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Paul Schrader Writing Bollywood Action Epic
Total Film News —
... Taxi Driver writer and Auto Focus director Paul Schrader is leaving for Mumbai to write Bollywood action film Extreme City. According to The Hollywood Reporter , Schrader is finally so sick of Hollywood that he s decided to take his writing talents elsewhere."I've been getting indie movies made for 20 years," he says. "But I take a good look around and what I see is a barren, barren place - in terms of the financial community, in terms of audiences, in terms of distribution. It's cold out there." Ouch. Cross-cultural tale City will encompass a cross-cultural story that will ...
Hollywood Goes Bollywood?
/Film —
... Now THR reports that Taxi Driver and Raging Bull screenwriter Paul Schrader has decided to write and direct a Bollywood action film titled Extreme City. Schrader points to the cold financial climate as one of the reasons he is moving to India, which will offer more creative freedom and a new audience. Extreme City is described as “a cross-cultural tale that will center on an American man who travels to India to help resolve a kidnapping case for his father-in-law, only to get caught up in a gangster plot.” ...
Morning Deal Report: Paul Schrader Goes Bollywood
The Screengrab —
... “Saying he feels the U.S. film market has become ‘barren,’ the writer of classics Taxi Driver and Raging Bull is packing his bags for Mumbai to write and direct the Bollywood action movie Extreme City,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. Paul Schrader is working on the script for this “cross-cultural tale that will center on an American man who travels to India to help resolve a kidnapping case for his father-in-law, only to get caught up in a gangster plot. There likely will be some musical numbers, and dialogue will be spoken in ...
"I'm going to Bollywood!"
IFC.com - Indie Eye —
... Paul Schrader, who actually has a movie coming out this year -- "Adam Resurrected," whose circus/Holocaust combo dooms it to "The Day the Clown Cried" associations -- is going with the latest trend and heading to Bollywood. "I've been getting indie movies made for 20 years," he told the Hollywood Reporter. "But I take a good look around and what I see is a barren, barren place -- in terms of the financial community, in terms of audiences, in terms of distribution. It's cold out there." But it's warm and friendly in Mumbai! ...
Ragining Bull Writer Heads To India
Cinema Blend News —
Ragining Bull Writer Heads To India Much like all of our customer call centers and engineering jobs, Hollywood is beginning to move to India. Well, thats if you consider the writer of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull to be a suitable stand-in for Hollywood. Fortunately, I do. So, to restate, Hollywood is moving to Bollywood. Paul Schrader has decided to make a Bollywood action movie in Mumbai as his next movie. According to THR , the writer/director finds Hollywood a barren, barren place. Part of the reason he probably thinks this is that he hasnt had a hit or even ...
Schrader Bollywood Bound
At The Movies - Film News and Reviews —
... Indie stalwart Paul Schrader is abandoning Hollywood for Bollywood. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Schrader, the writer of such classics as Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, will make his next film in Mumbai. ...
Hollywood Goes Bollywood
Cinematical —
... in Bollywood? See, this is much more than merely Hollywood delighting in all things Bollywood. The Hollywood Reporter posts that Paul Schrader, the pen behind Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, is heading to Mumbai to helm a Bollywood action flick called Extreme City. ...
