Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with an interesting tidbit. I loves, loves, loves Goldman's work. He's one of the best screenwriters out there. He scripted such films as PRINCESS BRIDE, MISERY, BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID, the amazing ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN and one of my favorite overlooked movies of the '90s THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS. Sure he's a had a couple flops (most recently the Stephen King adaptations of DREAMCATCHER and HEARTS IN ATLANTIS), but you can't brush off the bulk of the man's terrific work! This project not only has an awesome title, but sounds like it could be really weird and awesome. What do you folks think?
UGO: Who are you thinking of casting in The Monkey Wrench Gang?
CATHERINE: The four characters are a 50-year-old guy who is an eccentric doctor that burns down billboards in the middle of the night, a very dynamic girl in her late 20s named Bonnie who's very dynamic, another guy named Seldom Seen Smith who is in his 30s, then the last character is a ex-Vietnam vet in his 20s. So it's four parts almost written for major stars. We hope that some of those glittering stars in the universe are going to want to do it but I can't say yet because it's not definite. But William Goldman is doing a rewrite on it. They took the draft that another writer and I had written and they said, "Well, listen, maybe we might be a little more like a Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kidand make it more mythic." So we hired Goldman to do it. He's entering the rewrite in about a week or two. It's up his alley so I'm really excited about that.
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