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John Hillcoat's The Promised Land Adaptation Gets Shut Down
4 January 2010 1:39 PM, PST
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Late last year we reported that The Promised Land, the next new project from The Road director John Hillcoat, had tentatively lined up a cast including Shia LeBeouf, Ryan Gosling and Amy Adams. It was an adaptation of Matt Bondurant's novel The Wettest County in the World with a script being adapted by Nick Cave. The Depression-era bootlegging story seemed like it had some potential under Hillcoat's control, but apparently the project has been shut down indefinitely. Hillcoat himself broke the news in a "diary" update in the UK's Telegraph (via The Playlist). His explanation behind what happened is also depressing to hear.
The joke on [The Road] set and in the edit suite was that we had to get this movie out before it became a reality. Ironically, the movie industry itself now faces its own apocalypse. The perfect storm has arrived in Hollywood: a global economic downturn combined with
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- Alex Billington
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Hillcoat’s The Promised Land Not So Promised After All
4 January 2010 10:02 AM, PST
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I end the year appropriately – gazing into the apocalypse of my own industry.
That is how writer/director John Hillcoat ended his years-long diary he kept while production on The Road was taking place. He submitted his entries to The Telegraph, and it is with his final entry that the first, worst movie news of the year hits us. Evidently, Hillcoat’s passion project, The Promised Land, is no longer moving forward, as the financing for the film has fallen into oblivion.
Here is the exact diary entry where Hillcoat explains the situation and give his general consensus on the film industry as a whole:
The joke on set and in the edit suite was that we had to get this movie out before it became a reality. Ironically, the movie industry itself now faces its own apocalypse. The perfect storm has arrived in Hollywood: a global economic downturn combined
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- Kirk
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