A behind-the-scenes chronicle of the creation of the Terry Gilliam’s `The Brothers Grimm’, charting all the highs and lows in the film’s journey from script to screen. Told by both Gilliam and McCabe, who provides an on-set diary, this unique account reveals exactly how a film is made – or ruined – in today’s Hollywood system.
THE BROTHERS GRIMM is Terry Gilliam's film for autumn 2005. After two years of pre-production hell, the film was finally greenlit in March 2003 by Miramax's Dimension Films with a budget bigger than anything Gilliam has ever had to work with – on...
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A behind-the-scenes chronicle of the creation of the Terry Gilliam’s `The Brothers Grimm’, charting all the highs and lows in the film’s journey from script to screen. Told by both Gilliam and McCabe, who provides an on-set diary, this unique account reveals exactly how a film is made – or ruined – in today’s Hollywood system.
THE BROTHERS GRIMM is Terry Gilliam's film for autumn 2005. After two years of pre-production hell, the film was finally greenlit in March 2003 by Miramax's Dimension Films with a budget bigger than anything Gilliam has ever had to work with – on condition that the film was fast-tracked for a 2004 release.
With stars Matt Damon and Heath Ledger playing the brothers Jake and Will, and co-starring Jonathan Pryce, hero from Gilliam's seminal BRAZIL, this movie is hailed as an "Indiana Jones and the Brothers Grimm"-style adventure, in which two Middle-Ages conmen who travel the countryside inventing horrendous ghost stories, only so they can claim to have defeated evil and be showered with gifts and women, finally encounter a real magical curse and are forced to find the courage to do a proper day's work of evil-vanquishing.
Drawing upon numerous crewmember's diaries and candid, outspoken interviews with Terry Gilliam and the stars as the basis for this book, author Bob McCabe follows Gilliam through the pre-production battle of wills between director and producers, the nightmares of filming without budget, equipment or even cast, and the anarchy and brinkmanship of post-production inevitable in a Gilliam film. He seeks to unravel the truth buried between the lines, and reveals exactly how a film is made – or ruined – in today's Hollywood system.
Guaranteed to fascinate film buffs and Terry Gilliam fans alike – already intrigued after the collapse of his Don Quixote movie formed the basis of a captivating documentary film – this amusing chronicle will be an unputdownable read and should put anyone who has aspired to direct a film in the future completely off the idea!
- ISBN13 9780007175567
- Publish Date 7 November 2005
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 May 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint HarperCollins Entertainment
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English
- URL http://harpercollins.co.uk