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Post by countjohn on Jun 2, 2024 22:47:01 GMT
Mr Hughes: Or An Honest-to-God American Shit the 176pg script by David Koepp and De Palma for him to direct. They were “inches away” from making it with Nicolas Cage as Howard Hughes until Snake Eyes underperformed and the studio pulled out. Right around when it was nixed, in late '98, other HH projects flung up - one with Depp and the Hughes twins, Milos Forman and Ed Norton, and there's Michael Mann’s with Leo that turned into The Aviator... which crushed Nolan’s with Jim Carrey! Interesting five-year span of competing projects. But this one would've been my pick, bc Cage who's so right for the role.... and at that point he hadn't played a major real life character - I think he did Gone in 60 Seconds instead? And for De Palma - who did Mission to Mars instead - it might've set him on a better track going into the next century and not that it matters but it could've been a big awards-contending movie for him. Nolan has gone on the record a few times saying that script is the best thing he ever wrote. Wonder if he'll ever revisit it since we're 20 years past The Aviator now.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Jun 3, 2024 0:33:54 GMT
Mr Hughes: Or An Honest-to-God American Shit the 176pg script by David Koepp and De Palma for him to direct. They were “inches away” from making it with Nicolas Cage as Howard Hughes until Snake Eyes underperformed and the studio pulled out. Right around when it was nixed, in late '98, other HH projects flung up - one with Depp and the Hughes twins, Milos Forman and Ed Norton, and there's Michael Mann’s with Leo that turned into The Aviator... which crushed Nolan’s with Jim Carrey! Interesting five-year span of competing projects. But this one would've been my pick, bc Cage who's so right for the role.... and at that point he hadn't played a major real life character - I think he did Gone in 60 Seconds instead? And for De Palma - who did Mission to Mars instead - it might've set him on a better track going into the next century and not that it matters but it could've been a big awards-contending movie for him. Nolan has gone on the record a few times saying that script is the best thing he ever wrote. Wonder if he'll ever revisit it since we're 20 years past The Aviator now. It’s possible, but at this point in his career I think he might just be over it. While doing interviews for Oppenheimer, he said that the experience of writing his Hughes script basically taught him how to write a movie like Oppenheimer, so he might look at it now as more of a learning exercise or “warm-up” than a project he still wants to make into an actual film anymore. He’s also incorporated aspects of it into the Batman trilogy (specifically TDKR), so it seems like he’s sublimated it into other projects. I could be wrong of course, but that’s just the sense I get.
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Post by stephen on Jun 3, 2024 1:27:34 GMT
Oh man, having just watched the first episode of Lonesome Dove, I remembered that it was initially developed as a film: after The Last Picture Show Peter Bogdanovich invited Larry McMurtry to co-write a western script with him which they called Streets of Laredo. And it was supposed to star John Wayne, James Stewart and Henry Fonda ![:eek:](//storage.proboards.com/6692321/images/cbungJltNj775_PictjM.gif) What a film that could've been, with those dudes and with Bogdanovich in his prime. While I would've been endlessly fascinated by seeing Fonda, Wayne and Stewart in those roles, I am glad it didn't happen because Lonesome Dove is a miraculous novel and the television adaptation is titanic.
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