5/13/2023 0 Comments Neil author of stardust![]() Alan has been my friend for 25 years and his philosophy has always been, they give you a check and it's nothing to do with you and now they can make a film. ![]() Gaiman: To be honest, watching what happened with Alan was why I decided to get so involved. ![]() So Matthew became the director almost by accident. At first, he meant just as a producer, and we met with Terry Gilliam to see if he would direct it, but he had just come off "Brothers Grimm" and he wasn't going to make another fairy tale for love or money. I love fairy tales, and I love this, and I want to do this" (see "Neil Gaiman's 'Stardust' Finally Comes To Big Screen, Thanks To 'Layer Cake' Director"). And she read "Stardust." And she said, "This is just like fairy-tale stories I read as a kid, except for adults," and she had Matthew read it, and he said, "I want to make it. So I was very lucky that Claudia Schiffer was both pregnant and had a broken foot - though she wouldn't say she was lucky - so she couldn't do much and was doing a lot of reading. But I wasn't comfortable with "Stardust" being a vehicle for anyone. We had a lot of beautiful young lady actresses who asked to buy the rights for it to be a vehicle for them. Miramax had it for a while, and they hadn't gotten it together. Gaiman: I said no to people who wanted to make "Stardust" for four years. ![]()
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