Thursday, February 24, 2011

How Many Producers Does It Take...


Cory Turner on how many producers it took to get 'The King's Speech' made:

...Lane wrangled actor Geoffrey Rush into the mix as the therapist behind the king's stuttering speech by sending a copy of the stage play to his house, where it awaited him on his doormat one morning as he came downstairs for breakfast. Rush read and liked the script, and let the two producers put his name on it. For that, he's not only in the credits as an actor, but also as an executive producer.

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So Harvey and his team flew to Savill's offices in London, where they parked themselves there until they convinced her to let them become backers, Savill told me.

"I know them incredibly well, so I know the modus operandi, but it's incredibly effective, actually," she said of their persistence.


Harvey and Bob Weinstein got themselves executive producers' credits, and then there were nine.





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