If you want to know how much our industry has changed, I don’t think a film like this would get made today. Twenty years ago, aspiring writers would aim to create a script that would be inexpensive to produce – in this case 8 million – and contain character parts so juicy that stars would be cutting their fee to be part of the ensemble. The writer in this case is Michael Arndt, who won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay and has since gone on to work on Pixar, Star Wars and Hunger Games films. As for this story, I believe today this would be streaming for 8 episodes on AppleTV, where they could expand all the subplots and afford to pay the cast their regular fee. (I picked Apple because they make the type of shows where #7 on the Call Sheet is Bryan Cranston, who I bet most people forgot is in this film.)
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