RICHARD_BUKOWSKI ([email protected])
Wed, 18 Nov 1998 10:44:34 -0700
The Billion Dollar Hotel
Genre: Science Fiction/Thriller/Comedy.
Studio: Unknown.
Production Company: Icon Productions.
Project Phase: In Development.
Who's In It: Bono; Mel Gibson; Jeremy Davies; Milla Jovovich.
Who's Making It: Wim Wenders (Director); Wim Wenders, Nicholas Klein,
Bono
(Screenwriters).
Premise: A federal agent who investigates the death of a billionaire's
son at a seedy hotel.
Release Date: 1998?
Comments: None.
Rumors: Unknown.
Scoop Feedback:
[Page draft submitted by hotel occupant 'Widgett'.]
January 9, 1998... A project that had been in the script stage for two
years, based on a story idea
by U2's Bono, was inspired by all the fun Bono and The Edge had owning
the Clarence Hotel in
Dublin. Three words mentioned while discussing said fun were
"horrific," "money," and "pit."
Wenders states that the project was on hold waiting for the right cast,
but with that in place and with
his interim project, The End of Violence, completed, Hotel is underway
once more. Other reports
tell us the project stalled due to lack of fundage.
Bono is said to have a small role in the film. Sean Penn committed to
the lead role of the
mentally-challenged Tonto in September '97. Set in Los Angeles, fifty
years in the future, it is said to
be a vision which is more liveable, not as Wenders called it,
"...another grim Blade Runner-style
society." Penn's mentally-challenged character lives in the hotel, which
acts as a sort of halfway
house for mental outpatients with nowhere else left to go. The picture
also chronicles the story of the
hotel up to the year 2030, and is described as a "black comedy."
The project originally was titled The Million Dollar Hotel, but
according to Wenders they changed
it due to "inflation." [Scoops provided by Mike Smith and 'Widgett'.]
October 7, 1998... Mel Gibson has climbed onboard this project. His
production company Icon is
producing the pic. Shooting will begin in January. Mel might shave his
head for the role [Scoop
provided by 'masque']
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