Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Joe Dante" in English language version.
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I wouldn't say toying... I'd say slogging, trying to get somebody to finance the movie for about the last ten years. But I haven't given up and I still think it's a great project and we're looking at all sorts of alternate ways of getting it done. It's a funny movie about Roger doing "The Trip". Everything in it is true, which makes it even funnier. We came within a hair of making it twice. I think if we can get that close twice, we can get that close again.
Dern's next outing will be "Hart's Location" with real life actress daughter Laura Dern, and her mother–Bruce's ex–the great Diane Ladd. Last fall the trio was the first family, Dern notes, to receive their Hollywood Walk of Fame stars all together. Joe Dante, Dern says, will direct "Hart's." It's a project that's been in the works for about five years, but now it seems like it may take off.
I was trying for years to make a movie out of The Sheep Look Up, which is by John Brunner. It's a science fiction movie, about the future... which we're now in, so it's a little late. And I always wanted to make a movie out of "The Screwfly Solution", by James Tiptree, and when I was at New World, I had a sort of a take on a whole script for it. And later I had a chance to do it as an episode of Masters of Horror, and it's only an hour long, but it turned out to be so depressing that I realized that if I had made it as a feature film nobody would have come to see it, at all!
I tried to get to do Something Wicked This Way Comes—which was based on the Ray Bradbury story—but, at the time, I didn't have enough experience, and the Disney people didn't trust me to do it. And then, unfortunately, I saw the movie that they made which was actually made by a great director, Jack Clayton, who they treated terrible, and the movie isn't really very good. So, that was probably a bullet dodged.
I wouldn't say toying... I'd say slogging, trying to get somebody to finance the movie for about the last ten years. But I haven't given up and I still think it's a great project and we're looking at all sorts of alternate ways of getting it done. It's a funny movie about Roger doing "The Trip". Everything in it is true, which makes it even funnier. We came within a hair of making it twice. I think if we can get that close twice, we can get that close again.
Dern's next outing will be "Hart's Location" with real life actress daughter Laura Dern, and her mother–Bruce's ex–the great Diane Ladd. Last fall the trio was the first family, Dern notes, to receive their Hollywood Walk of Fame stars all together. Joe Dante, Dern says, will direct "Hart's." It's a project that's been in the works for about five years, but now it seems like it may take off.
I tried to get to do Something Wicked This Way Comes—which was based on the Ray Bradbury story—but, at the time, I didn't have enough experience, and the Disney people didn't trust me to do it. And then, unfortunately, I saw the movie that they made which was actually made by a great director, Jack Clayton, who they treated terrible, and the movie isn't really very good. So, that was probably a bullet dodged.
