Word: obst
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...happened, Toby Brown did not write his screenplay and did not give up his practice. But almost any enthusiastic amateur might have spurred Crisis in the Hot Zone into production faster and with happier results than the Hollywood royalty -- Robert Redford, Jodie Foster, director Ridley Scott and producer Lynda Obst -- to whom 20th Century Fox entrusted this $50 million thriller. Nearly two years after Preston's article appeared -- time enough for him to expand it into a book, The Hot Zone, due in stores in a few weeks -- the film had not begun shooting. Last week, in fact, it looked...
...start date. Producer Arnold Kopelson had initiated the project at Warner Bros. after failing in his bid for the rights to Hot Zone. He got a script from Robert Roy Pool and Dr. Laurence Dworet, an internist. While visiting an Army virus center, the Outbreak screenwriters ran into Obst and Preston; it was like a cold war chance meeting of the CIA and KGB near the Berlin Wall...
...Stone's character hadn't kept an ice pick at her bedside, would the thriller have been a hit? "We've got a lot of women as bad guys," says producer Lynda Obst (The Fisher King). "It's a reflection, I think, of men's fears about women." Basic Instinct, plus The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and Single White Female, made 1992 the Year of the Killer Woman -- of the vixen, nanny or best friend who uses sex as the appetizer for destruction. And 1993 could be the Year of the Woman as Door Prize. In Honeymoon in Vegas...
...group stokes those grosses? Young guys who, having nothing better to do with their Friday and Saturday nights, line up to be the first in their school to see a highly hyped action drama. It's the true revenge of the nerds. "The Ninja Turtles audience shows up," says Obst. "The women's audience doesn't -- not in bulk. And you need that bulk business for a picture to be widely released." In industry lingo, hit films can be classified by gender: action movies (Batman Returns) have immediate muscle; women's pictures (The Bodyguard) have long legs. As Ephron notes...
Well, women do get out of the house, as indicated by two surprise hits of 1992: Sister Act, whose star, Whoopi Goldberg, could earn a man-size $7.5 million for the sequel, and Penny Marshall's A League of Their Own. Now, says Obst, "it's easier for me to pitch movies that are close to my heart because I have more models I can point...