Normally I sit an make faces at the monitor whenever I hear there's a remake movie based on a 70’s or 80’ TV show. So even though the Miami Vice movie will have Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx as Crockett and Tubbs, I was pulling faces until I noted that Michael Mann is slotted to write, direct, and produce the movie. Now I'm just all-excited. Miami Vice brought movie-level budgets to TV -- what kind of budget will the movie version have? A space-program budget?
“I came back for my own purposes,” said the Time Traveler, looking around my booklined study. “I chose you to talk to because it was . . . convenient. And I don’t want you to do a goddamned thing. There’s nothing you can do. But relax . . . we’re not going to be talking about personal things. Such as, say, the year, day, and hour of your death. I don’t even know that sort of trivial information, although I could look it up quickly enough. You can release that white-knuckled grip you have on the edge of your desk.” I tried to relax. “What do you want to talk about?” I said. “The Century War,” said the Time Traveler. I blinked and tried to remember some history. “You mean the Hundred Year War? Fifteenth Century? Fourteenth? Sometime around there. Between . . . France and England? Henry V? Kenneth Branagh? Or was it . . .” “I mean the Century War with Islam,” interrupted the Time Traveler. “Your future. Everyone’s.” He was no longer smiling. Without asking, or offering to pour me any, he ...
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