Remember Madeleine Stowe?
I always liked her. She was good actress with a fair amount of charisma and held her own with some of the bigger stars of her era (Jack Nicholson, Kurt Russell, Ray Liotta, Daniel Day-Lewis, Mel Gibson, John Travolta, Kevin Costner, Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, Aiden Quinn, Mark Harmon, etc. etc. etc.).
But even though she appeared in a slew of box office hits, she always seemed to fly under the radar. Eventually, she hit 30, and as is wont to happen, Hollywood slowly began to close its doors.
Taking matters into her own hands, she wrote a script called Unbound Captives as a star vehicle for herself. Now this is where it gets interesting. She shopped it to the studios, but under the pseudonym O.C. Humphrey. None of the studios realized it was her, and Fox offered $5 million for the script!
And she turned it down!
Because she wasn't going to be in it.
Taking matters into her own hands, she wrote a script called Unbound Captives as a star vehicle for herself. Now this is where it gets interesting. She shopped it to the studios, but under the pseudonym O.C. Humphrey. None of the studios realized it was her, and Fox offered $5 million for the script!
And she turned it down!
Because she wasn't going to be in it.
And so the script floated around, and Stowe's career stalled; but she never sold that script outright ($5 million is a lot of money for anyone!).
And then, suddenly, along comes John Toll (great cinematographer), Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, and Robert Pattinson. And Stowe is still involved.
She's going to direct it!
A good seven or eight years later, her decision to stick by her guns and not sell out (literally) has finally paid off.
Somewhere, Sylvester Stallone is smiling.*
* The next time we go out for a drink remind me to tell you the famous story about Sly and his script for Rocky...
LINKS
Variety: Trio Bound to Stowe's Captives
And then, suddenly, along comes John Toll (great cinematographer), Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, and Robert Pattinson. And Stowe is still involved.
She's going to direct it!
A good seven or eight years later, her decision to stick by her guns and not sell out (literally) has finally paid off.
Somewhere, Sylvester Stallone is smiling.*
* The next time we go out for a drink remind me to tell you the famous story about Sly and his script for Rocky...
LINKS
Variety: Trio Bound to Stowe's Captives
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