Before the new STARZ Original series Hightown premiered, I landed an extended interview with super producer Jerry Bruckheimer, where we talked about a myriad of subjects over the course of 15 minutes. Even though you might think 15 minutes is a lot of time, when you’re talking to Jerry Bruckheimer about his career, 15 minutes won’t even scratch the surface. That’s because since the 1970’s, Bruckheimer has produced so many iconic films and TV shows (Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop, Bad Boys, The Rock, Black Hawk Down, Pirates of the Caribbean, CSI, Crimson Tide, National Treasure, …
Sam Peckinpah’s ultra-violent 1969 western epic The Wild Bunch is the latest movie classic to be given the remake treatment by Hollywood. The Passion of the Christ and Hacksaw Ridge’s Mel Gibson has been hired to direct the movie and rework a script that the studio had already been working from for a while.