An Underrated Kevin Costner Flop Was Almost Directed By Francis Ford Coppola

If you asked me to name 10 of my life screenwriting, the scripts, which were considered so brilliantly formulated that they looked like they couldn’t Missbusters and/or Oscar competitors, “Thirteen days” would be close to the top of my catalog. The flickering page translator of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, in which President John F. Kennedy and his adviser won almost the apocalyptic brinkmanship game to send the latter core controls in Cuba, immediately caught the attention of A-list directors and movie stars. Steven Spielberg liked it. Similarly, Lawrence Kasda.

Kevin Costner is attached to produce and Soon, the lead role of Kenneth O’Donnell (JFK Special Assistant), soon it became clear that the leader with whom Costner was familiar with would probably get a gig. It was looking for a while that Phil Alden Robinson, who made film history through Costner Father-Movie Classic “Dream Field” Can combine with his Cornfield-baseball friend, but create differences in kiboshed this. Roger Donaldson, an Australian helmet that had helped to turn Costner white into a hot sex symbol a tight political thriller “no way out” There was also an eye, as well as Martin Campbell (which, despite the fact that he had never directed the stars before, was very demand after he was reviving the James Bond Franchise “Goldeneye”).

There was nothing wrong with Donaldson or Campbell, but “thirteen days” was such a hot script. The producers of the film can certainly make A-Lister direct one of the world’s largest stars in a movie that could well be a serious Oscar competitor. So, Costner and Beacon Communications stretched out Francis Ford Coppola. Why didn’t this happen? And how did the “thirteen days” decrease to make the biggest flop of Coppola’s (very long) path?

Coppola took most of the pay gigs in the late 1990s, which led to his undoubtedly the worst movie (“Jack”) and one brilliant legal thriller (“Rainmaker”). “Thirteen days” was by far the best material that he had been offered at age, but it was more of a walking and speech. He would serve the material instead of making it his own. He also works with an Oscar-winning actress director who was known for Diva behavior (who didn’t go well Clint Eastwood in a series of “Perfect World”).

Coppola finally fell, but not because he was worried that Costner threw his weight around. I mean this may have been a concern, but according to the 1999 report Isn’t that great news (which I can personally check), his friend George Lucas “Star Wars: Episode I – Phantom Menace.” When he saw what Lucas could achieve in terms of world construction produced by the computer, he moved the “Megalopolis” project to the front burner. The time to make a blatant epic civilization on the brink was now (or so he thought).

Costner and Beacon eventually went with Donaldson, who supplied a B+ version of what could have been in the right hands. Despite the good reviews, the Academy Awards ignored the film completely and worse, gross $ 67 million against a $ 80 million budget. Coppola would not have turned this into a “godfather”, but he would definitely have had fun throwing it. It could have made all the difference. Because he would not make a new feature before 2007 “young people without a young person”, this seems like a lost opportunity.