wtf?

entdeckt:
http://www.subcin.com/stand.html
"Length is a problem. Again, it's a problem because like the last time George
and I talked about it, I said, "Okay, this is what we've got. It's been through two
drafts now and now it's down to a length of what would probably be in shooting
time about four hours." In other words, 40 minutes longer than Godfather II.
So I say, "Okay, we're at this point where we gotta lighten this boat, George.
We gotta throw some people overboard. Who's expendable?" And he says,
"Well, let me think about it." So he thought about it and I thought about it and
I came back to him. And there's this little kid in the book who ... pals around
with one of the characters ... I said, "Well, Joe can go." And George kind of says,
"Well, I like him." We tried to get rid of a couple of people and they didn't
want to stay down. So that's where we are and we're trying to decide what
to do next. We've got some places to go now with it. (Stephen King, 1983) "

es war zu frueh, moechte man meinen.
heute wuerde man keine leute rausschmeissen, man wuerde den film in 2 teilen, was voellig ok waere, denn so koennte man den teil erzaehlen, der vor dem showdown passiert und der showdows waere eben genau nur noch das. es waeren 2 verschiedene film, aber es waere verflucht reizvoll.
oh man, king und romero, ich bekomme gaensehaut bei dem gedanken, echt jetz.
ich wuerde zwar nicht sagen, das the stand das beste buch der welt ist, aber es ist definitiv stephen kings bestes buch. und eine grossartige filmvorlage.
leider sind die kingverfilmungen immer eher untere schublade, sieht man von the shining und carrie einmal ab.
btw: carrie koennte ich ruhig mal wieder sehn.

"Another problem is what one Warner Brothers executive referred to as "spill and fill", which is one of the ugliest phrases I've ever heard. What it means is that a picture cannot make money unless it can be turned over enough times in one day, and particularly during that time period when there's someone other than people using Golden Age passes, JDs skipping school, and people who have come from their bowling league in the afternoon to see the picture. You've got to be able to get in two evening shows, and sometimes three in the big cities. I heard from one Warner Brothers guy that the
reason The Shining didn't get into the black until release abroad was that it was two hours and fifteen minutes long, so in a lot of cities the last show was cut.
After eleven pm, the babysitter goes on double time, and it becomes a problem. "

und wird immer besser:
"Unfortunately, the studio backing the project was Warner Brothers. And, showing the normal cluelessness of that film company's brain-dead "suits", they backed out on the project, just as it was about to finally come together.

(There will be a special place in cinematic Hell for the pathetic idiots that run Warners, count on it. Witness their moronic "digital censorship" of Stanley Kubrick's last film for undeniable proof that they have no souls.) "