Sunday 13 May 2007

Sunday

Did you know George Lucas and Spielberg were turned down by every major studio for Indiana Jones before being accepted by Paramount? I find this pretty incredible. Lucas had just made Star Wars, Spielberg Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind - indeed, they agreed to do the film upon meeting in Hawaii whilst Lucas was escaping the fuss about Star Wars. Spielberg apparently always wanted to do a James Bond movie, and Lucas told him he had a better idea. Studios are strange things. How were they incapable of seeing one of the most iconic films of all time? The casting of Harrison Ford was key, and that did only come later. And then of course there was the music, which no one could foresee. I wonder how films get made at all, and how many possible good films have been thrown away. I had an idea for a movie in which no one in Hollywood actually watches films anymore - they make decisions based on reputations and critical reviews. This might not be too far from the truth.

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