19something -
jersey boy, went to high school with bryan singer, became a cop,
got called in by singer, who'd gotten funding together to do this
movie before he'd gotten a script together to do this movie, not
being wong kar wai, decided maybe
he should have the script in hand before those arri motors start
whirring, which explains why aristotle woulda let socrates buy him
a drink before analyzing the plot (or lack thereof) a public
access.
the interview, incomplete and edited into an article, that i read said
he wanted and wants (and this desire being neither subset nor subject
to time, will want and will have wanted and have will have wanted into
infinitum) to do a cinematic biography of alexander the great. either
the money requisite for things like parnassus and wherever he wailed
on xerxes or the thought of, say brad pitt, being portrayed
having sex with a horse (name a rex or other) had that idea struck down
and mcquarrie pidgeonholed into being "the crime guy."
mcquarrie ran with being "the crime guy."
cop shoot cop. don't let up.
Films
McQuarrie on the web