Elvis Presley and Tupak Shakur have sold millions of albums posthumously. David Foster Wallace, who took a header into the afterlife late last year, even has a new novel coming out this year, culled from several drafts of a book he was working on, in addition to his notes and outlines. But this beats all, folks.
Joshua Jackson (R.I.P.), who has somehow managed to find more fame in the afterlife than when he was still with us, has a new movie coming out this spring called One Week. The kicker: It’s about a man who has a week to live, so he decides to travel cross country on a vintage motorcycle and, you know, discover life. It’s sad, really. Although, it’s also kind of poetic in a strange morbid way. I have no idea how much of this movie was made before Jackson passed, or how much needed to be completed with CGI effects and body doubles. But it makes a guy wonder. You think Jackson knew he was going to die soon when he decided to make this movie? Is this his posthumous love letter to us, his career, and to the great Here and Now?
I dunno. And although it doesn’t look like an exceptional movie, I suspect it will all resonate powerfully with all of us.
Have to de-lurk to say... Holy shit! Gordon Downey! Wintersleep! Tim Hortons! Viva Canuckistan! Now if only it didn't look like such a shit movie...
Posted by: Treena at March 5, 2009 10:52 AM
giggle
Posted by: twig at March 5, 2009 10:52 AM
He was such an hero to us all.
Posted by: Anonymous at March 5, 2009 10:52 AM
*sniffles*
Ducks fly together...in Heaven.
Posted by: JakesAlterEgo at March 5, 2009 10:55 AM
Is this an Ode to the Beauty of Canada?
Paging Dr. Admin.
Dr. Admin to the Comment Section.
Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at March 5, 2009 10:56 AM
I guess we all know who's winning Best Actor at the next Oscars.
Posted by: Cait at March 5, 2009 10:58 AM
Maybe I'm a buzzkill, but I don't find the Joshua Jackson thing as funny as everyone else seems to. He's a dillhole, not worth the effort to even make a joke about his zombie existence.
Posted by: Snath at March 5, 2009 11:00 AM
Ducks fly together...in Heaven.
Heeeeeee!!
Posted by: Julie at March 5, 2009 11:02 AM
i saw this movie at TIFF.
it's a very pretty postcard of my country, but becomes fairly
yawn-inducing and trite by the second act. it's not terrible, but certainly isn't the moving film it could have been, given the subject matter. the soundtrack takes over the film to the point where one feels like the images are serving the music rather than vice versa.
jj is decent and pleasant to watch.
not much is really required of him.
Posted by: celery at March 5, 2009 11:08 AM
All that latent talent that we'll never get to see mature. It's so tragic.
Posted by: PaddyDog at March 5, 2009 11:09 AM
Dead or alive, Joshua Jackson has made me love him because of Fringe. That is all I have to say about that.
Posted by: SCG at March 5, 2009 11:23 AM
QUACK QUACK
Posted by: gilp at March 5, 2009 11:30 AM
Drinking Game! Throw one back each time there's a close-up of his face emoting.
Not that I have anything against his face. I rather like it.
Posted by: Sweetie Dahling at March 5, 2009 11:30 AM
I don't care what any of you say, I'd love to do drrrrrty things to JJ. And so I will watch this movie, no matter how trite it looks.
Posted by: tt_marie at March 5, 2009 11:34 AM
Drinking Game! Throw one back each time there's a close-up of his face emoting.
28 seconds in....6 drinks down. Done and Done! Now...to wait 45 mins while the booze sets in.
Posted by: PissBoy at March 5, 2009 11:38 AM
Meh.
Posted by: Smokin at March 5, 2009 11:39 AM
You guys got me out of sexy caribou time for this?
Fuckers!
*turns off pager*
Posted by: admin at March 5, 2009 11:46 AM
Please, please be a good movie.
Posted by: George at March 5, 2009 11:48 AM
Dead or alive, Joshua Jackson has made me love him because of Fringe. That is all I have to say about that.
Posted by: SCG at March 5, 2009 11:23 AM
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Agreed.
Posted by: BarbadoSlim at March 5, 2009 12:19 PM
I guarantee this will make enough money in Canada to rebuild the Colossus. It will make enough money to make a thousand sequels, all opening within 10 minutes of each other at different theatres like some strange cinematic echo.
If there's one thing Canadians love, it's seeing Canada on film and knowing that Americans are seeing it as well. They'll play this film in shady private-viewing booths with complimentary wet-wipes. I know I had two orgasms when I saw Kenora's Huskie the Muskie.
Posted by: james. at March 5, 2009 12:30 PM
I ... don't get it. When did the "he's dead" thing start? Did he do something particularly horrible that makes him dead to you? I guess I'm just out of the fucking loop. Again.
Posted by: the_wakeful at March 5, 2009 12:39 PM
Sounds like they ripped off Neil Peart pretty hard here...
When Peart lost his wife and daughter in the same year, he took off on his motorcycle and made a loop of North America for a year, starting in Toronto and heading west through Canada, then wrote a book about it, "Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road."
