Alvin Sargent

gyllenhaal now do you think that was legit or a negotiation tactic on toby's part because the first one was so successful and he was locked into sequels in his contract but you think maybe I think all of that is possible

but there's a joke about it in the movie even my back my back yes it's it's just funny that and I don't think they would have ever because we saw what happened with the whole Val Kilmer thing and then George Clooney I don't think they wanted to replace like they would have probably just bent over backwards and I assume they did the writer on this one is Alvin Sargent who is uncredited in one again it's directed by Sam Raimi obviously um the cast adds Alfred Molina as Dr. Octopus's which is brilliant you know it's fantastic um in theaters at the time the best of them harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban we will have a whole podcast about that i'm sure garfield the movie oh my god i forgot about garfield chronicles of riddick napoleon dynamite which i still have not seen oh yeah dodgeball term the terminal white chicks fahrenheit 911 and the notebook that's a heck of a

lineup

it's funny because it's a heck of a lineup but i it's not like there's a masterpiece in there like harry potter 3 is amazing you know but terminals fine dodgeball is fun white chicks has its spot you know the notebook everyone loves but it's just a strange collection of stuff out at this point i would argue

Anytime.

well cory it's time to put a little dirt in your eye

oh spider man three i never wanted to watch this again 2007 spider-man 3 which i cannot say after these two movies how excited everyone caring about movies was this movie set records the minute it opened directed by sam raimi written by sam raimi and ivan raimi who both did army of darkness and darkman together and Alvin Sargent is still involved.

The cast adds Thomas Hayden Church as Sandman, Topher Grace as Eddie Brock, Bryce Dallas Howard, shoehorned in as Gwen Stacy for reasons, and is also a Franchise Fest All-Star, by the way, because of Jurassic World.

Yeah.

Based on a story by the producers, Alvin Sargent and Laura Ziskin.

She went on to do the Spider-Man movies.

She had some interesting experiences with Murray working on this movie.

You know, you got to give credit to the writers for coming up with the idea, but you really, you know, sometimes with a movie like this, you know, the concept really does benefit or needs someone like William Dear coming in to be like, wow, what you guys have here is really inspiring, but it needs to be redeveloped and turned into something else.

I just learned that recently when doing a project on What About Bob? Learning that the concept for that movie began when Alvin Sargent read the novel August, which detailed a patient struggling when her therapist went on vacation.

And he thought, hey, it'd be really interesting to have the patient then follow the therapist on vacation and make it a comedy.

You know, so you got to love creative people like that who just champion thinking outside the box and always seeing the comedy potential in ideas.

Today we're discussing Julia, winner of the Writer's Guild Award for Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium at the 30th Writer's Guild of America Awards held in 1978.

Julia was written by Alvin Sargent from, and immediately I've forgotten to put this in my notes, what it is based on.

But it was directed by Fred Zinnemann, who you might remember from Here to Eternity, I believe, is the movie of his that we've discussed.

I think also written by Alvin Sargent, actually.

Jane Fonda as Lillian, stars Jane Fonda as Lillian and Vanessa Redgrave as the titular Julia.

Yes, this one is about playwright Lillian Hellman, who, at the request of her old friend Julia, goes on a dangerous mission to smuggle money into Nazi Germany.

really light and breezy movie.

Yeah, I went into this really unfamiliar, was not... was not familiar with this going in i don't know if this is going to be a controversial take or not i i was not crazy about this one i didn't i didn't like hate it but i i just like didn't really care for watching it like i i maybe i didn't like the structure or like the lack of structure i don't know what it was what what were your thoughts on this one

because my father was a great literary agent for 32 years.

Your father was a great literary agent? Yeah, represented Alvin Sargent and Frank Pearson.

The legend, the goat.

The best.

Alvin Sargent, my favorite.

I

only have one movie poster up in my home, and it's Ordinary People.

I walked into my father's office and I said, I want to be a screenwriter.

Story by Alfred Goh, Miles Miller, Michael Chabon.

Screenplay by Alvin Sargent.

Produced by Laura Ziskin and Avi Arad.

Starring Toby McGuire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Alfred Molina, Rosemary Harris, and Donna Murphy.