Jox wrote:viendammage wrote: he was whisked away to a green room after the screening.
I bet...!Emmerich had nothing but good things to say about his experience making Unisol. He had quit the Carolco, Stallone led, Isobar after 9 months. Mario Kassar was impressed with his willingness to walk away and offered him Universal Soldier which was running into pre-production problems. Emmerich asked to keep the general concept and the two stars but discard everything else. Kassar agreed and Emmerich got to work with Dean Devlin to bang out the new story. It had to come in under $20 million even though $7 million had already been spent. Emmerich was all smiles talking about Unisol, how it was first time he was in charge of a big production, everything went smoothly, it was a big success and launched his and Devlin's career.
Sounds better than his two superficial commentaries he did with Devlin (2001 UK + 2004 US special edition) where they're in between a good memory and making fun of it or at least dismissing it like a low budget embarrassment.I believe neither Carolco, Dolph or Jean-Claude were too happy about the first script and Andrew Davis's approach (who was in pre-production for it during one year). One Emmerich got on board, Devlin wrote a script in a month or two, the production was rolling, to start shooting only a few months later...Mario Kassar was impressed with his willingness to walk away and offered him Universal Soldier which was running into pre-production problems. Emmerich asked to keep the general concept and the two stars but discard everything else. Kassar agreed and Emmerich got to work with Dean Devlin to bang out the new story. It had to come in under $20 million even though $7 million had already been spent.
Ha, here it is! I would love to see some of the stuff Carolco was working on during it's demise. Like Cannon before them they were in bed with so much talent and were prepping 100 movies at the same time.