PGA winner Scott Rudin ruminates on success (and failure)
Sasha Stone of Awards Daily delivers a fascinating in-depth interview with man of the moment, producer Scott Rudin. His executive producing credit precluded a nod for best picture contender "There Will Be Blood," but his shepherding of "No Country for Old Men" from page to soundstage could win Rudin an Oscar.
This prolific producer has managed to mix commercial fare such as "Failure to Launch" with prestige projects such as "The Hours" (his first Oscar nod) for more than two decades. While he has had his share of hits, he has also had misses that still bother him, though he accepts his own role in their fate.
"I don't think I've ever had a movie that I thought was really strong but didn't ultimately get its due," he says. "One movie I really thought should have succeeded was 'Searching for Bobby Fischer,' but other than that, all of the ones that deserved to succeed did, and the ones that didn't succeed didn't deserve to succeed."
These days, he is certainly enjoying success with "No Country." As he explains to Sasha, he is "a devourer of literary fiction," and he was drawn to Cormac McCarthy's book because "I loved the moral underpinnings of it; I loved that it was something that had the big ideas inside the framework of a crime thriller."
This longtime player sees the evolution of Hollywood in black and white rather than color. "I think we’re at a time where there are two movie businesses that run on parallel tracks and they have very little to do with each other," he explains. "What has happened is that there used to be a kind of movie that we used to think of as a big Academy movie, which was that flagship movie with big movie stars and big filmmakers and frequently it was a period movie, frequently it was a romantic movie or a kind of epic, and those have just gone away."
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