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At which point the project came close to falling apart.
The executives wanted to make it there.
Question was, how do you offset the costs?
Usually you go to one tax-credit city and shoot everything there.
But this book is set in Amsterdam, New York, and Las Vegas.
It was a real quandary …
There came a point where it was like, What is it going to cost?
How do we justify those numbers internally?
They knew persuading studio development executives to read some random 800-page book would be an uphill battle.
In 2014, it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Hollywood came calling.
(Through a Warner Bros. representative, the reclusive Tartt declined to comment for this article.)
That made it not just practically possible but cinematically possible.
It allowed us to visually tell a story in which the past is constantly sitting on the presents shoulders.
Barrett (who frequently works with filmmakers Spike Jonze and Sofia Coppola).
Thats when budget negotiations between the studio and the producer broke down.
You hope that its a week or two and then youre off to the races.
But that was not to be.
Disney licenses its films to Netflix; at Lionsgate, the go-to is Epix.
The proposed Warners deal would not fit into either category.
Aloni remained instrumental in the deal-making process.
(Like Emmerich, neither Valenti or Spira were made available for comment.)
Adds Simpson: Amazon made sense because obviously, this book had been featured on their platform.
This is a great model for us, Emmerich reportedly said at the time.
Throughout the deal-making, Crowley and Straughan continued hammering away at the script.
We kept focusing on, What could feel likeMasterpiece Theatre?
and dissolve them away and, What could feel like a more lucid version?
But real-life dramas surrounding the production werent over yet.
In November 2017, six women came forward to accuseGoldfinchexecutive producer Brett Ratner of sexual harassment and misconduct.
So in terms of representation and visibility behind and in front of the camera, no.
There was not going to be any kind of gentle way to proceed other than not at all.
And Warners was very responsive and right away the change was made and RatPac became unattached.
Have we entered a new era of cooperation between streaming giants and once-circumspect studios?
But his remarks serve as a handy metaphor for the making ofThe Goldfinch.
you’ve got the option to debate the purpose of art endlessly.
But I think we can agree that art is there to be seen, read, experienced.
Theres actually a big idea about culture or maybe civilization passing something on that lurks within.
