John Milius, who wrote the screenplay for Apocalypse Now and also served as a writer and producer on the HBO series Rome, will be writing a miniseries about photojournalists in Vietnam, set to air on AMC. The miniseries will be called Saigon Bureau, and unfortunately that's all we know at this point.
I'm hoping for a miniseries in which all the photojournalists are similar to Dennis Hopper in Apocalypse Now: crazy, hopped up on drugs and ending every sentence with "maaaaaaaaan." Of course, that describes pretty much every movie Hopper made in the '70s, but what the hell, you go with what suits you.
As many have pointed out, American Movie Classics has been drifting away from "classic movies" for some time, but given the talent behind some of the new series being developed for the network, and the fact that Turner Classic Movies has always done the "classic movies" thing better anyway, I have no complaints about this new direction.
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6-21-2007 @ 2:42PM
ProDelgado said...
Let's hope it's as good as Michael Herr's "Dispatches".
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6-21-2007 @ 1:18PM
Aaron said...
Gee, thanks Adam. As an honest to God, real life photojournalist we still have to live down those ridiculous stereotypes to this day. Everyone expects us to be stoners, dazed space cadets ("Animal" from Lou Grant) or paparazzi.
Most of us are people who simply like to inform people of what is happening in their world visually and try to go out of our way not to live up to the negative stereotypes.
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8-05-2007 @ 12:04PM
mark brown said...
i do not care for amc any more.it`s terrible
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