ATTN: Wes Anderson.

"The muse is a fickle mistress at best, and to leave her high and dry, with just a 'lick and a promise' of the greatness of which one is capable - well, sir, it's just plain wrong. It is an Art Crime© of the first magnitude and a great sin against your talent and your Self. We just don't want to see it go down that way." And so, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker - yes, Steely Dan - offer Wes Anderson two alternative strategies aimed at a fuller realization of the filmmaker's talents.

Via Coudal Partners, naturally.

Update, 8/16: Fox Searchlight has picked up Anderson's next, The Darleeling Limited, note Nicole Sperling and Borys Kit in the Hollywood Reporter.

Update, 8/17: Looker: "Aside from being the funniest thing I've read since Mel Gibson's apology, it's also the finest critique of Anderson's oeuvre I've seen anywhere."

Update, 8/21: David Poland reads the Darjeeling screenplay.

Posted by dwhudson at August 15, 2006 1:33 PM