SeanS1220 posted:

romeo_void posted:

Jim Uhls (Fight Club Screenwriter) To Script YEAR ZERO for HBO

"Last September, we learned that Nine Inch Nails frontman and composer Trent Reznor was going to turn his lyrics and music from his band’s album Year Zero into a TV series. The album has been described as a musical chronicle that criticizes contemporary policies of the United States government by presenting a dystopian vision of the year 2022. We haven’t heard anything about the series since last year, but now THR has learned Fight Club screenwriter Jim Uhls will write the project which is now a miniseries set up at HBO and BBC Worldwide."
via Collider

Really, Jim Uhls is gonna be writing it? I thought the guy who wrote Carnivale, Daniel Knauf was gonna do it

Jim Uhls did a magnificent job adapting Fight Club. If you listen to the Fight Club commentary with him and Palahniuk, you'll understand how much he contributed to the narrative, and at the same time he kept the author really happy(which is almost always impossible with an adaptation). If he can do a good job with that, then he seems like the perfect fit for YZ.

Come on. I need new news like a fat girl needs cock.

*my stomach always knots up when I come into this thread. I don't know what to expect, but I am eager to dee the final product. *waves to Snaapz

Good luck with that.. PM me when anyone knows something plz. ;p

[www.echoingthesound.org]

So I saw some posts on here that had me confused as to the nature of involvement Jim Uhls had with the YZ miniseries. Some said he was still the screenplay writer, others said he had been let go from the project. So I found his FB and politely messaged him my questions, here is the dialog:

Me: Hello! I had heard conflicting reports about your involvement in HBO's upcoming miniseries "Year zero". I was only wondering if you were still attached? I am a huge fan of the screenplays you've done in the past! Sorry, if you "can't" answer my question I understand completely. I am simply very excited to see someone as talented as you possibly working on material I am passionate about...

Jim: I've been away from FB for awhile. Now that I see it, I can answer. I am currently working on Year Zero. Thanks for the kind words.

Just... YES.

BLLAAAAAMO!

Just something I found on NINWiki, don't know how coshure it is though...

HurtNoMore posted:

You sure it was him? I'm suprised as hell. If this really was going on behind the scenes, it would be another reason why TR has been MIA, and HTDA has been delayed.

Hey this is Euphemism from ETS, I usually just lurk here. That's my post from the boards in their "random NIN thoughts" thread. I can confirm that I did message Mr. Uhls on Facebook, and as far as I know, it was him. He's got plenty of the right friends, and his timeline goes back to 2008. That was january of this year, and I can only hope his involvement continues as well as the project itself. I would say that he seems open to a random question or two, if someone else wants to message him. I don't want to come across as pestering someone who obviously has a career to attend to, so I won't try messaging him anymore. Keeping my fingers crossed!

Come on Trent... i'm losing intrest.

This show is so 2022

Trent did an AMA on Reddit a couple of weeks ago and said that the project is on hold. Apparently there were problems with the writing, and TR joked that he and Rob just hadn't had a chance to sit down and write it themselves.

The only way this is going to happen is if NIN fans pony up and do it ourselves. Who's with me? I have some basic plot ideas, characters, and have even written a couple of scenes. Anyone who is interested in colaberating should PM me.

Trent Reznor The Quietus interview

posted:

I've beat myself up over the years and I need to try new things, I need to push myself, I need to break the machine, I need to step away from things that feel comfortable to me, and I think I'm still deep in the process of trying that. In the last few years I've tried to put a focus on not just repeating the touring cycle process endlessly, trying and working in different contexts. I tried the film scoring world to see what that was like, and I found that there's great things about it and there's terrible things about it. Working with different bands - the thing with [Dr.] Dre will reveal itself pretty soon, it's not a physical product, it's a platform that feels like it - it was a real challenge to come up with that. Will it work? It may, it may not. But it's something that's a puzzle for me to solve, in and of itself challenging, and it's utilising some skills I have in an unfamiliar and unsafe half of my safety zone kind of way, and it's been interesting. I tried writing a TV show for HBO and it failed, but we tried! It was scary and uncomfortable and lots of meetings, and it thrust me into something that was unfamiliar and it didn't always work.

This doesn't sound promising

Yeah, I would be very sorry too, the story is great and it would make of the great TV series, especially with it's themes and ideas, now more than ever actually.

But, if the TV show is not going to happen, maybe that other idea of Grant Morrison written YZ-comic could, which I would love even more!

Hey, we can't reaveal too much of the truth to TV viewers. YZ is a little bit too truthful and revealing. Knowledge is survivalism, don't give them the idea.

Sludge_Factory posted:

Trent Reznor The Quietus interview

posted:

I've beat myself up over the years and I need to try new things, I need to push myself, I need to break the machine, I need to step away from things that feel comfortable to me, and I think I'm still deep in the process of trying that. In the last few years I've tried to put a focus on not just repeating the touring cycle process endlessly, trying and working in different contexts. I tried the film scoring world to see what that was like, and I found that there's great things about it and there's terrible things about it. Working with different bands - the thing with [Dr.] Dre will reveal itself pretty soon, it's not a physical product, it's a platform that feels like it - it was a real challenge to come up with that. Will it work? It may, it may not. But it's something that's a puzzle for me to solve, in and of itself challenging, and it's utilising some skills I have in an unfamiliar and unsafe half of my safety zone kind of way, and it's been interesting. I tried writing a TV show for HBO and it failed, but we tried! It was scary and uncomfortable and lots of meetings, and it thrust me into something that was unfamiliar and it didn't always work.

This doesn't sound promising

I like to imagine Trent sitting at his desk, trying to write ideas for plot and dialogue on a notepad. As his frustration and anger mount, he stands up from his chair, grabs the pile of papers and notes from the desk and throws them into the trash can in an angry huff. He stands there, beaten, staring at his failed attempt at bringing his baby to the screen. As his initial rage dies down, a depressed melancholy overtakes his mind. His shoulders slump, his head sags, and a soft muttering escapes his pouting lips...
"I tried, and I gave up... I tried, and I gave up..."
His wife walks by the door, and hearing her husband mumbling to himself, peeks her head through the door to investigate.
"Honey," she says, inquisitively. "What are you muttering about in here? I thought you were working on your script."
He turns his head, his face a picture of unfiltered sadness, a single tear running silently down his cheek. As he gazes at her, he looks to her face, then to the trash can, then back to his wife. He raises his arm, points to the discarded papers and says,
"I tried, And I GAVE UUUUUUUUP!!!!"