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Posted: **Sat May 24, 2008 3:18 am**

Posted: **Sat May 24, 2008 8:05 am**

Jeff wrote:The article also confirms that it is indeed an adaptation of Sammy's Hill.

A bit late with this, I know, but apparently the always-reliable Finke was wrong about this:

Nailed is not an adaptation of 'Sammy's Hill,' although both were penned by Kristen Gore. I think the confusion comes from the fact that in the original script Kristen uses the name 'Sammy Joyce' as the lead character, played by Jessica Biel (the character names have since been changed). As you mentioned in your article, she was also the main character in the book. But the stories are entirely different with the exception of the names of the respective heroines.

Posted: **Wed Jun 04, 2008 8:26 pm**

The film finally has solid financial backing and will resume shooting (again) shortly.

Posted: **Tue Jun 24, 2008 9:31 pm**

....and production is shut down again due to financial trouble.

Posted: **Tue Jun 24, 2008 9:41 pm**

I am beginning to wonder if these shutdowns have less to do with Russell's perceived inability to make a marketable film, and more to do with Russell's proven inability to play nicely with others. Its weird that financing is repeatedly an issue, that payroll isn't being met, etc.

Posted: **Tue Jun 24, 2008 9:44 pm**

How hard is it to market a film that has Jessica Biel playing a woman with wild, sexual urges?

Posted: **Tue Jun 24, 2008 9:50 pm**

I would speculate that Russell would exert whatever control he has over the marketing -- and who knows what that ultimately may be -- to emphasize the political satire. If this gets finished and kept in Russell's hands, I doubt that it will be sold to the public as "Jessie Biel Gone Wild!"

Posted: **Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:23 pm**

Cast members gush about working with Russell.

Posted: **Tue May 05, 2009 7:03 pm**

According to Jessica Biel, the film is unfinished and won't be coming out any time soon.

Posted: **Wed May 13, 2009 11:00 pm**

Come on, you fucking producers -- just let Mr. Russell FINISH a film!!! Yes, he's temperamental, but you can't argue with the results.

Posted: **Thu May 14, 2009 12:55 am**

We are living in a truly, truly golden age of Hollywood filmmaking when things like this can happen.

Posted: **Thu May 14, 2009 4:22 am**

That's corporatization of the atmosphere: the boss wants fealty.

Ah the days of crazy Dreyer on Joan, and cranky Sternberg on Empress, and irascible Lang firing pistols on mindbendingly huge sets... all on endless reams of studio dollars...

Posted: **Wed Jul 14, 2010 9:08 pm**

Years later and yet another perverse and disheartening update on the status of this film.

Now just to await similar news on Lonergan's Margaret or Konchalovsky's ridiculously delayed Nutcracker.

Posted: **Wed Jul 14, 2010 9:10 pm**

John Cope wrote: Now just to await similar news on Lonergan's Margaret

I think Ruffalo just recently said it's done or almost done, actually

Posted: **Fri Jul 23, 2010 8:28 pm**

Yes, "Margaret" has been confirmed as done by Fox Searchlight. Comes out in 2011.

Posted: **Wed Nov 06, 2013 7:06 pm**

"Nailed" gets a PG-13 rating from the MPAA

Posted: **Wed Nov 06, 2013 7:52 pm**

I hadn't heard of this project before, and am pretty high on sugar right now and am assuming I'm hallucinating it

Posted: **Wed Nov 06, 2013 8:18 pm**

I had heard of this before, I'm unfortunately not high on anything and I can't believe, after all this time, that I'm NOT hallucinating this.

Posted: **Wed Nov 06, 2013 8:28 pm**

How did a movie about Jessica Biel inadvertently becoming a sex addict receive a PG-13?

Posted: **Wed Nov 06, 2013 8:29 pm**

More concerned about the "why" than the "how" in that thought

Posted: **Thu Nov 07, 2013 3:26 am**

It's strangely topical all over again with the rollout of Obamacare. Here's hoping the fact that they've bothered to get it officially rated means it will soon see some kind of release. I'd rather see a butchered version of this than none at all.

Posted: **Fri Nov 08, 2013 12:25 am**

Professor Wagstaff wrote:"Nailed" gets a PG-13 rating from the MPAA

#1 and #4 pics of Jake Gyllenhaal need to become the next creepy memes.

Posted: **Fri Nov 08, 2013 12:37 am**

Has there been any mention from Russell on the apparent similarity if this to "The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai"? After all, how many "girl gets hole in forehead, turns sex crazed" movies can there be? Not saying he's ripping it off (I can hardly imagine), just wonder if any of it suggested Nailed to him, or the surface similarities are sheer coincidence.

Posted: **Fri Nov 08, 2013 5:52 am**

Probably sheer coincidence since sex and head damage aren't completely unique subjects with, just off the top of my head, FLCL and A Dirty Shame feature variations.

Posted: **Fri Nov 08, 2013 6:00 am**

But the idea that a severe head injury lowers one's inhibitions or kicks one's baser drives into, as it were, overdrive is way older than that. I"d argue it goes at least as far back as Phineas Gage.

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