More On the Road: Variety in 60 Seconds
Filed under: Disney, Miramax, Focus Features, The Weinstein Co.
- More details on Francis Ford Coppola's long-percolating adaptation of On the Road: thought yesterday's reports suggested that Coppola had hired Walter Salles to write a script for Coppola to direct, Pamela McClintock reports that the film, to be written by Jose Rivera and directed by Walter Salles, is currently in development at Focus Features.
- Steve Jobs says that talks between Pixar and Disney are going well ... now that Michael Eisner is out of the picture. "I like ... Bob Iger and Dick Cook a lot," he said. "I'm cautiously optimistic but there are still several hurdles to cross."
- The Weinsteins have picked up Tom Yum Goong, the latest film from Thai martial arts master Tony Jaa, in which Jaa teams up with an Austrailian detective whilst on a trip down under to retrieve elephants for a Thai king.
- Speaking of Weinsteins - is Harvey only causing a ratings fuss over The Great Raid because it's unwatchably mediocre? Robert Koehler intimates just that, calling the long-dormant WWII drama "a classic example of talented people given the wrong assignments."
- Chow Yun Fat and Gong Li will star in Autumn Remembrance, to be directed by Zhang Yimou. They'll play star-crossed lovers, kept apart in part by Gong's stepmother, who wants Chow to herself.
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8-05-2005 @ 1:24PM
chris said...
Yes, the Weinsteins are causing a stir over "The Great Raid"'s R rating precisely because it is a big old mess. Admirable, to be sure, telling a fantastic and mostly unknown true story, and with a final half-hour that harkens back to the classic 1960s era of World War II films in the best way. But the bulk of it is clumsy cliche, the kind of thing that would have been better handled in a documentary.
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