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...upcoming weeks, Silva, who is a lecturer on history and literature, will begin writing the script to a remake of the 1974 Sam Peckinpah film Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia in which Del Toro will star...
Silva expects to spend the entire summer writing the script, which he plans to model closely on the original with room for his own innovation. “The ending will change, most definitely,” he says. “And no hints.” Silva pauses to reconsider. “Well, maybe one word—redemption,” he adds cryptically...
...Lehman was quickly replaced as director by Alexander Mackendrick, a Scotsman just off a prime Alec Guinness comedy, "The Ladykillers." And soon the writer had departed; all the jawing about script changes had given him a spastic colon, and his doctor told him to scram to Tahiti. Per Buford, "Lancaster said, 'Gee, Ernie, I hope we're not the cause of this,' his big arm around the much smaller Lehman's shoulder as he left." (In the movie, J.J. would tell his sister, "Say exactly what's on your mind, dear," his big hand on her upper back like...
...night; but he might also have said that Sidney was the fly to J.J.'s taut, watchful spider, and 52nd Street was his web. Whatever Sidney's floating status as villain and victim, Curtis was the victor in the movie. I'll bet that when he first read the script he thought exultantly, "That's me all over!" Curtis may have spent the 50s playing pretty boys at Universal, but he was still Bernie Schwartz from the Bronx, and "Sweet Smell" gave Curtis the role he was born to play - even as he knew Sidney was born (and condemned...
...moved far beyond the movie, which itself is a rather boring, clichéd piece of film-flam. Howard embraced practically every heart-tugging Hollywood tradition to make a film not only lacking historical accuracy, but more importantly lacking conviction and ingenuity. The performances were dry and predictable, the script yawned at every turn and Jennifer Connelly acted more intensely in the sci-fi bore Dark City...