~BEN STILLER: ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ & ‘THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES’ . . . yes !!!!!!
if BEN STILLER . .
can do his just announced, upcoming feature adaption . ..
of ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’, the Sundance winning documentary about JOSH HARRIS, the so-called Andy Warhol of the web, and art world bad boy . . .
just as gently; but really funny in parts, all too human, bitter-sweet, sad and even harsh in others . . .
as is the tone of the recent ‘THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES’ (2017) . . . where he plays older brother to a failed bro (musician), and successful son (wealth management for rich hipster clients) to an oppressively narcissistic forgotten artist dad,
then things are looking good for a Hollywood re-make.
though of course, ‘THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES’, though it often hit very close to home, and sometimes even . . too close to home, is a fictional though very accurate portrayal.
it kind of makes you realize just how delicate a task it might be to come up with a great, funny, sad serious, twisty, biopic on Josh, esp as ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ . . moves very fast through a time frame of several years, and is characterized by Josh’s interactions with many different, but all high-octane ‘players’, who though individually brought a lot of wild antics, collectively imploded with great gusto, along with some hard knocks, . . within the so-called ‘social experiment’, that Josh said he made, but that really – made him !!
ADAM DRIVER, has a wild cameo . . in ‘THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES’.
he plays a young wannabe rock star, who is maybe going through his first cash payday – a little bit too fast. Ben Stiller in his role as Matt, the older Meyerowitz bro – who runs a budding, start-up celebrity wealth management for hipsters business, has come in, to put a lid on the money action, but still stay .. cool af.
in that fast-paced, tone-perfect scene, I could definitely see the potential . . for a perfect storm . . of a JOSH HARRIS / ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’. BIO-PIC.
they should try to find a equally brief, in & out, cameo role for Driver . .
in the ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ project.
maybe: as ALEX ARCADIA, lol.
he built that Nazi-like, real goldfish swimming in pond / moat . . ran around a 3D temple, that Alex reportedly got $80K to build, & where Josh like some the mad leader of a futuristic cult, often gave his . . ‘mission’ speeches.
with JONAH HILL . . already on-board to play . . Josh, & I can just see it, come to L-I-F-E.
it could be real big win.
‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ – HELLO, H-O-L-L-Y-W-O-O-D.
‘THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES’,
came out last fall, directed & written by NOAH BAUMBACH.
it stars BEN STILLER & ADAM SANDLER (in very tapped-down comedic modes – hurray), as the very different, almost equally damaged grown (half !!) sons of the cranky, semi-seedy self-obsessed old school NYC artist, played by DUSTIN HOFFMAN, and he’s . . nailing it. performance-wise.
you know, or you will, one day . . . the grumpy guy who never made it, won’t be the faculty group show, and his best friend is having a retrospection at the Whitney.
‘THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES’ . . won the PALM DOG award at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.
COMEDY-DRAMA ?!!!
REAL LIFE / DOCU-DRAMA ?!!!
JOSH HARRIS & CREW / ARE IN YOUR HANDS, . . . BEN STILLER !!!!!
BEN STILLER, as MATTHEW MEYEROWITZ . . . in ‘THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES’.
def, def def !! watch the trailer: ‘THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES’ – OFFICIAL TRAILER / YouTube
in fact, you can watch the entire film right now, it’s now on . . NETFLIX !!
more background . . .
see: ‘THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES’ – Wikipedia
here’s how that wiki post / re: Plot . . begins:
“After separating from his wife, unemployed DANNY MEYEROWITZ (Adam Sandler) moves in with his father, HAROLD (Dustin Hoffman), a retired Bard College (!!) art professor and sculptor, and his 3rd wife, MAUREEN (Emma Thompson) . . .”
and btw:
DANNY has a daughter (Grace Van Patten) who is just starting film school, at Bard College, who makes . . “sexually obsessed” art films.
and, we can all . . relate.