by David Hughes
KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES
Page 87: “I was done with the...” Steven Spielberg, quoted in Dreamwatch, January 2003. “reading scripts” Harrison Ford, quoted at Venice Film Festival press conference, circa 1994. Page 88: “Indy was always...” “He got very excited...” George Lucas, quoted in a documentary included on the ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ DVD, circa 2003. “I said, ‘I’ve always wanted to direct.” Spielberg, ibid. “I said, ‘All right...’” Lucas, ibid. “Larry added.” Spielberg, ibid. “I was really tired.” Spielberg, quoted in ‘Indiana Jones and the Ultimate Tribute’ by Ian Freer, Empire, October 2006. Page 89: “I didn’t want him to be.” Lucas, quoted in a documentary included on the ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ DVD, circa 2003. Page 90: “When Jones gets wind...” is from ‘From Speed to Ford Escort’ by Baz Bamigboye, Daily Mail, 11 November 1994. “Baz Bamigboye was hungry for stories...” anonymous, AI. “While Nazis and various cultists...” is from ‘Indy IV Delayed’ by Michael Fleming, Variety, 21 March 1995. Page 92: “About a year later...” and other Robert Smith quotes are from interview with Charles Deemer of the Internet Screenwriters Network, circa 1996. “In a New York minute...” Ford, quoted in interview with Barbara Walters, 24 March 1997. Page 93: “We’re working on a screenplay...” George Lucas, quoted at press conference for Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, circa 1997. Page 93: “The script had to do with the lost city...” is from ‘Indy IV Draft That Will Never Be!!’ by Harry Knowles, Ain’t It Cool News (www.aintitcool.com), 24 October 1997. Page 94: “a fake or at the very least...” is from Cinescape, 11 April 1998. “We finished the script...” is from Cinescape Online (www.cinescape.com), 17 May 1998. “they would probably stick with...” is from Ain’t It Cool News (www.aintitcool.com), 27 May 1998. “We just haven’t really settled...” Ford, quoted in interview with Earvin Johnson on Magic Hour, 9 June 1998. “The Indiana Jones 4 hat...” Spielberg, quoted in interview with Cindy Pearlman, Chicago Herald-Tribune, circa July 1998. “We don’t have a start date...” Spielberg, quoted on Ain’t It Cool News (www.aintitcool.com), 25 July 1998. “there is no official...” Paramount spokesperson, quoted in AI for Empire, November 1998. Page 95: “The script, labelled as the final draft...” is from Indyfan.com, 2 December 1998. “The Russians, having packed Indy...” is from ‘Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods’ screenplay by Frank Darabont, 4 April 2003. Page 96: “Indy, working in Egypt...” is from Ain’t It Cool News (www.aintitcool.com), 13 December 1998. Page 97: “The two of us wrote...” Michael Prentice, quoted in interview with Micah Johnson, Indyfan.com, circa January 1999. “We’ve got a fantastic script...” McCallum, quoted at press conference for Lucasfilm/ LucasArts, 14 July 1999. Page 98: “It takes place...” Makman, quoted on Ain’t It Cool News (www.aintitcool.com), 17 July 1999. “I’m still quite fit...” Ford, quoted on Entertainment Tonight, 15 September 1999. “All I’m waiting for...” Lucas, quoted on Entertainment Tonight, circa October 1999. “ready when they’re ready” Ford, quoted on E! Online, circa October 1999. Page 99: “We don’t want the fourth...” Spielberg, quoted on Cinescape Insider and elsewhere, circa October 1999. “If there was a script...” Patricia McQueeney, quoted in interview with Jeannie Williams, USA Today, 24 January 2000. “everybody having commitments...” McCallum, quoted in The Sunday Express, circa 2000. “Steven and George will not...” Ford, quoted on The Big Breakfast, 22 November 1999. “Harrison isn’t too old...” Spielberg, quoted in interview with Larry King on Larry King Live, 10 December 1999. “I want it to happen...” Ford, quoted on Inside the Actor’s Studio, 15 February 2000. “Dad, when are you going to...” Spielberg, quoted at Director’s Guild of America, circa March 2000. “completely unconfirmed and graded as an 8...” is from Cinescape Online (www.cinescape.com), 15 February 2000. Page 100: “in the process...” is from ‘Arnold & Indy: They’ll Be Back’, uncredited, Variety, 22 June 2000. “There are a lot of things...” M. Night Shyamalan, quoted on MovieHeadlines.com, 29 November 2000. “I was never contacted...” Shyamalan, quoted on Ain’t It Cool News (www.aintitcool.com), 31 July 2001. “looking forward...” Ford, quoted on the Internet Movie Database, circa October 2000. Page 101: “but to be honest...” Kathleen Kennedy, quoted in interview with the Calgary Sun, February 2001. “We have a title...” Spielberg, quoted in interview with Roger Friedman for Fox News, 21 January 2002. Page 102: “Right now, Steven’s been described...” Marvin Levy, quoted in interview with E! Online, 22 January 2002. “We’re in the process of hiring...” Lucas, quoted in interview with Master P for MTV Movie House, 24 May 2002. “George called about a month...” Frank Darabont, quoted in Cinescape, June 2002. “It’s official that we have an ambition...” Ford, ibid. “wonderful” Spielberg, quoted in ‘Indy Scriptwriter Signed’, uncredited, Dreamwatch, June 2002. Page 103: “Steven, Harrison and I...” Lucas, quoted on www.starwars.com, 25 June 2002. “Indy’s pop will be back...” Spielberg, quoted in ‘Indy Doesn’t Get the Willies’, uncredited, Dreamwatch, January 2003. “I absolutely don’t want to do things...” Darabont, quoted in Alameda Times-Star Online, circa 2003. “huge cavern filled with...” is from ‘Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods’ screenplay by Frank Darabont, 4 April 2003. Page 104: “Death in a homburg hat”; “It appears.” “Perfectly formed...” “There are thirteen skulls...” “we are the ones...” ibid. “It was a terrible disappointment...” Darabont, quoted in ‘After “Waste Of A Year” On “Indy 4,” Director Rebounds With Stephen King’s “Mist”’ by Josh Horowitz, MTV.com, 17 April 2007. Page 106: “He put some really good...” “What I did later on...” Spielberg, quoted in the documentary ‘The Return of a Legend’ for the Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull DVD, circa 2008. “I spent about a year on it...” David Koepp, ibid. “I feel like I dropped the ball...” Shia LaBeouf, quoted in ‘Cannes 2010: Shia LaBeouf: We botched the last Indiana Jones’ by Steven Zeitchik, LATimes.com, 15 May 2010. “I was the hold out....” Spielberg, quoted in ‘Indy Doesn’t Get the Willies’, uncredited, Dreamwatch, January 2003. “Steven didn’t like...” Lucas, quoted in ‘The Return of a Legend,’ ibid.
THE LOST CRUSADE
Page 107: “The story of the Crusades...” Verhoeven, quoted in interview with Neil Young posted on www.jigsawlounge.co.uk, 18 April 2002. Page 108: “We were sitting outside Arnold’s trailer...”; “Walon wrote a script...”; “We wanted to be honest...” Verhoeven, AI. Page 110: “to wed and bed the true love...” is from the unproduced script Crusades by Walon Green. Page 112: “It was always supposed to be a movie for Arnold...”; “There are touches of lightness...” Verhoeven, AI. “They came up with a draft or two...” and all other Gary Goldman quotes, AI. Page 113: “We presented it in the way of Total Recall...”; “If you see other movies about the Crusades...” Verhoeven, AI. Page 115: “the greatest unproduced script...” Damien Thorn, quoted on Ain’t It Cool News (aintitcool.com). “Crusade doesn’t want to take a religious stand...” anonymous, ibid. Page 116: “I tested a lot of women...”; “I was too honest...”; Page 117: “Carolco went through a terrible...” Verhoeven, AI. “serious talks”; Page 118: “Long considered one of the best unproduced scripts...” is from ‘Schwarzenegger Wooing Milchan to Join Crusade’ by Michael Fleming, Daily Variety, 5 February 1999. “Even the word Crusade...” Verhoeven, quoted in DVD Monthly, circa 2001. “Of course, Bush not knowing what...” Verhoeven, AI. “We have to bring it up to date...” Schwarzenegger, quoted on Cinescape Online (www.cinescape.com), 9 November 2001. Page 119: “At its core, it harkens to what’s going on today...” is from ‘Now Showing: The Flag’ by Mike Medavoy, Washington Post, 6 February 2002. “In the end, you see the stupidity...” Walon Green, ibid. “The story of the Crusades...” Verhoeven, quoted in interview with Neil Young posted on Jigsaw Lounge (www.jigsawlounge.co.uk), 18 April 2002. “The Crusades, which began in the 11th century...” is from ‘Fox, Scott Plot Crusade’ by Michael Fleming, Variety, 3 Mar 2002. p122 “It’s a movie I’ve been thinking about for twenty years...” Scott, quoted
in The San Bernadino County Sun, circa September 2003. Page 120: “The subject has to be dealt with...” Scott, from a press conference for Matchstick Men, circa September 2003. “I think it’s a great script...” and all remaining Verhoeven quotes, AI.
