Terrific book, read it in one sitting. Extra good because it covers Shelton's life in the minors, and his early days of filmmaking. I knew a fair bit about the
Loved script stuff especially:
- writing the opening monologue he made sure he after Annie's lofty speech he then went low brow at the ball park
- an Annie/Crash scene where she talks about her past was loved by everyone, on stage and on film, but held up the film - and once he cut it the film flowed - he realised it was because it was too intimate between the characters when they hadn't reached that spot yet
- his ins and outs behind various creative decisions.
The film on one hand was easy - Thom Mount liked the pitch, agreed to make it, Kevin Costner came on - but was also very difficult: it was saved solely by a good review about No Way Out. Shelton punched out a producer who told Susan Sarandon the rushes made her look bad - he was lucky not to get fired. Didn't realise Shelton was open to Anthony Michael Hall - it was Hall who blew it not reading the script. The suits sacked the DOP just to throw their weight around. Costner was a prince, the cast was divine. Laura San Giacomo was cast as Millie but had to pull out, JT Walsh was the manager but got a better offer, they wanted Charlie Sheen but he was attached to Eight Men Out.
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