With guild agreements being signed and production ramping up, Hollywood hopefully awaits a moment of youthful innovation.
He misses the hubris of the 70s whenJawswent 100 days over schedule and Universal decided not to notice.
The times are transformative, but is that good news or bad?
(L-R) Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott and Michael MannGetty
Scorsese (80) has been the most self-critical of his generation.
His follow-up,Silence, arguably lacked narrative as well as genre.
Major box office success is nonetheless predicted.
(L-R) Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio in ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’Apple TV+ / Courtesy Everett Collection
KubricksNapoleonwas supposed to star the two hottest young celebrities of that period, David Hemmings and Audrey Hepburn.
His script even enticed Spielberg into creating a Napoleon miniseries for HBO, which also never happened.
Joaquin Phoenix stars as Ridley ScottsNapoleon, whose trailer hit screens last week.
It did not play the troubled awards circuit.
Michael MannsFerrari, by contrast, was warmly received at the Venice Film Festival.
So do older filmmakers overly favor period subjects?
The two new comedies from Polanski and Allen are both set In the present.
Coppolas vastly more ambitiousMegalopolisis set in the future and the director describes it as Utopian.
