Of all the movies that have opened this weekend, the one that's generated the most interesting press by far is Page One: Inside The New York Times. The usual round of promotional interviews, for example, turns out to have been not so usual. Talking with writer-director-cinematographer Andrew Rossi and co-writer Kate Novack, a husband-and-wife team of a documentary filmmaker and a former media reporter, Eric Hynes acknowledges that his piece for the Voice can't help but lay on another layer of meta. Right off, he has Novack commenting on Page One's focus on the Nyt media desk: "It was journalists reporting on journalism, and we were working as journalists covering that."
So it goes in other interviews: Drew Taylor's with Rossi for the Playlist; Stephen Saito's with Rossi and Nyt media reporter David Carr, indisputably the star of Page One, for IFC; Sarah Ellison's with Gay Talese, author of the 1969 classic,...
So it goes in other interviews: Drew Taylor's with Rossi for the Playlist; Stephen Saito's with Rossi and Nyt media reporter David Carr, indisputably the star of Page One, for IFC; Sarah Ellison's with Gay Talese, author of the 1969 classic,...
- 6/18/2011
- MUBI
Gore Verbinski, fresh from unveiling the Rango trailer on an unsuspecting world, has found his next directing project. He'll take on The Secret Life of Walter Mitty remake, and could be the man to finally bring it to the screen after floating around Hollywood for nearly two decades.Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard and Mark Waters have all considered the remake, while at various points Owen Wilson, Mike Myers, Sacha Baron Cohen and Jim Carrey (several times) have been lined up to star. Baron Cohen was the most recently-attached star, so it remains to be seen if he'll take the lead now that Verbinski is onboard.The story, for those who haven't seen the 1947, Danny Kaye-starring original, it's the story of a wimpy comic book writer who lives in a daydream where he has lots of exciting adventures. One day he meets a mysterious woman who gives him a black book containing,...
- 6/30/2010
- EmpireOnline
20th Century Fox confirmed today that the studio is taking yet another crack at remaking the 1947 Danny Kaye classic daydreamer comedy The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, with Gore Verbinski at the helm. It's good to see Verbinski on a big film after he jumped off the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise to direct Bioshock and then that project didn't happen. But Verbinski is following in the footsteps of a spectacular crop of directors and stars who never cracked the remake, in about 22 years of trying. That includes directors Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, Mark Waters, with Jim Carrey (several [...]...
- 6/30/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
In April, it was reported that The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, a remake project that has been kicking around the studios for over a decade, had new forward momentum. 20th Century Fox had hired a new screenwriter: The Pursuit of Happyness scribe Steven Conrad. Now Risky Business is reporting that Pirates of the Caribbean series helmer Gore Verbinski is in talks to direct the film. The film is to be based on James Thurber's 1939 short story and the 1947 film version starring Danny Kaye about "a guy whose extensive heroic daydreams are an escape from his humdrum life." The project has been in development for years with a long list of writers which has included Babaloo Mandel & Lowell Ganz, Chuck Russell, Peter Tolan, Zach Helm, Richard Lagravanese, Jay Kogen, David Reynolds and Thomas Lennon & Robert Ben Garant, and directors Steven Spielberg, Mark Waters and Chuck Russell developing ...
- 6/29/2010
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
This movie was going to be the focus of this week’s column, The Pitch, however it seems Hollywood has beaten me to the idea – they must have read our retro review. One of my favorite movies as a kid was the classic Danny Kaye film, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. The story is such a wonderful tale about a guy who moonlights as a copywriter for a publishing company. While working he daydreams constantly about saving distressing damsels and naturally saving the day. He is bossed around his mother, his fiancee is childish and dimwitted and her mother is bullying and obnoxious. Mitty resorts to his day dreaming in order to ignore all these things going on his daily life. The awesome part of the film is when he gets caught up in a real life adventure involving thieves, a diamond heist and the real girl of his dreams.
- 4/19/2010
- by Kevin Coll
- FusedFilm
The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty is in what's known as "development hell." The adaptation of the 1947 Danny Kaye comedy has been languishing since 1994 when Steven Spielberg and Jim Carrey were going to take a crack at it. Over the years, various stars and directors have cycled in and out, with Ron Howard, Mark Waters, Chuck Russell, Kevin Anderson, Owen Wilson and Mike Myers showing up at one point or another, not to mention the dozen odd writers who have had a crack at the script....
- 4/19/2010
- by Paul Tassi
- JoBlo.com
The long in-development remake of the 1947 Danny Kaye comedy, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, has been something of a curse. It's gone through a number of directors, including Ron Howard, Steven Spielberg, Mark Waters, and Chuck Russell, as well as actors Jim Carrey, Kevin Anderson and Owen Wilson, who have all been attached as the lead at one point or another.
The problems that have plagued the production of Walter Mitty have been numerous, including legal complications that have arisen over the remake rights. It started out, in 1994, at New Line Cinemas (with Jim Carrey), and ended up in the hands of both Dreamworks and Paramount in the early half of the aughts, when Spielberg was attached to direct. Scheduling prohibited Carrey from making the film, however, and the part went to Owen Wilson, but Spielberg couldn't commit by then because of scheduling difficulties.
Eventually, Paramount lost the remake rights,...
The problems that have plagued the production of Walter Mitty have been numerous, including legal complications that have arisen over the remake rights. It started out, in 1994, at New Line Cinemas (with Jim Carrey), and ended up in the hands of both Dreamworks and Paramount in the early half of the aughts, when Spielberg was attached to direct. Scheduling prohibited Carrey from making the film, however, and the part went to Owen Wilson, but Spielberg couldn't commit by then because of scheduling difficulties.
Eventually, Paramount lost the remake rights,...
- 4/19/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
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