Post by MacReady on Jan 12, 2012 11:03:48 GMT -5
The man that gave us Rambo II, Cobra and Tombstone. Great fun films. But did he actually direct them? Apparently not, he was simply there to do the hard work and get the shots Stallone and Russell demanded.
Has anyone seen any of his other films he had control on?
There`s always been many complaints about his Cobra commentary, but by the looks of it he would know the when and where but never the why.
Here`s an article about it here, interesting reading.
However, a few years ago, it emerged that the late George P Costmatos, hardly the most visionary director who walked the earth to be fair, might not have been the man calling the shots on the project after all. The real director? The film's star, Kurt Russell.
The story first surfaced in an article in True West magazine by Henry Cabot Beck, who visited the set during the film's production and made the discovery, only to promise Cosmatos that he wouldn't tell the story while the director was still alive.
Cosmatos died in 2005, and Beck told his story: namely that after Kevin Jarre - the film's original director - left the project, Russell agreed to direct, with Cosmatos hired to basically do what the actor told him to do. As the article quotes Russell saying, "I'm going to give you [Cosmatos] a shot list every night, and that's what's going to be." It's unclear what hand Russell had, if any, in the director's cut of the film that was released on DVD back in 2002.
www.denofgeek.com/movies/469105/10_films_that_were_rumoured_to_be_ghostdirected.html
