Gary W. Goldstein, Author/Producer: This isn’t a negative, it’s just to be expected the studio would bring in other writers.
Film Courage: Three Thousand [renamed Pretty Woman] was initially in a kind of one-room scenario (a hotel room)?
Gary: It was in a hotel, very simple locations, it’s all a little bit of a jumble. If I had to go back and parse What was this piece there or that piece there? But fundamentally the bulk of the original story took place in a very limited environment. There was a car, there was a street, there was a hotel, it was not extravagant.
Film Courage: Once it went to the one producer or the head of the studios they said Can you lighten it up? On a Disney scale this is a four, we need a seven? Then you added these side characters?
Gary: Most of the characters were there. There was the hotel manager, there was Kit (the best friend), there was an elevator. A lot of infrastructure, if you will, was there but it did get expanded. There wasn’t a big party scene perhaps. There were certain things that didn’t exist or that we’re dressed up shall we say. I don’t remember that we had quite so showy a sequence on Rodeo Drive (that sort of thing), so it definitely evolved. The beautiful thing was my job was clearly to discover and launch and protect great young writers. I knew that when we were having that conversation with Disney, that it was really imperative. The only condition I really had was not about story, it was really about protecting Jonathan[J.F. Lawton, screenwriter] and the condition he has to be guaranteed the first rewrite, because I had such faith in him, that he would break the back of this and turn it exactly into the best version of its comedic…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
BIO:
Gary W. Goldstein has produced some of Hollywood’s biggest box-office hits (Pretty Woman, Under Siege, The Mothman Prophecies and more), generating well over One Billion Dollars in worldwide revenue, receiving multiple Academy Award nominations, People’s Choice Awards, a Golden Globe and other honors. Before moving to Los Angeles, Gary practiced as an attorney in San Francisco. He later served as president of two divisions of IAM.com, an internet entertainment company successfully funded at $50MM. Gary’s passion as a storyteller goes beyond producing the work of gifted screenwriters. He’s committed to sharing with everyone who desires real success and enduring careers as a creative professional his smart, simple strategies that magically transform talent into business success more rapidly and with greater ease. Gary’s spoken at TEDx La Jolla, been published by the Huffington Post, and was a contributing author for the Napoleon Hill Foundation’s newest publication “Stickability”. Gary also regularly speaks to creative audiences and has given talks at American Film Institute, UCLA, Emerson College, De Anza College, the Dallas Screenwriters Association, the Great American Pitchfest and beyond. Gary’s latest endeavor includes CreativeEdge.com where he helps creative professionals have their voices heard, their stories told, and to turn their talents into a career.
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