Laura Ziskin

my last question is you know you're you wrote about in that in that span of time about a teacher and it was an amalgamation of several different people as you mentioned but is there a piece of work that you've yet to work on and there's someone right now like a person or a situation in mind and you just haven't been able to get to it yet

yeah well I wrote a script oh my god it's been a while but Laura Ziskin who produced What About Bob was going to do it and unfortunately she got cancer and, and, uh, passed away.

So, uh, it's called Morgan summit and it's, I, to me, it's the movie I've got to get made, but it's been Pam Williams, who's a producer has been attached and has been helping to try to get it done.

So we'll see, you know, it's been a long slot.

An early version of the script requires only a handsome actor who is believable as a rich John.

I remember being, you know, in Gary's trailer prior to shooting, still rewriting for Richard and rewriting the plot with Gary and rewriting the plot with Laura Ziskin at the time.

who I'd put on as a producer, finally got it there.

You know, it's interesting.

What kind of what camp are you in? And in any event, do you think that there is a one Oscar ceremony that you look back on and think that was really fantastic?

I give Laura Ziskin a lot of credit for being one of the great Oscar producers.

And there was a year that she produced, and I'm not going to come up with the number, where it was Steve Martin, okay? Steve Martin was the host.

And it was one of those years where everything was classy and cool and well done.

That's what we're there for.

That's what us film nerds want.

So we're going to do this over and say that she was the first woman, Laura Ziskin, to produce the telecast.

Wait a minute.

It was directed by Sam Raimi.

And the producers of this movie are Avi Arad and Laura Ziskin.

So just real quick on that.

Avi Arad, you're going to see his name over like the X-Men, Daredevil, Spider-Man, obviously.

Exactly.

And was not a shared universe.

Yeah, so he was more or less the captain at the helm because Laura Ziskin, who produced the previous film and the following one, was a producer on this.

It did strike

The movie, of course, is David Fincher's really terrific adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's also very controversial novel, Fight Club, which opened, I believe, October 14th or 15th in the United States wide because it had premiered earlier at Film Festival overseas.

And that's where you may have seen a story of Brad Pitt talking about when he saw the film with Edward Norton and David Fincher and Laura Ziskin and other people involved in the production.

The movie got roundly booed.

I want to say it was the Venice Film Festival, but I'm probably wrong.

Oh, what a time

... with Sam Raimi and Tobey, and Laura Ziskin, who's the producer, who we, was one of our teachers in film school.

And they said, "We want you guys to write the sequel." To which we immediately said, "Yes," because who the f- who's turning that down? [laughs]

Yeah.