Let Coppola make movies the way he wants to make them. Even at his peak in the 1970s he had to put up with constant crap from the studio executives who thought they knew better about making movies than him. About the only time he would have been happy working as a director for hire was when he was directing "Tucker" for George Lucas in 1988, since Lucas had been his apprentice in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
And part of me still wishes that he could have managed to make Zoetrope into a true rival of the other studios in the '80s like he wanted. We could have had and still have another United Artists for all the mavericks to make their movies without the bean-counters interfering.
Let Coppola make movies the way he wants to make them. Even at his peak in the 1970s he had to put up with constant crap from the studio executives who thought they knew better about making movies than him. About the only time he would have been happy working as a director for hire was when he was directing "Tucker" for George Lucas in 1988, since Lucas had been his apprentice in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
And part of me still wishes that he could have managed to make Zoetrope into a true rival of the other studios in the '80s like he wanted. We could have had and still have another United Artists for all the mavericks to make their movies without the bean-counters interfering.
This, 10000%.
Something new involving cars? And *classic* cars, too?
Woo-hoo!