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Skriven 2006-10-12 00:02:51 av Shabaz
Ärende: Re: Ron Howard's Changeling project falls through?
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From: "Shabaz" <shabaz.x@gmail.com>

Amy Guskin wrote:
> >> On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 21:34:53 -0400, jmsatb5@aol.com wrote
> (in article <1160616893.068094.9610@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>):
>
> >
> > Shabaz wrote:
> >> At least, that's the way an article in the L.A. Times ("The big name
> >> gets distracted") makes it seem; that as far as Howard is concerned the
> >> project is not going through, at least for now. You can find it here:
> >> http://tinyurl.com/m664p
> >>
> >> Some quotes directly relating to the project not going forward:
> >>
> >> "J. Michael Straczynski's 'Changeling' caught Ron Howard's eye, but
> >> then another project pulled Howard's focus."
> >>
> >> "So it has gone with Oscar-winning director Ron Howard ("A Beautiful
> >> Mind"), who has long been interested in making "Changeling" but who
> >> recently committed to direct the feature version of Peter Morgan's
> >> political play "Frost/Nixon," ... "
> >
> >
> > Just to clarify before the wrong impression gets out there....the
> > project has not been back burnered.  First, Imagine owns the script,
> > they bought it, they want it, they want to see it made, so does
> > Universal.  When Ron decided to go with the Frost/Nixon thing first,
> > one option would have been to hold onto Changeling until he was free to
> > direct it.  But with the Forst/Nixon thing going first, Changeling
> > couldn't be shot until 2007...so Ron is going to produce, with Imagine,
> > and they're going to get another a-list director to come on board and
> > shoot this thing asap.  The only thing that got back-burnered was Ron,
> > Imagine still wants to make this, and Ron has been gracious enough to
> > allow another director in, but still produce it, so it can get filmed
> > this year.
> >
> > The draft is now ready to go, there are five a-list directors who have
> > said they want to come on, it's been budgeted, and the president of
> > Imagine called today *specifically* to say that they want to put this
> > thing into high gear now that Ron's made up his mind.  They'd like to
> > see this thing going before the cameras by Spring. <<
>
> Yeah.  Reading between the lines, and based on what you'd said about this
> earlier (that Imagine had bought the script outright), this is what I figured
> was going on.  I have to wonder, then, why the LA Times article seemed so
> determined to obscure the point that the film was _still being made by
> Imagine_.
>
> Glad to hear that it's going ahead sooner rather than later, in any case!
>
> Amy

Well, I think the title of the article might be telling: "The big name
gets distracted". They might've thought that a quick story about "The
Big Name" who is seemingly led by his fancy -- "flirting" with scripts
he's "smitten" by -- and is easily distracted, made for a more
interesting story. Instead of "The big name can delegate", or something
like that.

-Shabaz


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