"It was tragic in a lot of ways... The most tragic part about it is that Todd Haynes is 62. He’s not old, right? But there is a finite number of films that he’ll be able to do in his lifetime... [He is] one of the most extraordinary film artists of his generation, and the idea that his time was wasted and that a movie is not a result of those years of working closely with Joaquin… That is the tragedy to me. And that I can’t get over, that we as a cultural community, lost the opportunity to have another movie by Todd Haynes. That is just criminal.”
That is Todd Haynes' longtime producing partner -- and general fucking movie icon -- Christine Vachon talking in broad terms at the San Sebastian Film Fest this week about the bullshit that unfolded with the gay romance that Haynes had been working on with Joaquin Pheonix for the past few years -- the one that Joaquin backed out of just a couple of days before shooting was set to begin. And that is basically exactly what I said at the time. It's uhhh actually weirdly similar:
"That said this especially pisses me off because Todd Haynes is 63 years old and probably only has a handful of movies left in him, and this neurotic douchebag just wasted more or less two years of Haynes' creative life for nothing. It's not like it's getting easier for iconoclasts like Haynes to make movies. Joaquin can go roll around in the twenty million bucks he got from Warner Brothers for the Joker sequel -- Todd Haynes is back to the drawing board, ekeing out financing for whatever small movie he can cobble together next."
Anyway preach, Christine. You -- we -- said it!
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Phoenix is more difficult than mega difficult Brando and he's not THAT good or some legend like Brando was!
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