At 07:48 PM 12/22/2004, you wrote:
>Weird, my wife's reading What Makes Sammy Run as we
speak, or as I type
>(literally). I read
>it this past summer. Budd Schulberg is the author's
name, and I really
>liked the novel --
>it's got an HB vibe, though there's no crime or
mystery. The narrator has
>an 40s-
>newspaperman way of talking. It's a legendary
"hollywood" novel, though
>strangely I don't
>think it's ever been turned into a movie (though I
recall that someone
>famous has the
>rights ... information ... getting hazy).
>
>Michael Sharp
Stiller runs to DreamWorks
Updated: Fri, Nov 09 12:55 AM EST
By Michael Fleming
NEW YORK (Variety) - DreamWorks has made a three-year
first-look deal with Ben Stiller and his Red Hour Films
banner, and the studio has begun that relationship by paying
$2.6 million to Warner Bros. to import Stiller's dream
project, an adaptation of the Budd Schulberg classic
Hollywood novel
"What Makes Sammy Run."
Stiller will direct and star as soulless Hollywood hustler
Sammy Glick who, armed with little talent, gladly takes
credit for the hard work of others and steps over them on his
way to the top. He also wrote the script with Jerry
Stahl.
Along with producer Gene Kirkwood, Stiller labored for years
with "On the Waterfront" writer Schulberg to mount the period
film. Even as Stiller's own currency has grown exponentially
thanks to a string of hits like
"There's Something About Mary" and "Meet the Parents," the
project languished at WB. The $2.6 million that DreamWorks
has paid to WB covers the cost of commissioning numerous
draft scripts.
"Sammy" becomes Red Hour's second active project at
DreamWorks, with the studio also developing "Date School," a
comic vehicle about the proprietor of a Learning Annex-type
dating school who road tests his theories when he falls for a
student. Red Hour was previously based at New Line
Cinema.
Reuters/Variety
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