Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Peter Bogdanovich" in English language version.
It's about a movie director slash star — somebody like Woody Allen or John Cassavetes or Orson Welles or Charlie Chaplin — and he's basically known for comedy. And he's been married six times and he's got six daughters, and his last wife, the one he seems to have been most keen on, was killed in a plane crash, six years before the movie begins. And the guy's life in those six years, since it happened, has turned to s**t. He's in bad shape. He can't be hired by Hollywood because he chopped up a projection room and beat up a producer. So he's persona non grata in Hollywood. Before the picture begins, he spends quite a bit of time in Italy, conning the Italians that he's got a story, that he's got to check locations. So he's been traveling all around Italy. I don't want to get into the whole plot, but the point is the ghost of his last wife shows up eventually. And there's a rock star that gets into trouble. He's a friend of his, and he's in love with one of his daughters. It's a complicated comedy-drama-fantasy, and I'm very keen on it. And Brett likes it and we're going to do it.
I'm going to do another film first called "Wait for Me." It's a comedy-drama-fantasy, because there are ghosts in it. It's something I've been working on for more than 30 years. I think I've finally got it right. It's gone through many versions and drafts. But it was the first idea that sprang to mind after a little tragedy we had here in the family. In November of '80 I thought it might be an interesting idea. I don't think I wrote a script until the end of the '80s. Originally it was for John Cassavetes to play the lead. But John was very ill. He died in '89. But I sent him the script, which was an early draft, and he gave me some notes. And for the rest of the time before he died, he'd say, "Are you going to make that picture?" I said, "Yeah." He said, "You better make that picture." And then when he was very close to dying, one of the last things he said to me was, "Listen, kid, you better make that picture, because you know what? I'll be there."
And a ghost picture called Wait For Me that he says he's been working on "literally for 20 years", which takes us back to the immediate aftermath of Dorothy Stratten's death. "I like the story. It's got a lot more difficult since I first thought of it, though. It used to be about a guy who married three times and had three daughters. Now he marries six times and has six daughters."
