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Post by jettford on Jul 1, 2009 16:39:36 GMT -5
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Post by jettford on Jul 1, 2009 16:44:23 GMT -5
oh for goodness sake...Danna , you beat me to it! I'm sorry...i found your link just now...
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Post by Hawkeye on Jul 2, 2009 11:17:13 GMT -5
Bwahahahaha!
You are too funny!
I'll move the original post here- Maybe if I can, and combine the thread.
Good Catch!
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Post by deadendj on Jul 2, 2009 11:47:56 GMT -5
this whole Robin thing is retarded. Didn't Cherie replace Micky in the band? How can Robin be based on Micky?
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Post by youunderstand on Jul 2, 2009 12:04:33 GMT -5
I agree, this character is irritating, How can this be about the Runaways and not include Jackie?
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Post by bri0032 on Jul 2, 2009 12:52:10 GMT -5
this whole Robin thing is retarded. Didn't Cherie replace Micky in the band? How can Robin be based on Micky? Micki was also the first bassist. Robin's probably a Micki/Jackie mix with some other personality traits. (Just a guess) But I agree, it's pretty retarded. |
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Post by darkpeace on Jul 2, 2009 22:50:00 GMT -5
Yeah....she's short too...and neither Micki or Jackie are short..
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Post by wasted on Sept 15, 2009 5:42:20 GMT -5
Alia talks about The Runaways. Alia Shawkat's not-so-arrested development
She's in Toronto for Whip It, in which she plays Ellen Page's best friend.
But Alia Shawkat -- best-known as Maeby on FOX's beloved series Arrested Development -- also talked up her other noteworthy movie, The Runaways, the biopic about the '70s band. She just wrapped the film, starring Twilight's Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett and Dakota Fanning as Cherie Currie.
"I played the bass, so I had to learn. It was pretty cool," said Shawkat.
And she swears the movie shows a very different side of precocious child star Fanning, now 15
"People are going to freak out because she's sexy for, like, the first time ever," Shawkat said. "She looks like Cherie Currie. We did four stage shows and those were the most fun. We pretended that we were in a band." -- DF
blogs.usatoday.com/livefrom/2009/09/dakota-fanning-rocks-out-and-grows-up.html
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Post by Christy The Admin on Sept 15, 2009 7:44:27 GMT -5
This is the part I love most about the first article posted: "So who exactly is this "Robin" character? Latino Review has had access to the script, and believes that Steele never gave her consent to use her name or likeness, and that a character composite they named Robin."
Latino Review BELIEVES? When I was in Journalism school they told us to never report something we didn't know through actual research (which is why I couldn't get a job as a reporter in today's climate to save my life). Maybe this is the best way. I also love how they had "access" to the script, but it doesn't say they read it. Ha ha. OK, I'm glancing sideways at the tv and I BELIEVE Glen Beck is a space alien. Well that must be true, I think I'll go report it...if only I can find a picture of him in a silver suit with tentacle ears...
I also enjoy how the sentence just stops with no ending. Oops.
Shame in my degree-related rant over. *grin*
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Post by dagtoking1 on Sept 16, 2009 9:54:32 GMT -5
How weird it is going to be for fans of The Runaways who see this film and have Robin lurking about. I guess for the Twilight fans it won't matter because they won't know the difference.
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Post by littlesister on Sept 17, 2009 10:05:35 GMT -5
Won't bother me the slightest. It's just a movie. And I have no attachments to any of the 5 bassists who were in the band, although Jackie to me was the main one.
Sooo many new teens and others are now listening to the Runaways music because of this movie, and that's cool in my book.
Fact, non factual, biopic, non biopic, real, fantasy, I could care less! It's a MOVIE. I'm not going to get all worked up over a movie. If noone wants to see it, then don't. 
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Post by dagtoking1 on Sept 17, 2009 14:35:06 GMT -5
Happy it doesn't bother you Little Sister. Enjoy the movie. I have been lucky enough to have had some contact with Jackie and I love, love, love her, so to not have her in the film just ruins it for me. I also would have loved for Joan to have been in Edgeplay but it is what it is.
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Post by wasted on Dec 17, 2009 8:38:09 GMT -5
Here's a recent interview with Alia. The New Natural Alia Shawkat - BlackBook
When not eviscerating the cool kids, Shawkat will appear as a fictional band member opposite Kristen Stewart in The Runaways, a Joan Jett biopic, as well as in the long-gestating Arrested Development movie. She also hopes to break into the indie comic book scene (she designed one of her tattoos, a squiggly triangle that looks like a rotund man in a top hat when viewed from the right angle), but couldn’t find a coffee shop in Brooklyn conducive to her creative pursuit. “I can’t pull out my journal in a vegan restaurant, when I’m surrounded by all of these people and their asymmetric haircuts. I would have seemed like such a tool bag.”
You’ve been doing all these girl projects, working with Drew Barrymore on Whip It and the all girl cast for The Runaways, was that a marked difference to working on such a male-dominated show as Arrested Development?
It’s harder sometimes. When I was on Arrested Development it was a lot easier because it was such a big cast, too, so when had photo shoots it was pretty much just me and Michael [Cera] in the background. We got to do our bits but it was no pressure at all. The adults would take care of it. With Whip It there were a lot, a lot of girls, but there wasn’t one person that we didn’t like. I really take my hat off to Drew because she has such a positive attitude and I think that contributed a lot to that. We were just talking about it the other night, there was no one person that I didn’t get along with on the whole set. And with so many girls that’s so rare. There are so many egos. We still all hang out. It was really rad. The Runaways wasn’t as easy of an experience but we still all got along pretty well.
The Runaways are so emblematic of a very specific time, what was the biggest gap you had to bridge to make it realistic?
Well thank god Joan Jett and Cherie Currie were on set a lot. I’m the bassist in the band. My character has nothing to do with the movement of the plot. The director [Floria Sigismondi], she’s a music video director and this is her first film, so the story is going to be focused on the style. I wasn’t playing a real person, because [the real person] was going to sue the s*** out of us if I did, so we we’re all just staying in a very specific style more than telling the authentic story of a young girl in the 70’s. It’s all about the music and then the drugs and we break up and that kind of thing.
www.blackbookmag.com/article/the-new-natural-alia-shawkat/13805 |
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Post by littlesister on Dec 25, 2009 23:48:29 GMT -5
I wasn’t playing a real person, because [the real person] was going to sue the s*** out of us if I did, so we we’re all just staying in a very specific style more than telling the authentic story
Thanks for the link Wasted! That explains WHY Jackie is not mentioned!!!
It's been said before that Jackie REFUSED to have any part of the movie, and now we hear it from the actress that they were GOING TO have Jackie in the movie but JACKIE threatened to sue them so they HAD to create the character of "Robin". No Jackie in the movie is BECAUSE of Jackie.
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Post by Hawkeye on Dec 26, 2009 23:17:37 GMT -5
we don't know that. chill. it will all come out.
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