Memphis's own Brett Ratner mouths off, which, after scoring $9mm for your film that'd been passed over by every studio dawg in town, is just fine.
"What is interesting is the 'indie blockbuster' idea; that Hollywood's going to buy cheaper movies and put the kind of money behind them that they would a blockbuster. What's wrong with that?" He cracks, "Look, we didn't make The Killing of a Chinese Bookie. [Hustle] has a commercial, mythological, hero's-journey structure to it. I have always wanted it to be reflective of The Commitments, Footloose, Flashdance, and Rocky."Yes, interesting. Slate's Christopher Kelly thinks it's train wreck interesting, at least: "Funny, though, that this 'vision of what's hip and what Hollywood isn't doing,' as Singleton has described it, should look exactly like what Hollywood's been doing for years."
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The Pimp Who Saved Hollywood [slate]
