Dennis Hopper and Jocko Sims are back for season 2 of the revamped CRASH
Last year when Starz debuted a series based on the 2004 Best Picture motion picture “Crash,” critical response was mixed and ratings did not exactly ‘crash’ through the roof. However, with a second season and more than a little retooling, Starz hopes to change all that. The first order of business was to bring in veteran television producer Ira Steven Behr to take over the show and shape it into a winner. Time will tell whether Behr has succeeded but his passion for the project was evident during an extensive chat with our Jim Halterman. During their one-on-one interview, Behr talked about how he made “Crash” into essentially a new series, how a certain Kennedy helped shape Eric Roberts’s character and what he brings to the show after many years in the sci-fi genre. CLICK HERE FOR INTERVIEW
Jim Halterman is a freelance writer who spends his days interviewing the top tier of talent and creative forces in the entertainment world and then, because he's that kind of guy, he brings it all to YOU! And, because we all like free stuff, check back on Fridays for the best giveaways!! (Photo: With SMASH star Megan Hilty at TCA Winter Press Tour, Pasadena, CA, January, 2012)
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I just want to say thank you, thank you, thank you — for doing an interview with my hero Ira Steven Behr. His work is so underappreciated in the sci fi realm for its deep political insight that has carried over from DS9 to BSG and The 4400. There are so many talentless hacks in the business (*cough *J.J. Abrams *cough*) who do whatever the suits want to exploit the dumbing of the North American mind and use every formula and sensationalistic approach to give the mainstream nothing that speaks to the human condition.
Ira Behr is the very opposite — with all his courage and heart to challenge viewers to reflect on the most pressing issues of our time in a way the mainstream media never does — and he’s so humble about his work. I’m so thrilled to finally have an interview. Every few weeks I do a google search. I hope you’ll do more interviews — and really in-depth ones, too — about not only this show, which I’ll now watch because he’s involved, but also “The 4400″ and “DS9″, especially their political content. I can’t believe more people aren’t rushing to interview this genius!
My pleasure. He was very fun to talk to and is really shaping the show into something worth watching! Anyone else out there you’d like to see interviewed? Let me know….
JIM