Roger Donaldson
Roger Donaldson
Roger Donaldsonis an Australian-born New Zealand film director, producer and writer whose films include acclaimed 1981 relationship drama Smash Palace and a run of titles shot in the United States, including Kevin Costner starrers No Way Out and Thirteen Days, and 1997 disaster movie Dante's Peak...
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth15 November 1945
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Tony talked to me a fair bit about that movie, which I hadn't seen. Campbell felt compelled to do whatever he was doing, because of his father - so we'd talk about some of the motivations of Munro, too.
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I came with him on one of his last trips to America. The character in the film is really based upon the character that I knew.
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I'd made this naive little documentary about the real Burt Munro, very early in my film-making career, and this character always stuck with me. I thought, 'God, what a great subject for a feature film!' And it's a project that I've been keeping on the back burner ever since.
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The optimism in the film is really based on my own experience of coming to America,
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It's a pretty ambitious movie for what it is Hemingway is a great writer and a great character. If anybody can play Hemingway, Tony Hopkins can,
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It's a thriller, it's a love story, it's Hemingway as he falls apart and is suicidal. This guy was a witness to it all.
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Hemingway invited him to Havana for some weekends and the movie is really about what happens when he goes there,