Jon Peters is insane


I just read an interview with Neil Gaiman where he talks about the Sandman movie and makes almost the exact same comments Kevin made about the giant spider. So funny.

"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see."

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Link me up. (Even though this WAS posted like 8 months ago.

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Yeah, I doubt I'll find it now. I should have put up the link in the original post. I remember it was in an interview about the movie MirrorMask, I'll take a look in his journal archive maybe it's around there.

"As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight". Calvin & Hobbes

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In reading the cast and crew details for the upcoming "Superman Returns", I had a memory flash when reading that one of the producers was Jon Peters. So of course I had to throw in my DVD of AEWKS. Sure enough, this is the man who wanted the non-flying, non-suit wearing Superman to battle the giant spider from Wild Wild West.

My first thought was to pray that I get hit by a bus before the movie opens. However, I have now resigned myself to the hope that his name only appears in the credits because of some Hollywood tradition of being grandfathered in by virtue of working on a similar concept previously.

If there is any justice in the universe, if he was at all present during any filming, editing, etc. I hope it was just to get Bryan Singer's coffee.




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Yes, but I got the DVD for "Look, up in the sky: The amazing story of Superman".. and he more or less says that Bryan singer made him changed his mind and that he had been wrong for 12 years.

Just like the OP when I was watching the Superman special I thought about this one, and I took it out to look for the Chapter (chapter 23) and sure enough, it was the same name =)... it made me chuckle... now I had a face to picture when Kevin Says: "Wait, who the *beep* is Kal-El?".







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There's a whole book called Hit and Run about Jon Peters and Peter Guber running Sony Pictures. If you like inside Hollywood stories, its very fascinating. Peters seems like a very emotional, easy to anger kind of guy. One of the first stories in the book is him almost beating up Jack Nicholson(he was an actor in class with Peter's girlfriend). When they discuss Batman, there are stories about when he would literally make Tim Burton start crying on set. While Peters was very emotional and on the set kind of guy, Guber was the opposite. A very cold person, who usually never stepped on a set and when there was an issue with the studio losing money- he was more concerned about what carpet he wanted his private jet to have.

Its full of tons of those OMG can't believe this is what was happening behind the scenes of those movies I saw.

And actually whats really fascinating is that by the end of the book, even though Peters comes off as a complete maniac you still feel bad for him. He ultimately gets pushed out of the company by Guber, who just cut him off completely. The guy was his business partner and friend, they ran a micro studio that had won oscars, and then one day Guber decides he wants to run it alone. He basically said to Peters, you're going to be a producer under Sony, we'll give you X amount of money for x amount of films, any films you want, and that will be your job.

Here's the link to it at Amazon if you are interested: http://www.amazon.com/Hit-Run-Nancy-Griffin/dp/0684832666/ref=sr_1_2?s =books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325276949&sr=1-2

People are probably more familiar Guber then Peters. Guber had a show called Shoot Out on AMC with Peter Bart where they interviewed celebrities. It was an awful show that lasted 5 years. It got cancelled so they decided to do the same exact show but call it something else. I think its called In The House, been running since 2009 and its the exact same show but on Starz or Encore.

Another great book for Hollywood Gossip is Easy Riders, Raging Bulls. It chronicles filmmakers like Speilberg, Lucas, Scorsese, Coppola, DePalma, Schrader, Dennis Hopper, etc. and how they went from just friends in Hollywood who loved films to being the biggest filmmakers in America and change American Cinema completely(mainly Jaws and Star Wars creating the "Box Office phenomenon" that still haunts the industry today. Always got to have a big opening weekend or you're dead).

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Fascinating reading. Cheers for the tip, Testicles.

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On a related note.... anybody see Jon Peter's production: Man of Steel?

Giant spider fight.

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