Ray Bradbury: Mel Gibson Too Busy with 'Russian Girl' to Adapt Fahrenheit 451
You know who are awesome? Old people are awesome. Especially old, brilliant, prolific artists who don't give a damn what inside information they drop in public -- or how they drop it. Take Ray Bradbury, the legendary 89-year-old author whose Fahrenheit 451 film rights belong to... Mel Gibson. Awkward! And of course Bradbury has a funny (if brief) story about it, which he recently shared via Skype with a crowd in Chicago. Video after the jump.
The interview comes from Sunday's Siskel Center screening of Francois Truffaut's 1966 Fahrenheit adaptation. Bradbury knows as well as the rest of us that we'll never see Gibson's version in his or probably any of our lifetimes, and his pragmatic status report might honestly be the most palatable fallout to date from the whole Gibson/Grigorieva horror show. Thanks for keeping it real, Ray.
[via Movie City Indie]
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Here's a snippet from Mel Gibson's screenplay of Fahrenheit 451:
GUY MONTAG: I'm going to burn all your books, but you're going to bl-w me first!
RAY BRADBURY: Mel Gibson called me but didn't mention anything about the film, although he did bark like a dog and screamed "F*CK THE JACUZZI!"
On Gibson's Larry King Live interview from 1997 which was just replayed, Gibson was talking about how excited he was to be remaking "Farenheit" and that was 13 years ago! This is one film I'd really like to see.
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