Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Michael Cimino" in English language version.
Among the other projects mentioned by the CEO of Wild Bunch is also One Arm, a dark story of a boxer losing an arm in a car accident.
That of a film which was to tell the History of America from the point of view of the native Americans. "A film about the genocide and then about a life both protected, on the reservations, and humiliated by the good American conscience confronted with the original crime. The film therefore had to be made in their language, otherwise it would have been like a betrayal, but that prevented him from counting on stars, reason for which he could not do it".
Actor Jason Scott Lee is about to join Al Capone's Chicago mob. The Hollywood Reporter trade paper indicates the actor will star in "An American Dream," based on a true story about the first Asian immigrant to become a powerful player in Capone's operation. Michael Cimino will direct in Chicago, San Francisco and South Korea.
About the script that Oliver Stone talks about, a Western in the Sioux language that he wrote for Cimino, he says 'We had found 12, 13, 14 million dollars to do it, he could have done it if he had wanted.' When we see the film we say to ourselves that a part of him still wanted to shoot between '95 and the moment of his death and another part did not want to anymore. When Stone says that a guy who puts so much energy so that a film that could be made does not happen, it almost says something about him, he is right. When you spend time with someone from morning to night, you learn things, a kind of humanity even at times almost a little naive. Like Ford, which he talked about every day.
I like large screens. Western America is full of large landscapes and in a way, they require a large screen. If you diminish the ratio, you are limited. That's why a movie you watch on TV is a different movie.
I think the world is far too interesting for us to try and make up a new one. For me, the dimensions of human art are measureless. Like Coleridge says, 'caverns measureless to man, spaces measureless to man.' There's so much of interest in real life and most people who write science fiction are running away from life to create a fictional world. I'd rather have real life.
One great fan was Michael Cimino. After he had made The Deer Hunter, he wanted to remake The Fountainhead. The powers that be said no, it was too expensive... too intoxicating. So he did Heaven's Gate instead, and destroyed United Artists in the process.
Yeah. I mean, "Heaven's Gate" has got some wonderful things in it. Some really, really amazing things. Talk about detail, authenticity, staging. Just staging people in the frame, in a wide frame! It's just phenomenal. But what happened just had to happen. Hollywood's in the business of getting—ideally—a return at the box office. You know, somebody gives you $40 million to make a picture, you should think about making money.
Cimino also worked with Steven Spielberg and Gary David Goldberg (creator of TV's "Family Ties") on the script for "Reel to Reel," which he was going to direct for Columbia in 1983. But according to Goldberg, the script--based on a semi-autobiographical story by Spielberg, about a young director making his first picture--was never satisfactorily developed. "It became darker under Michael," he recalled.
Mark Rydell will direct from a script by Bo Goldman and Michael Cimino and an earlier draft by William Kerby from a story by Mr. Worth and Mr. Cimino.
He has a novel underway, but it is incomplete and dormant at the moment. And last fall, he completed a long screenplay with the director Michael Cimino, about the rehabilitation of juvenile felons.
He tells the story of the project: his first intention was to make a western that would tell the role of Chinese immigrants in the construction of the American railroad, but the project had not succeeded, among other things, because he did not know no Chinese-American actor capable of taking on this kind of role. It is under the impulse of the producer Dino de Laurentiis, that he will adapt the novel by Robert Daley, to make the film "The Year of the Dragon", with Mickey Rourke in the main role.
Director Brian De Palma turned down an invitation to head the jury at the Avoriaz Fantasy Film Festival currently underway in the French Alps, and Michael Cimino took the post. Organizers say De Palma begged off because of a skiing accident.
He is happily working on many projects, including two indies set in L.A. The first is the largest Korean-financed pic, about Korean gangsters in the U.S. during the Al Capone era. The other is titled "The Dreaming Place." He is also writing a screenplay about pro golf. If this isn't enough Cimino's writing his first novel, "Sailing to Byzantium."
Phillip Finch's soon-to-be published "Paradise Junction" was purchased by Rich and Clint Eastwood's Malpaso Prods. The thriller is being written by Michael Cimino. Asked if Cimino would possibly direct the film, Rich gave an emphatic "No."
Also, Michael Cimino's scripting "Paradise Junction" for Clint Eastwood and Rich's banners. Eastwood would direct or star or both.
Another Eastwood project slated for WB distribution is "Paradise Junction," which Michael Cimino is adapting from Philip Finch's book. It's about a tough, working-class guy who gets recruited into a criminal scheme by a bunch of yuppies, but turns the tables on them. Sources said it has not been decided if Eastwood will also helm the project, which the Oscar winner's Malpaso and Rich Prods. acquired together.
I wasn't being facetious about FOOTLOOSE / I worked on it for 6 months. / My John Steinbeck inspired musical-comedy didn't reach the screen.
