{"id":38163,"date":"2022-06-05T23:20:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T23:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/paul-schrader-who-is-usually-so-agreeable-thinks-the-american-gigolo-show-is-a-terrible-idea\/"},"modified":"2022-06-05T23:20:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T23:20:07","slug":"paul-schrader-who-is-usually-so-agreeable-thinks-the-american-gigolo-show-is-a-terrible-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/paul-schrader-who-is-usually-so-agreeable-thinks-the-american-gigolo-show-is-a-terrible-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Schrader, who is usually so agreeable, thinks the American Gigolo show is a “terrible idea”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Showtime’s TV adaptation of American Gigolo <\/em>just got its first trailer, but Paul Schrader \u2014 who directed the original 1980 film with Richard Gere and Lauren Hutton \u2014 isn’t especially thrilled about it. Now, to be fair, it’s rare for Schrader to seem especially thrilled about anything, especially when he gets on the internet, but he’s back with another one of his fiery Facebook posts di lui and those are always fun.<\/p>\n

This comes from Deadline<\/em>and there’s an interesting twist to this one: It’s not the fact that Showtime is adapting Schrader’s movie that’s making him mad, it’s the simple fact of revisiting American Gigolo <\/em>at all. In his Facebook post about him, Schrader says Showtime approached him about making an American Gigolo <\/em>TV show at some point, and he said that he thought it was a \u201cterrible idea\u201d \u2014not because nobody should touch his movie, but because it doesn’t really work anymore. “Times had changed,” he explained, citing that “internet porn had redefined male sex work, viruses, etc.,” and that he “couldn’t imagine [Richard Gere\u2019s character] Julian Kay working at Hen Party. “<\/p>\n

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Later, Schrader says he learned that Paramount and Jerry Bruckheimer had the rights to do whatever they wanted with American Gigolo<\/em>, regardless of his involvement, so he says his options were to take a token payment of $ 50,000 and not be involved, take no money and not be involved, or threaten to file a lawsuit that he would inevitably lose and still not be involved. \u201cI took the $ 50G,\u201d he said on Facebook. (We should all aspire to the level of Hollywood big-shot where you can deign to let <\/em>people give you money for nothing and then complain about it on Facebook.)<\/p>\n

Schrader also noted that he will not be watching the Showtime series, saying couldn’t \u201cbe objective about it\u201d and that it would just be \u201ctoo much agita\u201d anyway.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paul Schrader Showtime’s TV adaptation of American Gigolo just got its first trailer, but Paul Schrader \u2014 who directed the original 1980 film with Richard Gere and Lauren Hutton \u2014 isn’t especially thrilled about it. Now, to be fair, it’s rare for Schrader to seem especially thrilled about anything, especially when he gets on the …<\/p>\n

Paul Schrader, who is usually so agreeable, thinks the American Gigolo show is a “terrible idea”<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/uu\/api\/res\/1.2\/6jdDv_sdemdpLn6FD9MJeA--~B\/aD0zNTc7dz02MzY7YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b24-\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/the_av_club_265\/37f384dbaf46ccf3b363e62f46470278","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}