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Planned by Disney as a blockbuster epic, The Alamo is instead arriving in theaters with a whiff of stale cheese about it. Doleful stories of the project--directors and writers hired and dropped, the budget cut and restored, the story rearranged during editing--could land the film on the junk heap of historical movies. (Remember Al Pacino in his 1776 saga, Revolution? Neither does anyone else.) But, in fact, The Alamo deserves a fate better than oblivion...
Bruno Bonnell = Michael Eisner CEO of Atari CEO of Disney...
Bruno Bonnell wants to be the next Michael Eisner--literally. "No company has ever impressed me more than Disney, and I hear they may be looking for a new boss," says the head of games giant Atari in his heavily accented French. "Maybe I should apply?" It's just a light-hearted thought for now. But if there's one thing you learn from looking at Bonnell's career, it's never to underestimate his ability to leapfrog. Leaping frogs, in fact, is where he started. In 1983 Bonnell co-wrote Autoroute, the French version of Frogger. He then founded...
...want to buy Disney, God help us ... Bigness in media is right out of fashion in America...
...Alamo is directed by John Lee Hancock, who’s previously worked as a writer and producer for other Disney spectacles such as The Rookie. The movie is rated PG-13, but Hancock’s often gruesome battle scenes give The Alamo a modicum of R-rated grit. The film was originally devised with an R rating, with Academy award-winning Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind) as director. However, due to Disney’s budget constraints, Howard could not make the bloodier film he wanted, so he told Disney to offer it to Hancock, who promised...