{"id":5744,"date":"2014-01-12T00:37:48","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T16:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5744"},"modified":"2014-01-12T00:37:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T16:37:48","slug":"remembering-rain-man-the-350-million-movie-that-hollywood-wouldnt-touch-today-hollywood-prospectus-blog-grantland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/12\/remembering-rain-man-the-350-million-movie-that-hollywood-wouldnt-touch-today-hollywood-prospectus-blog-grantland\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Rain Man: The $350 Million Movie That Hollywood Wouldn't Touch Today – Hollywood Prospectus Blog – Grantland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Johnson went on to produce a broad range of projects, including the Chronicles of Narnia films, Breaking Bad, Galaxy Quest, and Lance Hammer’s self-distributed drama Ballast. But looking back, he says a studio wouldn’t produce Rain Man today. It wouldn’t play to a broad enough audience, they’d say. The historical data doesn’t support its success.
\n\u201cI go to pitch movies all the time and they say, ‘We love you, but know we’re not interested in dramas.’ If it won’t travel, if it’s too American, they aren’t interested. You point to a movie \u2014 ‘Look at how Argo did!’ \u2014 and they’ll [just] say it’s the exception that proves the rule.\u201d
\nMaking Rain Man \u2014 through a writer’s strike, and defined by non-commercial subject matter \u2014 was not easy. Still, Johnson says it never is.
\n\u201cA lot of my contemporaries complain that [making movies] is harder than it ever was,” he says. “But I maintain that it’s always been hard. It’s just different.\u201d
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Johnson went on to produce a broad range of projects, including the Chronicles of Narnia films, Breaking Bad, Galaxy Quest, and Lance Hammer’s self-distributed drama Ballast. But looking back, he says a studio wouldn’t produce Rain Man today. It wouldn’t play to a broad enough audience, they’d say. The historical data doesn’t support its success. … <\/p>\n

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