Word: zanuck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many hassles these days. They are talking Redford, Fonda, Coppola and $150,000 with a very nice percentage for my next script. Everyone is thinking Woman this year and I am The Woman to write it. I looked thin and not a day over thirty-two at the Zanuck-Brown party in Women's Wear two weeks...
...forty years have passed since Scarlett O'Hara, spurned by Rhett Butler, sat down on the stairway of her Atlanta house to mull over the future. Now, at last, Scarlett's petty-paced tomorrow is about to dawn-in a new novel and movie. Hollywood Producers Richard Zanuck and David Brown have won the right to produce a movie sequel to Margaret Mitchell's classic tale of the Old South, Gone With the Wind...
...late." Getting them together again, he felt, would destroy a great plot-as well as undermine a sound moral. Now, at 80, Atlanta Attorney Mitchell, a father of two sons, has had a change of heart. Probably impressed by the phenomenal success of Jaws, he approached its co-producers, Zanuck and Brown, who promptly snapped up his offer. "I figured I might as well let them have a go at it," says Mitchell. "Nobody can write like Margaret could anyway...
Survival Books. Zanuck and Brown have an author who is willing to try. They have hired Anne Edwards, 49, to write "a deep, rich and complex novel" from which the screenplay will be adapted (the novel will be published in paperback at the same time the movie comes out). Says Brown: "Bear in mind that this is not the kind of project where a screenwriter can just sit down and write 'fade in.' " Even so, the producers want an outline this fall and the finished novel within a year...
While producers Richard Zanuck and David Brown were counting on the audience identifying with the victims (and so delayed release of the film until the start of beach season), director Steven Spielberg seemed to be going for the pure fun of it. He knocks out the extramarital affair that pads out the best-seller as well as most of the character conflicts and shoots for the thrills. The only problem is that character development in the novel not only served to relieve tension, it also offered several different, presumably philosophical perspectives on the beast. Matt Hooper, the icthyologist, sees...