2011 Chicago Con report (Sunday part three - the David & Joe Show, pt. 2)

[elderwitty]

Just what you’d expect: trash talking and affection in equal amounts.









They talked about Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and David said he had pushed to get the Evil Snow Monkey Movie released at the same time. It could be the weekend of Hewlett and his primates. Joe guessed that they held it back to improve David’s Oscar chances. ;P











They discussed Joe’s new movie with Jean-Claude Van Damme, which is about to start shooting in Romania. This led to David explaining how the crews over there have a different outlook.



As Romanian crew member, smoking a cigarette: “I have bad news and good news.”
As himself, the beleaguered director: “What’s the bad news?”
aRC: “No snowmobiles have come.” (snowmobile scene slated for today’s shoot)
aDH: “What’s the good news?”
aRC” “We go home early!”




aDH: “I want you to set up the camera at ground level, and shoot this from a really low angle.”
aRC: “Okay.”
aDH (after seeing camera on home-grown stilt-like apparatus): “What’s that?”
aRC: “Ground is uncomfortable for sitting. Is hard to get up and down. This is fine.”

Big laughs, especially after he reminded Joe that he had it to look forward to.



"It was you!!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Hm? Me, what?" . . . . . "Don't tell him. It was me."







Joe talked about Ferocious Planet, or, as it was known while they filmed it, The Other Side. They’d had a lot of fun making it, because the writer and director were playing off all the sci-fi horror movie conventions, and the actors joined in on the ride. Apparently, the crew at Syfy didn’t like it like that (or didn’t get it), because they cut out all the humorous stuff, and renamed it. Sad.



When it came time for David to leave, Joe wouldn’t let him.
. . . . . . . . . . .
"You can't leave - you're my wingman!" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 'Oh, okay."



Prudent, because the next question was from the Japanese lady, about mango pudding and a thousand yen note (in Tao of Rodney).


"Mango pudding? What?"



That wasn’t so bad, but her follow up asked if John and Rodney were just friends, or something more like love.





Joe (who thought that fanfic is slash, and fanfiction is everything else) said that once they put it out there, it’s for the fans to decide what to do with it.



David gave him the side eye and repeated that bit back to him, slowly, in case Joe hadn’t realized what we he said.


"You put it out there...."


"...and the fans decide what to do with it."


"Oops."

All in all, they handled it gracefully, and David told Joe to be thankful, because if he’d left when he was supposed to, Joe would’ve been left all alone to handle that. “You dodged a bullet, mister.”

Someone asked Joe how his shoulder was and he said it was better. “It had better be better!” (as he’s going off to do this film). He talked about tweeting his gory shoulder, and David was aghast. “During the surgery?!” “Well, no. Before,” Joe admitted. (Like that’s so much better, but, hey. Scars are cool and wounds are interesting.)






Last part slated for tomorrow.

Comments

Re: *logic*

[mackenziesmomma.livejournal.com]

I expect everyone to have logic, because I do.

Silly silly you then. ;)

Re: *logic*

[elderwitty]

I know! And you'd think that I'd get it after all this time, because it's only logical that if that's been my experience for all this time, it will most likely continue in that vein.


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