Zitat des Tages von Bryan Burrough:
You never know what to expect when you're a writer visiting a movie set.
All the way back in 1999, when I first stumbled upon the idea of a project tracking John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson and all the major Depression-era bank robbers, I thought the subject was too big to be a single book. Instead, with a friend's help, I pitched the idea as a miniseries to HBO. To my amazement, they bought it.
I don't know the figures, but Hollywood must buy 100 rights for every movie that actually gets made.
There's always a slight tension when you sell a book to Hollywood, especially a nonfiction book. The author wants his story told intact; the nonfiction author wants it told accurately.
I've read the 'Public Enemies' script and, no, it's not 100 percent historically accurate. But it's by far the closest thing to fact Hollywood has attempted, and for that, I am both excited and quietly relieved.
American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.
'Bonnie and Clyde,' while one of the best movies ever made, was far more interested in portraying Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as romantic anti-establishment Robin Hoods than what they really were: white-trash spree killers.
When you're going off to prison for the rest of your life, a lot of people do feel the need to explain themselves to all the people they have known.
