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...PLAYERS] Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins; dir. Steven Spielberg...
This season carries heavy freight: six films from the directors of Best Picture Oscars (Allen, Brooks, Coppola, Costner, Eastwood, Spielberg). There will be work from Tarantino and Scorsese, sightings of Bond and Magoo. And finally, ladies and gentlemen, women and children, accountants and foreclosers, presenting the costliest film ever made: Titanic, James Cameron's $200 million resinking of the liner, with young lovers Leonardo di Caprio and Kate Winslet onboard...
...making Amistad, his forthcoming film about a 19th century slave rebellion, Steven Spielberg faced the difficult task of shaping a coherent narrative out of history, always a tricky business, given the manifold ambiguities and contradictions of human behavior. A similar task awaits whoever gets to adjudicate a recently filed lawsuit alleging that Spielberg and his colleagues are, to put it baldly, plagiarists--that they swiped their vision of the Amistad tale from Echo of Lions, a little-known historical novel by Barbara Chase-Riboud...
...common in the entertainment industry, but the attorneys here are talking awfully tough. "This is the most egregious case I've ever seen," says Chase-Riboud's attorney, who is asking for $10 million in damages and threatening to seek an injunction to block the film's release. Spielberg's lawyer retorts that the plaintiff is "nuts" and that her novel is "wordy, dull, confusing and phony." So there...
...Amistad episode would make a great film, Debbie Allen, the actress (Fame) and choreographer (numerous Academy Award shows), optioned a historical novel about the case, Black Mutiny. After nearly 10 years of making no headway with the project, she took it to DreamWorks SKG, the fledgling studio founded by Spielberg with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen...