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October 29, 2005
All the king's minions: guessing at King's Men's one-year delay
In the Guardian, John Patterson guesses at why All the King's Men was delayed from Christmas 2005 to 2006. The scribe doesn't believe they ran out of editing time: "Consider the political atmosphere the remake would have dropped into in mid-December: indictments gagging the White House and Congress, the super-rich soaking the poor, abject failure in New Orleans, inflation on the rise, a dejected electorate, Iraq, wall-to-wall corruption. The film might have been almost too perfect for its political moment, at least in the eyes of its backers, who, like all studios, have too much business pending at the Republican-controlled FCC to risk giving partisan offence. Better to delay it a year, when the mid-term elections will be behind us, than to earn the enmity of the nastiest pay-back outfit in modern American politics. It's only a theory, and possibly a paranoid fantasy, but in these bleak times I'm ready to believe almost anything." [Note: as a foreign-owned concern, Sony cannot own broadcast properties.]
Posted by pride at October 29, 2005 11:57 AM
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