Suzanne, I am puzzled here. Why would you even let a director with such a horrid background in movie making, even touch your book? Renny is the director of Cutthroat Island, which actually holds the Guinness Book of World Records as the biggest box office flop of all time. It was made for $96 million, and it only made $10 million! It was so bad that it damaged Jena Davis’ career and bankrupted the production company.
So hey, if you want your good name attached to such a director and project, that is your call. I hope they paid well. lol On the flip side, perhaps the intent is to take their money, knowing that Hollywood would not look favorable upon the project and it will never give it any traction? Or you want Renny to make a horrible movie about your subject matter? Who knows, but interesting none the less. –Matt
CraveOnline: Well, I guess my last question is what do you have coming up next?
Renny Harlin: Well, I just directed an episode of Burn Notice in Miami. I love that series, and I wanted to go do an episode of that and get a little experience in TV, and I had a really good time doing that. And on the movie side I have several things that I’m putting together. I have a big movie that is based on a book that I optioned called Master of War. I guess I’m just making movies that have “war” in the title, but it’s based on a book that tells the story of Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, and it’s a very interesting story of a guy who put an army together from scratch and became a giant player in the whole business of war. So that’s another sort of reality-based movie that I’m very excited about and I also have a couple other things, but I have to see how the casting and everything comes together.
Link to interview here.Master of War, By Suzanne Simons
Interview with Suzanne Simons about her book.