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Emilio Estevez in feud with director Alex Cox over Repo Man comments


Seems an interview Alex Cox did recently where he called Emilio Estevez's career "less than illustrious" rubbed Emilio Estevez the wrong way, as he recently fired back a response saying it "unfairly taints me and my character" and basically calling him a liar.

http://austin.decider.com/articles/exclusive-emilio-estevez-responds-to-alex-cox,28370/

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You should see Hunter S. Thompson going nuts on Alex Cox over his proposed cartoon treatment of Thompson's famous "Wave" imagery, while pitching his version of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". After a tirade that nobody else could deliver, he kicks AC out of his house and then goes on ranting. I think it's in "Breakfast With Hunter", a series of videos.

In this article about Cox, the scene above is only listed as involving "creative differences" (HST was about to get his gun over those, I think!):

Cox never settled into an easy relationship with his audience or his fellow filmmakers and this was to be shown most drastically in his troubled tenure as director of Universal's Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. During the early stages of production he managed to alienate both Johnny Depp and Hunter S. Thompson and, in fact, "pretty much everyone" according to his successor on the project, Terry Gilliam. Cox left due to 'creative differences', but still retained a partial writing credit, alongside Tod Davies. Ironically, although Gilliam claims the Cox/Davies script was the main hook which dragged him into the film he still decided it required a further re-write. The final version retained much of the original draft; its use of Thompson's original text and the harsh no nonsense way in which it plunges you into the acid trip from hell. A cynic might say Gilliam did this just to get another credit or to make the film his own, a version of the new exec expunging all traces of his predecessor's work. That's what a cynic might say that is.


I must agree with the Gilliam comment (I wish they'd chosen someone else; Thompson's description of said trip needed no embellishment!).

From: http://www.videovista.net/articles/alexcox.html

Still, I think Cox did a fantastic job with "Repo Man", whatever his later crimes!


Don't get me wrong...
It might be unbelievable,
But let's not say so long

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The movie with him and Charlie Sheen the great about porn pioneers the Mitchell brothers was half decent.https;\\www.imdb\tittle\tt22807484\ref=hm tpks tt t 4pd tp1 pbr ic But, yeah, if it's between Emilio Estevez and Alex Cox? It had better be about personality, or Cox wins by default. Emilio. lol. I just can't get the image of the jock in Breakfast Club out of my head.i agree with him.

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They like to get in and make as much money as you can.

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emilio eztevez is good actor but he is curmudgeons. he never show up to reunion of his great film like breakfast clubs. he talk bad of his great 80s film. his brother charlies much more relatable!

ps Emilio's career was fines. people act like if an actor is not tom cruise, with film that come out every year to big number, then they are "less than illustrious". fact is he big star in 80s and 90s and make many classic film. he make more great film in this time than will smiths or gorge clooneys make in 30 year.

unfortunately Emilios do video now where he pretend he is minority actor because of his name, to get woke point with present day sjw tards. no one told him his name come from spainiard in europe hahahahahah. whitest man i ever see.

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