LE TIGRE (Andrzej Żuławski, 1990) (unproduced)

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Re: LE TIGRE (Andrzej Zulawski, 1990) (unproduced)

Postby Jox on 30 Jul 2016, 17:33

LE TIGRE quoted in the recent book on Zulawski by Jérôme Estais, Andrzej Zulawski, sur le fil (LettMotif editions)
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Re: LE TIGRE (Andrzej Zulawski, 1990) (unproduced)

Postby Jox on 14 Oct 2016, 20:15

Mentioned by Dolph in an interview from the Sitges festival:
Por desgracia, Lundgren nunca llegó a trabajar con Zulawski, con el que iba a rodar la frustrada 'Le tigre' a principios de los 90: "Se situaba en los 50, en la Guerra de Vietnam. Era una especie de aventura sobre una mujer enamorada de un tigre".

http://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/ ... ll-5503835
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Re: LE TIGRE (Andrzej Zulawski, 1990) (unproduced)

Postby Jox on 15 Feb 2018, 22:09

A MUST-READ and detailed article on the genesis of LE TIGRE by Zulawski's scholar, friend and collaborator Daniel Bird who had never heard of the project before I personally told him about it, which even sparked new interest of the director to work on the script again more than 20 years later! 8)

Żuławski’s Tiger: The Art-House Action-Adventure That Never Was
http://culture.pl/en/article/zulawskis- ... -never-was

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I realise the article is just missing more about this part:

Cannon wasn't involved for long, they first signed with Zulawski in 1988 (with no script yet) as part of their prestigious directors they wanted to get like Godard, Zeffirelli, Konchalovski etc; so they didn't mean it as a cheap action flick, the script was penned in the following months but nothing happened since they were getting deeper and deeper into trouble...

Then it was a new company, ABBA Entertainment, that picked up the script and revived it in late 1989 / early 1990, attaching Dolph to star in it because he was a hot bankable name in pre-sales back then and they pre-sold territories for $7 million total which was pretty much the budget (to shoot in Thailand or the Philippines).

It made a big deal at the film markets like AFM and Cannes, and scheduled to start lensing a few months later in the summer... but one of their projects filming (a non-erotic film with Tracy Lords) got shut down in the middle of production because one of the partners (Jerry Kutner) was arrested for embezzlement, and that was it... :(

I read a draft of the script and it was crazy (APOCALYPSE NOW meets MOBY DICK meets MEN OF WAR with a white tiger, opium and shamanism)...

I never stopped dreaming about this since I heard about it in a French action film magazine ("Impact") back then (that's when I thought Dolph deserved to be in more than action films)...
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Re: LE TIGRE (Andrzej Zulawski, 1990) (unproduced)

Postby Jox on 10 Mar 2019, 22:47

Trade advert, AFM, February 1990

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Re: LE TIGRE (Andrzej Zulawski, 1990) (unproduced)

Postby Jamesflavell on 22 Mar 2020, 15:56

https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2020/03/ ... never-was/

Owes a lot to the previous article, perhaps - but does at least offer acknowledgement and thanks to JD.
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Re: LE TIGRE (Andrzej Zulawski, 1990) (unproduced)

Postby Jox on 22 Mar 2020, 16:47

I wanted to offer some contribution but sadly not in a position to at the moment...

But really I've been longing to give a proper treatment to this doomed project as well as all the other unproduced projects that Dolph had been more or less involved with at a later date. Either as a chapter / appendice in my long-term Dolph book, or perhaps even in a solo "DL development hell" book...

Jamesflavell wrote:Owes a lot to the previous article, perhaps - but does at least offer acknowledgement and thanks to JD.

I know the author of this one below pretty well too, and he gave me credit for bringing that old project up to him, which brought him to have Zulawski himself look at it again (in a more New Wave or Godard-esque way)...!
https://culture.pl/en/article/zulawskis ... -never-was
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Re: LE TIGRE (Andrzej Zulawski, 1990) (unproduced)

Postby NomediumDofalie7 on 22 Mar 2020, 22:59

Hello! With this Le Tigre is Jox ready to take over? Unfortunately the virus blocks everything :oops: :?:Le Tigre sounds bad the tiger is other :)
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Re: LE TIGRE (Andrzej Zulawski, 1990) (unproduced)

Postby Jox on 23 Mar 2020, 15:33

NomediumDofalie7, I'm sorry I don't understand what you are saying or asking?

This is an old "unproduced" project that was supposed to be made 30 years ago, in 1990.

It will never be made (and author/director Andrzej Zulawski passed away 4 years ago).
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Re: LE TIGRE (Andrzej Zulawski, 1990) (unproduced)

Postby Jox on 09 Dec 2020, 18:40

6 pages on LE TIGRE in the upcoming French book about Zulawski for which I was interviewed. 8)
https://lechatquifume.myshopify.com/col ... j-zulawski

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Re: LE TIGRE (Andrzej Zulawski, 1990) (unproduced)

Postby Moltisanti on 10 Dec 2020, 05:26

Cool! Should be interesting.
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Re: LE TIGRE (Andrzej Żuławski, 1990) (unproduced)

Postby Jamesflavell on 24 Nov 2021, 22:41

Le Tigre 'brochure' for sale on ebay - there are further pictures, suggesting some kind of proto-pressbook.

https://www.ebay.de/itm/304235510879?ha ... SwaQBhm-e0
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Re: LE TIGRE (Andrzej Żuławski, 1990) (unproduced)

Postby JuV on 24 Nov 2021, 23:05

Jamesflavell wrote:Le Tigre 'brochure' for sale on ebay - there are further pictures, suggesting some kind of proto-pressbook.

https://www.ebay.de/itm/304235510879?ha ... SwaQBhm-e0

That seems like a solid price. I sadly don't have room for if. Hopefully someone here gets it!
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Re: LE TIGRE (Andrzej Żuławski, 1990) (unproduced)

Postby Jox on 24 Nov 2021, 23:09

Jamesflavell wrote: there are further pictures, suggesting some kind of proto-pressbook.

It's a foldout brochure with Dolph's half tiger face on front and it unfolds into this large banner. It includes brief synopsis and early credits, which the company Abba gave to buyers (distributors)* with this b&w portrait of Lundgren as well as short biographies about him and director Andrzej Żuławski...

* (The then co-producer John Rodsett told me that the project had made about $7 million in pre-sales.)

JuV wrote:That seems like a solid price. I sadly don't have room for if. Hopefully someone here gets it!

I already own one that I found one about 20 years ago. :wink:
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