“[Grant Heslov] and I got a call a year and a half or two years ago, and it was from Paramount. They said, ‘Any interest in doing a six-part series on “Catch-22″?’ And we were like, ‘F— no!'” said George Clooney with a grin while discussing the new Hulu limited series based on the classic novel by Joseph Heller. He was joined by Heslov and actors Christopher Abbott and Kyle Chandler for a May 1 screening and Q&A moderated by Dave Karger. Watch Clooney and Heslov above.
Why risk adapting such a classic novel, especially when Mike Nichols already took a stab at it on the big screen in 1970? But obviously Clooney and Heslov changed their minds, and Clooney explained that it was the scripts by Luke Davies (“Lion”) and David Michod (“Animal Kingdom”) that did it: “We read them and we thought, well this is a very different...
Why risk adapting such a classic novel, especially when Mike Nichols already took a stab at it on the big screen in 1970? But obviously Clooney and Heslov changed their minds, and Clooney explained that it was the scripts by Luke Davies (“Lion”) and David Michod (“Animal Kingdom”) that did it: “We read them and we thought, well this is a very different...
- 5/16/2019
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
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