Producer Richard Zanuck Gives the Low Down on Ripley'S

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While promoting his latest film YES MAN, producer Richard Zanuck spoke exclusively with the IESB about what happened with Ripley'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT, a film he was attached to along with Jim Carrey and director Tim Burton.

IESB: You were supposed to be doing Ripley's Believe it or Not with Jim [Carrey] and Tim [Burton]... that it kind of fell apart on the Tim side?

Zanuck: It fell apart on the studio side, we were ready to go and very close actually, 8 or 9 weeks away from starting and it was the studio that made that decision and it actually caught us off guard, all three of us - myself, Jim and Tim - we were rocked, we spent weeks in China selecting locations with art directors, getting permissions which is very, very tough in China to shoot. And so it was a studio decision.


IESB: Do you think it will move forward? You are still attached?

Zanuck: I'm not, no, we are no longer attached. I don't know how it was resolved with Jim whether he would be attached but definitely not Tim or myself.




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Richard Zanuck 's not doing it anymore either? Man!

[fluffy]

we gotta keep faith in the project ......Zanuck, Schmanuck.....lol

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Thanks for backing me up fluffy.

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I do think Jim will still do it though.

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y/w

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