TRAIN WRECK
Page 121: “It was sort of like...” and all other Steven de Souza quotes, AI. “It was a sci-fi action thriller...” and all other Jim Uhls quotes, AI. Page 122: “Sometime in 1988...” is from H. R. Giger’s Film Design by H. R. Giger, London: Titan Books, 1999. “I have come close...” Ridley Scott, ibid. “he told me to just...” ibid. “If somebody is telling me something...” H. R. Giger, AI. “Shortly thereafter he telephoned...” is from H. R. Giger’s Film Design by H. R. Giger, London: Titan Books, 1999. “I never got engaged and I never got paid...” and all remaining Giger quotes, AI. Page 123: “a mutant professional fighter...” and all other Jere Cunningham quotes, AI. “I had worked with Roland...” and all other Dean Devlin quotes, AI. “I met Roland and Dean...” and all other Tab Murphy quotes, AI.
WHO WANTS TO BE A BILLIONAIRE?
Page 135: “I had lots of people calling me up...” and all other David Koepp quotes, AI. “Who else could have taken on the censors...” is from ‘Howard Hughes: Tales of a Priapic Producer’ by Peter Bart, Variety, 23 September 2001. Page 136: “the greatest night in show business...” Charles Chaplin, ibid. Page 137: “He had seen me in Return to October...” and all other Terry Moore quotes, AI. Page 138: “I was caught up in a rushing stream...” Clifford Irving, quoted in interview with Mr Showbiz, April 1999. “That’s a vast project...” Brian De Palma, quoted in ‘Brian De Palma’, uncredited, ET Online (etonline.com), 30 July 1998. Page 140: “Leo’s been phenomenal to work with...” John Logan, quoted on BBCi Films, uncredited, circa 1999. “Hughes was childlike in many ways...” Charles Higham, quoted in ‘Imagine: Leo as Howard Hughes’, uncredited, New York Post, 30 June 1999. “Leonardo has all of those qualities...” Michael Mann, quoted in ‘Who’s Hughes in H’wood’ by ‘Mr Showbiz,’ mr.showbiz.go.com, 24 October 1999. “Hughes’ formative years...” Michael De Luca, quoted in ‘New Line Spruced Up’ by Michael Fleming, Variety, 25 February 2000. Page 141: “Much of what has been written about him...” Alan Ladd, Jr., quoted in ‘Howard Hughes Biopic’, uncredited, Variety, 23 March 2000. Page 142: “Ten years ago, we would have said...” Scott Alexander, quoted in ‘Hughes Intrigue Continues’ by Michael Fleming, Variety, 13 January 2000. “As writers, the problem is...” Larry Karaszewski, ibid. “No one has worked harder to bring the story...” Pat Broeske, quoted in interview with Inside.com, February 2001. “As a result of these discussions...” and other details of the Evans lawsuit, ibid. “feature film or telefilm...” is from ‘Helmer Friedkin to take on Hack’s Hughes’ by Army Archerd, Variety, 6 September 2001. Page 143: “I’ve been fascinated by Hughes...” William Friedkin, ibid. Page 144: “It was the extreme nature of his story...” Christopher Nolan, quoted in interview with S.F. Chronicle, reported on www.christophernolan.net, 17 May 2002. “It’s about the extremes to which one man can live...” Nolan, quoted in ‘Nolan on Hughes Project’ by ‘Lenny,’ www.christophernolan.net, 2 June 2002. Page 144: “It is the sort of great unmade Hollywood movie...” Nolan, quoted in ‘Wide Awake & Living in a Dream’ by Rob Blackwelder, Spliced Wire (www.splicedwire.com), circa 2002. “Jim was born to play Hughes....” Nolan, quoted in ‘Chris and Carrey Tackle Legendary Howard Hughes’, uncredited, The Calgary Sun, 24 April 2002. “Hughes is like everyone else...” Jim Carrey, quoted in ‘Hughes Grant’ by Liana Bonin, Entertainment Weekly, circa 2002. “Mann apparently agreed to step aside...” is from ‘Helmers Ganging up on Hughes’ by Michael Fleming, Variety, 24 January 2002. “I was never, like so many others...” Martin Scorsese, quoted in Variety report by Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith, circa February 2003. Page 145: “There’s no sense of any kind of race...” Nolan, quoted in ‘Howard Hughes Biopic Update’, uncredited, The Z Review (www.thezreview.co.uk), 29 August 2002.
