Ramis Glad He Turned Down Mario Directorship
There have been some incredible pieces of film garbage created from video game properties over the years. Most of them were due to the bungling directing efforts of Uwe Boll, but long before the video game movie was a tragic cliche that fans wept to hear announced there was a major fiasco. I wouldn’t go so far as to claim that the Mario Bros. movie ruined the careers of everyone involved, but things haven’t been so rosy for John Leguizamo and Bob Hoskins since that film. Only Dennis Hopper had the power to overcome such an incredible bomb.
It seems that several people dodged a bullet with this one including Danny Devito and Kevin Costner, but one person who was asked to direct and says he’s glad he turned it down was none other than Harold Ramis, known mostly for his role as Egon Spengler in the Ghostbusters films. Ramis however has been an incredibly prolific writer and director far more than an actor and had been offered the reigns on the film because he was a huge fan of the game.
June 23rd, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Actually, Leguizamo didn’t do that bad. Hoskins’ career is pretty much dead–I can’t remember more than three movies he’s been in in the last five years, but Leguizamo’s had a few.
June 23rd, 2009 at 8:14 pm
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