Taxi Driver

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Paul Schrader Negs Showtime's American Gigolo, Says He's Fought ... (Vanity Fair)

The always blunt auteur wishes Gretchen Mol and Jon Bernthal the best, but won't be watching.

He was on a death trip and was gonna succeed the next time.” “The answser [sic] is No,” he wrote, and then he told a story. I took the $50G. I haven't seen the trailer.”

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Paul Schrader Calls 'American Gigolo' TV Show a 'Terrible Idea ... (IndieWire)

The latest classic movie to be reimagined as a prestige TV show is “American Gigolo,” Paul Schrader's 1980 thriller about a male escort accused of murder.

“I don’t plan to watch the Showtime series. “I haven’t seen the trailer. The latest classic movie to be reimagined as a prestige TV show is “ American Gigolo,” Paul Schrader’s 1980 thriller about a male escort accused of murder. “No, the caller explained, they did not want my involvement. I couldn’t imagine Julian Kay working a Hen Party. (Scorsese and I had fought off similar attempts to redo ‘Taxi Driver’ for years.) I thought that was the end of it.” “Then came another call saying Jerry Bruckheimer and Paramount had the rights to redo AG without my consent.

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