I wonder when Polanski, Nicholson and Towne will get together again to make the final chapter in this great series. Then again - Polanski wont be too keen. Towne would have to direct - Jack would act in it as a favour. Unfortunately no studio would put money into it - so if any of you become the head of a major studio - you know what to green-light
shareOh good because I was looking for something to greenlight
share"Then again - Polanski wont be too keen."
Uh... He seemed perfectly fine, in fact he was great, on the Pianist, only two and a half years ago.
Then again, sequels kind of suck... And from the five minutes of this film that I just saw on AMC, it didn't look like it could even live its way up to even half of what the original Chinatown was (and the original Chinatown was a cinematic classic!).
Uh...The poster probably meant that Polanski would not be too keen on being thrown in jail once he set on America to direct the sequel. There's no way Los Angeles could be recreated in Europe.
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Interesting you should say that, take a look as to where the film version of James Ellroy's (1940's, L.A set) "The Black Dahlia" is being filmed......
shareYeah, but they will be shooting in LA. Especially exteriors. Like I said, LA cannot be duplicated. I'm sure the filming in Bulgaria will be mostly interiors. An interior can take place anywhere. If Polanski were to do a third chapter of Jake Gittes, he would have to shoot exteriors in LA. Unless he were to somehow get a $100 million budget and build a replica of LA like Scorsese did for Gangs of New York.
He could send an assistant director to LA to film the shots. Would Polanski be willing to let someone else direct Jack in LA? I don't know. Then, the question becomes is Nicholson, at this stage of his life, willing to go to Europe and stay there for an extended period of time. Jack doesn't like to be away from home for a long time, especially now that he has small kids. He hasn't done a film outisde of America since Batman.
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i read on the chinatown page that the third movie was supposed to revolve around the "cloverleaf" interchange. but who framed roger rabbit used cloverleaf already. remember, the red car company kept getting bought out by cloverleaf who was planning to demolish toon town to build a freeway. i wanna know what people think of this?
shareI heard Polanski was planning to go to America to face charges, so do ya think after that he'd be willing to end the trilogy? (farfetched, I know, but still...)
shareHowever, it could be recreated in Vancouver.
sharenicholson is too old to play gittes. towne is too old to write a good movie. polanski didnt direct the second one, so what makes you think he would direct a hypothetical third?? not to mention hes the law to deal with if he ever comes back to the U.S.
they should made two jakes in the 80s, and cloverleaf in the 90s. it would of worked better. instead they made two jakes in the 90s, and now its too late for the third. oh well...
I went to a showing last nite of Ask the Dust where Robert Towne was present, also showing clips from some of his other masterpieces. He emphatically stated that he had never seen The Two Jakes, never planned to see it, and has no intention of writing the third in the trilogy.
He was most emphatic!!! (wonder what went wrong....)
He is a fascinating person, by the way.
Thanks, that´s the best info in the whole thread.
"He emphatically stated that he had never seen The Two Jakes, never planned to see it, and has no intention of writing the third in the trilogy. "
Could you expand on that a little. I don´t really understand why he would write the script and then refuse to watch the film.
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Behold, light is about to be shed on the subject. Robert Towne was originally going to direct THE TWO JAKES himself. However, he had a falling out with producer Robert Evans during pre-production, at which point he left the project on bad terms and Jack Nicholson took over as director. I imagine Towne was then and still is bitter over the experience, and thus never watched the finished film. But it sounds like Towne's problem was with Evans... not Nicholson.
It's also interesting to note that Towne and Polanski had a falling out when Polanski rewrote the ending of CHINATOWN. But I guess because that film was such a smashing success, Towne was able to forgive and forget.
I imagine Towne was then and still is bitter over the experience,It always seems ridiculous to me to hold a grudge for that long.