Filmgoers Seek Cheer; Studios Toil to Deliver It
By MICHAEL CIEPLY
Published: December 16, 2008
NY Times
LOS ANGELES — In these troubled times, America’s film studios are hard at work on planned pictures about a battered boxer; the post-apocalyptic wasteland; a bad human-resources executive whose job is to fire people.
…So pictures conceived in the bubble were being born as it burst. That is leaving studio executives with slightly tougher, more challenging schedules than they might choose were they to start from scratch today — or forcing them to make difficult choices.
Thus, Universal Pictures now says it is not planning to shoot the once seemingly imminent “Bobby Fischer Goes to War,” a drama about the 1972 chess showdown between Mr. Fischer and Boris Spassky. But the studio is jumping on a comic-book adventure fantasy, “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,” with Michael Cera.
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They should make a movie about Bobby in his later years while he is anti-semitic and dressed like a scary hobo. That is the true Fischer King.
Then chess players can make excuses for Bobby’s awful behavior.
Chucky can play Fischer.
Bummer. I was looking forward to seeing the movie.
It is not necessarily the case that the rapid descent of the USA’s liquidity and credibility has anything to do with the cancellation of the Fischer film.
They may have decided that, after a long time trying to raise the money, the angels have correctly decided that it’s a bad idea anyway, chess being a minority interest.
Would have been great to see a real Bobby Fischer movie, instead of the movie that just ripped off Bobby Fischer name for its own profit -“Searching for Bobby Fischer”
A movie on Fischer’s Life, even including how the Americans treated their great hero would be interesting.
Not many world figures have been brave enough to stand up to Geogre Bush and his evil gang
Your question was deleted because it contains clearly false or manufactured information.
I don’t see the point in making a movie about bobby fischer or the Reykjavik match anyway.
It’s far better to make a good documentary on these type of events (on the 72 match this already exists)
The same goes for stuff like the current Tom Cruise “Valkyrie” movie. It’s far better to make a good documentary on these things.
Movies that have historic events as their main focus are always bad and tend to provide a wrong and biased picture.
If a movie uses an historic background only but tells it’s own fictitious story (love story etc.), then it’s o.k. but it shouldn’t present the historic events only….this is what a documentary is for.
Nicolas Cage could play Bobby Fischer