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December 20, 2006
Honeydripper: an instrument about to take over
At Emerging Pictures, producer Maggie Renzi starts a distribution blog: "We did it. John Sayles and I—
along with a crew of about 100 and the usual giant Sayles ensemble, plus 400 Alabama extras—just wrapped Honeydripper. It’s John’s sixteenth feature and my thirteenth. Lucky 13th, I think. We filmed it all on location in Alabama, based out of Greenville. Editing room opens in our garage... Jan 8. And I’m damned if after all this work we’re going to see another movie sacrificed to the Petty God of Bad Distribution. We’re working with Emerging Pictures to see if we can reach these two simple goals: see the movie reach its audiences, and see the filmmakers pocket the profits." EARLIER: "Honeydripper takes place in a small, cotton-producing community in the 1950s, just before the outbreak of the Korean War, the title referring "to a struggling roadhouse owned by an aging piano player played by Danny Glover." Glover's character hires a young musician with an electric guitar he made himself. "It's set right in 1950, when Ike Turner and Chuck Berry and those guys were starting to discover the electric guitar," Sayles says. "That instrument, which had been in the background, is about to take over." Honeydripper was inspired by the story “Keeping Time,” from Sayles' short story collection, "Dillinger in Hollywood."
Posted by Ray Pride at December 20, 2006 12:43 PM
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