The writer's strike...will we know today?

The writer's strike...will we know today?



Orlando Sentinel.com




Posted on Oct 18, 2007 8:35:24 AM



The threat of a Writer's Guild strike was very much on the mind of
writer turned writer-director Richard LaGravanese (The Fisher King, Freedom
Writers, The Horse Whisperer, The Mirror Has Two Faces) Wed.

"Right now, we're all concerned that Thursday will be the big day that
we in the Writers' Guild know something. Until I know for sure, I have
no idea what I'll be doing next...

"I worry about theaters. When I think about sitting, as a kid growing
up in Brooklyn, in the Lowes' Oriental, this big art deco movie palace,
I know those experiences shaped and formed me. I have to believe that
that experience will survive. They've said for years that theater is
dying and it keeps coming back. They say movies are dying, going out to
the movies is dying. I just don't believe it. It's a wondeful experience,
in spite of the competition. Maybe I'm old fashioned, though."

He was in town to show P.S. I Love You (Dec. 21), his latest, at
ShowEast in Orlando last night, and we chatted.

That's the one whose trailer is inspiring Internet teasing of Spartan
co-star Gerard Butler showing his lovey-dovey-singing sensitive side.

as a Spartan," LaGravanese says with a laugh. "This character is
actually more Gerry to me than you've seen before on the screen. He has that
kind of sense of humor, that boyish romantic charm all wrapped up in
this great Spartan body. Very masculine, but he can get away with being
romantic at the same time. "I loved him in Dear Frankie. You wouldn't
have thought of his as Leonidas in 300 from what you saw in (the romantic
weeper) Dear Frankie. Tremendous range."


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