Ford won’t read Indy 4 reviews
His big-screen alter ego isn’t a fan of snakes but it will take more than slithering reptiles to get under the skin of the man who brings Indiana Jones to life.
Harrison Ford isn’t concerned if reviewers love or hate his latest film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Ford says he won’t know what the critics say because he doesn’t read reviews.
“I suppose it would be interesting, but I don’t read reviews,” Ford told Reuters. “I don’t want to believe the bad stuff and I don’t want to believe the good stuff. It doesn’t really matter.”
This is probably good for Ford. Reviews for the film, which debuted last week at Cannes, have been decidedly mixed.
Fans can decide whether the movie is a hit or a miss this Thursday when it opens in theaters.
Spotnitz launches social-networking site
As the buzz builds for this summer’s X-Files: I Want to Believe, fans of the show and producer/writer Frank Spotnitz have a new way to connect. Fans of Spotnitz can become part of a new community on Spotnitz’s personal web site that discuss the upcoming movie, share their love of the series that spawned the second big-screen adaptation and discuss the other projects Spotnitz has worked on beyond the X-Files, including the current hit Supernatural.
Spotnitz announced the new site today on his blog. You can find out more about the Spotnitz network site at: http://network.biglight.com/
Spotnitz has been a guest on previous episodes of Slice of SciFi. He is the producer of the genre-related shows The Night Stalker, The Lone Gummen, Harsh Realm, Supernatural and Millennium. He also worked for several years as a story writer and then producer for The X-Files as well as co-writing the first X-Files feature film.
Abrams praises Anna Torv
After what he called a “frustrating” search, J.J. Abrams finally found the right actor for his upcoming fall series, Fringe in Australian actress Anna Torv. Torv will play an FBI agent who teams with an eccentric scientist (John Noble) and his brilliant, estranged son (Joshua Jackson) to take on scientists who are pushing science to its limits with increasingly frightening results.
“Well, she’s just so damned ugly,” Abrams said of Torv during an interview . “No, the thing is, honestly, we saw many, many, many actors, a lot of good ones. And there’s that thing where you’re looking for that thing that clicks, and often it’s just sort of an indescribable, strange sort of quality.”
Abrams said the right actress proved elusive, at least until Bad Robot casting agent Ann Webster showed him Torv’s audition tape for an Australian show. He watched it, and “I knew that was her,” Abrams said, referring to Torv’s Fringe character, Olivia Dunham. “She wasn’t even reading our dialogue. Then we sent her our pages, and she auditioned for that, and it confirmed it. She came out and got the job.”
The writer-producer-director explained that the concept for Fringe came about quickly and easily while he was “hanging out” with longtime collaborators Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. They were “talking about the kind of show we’d love to see on the air,” Abrams said. “For better or worse, like most of the things that I do, it just comes from stuff that I’d love to watch. It’s sort of a boring answer, but that’s kind of what the truth is.”