Eric Heisserer (Arrival): “It was the start of a pitch, I said ‘There’s a spy and his wife.’
It’s funny to hear how misunderstood some of these projects were by the studio execs funding them, but also a little scary.
And the biggest note in development and shooting it was, ‘Do they have to wear cowboy hats and have facial hair?’
With talented headliners, Oscar-nominated screenwriters and flashy special effects, perhaps studio execs need to start looking at themselves when they wonder why things didn’t come together in the end.