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Film Courage: Do you think you’ll ever make another studio movie?
David Zucker, Director/Writer/Producer: Oh, never say never, but I’m making independent movies because studios aren’t making my kind of movies anymore.
After I do Star of Malta, which is an independent film, a studio may be interested after they say, “Oh, wait a minute. This guy isn’t dead.”
So, they may support me again.
Film Courage: If Paramount came to you and said, “Can we do Airplane 3?” What would you say?
David: No.
Film Courage: Why not?
David: There just I don’t want to do old ideas.
I don’t want to do Naked Gun anymore.
I did want to do Naked Gun.
I had a script but it rebooted the whole concept into a Mission Impossible, Borne, Bond, James Bond franchise.
Film Courage: Does it upset you that you’ll never do another studio movie again?
David: No. I’ll do another movie again.
It’s just like I don’t get upset easily.
If I stub my toe, then I get upset.
But, this movie stuff, if I do another movie, it’ll be great.
If I don’t, I’m still happy.
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Film Courage: Would you have said that 20 years ago?
David: It’s kind of a hypothetical because 20 years ago, the studios were falling all over themselves trying to get me to do a movie.
So it’s okay. Things just change…(Watch the video interview on YouTube here).
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About:
Born on October 16, 1947 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, director/writer/producer David Zucker, along with brother Jerry (Ghost, 1990) Zucker and longtime friend, Jim (Hot Shots, 1991) Abrahams, has established himself among Hollywood’s (or at least Wisconsin’s) most successful filmmakers. Starting out after college, with a borrowed video tape deck and camera, the soon to be legendary trio created the Kentucky Fried Theater, on the UW Madison campus, and moved to California in 1972, quickly becoming the most successful small theater group. in Los Angeles history.
After parlaying this success into The Kentucky Fried Movie, the three conceived the idea that would create a whole new film genre. Airplane! (1980) broke all conventions, featuring dramatic actors like Robert Stack and Leslie Nielsen performing zany jokes with straight-laced sincerity. The spoof became the surprise hit of 1980, beginning a streak of hilarious movies including Top Secret! (1984) and Ruthless People (1986), after which David branched out on his own to direct The Naked Guns (1988, 1991, 1994), BASEketball (1998), Scary Movies 3 (2003), and 4 (2006), and others.
David also found time to produce the successful, but somewhat less hilarious A Walk in The Clouds (1995) and Phone Booth (2002), and recently completed a feature script, The Star of Malta, a comedy set in the Film Noir era, and an international spy thriller, “Counter Intellijence!”.
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