, post-apocalyptic future Earth, repairing drones that seek and destroy the nasty aliens on earth. Until, that is, he meets a gorgeous (alien) woman who's crash-landed on Earth. This forces him to reevaluate his world view. (from Deadline Hollywood).

The title of the project seems to have migrated from "Oblivion" to "Horizons" and back again. I'm not sure what's going on there. According to ProIMDb, it's called "Horizons" but according to Deadline Hollywood, it's "Oblivion." So who knows.

What's important here is that I want to work for Kosinski. P.A., Office P.A., Personal Assistant, you name it. I want in. His future projects include remaking Disney's "Black Hole," and another sci-fi called "Archangels." The guy seems to dig making sci-fi. And what we need is a sci-fi champ for the next generation. Someone who can push the limits of imaging arts and sciences to create landscapes and stories that ignite our imaginations the way Star Wars: A New Hope did back in '77. Is that cheesy to say? Yes, I know it is. But it's how I think about these things and it's why I admire this man's work.

You may be surprised at how taken I am with all this technology stuff in filmmaking, given that I'm a screenwriter, not an animator or digital effects artist. Thing is, we know that all good sci-fi is about character and story, but how much effing cooler is it when the world in which those characters and story play out blows your mind away? I want it all, in other words.

Which brings me back to Kosinski. I gotta find a way to work for this man.

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