This is a story I think about a lot, from film producer Art Linson's books A POUND OF FLESH. Linson, producing Cameron Crowe's SINGLES (1992), wants to cast Matt Dillon. Problem: Matt Dillon costs a million dollars.
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Linson and Crowe are desperate to cast Dillon. Dillon wants to do the picture. But they don't have a million dollars in the budget.
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So Linson goes to a studio executive, hat in hand, to beg for more money, because Matt Dillon is perfect for the part and is indispensible etc. etc.
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The suit considers the idea that Matt Dillon is indispensible. Then he says: "Tell me, Art. What if Matt [Dillon] was crossing Sunset Boulevard today and got hit by a bus?"
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LINSON. "What, like the bus is moving thirty miles an hour and hit him flush?" SUIT. "Yeah." LINSON. "Uh." SUIT. "Would you drop the project, or would you still want to make the movie?"
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Art Linson relayed this conversation to Matt Dillon's agent. Matt Dillon's price dropped four hundred thousand dollars.
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I was thinking about this today because it ties into that results-versus-process thing I was talking about earlier: evangelicals getting all behind Roy Moore, DSA building their machine.
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The thing about putting your hopes on, say, Roy Moore is: what do you do if your Roy Moore gets hit by a bus?
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