At 96, a 'semi-retired' Roger Corman's passion for film still burns bright. We sat down with the Hollywood legend to talk about his career, modern filmmaking, the MCU, and more RogerCorman truefilm
, it’s a rich resource of vintage Corman classics, waiting for a new generation to discover them for the first time.
Paste: It would be hard for me to claim I’d watched everything you’ve ever produced—probably not even you have watched everything you produced—but I did get around to watching one recently that was on my list for a long time, which is 1990’s. That must have been a treat, working with John Hurt and Raul Julia on that one?That was a very interesting picture. It had the biggest budget I’d ever had for a film I directed, but there were problems within the production.
I had been directing so many pictures so fast, so I thought “I’ll take a sabbatical, a year off.” So I formed a company, and thought I’d have my brother be the producer, but he then ended up signing a contract at Fox to be head of television production for a great deal of money. So he thought, quite correctly, that he was better off signing with Fox. So then there was nobody to run it.
Now whenever we went to a new studio, Dan Haller, my art director and I, would go to what’s called the scene dock, which contains flats [backgrounds on a film set] from previous films, which can be reused to make a picture look better. And in the scene dock, we found the flats from, I believe it was, and it was like we struck gold! They had these phenomenal flats, and then Dan created some additional flats of our own to match, and that helped to giveIt is a beautiful movie.
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