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Subject: Buddy Holly biopic update


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Mulligan
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Date Posted: Tue June 28, 2022 16:20:41
 I thought that with the success of this new Elvis movie, the proposed Buddy Holly movie might get a jump start. Maybe enough investors will lift this project from a low-budget exercise in futility into something worth watching.

I'd really like to see a different actor, someone younger, play Holly. The guy they hired is 30 years old and looks nothing like the person he's supposed to play. I'd also be happy with a new director and a more accurate script.

I doubt we'll see a better script, but it looks like a different director will (eventually?) be hired.

Here's a quote from Bruce Beresford. He wrote it last January:

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A proposed film about Buddy Holly seemed to be all set to go into production when my Los Angeles agent had a call from a producer (who chickened out of contacting me directly) with the news, ‘We’ve decided we want a Black director’. I pointed out that Buddy Holly was not Black, that I had spent a year working with the writer and had done a huge amount of research. The response was that the decision was made because a key part of the script featured a rock tour Holly made with Black musicians. I suppose I could’ve claimed Aboriginal ancestry, a popular move these days, but, on reflection, decided that a legal tussle with studio lawyers would be interminable and absurdly costly.
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Re: Buddy Holly biopic updateGertTue June 28, 2022 18:32:49
Re: Buddy Holly biopic updateMikeWed June 29, 2022 01:36:38

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