Back on Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Rene wrote:
>(Although Joe
>Gores' "Hammett" was OK, not as good as other stuff
of his, IMO. The Wim
>Wenders movie adaptation with Frederick Forrest was
rather ordinary.)
As is not uncommon, I'm playing catch-up, so someone else may
have mentioned it, but in the edition of that Gores novel I
have (unfortunately inaccessible at the moment), he has a
fascinating Introduction involving all that it took to get
that movie -- including a phenomenal number of screenplays,
by Gores and others -- made!
I'm as much fascinated by behind-the-scenes stuff such as
this as, far too often, I am the works of fiction
themselves....
[I have a friend -- a pro in an entirely different genre --
who told me a couple of years back that, between options and
the screenplays he'd written, and/or doctored, he had made a
quarter of a million dollars of Hollywood money off one of
his novels. He had no reason to exaggerate; but I'm not sure
how serious he was, when at the same time he said he was to
the point that he was hoping that the movie _wouldn't_ be
made. So far he seems to have gotten his wish.]
(And, yes, I have the Goldman books.)
--- Bill Bowers
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