Rush is pissed.
Posted by: Bucko at March 5, 2009 12:43 PM
You don't want to piss Rush off. They learned things during their cameos on Trailer Park Boys.
Posted by: admin at March 5, 2009 12:46 PM
Bubbles is pissed, too.
Posted by: Bucko at March 5, 2009 12:48 PM
Wintersleep! Wintersleep!!
Yeah, I'll watch it. Zombie or no zombie...the Fringe has made the Joshua Jackson pretty.
Posted by: jamiepants at March 5, 2009 12:55 PM
I don't get it either. I saw something about this somewhere else and it confused me then, too. Will someone explain the Joshua Jackson "dead" thing to us old fogeys and uncool people, please?
Posted by: tinmo at March 5, 2009 12:56 PM
the_wakeful, the gag started when Dustin made a crack about Joshua Jackson being dead due to his lack of visibility (this was before Fringe). Some JJ fangirls (and boys) got all huffy, saying it was offensive. Dustin found this hilarious, and now only reference Mr. Jackson as no longer among the living.
"Dead or alive, Joshua Jackson has made me love him because of Fringe. That is all I have to say about that."
Really? It's the opposite for me. I only watch Fringe because Pacey's in it. It's gotten a little bit better recently, but Olivia is still about as interesting as data entry.
Posted by: marya at March 5, 2009 1:21 PM
I think it started from an April Fools joke, titled RIP Joshua Jackson, on WIMB.
Posted by: misty at March 5, 2009 1:29 PM
Jesus, are we teaching the slow class today? It started because Joshua Jackson died, you dolts. He died from sheer boringness. Fringe is nothing but a testament to CGI and the black arts of voodoo. You don't know it, but there some Serpent and the Rainbow shit going on behind the scenes of that show.
Posted by: TK at March 5, 2009 1:49 PM
Did anyone else think it'd be funny if he got on his motorcycle, and then immediately got into an accident on the turnpike?
No? Just me?
ok. Carry on.
Posted by: Stella at March 5, 2009 1:51 PM
All this trailer did was remind me how pissed off I am that I haven't won anything at Roll up the rim.
Did tourism canada pay for this film?
Posted by: hayley at March 5, 2009 3:17 PM
That would be Tupac, with a C...?
Posted by: Parker at March 5, 2009 3:19 PM
Pardon my pessimism, but you know if this generates any kind of Oscar buzz, people are going to blame it on Jackson's untimely death. If it can happen to Ledger, why can't it happen to Pacey?
Two Canadians are sitting in a bar, and decide to play 20 questions. The first Canadian decides to think of a word the other will never guess: moosecock.
The 2nd Canadian asks his first question: "Can you eat it?"
The 1st Canadian laughs and says: "Yeah, I guess so!"
The 2nd Canadian quickly replies: "Is it moosecock?!"
Only east, west and north of the province I live in. I'd say south, but south is Montana and we know all about Montana-a-a-a-a-a-a-a.
Posted by: admin at March 5, 2009 7:58 PM
Joshua Jackson's not really dead.
That's the joke, right?
Else, too soon!
Posted by: kayla at March 6, 2009 1:05 AM
Manitoba has sexy polar bear time, but very few make it out alive. Admin, send some of your boys out this way, we need replanishment.
Posted by: popejenn at March 6, 2009 2:01 AM
Because Statham is too old they should cast JJ as Mitch Rapp in the new movie based on the Vince Flynn novels and that would most certainly bring him back from the dead. When he punches bad guys on Fringe he totally goes hot, hot, hot.
Posted by: midfan at March 6, 2009 9:31 AM
Dead or alive, Joshua Jackson has made me love him because of Fringe. That is all I have to say about that.
Pacey Witter was the only good thing about Dawson's Creek, and I've liked the late great JJ since then. But I must admit, I enjoy his interactions with John Noble in Fringe very much. I'd far rather the show concentrated on the father and son, and left dull-as-ditchwater Olivia out of it!
Posted by: Tarn at March 6, 2009 9:37 AM
I will watch anything that Joshua Jackson is in. Seriously. There was a weird Italian-vacation movie on ABC Family a few years back that he starred in, and I watched it just so that I could squeal "Paceeeeey!" every time he came on screen. I don't remember a thing about that movie, except that he was very pretty in it.
This is also the same way I feel about Tom Cavanagh, so maybe it's a Canadian thing?
Posted by: Bethany at March 6, 2009 10:41 AM
I haven't seen JJ on any sort of screen since he was a Duck, but I did see him in a London in a the Mamet play "A Life in the Theater" with Patrick Stewart. So is he "dead" because he's not getting any work? 'Cause the guy's definitely not a hack - he was quite good onstage.
Posted by: Ian at March 7, 2009 3:57 AM
Please ignore the superfluous A's in my comment. I am not in fact an Italian-American stereotype.
Have to de-lurk to say... Holy shit! Gordon Downey! Wintersleep! Tim Hortons! Viva Canuckistan! Now if only it didn't look like such a shit movie...