"I didn't want to insult him and tell him I didn't think it was a good movie idea, but I wanted to convince him that I wasn't the writer for it, in a sort of polite ," Strick explained. Strick planned to pass on the project, but found himself unable to say no to Spielberg when they met in person. It's not a message I ever wanted to send in a movie." And also I didn't like the vigilante implications of the story-you know, there comes a point when a man's gotta be a man with a gun and shoot this guy down. "It seemed like sort of a failed Hitchcock, which doesn't really turn me on. "They sent me the original movie and I watched it and didn't like it very much," Strick admitted. MacDonald's 1958 novel The Executioners, but Strick wasn't interested. Spielberg had originally contacted screenwriter Wesley Strick ( Arachnophobia) about adapting the original 1962 screenplay by James R. THE SCREENWRITER PASSED ON THE PROJECT, BUT SPIELBERG DIDN'T NOTICE. Spielberg had Bill Murray in mind to play Max Cady. Steven Spielberg, on the other hand, said he "wasn't in the mood" to make a movie about a "maniac." So, once Scorsese promised Spielberg that the Bowdens would survive in the end, they traded. Martin Scorsese was apprehensive about making Schindler's List after the controversy surrounding his previous two films, Goodfellas and The Last Temptation of Christ. STEVEN SPIELBERG TRADED THE MOVIE TO MARTIN SCORSESE FOR THE RIGHTS TO SCHINDLER'S LIST. Here are 15 facts about Cape Fear in honor of its 25th anniversary. The impressive supporting cast included Jessica Lange as Leigh, Sam's wife, and cameos from actors who were in the original, including Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck (in what would be his final film). Juliette Lewis made what was for many a first impression for the ages as Sam's daughter, Danielle. De Niro played Max Cady, a vengeful sex offender who, once out of jail, attempts to torture his lawyer, Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte), who he blames for his 14-year imprisonment. In 1991-long before the term "gritty reboot" came into this world and lost all of its meaning-Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro teamed up to make a gritty reboot of J.
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