For source: http://www.hollywoodnorthreport.com/article.php?Article=1497
Kuralyov 17:09, 8 Jul 2005 (EDT)
- http://www.hollywoodnorthreport.com/article.php?Article=1756 Kuralyov 20:03, 19 September 2005 (EDT)
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Alan Smithee is not a real person. --Peter Farago 18:26, 16 November 2005 (EST)
- Just a joke placeholder name; other pages had "suchandsuch" and "whoisit" etc for stuff so I just put in a placeholder. Besides, Mr. Smithee has brought us such wonderful works as the excellent 1984 adaptation of "Dune" and the animated 1978 Lord of the Rings. --Ricimer 21:32, 16 November 2005 (EST)
- I think we should leave it blank until we know. What if a director really wants his name removed from an episode at some point? --Peter Farago 10:16, 17 November 2005 (EST)
- Reminds me of this Eric Idle movie "Burn Hollywood Burn"; basically, he's the director of what's going to be the biggest movie of the decade...and also the biggest flop. It's got a gigantic special effects budget (like 3 disaster movies and 3 action movies roled into one). It's called "Trio" and it stars the action 'trio' of Slyvester Stallone, Jackie Chan, and Whoopi Goldberg (I kid you not, they actually appear in this thing; yeah, a gun-toting Whoopi Goldberg). Well, the idea behind "Allen Smithee" is it's an unusual made up name no one would really have, so that when a hollywood studio so butchers a director's project that it is A) not his creative vision at all and he was completely cut off from it and B) it would be career suicide to be associated with such a flop. Eric Idle's character the director of Trio who really has no control over it whatsover as the studio writers and execs are calling the shots (they put him in charge of camerawork and little else), so when he finally sees the finished rough cut he declares "It's worse than Showgirls!" and demands for it to be an "Allen Smithee production". Problem is, through blind luck Eric Idle's character's real name is "Allen Smithee"! And according to the director's guild rules the only name you can replace as director for the film is "Allen Smithee". So he goes berserk and steals the rough cuts of the film and hides them so the film can never be shown (it was a movie-in-a-movie thing about everyone trying to get the movie back). Dear god, the descriptions of "Trio" were like sitting in on a Berman and Braga writing session; Whoopi and Jackie's characters die in the end, while Stallone's character gets a sex change. However, Jackie Chan was so adamant that in his movies his character never dies that eventually they compromised by saying that his character does die, but gets reincarnated. Sort of like the old "We can never have enough time travel or parallel universes on Star Trek!" routine they pulled on us.--Ricimer 12:17, 17 November 2005 (EST)
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Oh, that thing is SAWEEET! --Watcher 18:06, 6 January 2006 (EST)