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JONATHAN DEMME: Angela Lansbury did not say anything negative about the movie and we were confident that everybody liked the new approach to it and she was officially contacted to come and see the movie.
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Jonathan, apparently Angela Lansbury who was in the original hated the whole idea of a remake, was this a barrier to the production? The script seemed to reinvent it altogether and I liked that. I would not be surprised to see another remake in 10 years. It is a very exciting story that can be retold many times. LIEV SCHREIBER: I was the only one who admitted to seeing the original and I loved it and Lawrence Harvey was great as Raymond Shaw and so of course I was intimidated. Mr Schreiber, what was your awareness of the movie? The other challenge was keeping up with John and his constant brainstorms. It is a great story that has literally updated itself. TINA SINATRA: He was a political animal and he believed in making sophisticated movies.ĭaniel, for you as the writer what was the primary challenge?ĭANIEL PYNE: It was to make it successful but also to rethink it, to replace it with something as visceral as the cold war. Tina, in the other film, Frank Sinatra, your dad did called SUDDENLY there was a similar theme to this one, what attracted him to such films? Still it was only after I saw how people reacted to it that I thought it could be remade and my dad agreed but I didn't have to get permission from him. TINA SINATRA: Essentially the rights reverted to the movie reverted to him as part of the deal that he had when he made it and so we re-released it in 1987 and it was a hit in the video market. Tina, most people say that this was your dad's best film apparently he thought so himself, so did you have to get permission from him? THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE - Q&A with director JONATHAN DEMME, actor LIEV SCHREIBER, producer TINA SINATRA and co-screenwriter DANIEL PYNE