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Nov 23

CASINO was released 29 years ago this week. Based on the real-life story of the mafia's Las Vegas infiltration, and one of the most popular films of director Martin Scorsese, the behind the scenes tale will wash away your sins...

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Following successfully working together on Goodfellas - an adaptation of his crime book Wiseguys – author Nicholas Pileggi approached director Martin Scorsese with a new idea; a film based on the true story of the mob-based rule over Las Vegas casinos in the 1970s.

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Scorsese reportedly called Pileggi’s pitch “an idea of success with no limits” and had an opening in his schedule having just stepped away as director of Clockers. Pileggi wanted to write a book, then adapt it, but Scorsese convinced him to do both together.

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Nov 22

CARLITO’S WAY was released 31 years ago this week. Among the most popular films of director Brian DePalma, as well as its star Al Pacino, the story of how it made it to the big screen could kill you faster than a bullet…

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In the 1970s, American author Edwin Torres published crime novels Carlito’s Way and After Hours, the story of an ex-con who finds himself pulled back into the New York underworld. Torres sold the rights to the books 10 times in the following years.

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Al Pacino had been aware of the character of Carlito Brigante since 1973, when he met Edwin Torres, and thought it a role he’d like to play. Pacino took the idea to producer Martin Bregman (who he worked with on Serpico/Dog Day Afternoon) and Bregman was interested.

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Nov 21

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST was released 49 years ago this week. Acclaimed as one of the greatest films of the 1970s and among Jack Nicholson’s greatest performances, the making of story is as big as The Chief…

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In the 1950s, aspiring writer Ken Kesey was an orderly in a psychiatric hospital. Seeing potential in his experiences for a story about mental illness and its societal causes, he wrote a book, and called it One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. It published in 1962.

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Within a year, the rights had been snapped up by Kirk Douglas and adapted into a Broadway production, with Douglas in the lead. He met young director Milos Forman in Prague and told him he’d send him the book. He did, but the book never arrived.

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Nov 17

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN was released 17 years ago this week. One of the most successful movies of the Coen brothers, and acclaimed as one of the great book-to-screen adaptations of the 21st century, missing the story of how it came to be is like losing a Chigurh coin toss…

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In 2005, American author Cormac McCarthy’s 9th novel – No Country For Old Men - published. The 1980-set story of a drug deal on the Mexico-US border that goes wrong, McCarthy had originally written the tale as a screenplay and, before long, Hollywood was interested.

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Producer Scott Rudin purchased the rights to McCarthy’s novel and knew who he wanted to handle the adaptation – sibling filmmaking duo Ethan and Joel Coen. At the time they were working on adapting James Dickey’s To The White Sea but set that aside to work with Rudin.

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Nov 15

ARRIVAL was released 8 years ago this week. Acclaimed as one of the great science fiction movies of the 21st century, and among the most popular of director Denis Villeneuve, the story of how it was made may change the way you perceive time…

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In 1998, Ted Chiang’s novella Story Of Your Life published in science fiction series Starlight 2. Telling the tale of a linguist making first contact with an alien species and discovering she can see the future, the story soon attracted Hollywood attention.

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Screenwriter Eric Heisserer read Chiang’s story, loved it, and approached Chiang about adapting it for film. After writing a draft, and calling it Arrival, Heisserer pitched his idea to production companies across a number of years, without receiving any interest.

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Nov 13

STARSHIP TROOPERS was released 27 years ago this week. Among the most popular films of director Paul Verhoeven, and a classic sci fi/action satire, the making of story is as outrageous as the film. Would you like to know more…?

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In the mid-1990s, RoboCop co-writer Ed Neumeier came up with an idea for his next screenplay. A future-set science fiction action film, it pitched humans against an alien species from the other side of the galaxy and was called Bug Hunt At Outpost 9.

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Neumeier took his idea to Jon Davidson, who had produced RoboCop. Noticing the similarities to Robert Heinlein’s 1959 novel Starship Troopers – and surprised to see the rights were available – Davidson licensed Heinlein’s book for Neumeier to adapt.

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