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The word on his upcoming pics, including the “Quixote” movie
Filmmaker Andrew Davis (“Under Siege”, “The Guardian”) tells UGO that he’s still working on a film that combines the Don Quixote character with the Henry Fielding novel, ‘Tom Jones’.
“Years ago, Waldo Salt wrote a screenplay about Don Quixote. Waldo Salt is one of the Hollywood ten. He’s a great writer – Coming Home, Midnight Cowboy – I really liked it. It was sort of a parable of the blacklist during the McCarthy period during the Inquisition. He veered from Cervantes, but he kept the characters, and I’ve developed a script with Waldon Media, the company that he holds, which integrates the scenes of Don Quixote from the Waldo script with Tom Jones. That was another favorite movie of mine as I was growing up, the Henry Fielding novel, and it’s called Don Quixote. It’s something that I need to help put together right now. The script is done and we just finished The Guardian when I began the dialogue with Waldon about what to do with it.”
There’s another film that Davis would like to do – but it’s a bit further off.
“Tere’s a project that I have called Overnight Stars, which is a look at what could happen if people started sharing ideas in the media a little bit more, and we could all talk on the same page about what our needs are. It’s sort of based on the life of Buckminster Fuller. Fuller was a futurist, a scientist and a great man. The idea of now that we are aware for the fist time in our human history of the shape of the Earth and different races and how we are destroying the planet with our industrialization, I think that we may be able to all look at each other and say, “Okay, what do you need? What do I need? Let’s try to make a blueprint for how humanity could coexist in a more sane way.”
