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There's something very Tom Cruiseian about this character: "Let's do something!" Yet this is a talk movie, not an action movie. It's a daring start for a new company in Hollywood, where a film's success is determined by how many people...
...people with specialized skills to gather for a few months, often in a strange land, and spend long hours in the frequently divergent pursuits of creativity and profit. The director is their aesthetic leader, but the producer is their boss. And the bosses everyone wants to work for in Hollywood are a married team: Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall...
Kennedy and Marshall have one of Hollywood's best Rolodexes and an instinct for building a team around a movie. "It's casting personalities as well as skills," says Kennedy. "If you have somebody who's intensely creative but they can't manage their way out of a paper bag, you bring somebody else in to augment that." The two producers also like to pair inventive directors of smaller-budget films (like Greengrass before Bourne and Schnabel now) with studio-caliber crews to surround an artistic mind with precision and experience...
Most of the successful movies this year have been franchise or horror films, not star-driven. As someone heading a studio, someone who's a director and someone who works with these people, do you think we're in the first nonstar era of Hollywood...
REDFORD I think there have always been stars. The fact is Hollywood is a business. It's going to get attracted to things that will be sure to make money, as franchise films do, so therefore you don't blame them for that. Now the question is the individuals. For me personally, there are too many great stories out there to do a sequel. So therefore I don't ever want to do sequels. Well, they push, push, push, push. Finally you say no. Let me put it another way: No. [Others laugh.] And then what do they do? They...