No stranger to scorching takes, Paul Schrader has a brand new goal in his sight: his personal film.
To be extra actual, an upcoming tv adaptation for his 1980 film. Showtime launched a trailer earlier this week for American Gigolo, starring Jon Bernthal, Gretchen Mol and Rosie O’Donnell.
The director of the unique, starring Richard Gere and Lauren Hutton, took to his Fb web page to lambaste the brand new adaptation produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, saying he had no involvement with the sequence and that he received’t be watching it.
“After the Showtime trailer appeared on-line I’ve been requested if I’m concerned,” Schrader wrote. “The reply is not any.”
Paramount apparently known as Schrader years in the past fielding curiosity from the Oscar-nominated director on adapting the unique movie that facilities on a male escort accused of homicide.
“I replied that I believed it was a horrible thought–occasions had modified, web porn had redefined male intercourse work, viruses, and many others. I couldn’t think about Julian Kay working a Hen Social gathering,” Schrader wrote. “I believed that was the top of it.”
Then, Schrader was knowledgeable Jerry Bruckheimer and Paramount had the rights to re-do American Gigolo with out his consent. His solely choice was to just accept their money and transfer alongside.
“They didn’t need my involvement. Right here had been my choices: (1) take $50G and never be concerned (2) take $0 and never be concerned (3) threaten an costly and futile lawsuit and never be concerned,” Schrader wrote. “I took the $50G.”
Schrader wrote he has no plans to look at the sequence and doesn’t suppose he “could possibly be goal about it and, even when I may, it’s an excessive amount of agita.”
