The Best Film I Never Made by Bruce Beresford

Author:Bruce Beresford
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Published: 2017-09-28T04:00:00+00:00

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Some months after returning to Sydney I received a call from Nik Powell’s office to say the film was set up once again, and could I come to London to meet the new line producer, sign a production agreement and go on a location survey to Latvia (where it was cheaper to film than England)? I was hesitant, but my enthusiasm for the script was still so fervent that I brushed aside the warnings of my agent, lawyer, wife, family and friends.

In my London flat, Nik Powell was evasive but arranged for me to meet the line producer (whose name I can’t recall), a bluff Englishman, clearly quite experienced. He, too, assured me the film would proceed, but the necessary papers couldn’t be signed for a couple of weeks for some reason he didn’t even attempt to explain. Naive to the last, I said I would go to Boston to visit my son, who had just joined the philosophy department at the University of Massachusetts.

When I returned to London I was told the papers were still not quite ready to be signed and there would be a delay of a few months. I knew this was the end of the line. I would never hear any more about the project. Defeated at last, I returned to Australia, realising I would never direct the brilliant screenplay Boswell for the Defence. It will always be the best film I never made.

2014

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