The incoherent bloggings of a die-hard Star Wars fan.
Friday, June 16, 2006
Currently listening to: John Ottman - Memories (Superman Returns soundtrack)
Bryan Singer and me :D
On X3's opening day, I went with a whole bunch of friends to the 10 PM showing at the Grauman's Chinese Theater, eager to see the second domestic trailer for Superman Returns on the big screen digitally projected. Lo and behold Bryan Singer was sitting in the audience. I introduced myself, shook his hand, and pretty much totally nerded out. I told him I was totally excited about SR, and asked him if he would pose for a photo. He was totally kind and very friendly, and Jeremy (on the left wearing the Wolverine shirt, and the biggest X-Men fan I know) and I posed for this photo taken by a friend of mine (who hadn't emailed me the picture until now, hence the delay). Bryan pointed out that the guy sitting right next to him was Dan Harris, co-screenwriter for X2 and SR (hence he's not in the photo), and I shook his hand too. And then I pretty much just chatted with Bryan for about five minutes until the lights dimmed down and the movie started. He was totally cool with me, and it felt like I was just talking to buddy. I told him about how some of us on BlueTights.net were planning to line up for 24 hours for SR at the very same theater. He seemed nervous at first, telling us not to go too far for this movie. He seemed insecure about his own work, which I thought was very human of him. The lights dimmed down, I said bye, and I headed to my seat a few rows up.
Once the new SR trailer started playing, the entire theater erupted in cheers, and as soon as the trailer was over, my friend Jeremy yelled back, "Thank you, Bryan!" to which I added, "Bryan, you rock!" I'm sure he heard it. :)
Anyways, after the movie I looked around to see where Bryan was, and lo and behold he was talking to Brett Ratner in the back of the theater. And in a number of interviews, Singer said he randomly ran into Ratner at the Grauman's Chinese. I saw it happen. :D