PERCHANCE TO DREAM
Page 147: “The Sandman movie has nothing to do with me...” Neil Gaiman, quoted in Cinescape, 16 August 1999. Page 148: “Looking back, the process of coming up...” Gaiman, from the afterword to The Sandman: Preuludes & Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman et al., New York: DC Comics, 1991. “to read The Sandman is to read something more...” Mikal Gilmore, quoted on dustjacket for The Sandman: The Doll’s House by Neil Gaiman et al., New York: DC Comics, 1995. “To make it film-shaped...” Gaiman, quoted in The Sandman Companion by Hy Bender, New York: Vertigo Books, 1999. Page 149: “After turning in a draft that we felt...” Ted Elliott, quoted on Coming Attractions (corona.bc.ca), circa May 1998. “Since its inception, Terry and I...” and all other Elliott quotes are from Word Play (www.wordplayer.com). Page 150: “[Elliott and Rossio] had been paid a king’s ransom...” and all other Roger Avary quotes are from Avary.com (www.avary.com) Page 151: “one of the best I’ve read in quite some time...” ‘Widget’, quoted on Coming Attractions (corona.bc.ca). “I watched Sandman, my great epic comics opus...” Gaiman, quoted in the BBC Radio production Development Hell, produced by Neil Rosser, 2011. Page 154: “I read the graphic novel...”; “Basically, it was clear from the start...”; “The reply was basically...” William Farmer, AI. Page 155: “Where The Sandman movie is concerned...” Gaiman, quoted on Ain’t It Cool News (www.aintitcool.com) circa 1998. “When all was said and done...” Farmer, AI. “Mistake number one...”; “Rose Kendall is the daughter...” ‘Moriarty’, quoted on Ain’t It Cool News (www.aintitcool.com) Page 156: “The horrible line...” Farmer, quoted on Comics 2 Film (www.comics2film.com). “Well, of course the hospital...”; Page 157: “Gaiman never, ever cheated us...”; ‘Moriarty’, quoted on Ain’t It Cool News (www.aintitcool.com). “the worst one yet...” Gaiman, quoted in interview with the Philadelphia City Paper (www.citypaper.net). “not only the worst Sandman script...” Gaiman, quoted in interview with Andy Mangels, reported on Ain’t It Cool News (www.aintitcool.com). “Films carry with them...” “It was very obvious...” Gaiman, quoted in ‘Development Hell’, ibid. Page 158: “If any of you are waiting for Mr Gaiman’s...” Farmer, quoted on Coming Attractions (corona.bc.ca). “mixed feelings” and all other Farmer quotes, AI. Page 159: “I think right now they’re licking...” Gaiman, quoted in interview with Andy Mangels, reported on Ain’t It Cool News (www.aintitcool.com). “They always have ideas for casting...” Gaiman, quoted in interview with Cold Print (www.cold-print.com). Page 160: “I was approached by Brian Manis...” and all other David J. Schow quotes, AI. Page 162: “I couldn’t quite see why they got him...” Gaiman, AI. “for another [version of the] movie...” Gaiman, quoted on Universo HQ (www.universohq.com) “the strange, sad, development hell...” Gaiman, AI. “I just desperately hope that it’s a good movie...” Gaiman, quoted in interview with Cold Print (www.cold-print.com). “My own hope is that some time in my lifetime...” Gaiman, AI. Page 163: “My assumption...” and all other Gaiman quotes are from ‘Development Hell’, ibid.