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Published on Wednesday, September 28, 2005 - 4:51am |
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William Goldman rewriting Catherine Hardwicke's THE MONKEY WRENCH GANG'
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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Reader Talkback
It's absolutely true. by dr_dreadlocks | Sep 28th, 2005 05:46:33 AM | "a very dynamic girl in her
late 20s named Bonnie
who's very by Sheeld | Sep 28th, 2005 06:07:55 AM | You people need to get your
literature straight by lukeday99 | Sep 28th, 2005 08:41:20 AM | I think we're all agreed
that this talkback should
descend i by seppukudkurosawa | Sep 28th, 2005 08:48:48 AM | Hearts in Atlantis was great by Thunderballs | Sep 28th, 2005 11:37:56 AM | *Edward Abbey's* MONKEY
WRENCH GANF - Who the hell
is Cath by perrybw | Sep 28th, 2005 11:51:51 AM | Very Dynamic Bonnie. Sounds
Like A Stripper. by Buzz Maverik | Sep 28th, 2005 12:25:49 PM | Catherine Hardwicke gargles
balls. by heywood jablomie | Sep 28th, 2005 03:18:50 PM | by halfmahalfn | Sep 28th, 2005 09:32:36 PM | an "ex-vietnam veteran" by SG7 | Sep 28th, 2005 10:14:03 PM | Thank you, SG7 by ToneTone | Sep 29th, 2005 02:11:19 AM | I'd rather eat my own shit
than see this movie by Drunken Rage | Sep 29th, 2005 07:56:09 PM | Great book, but no reason
exists to make it into... by Stan the Bat | Sep 29th, 2005 09:25:58 PM |
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