A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

Pros:  2010's  cast, including Roy Scheider and Helen Mirren. Good script. Great visuals. Cons:  Real life rendered its Cold War political undertones obsolete. In the years after the 1968 release of Stanley Kubrick's landmark science-fiction film  2001: A Space Odyssey,  he and collaborator Arthur C. Clarke were asked many questions about how it was conceived, how the realistic special effects had been done, why did Kubrick decide to use classical music pieces in the soundtrack, and if HAL was a punny jab at IBM's corporate name. Another question that followed both the director and the writer for years was  Will you ever do a follow-up to  2001 ? Kubrick, of course, wasn't interested in doing a sequel and generally stayed away from science fiction; the only other set-in-the-future projects he ever envisioned after  2001  were  A Clockwork Orange  and penning the basic story idea for ...

Jaws 2 (1978) Directed by Jeannot Szwarc Written by Carl Gottlieb and Howard Sackler, based on characters created by Peter Benchley Starring: Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Mark Gilpin. Ann Dusenberry Martin Brody: But I'm telling you, and I'm telling everybody at this table that that's a shark! And I know what a shark looks like, because I've seen one up close. And you'd better do something about this one, because I don't intend to go through that hell again! With the phenomenal success of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws - with its $260 million domestic gross ($470 million worldwide), it’s not surprising that Universal Studios commissioned a sequel while the blockbuster was still in its record-setting theatrical run. Producers Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown, who didn’t want their competition to make Jaws 2,  egan developing a follow-up story as early as the fall of 1975. Zanuck and Brown also wanted Spielberg to direct Jaws 2, but he r...

"Jaws" (1975) (c) 1975 Universal Pictures Directed by Steven Spielberg Written by Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb Based on the novel by Peter Benchley Starring: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton Brody: You're gonna need a bigger boat. Before  Avatar. Before  Titanic. Before  Star Wars, E.T.,  or  Raiders of the Lost Ark,  there was.... Jaws. Released on June 20, 1975, director Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Peter Benchley’s best-selling novel about a New England community terrorized by a predatory great white shark was the first of the modern blockbusters. With a script co-written by Benchley and Carl Gottlieb,  Jaws  features powerful performances by actors Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, and Richard Dreyfuss, as well as an Oscar-winning score by composer John Williams. Tom Cassidy: What's your name again? Christine 'Chrissie' Watkins...