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Uh, there was a lot of rah-rah and jingoism. You must be exhausted of someone else saying it had a happy ending. "I was there, serving at the time as senior vi
by hindsightbias 13y ago
Uh, there was a lot of rah-rah and jingoism. You must be exhausted of someone else saying it had a happy ending.
"I was there, serving at the time as senior vice president for production in the administration of Frank Yablans, then-CEO of the company, when Yablans declared in no uncertain terms that he wanted to make the ultimate jingoistic movie and that Al Haig would take him there. “It will be a sure-fire international blockbuster,” Yablans enthused.
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Even Milius, a stoic, good-natured individual who is more about bluster than action, became alarmed. Wandering into my office one day, he confided his concern that he was being railroaded into what he described as “a flag-waving, jingoistic movie.” Milius said his intent was to make a movie about the “futility of war,” adding, “I have a nervous feeling that Yablans and Haig are jabbering away on their hot line about a different movie.”"
http://variety.com/1997/voices/columns/red-dawn-shooting-it-the-mcveigh-way-1117859589/ http://variety.com/1997/voices/columns/red-dawn-shooting-it-...