Let TCM take you through this bonfire of a bomb. Director Brian De Palma is one of our most overlooked auteurs, but not everything he touched was gold. We often hear stories of movies where everything goes right, but we never get the exact details when everything goes wrong. This season on The Plot Thickens, they attempt to pull back the curtain on just exactly what happened to The Bonfire of the Vanities. How did a #1 New York Times best-selling book, a big budget, and a cast with Melanie Griffith, Tom Hanks, and Bruce Willis turn the movie adaptation into one of the biggest failures in feature filmmaking? The Plot Thickens is a documentary podcast about the movies and the people who make them. The second season is called The Devil’s Candy, the inside story of how a star-studded movie with all the makings of a hit ended up a cautionary tale for the ages. And it's one of the best journalistic pieces on Hollywood in recent history. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Monday, 16 August, 2021