Clint Eastwood Nearly Directed A Musical Remake That Would Have Starred A Pop Diva
The most recent remake of “A Star Is Born” was one of the determining films of 2018. The film was the first director of the Bradley Cooper Academy Prize, which also co-written, co-produced and played alongside Lady Gaga. It was the fourth iteration of the title, from the 1937 film directed by William A. Wellman, who featured Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, followed by a 1954 remake produced by George Cukor and with Judy Garland and James Mason, who was then followed by the 1976 remake directed by Frank Pierson that Barbara Streisand and Kristoff.
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What some can forget about the fourth film “A Star is Born” is that before Bradley Cooper who has not associated with Direct, a legendary filmmaker was going to be at the helm. This director was none other than the winner of a Clint Eastwood Oscars, who previously directed Cooper in “American Sniper”. With the involvement of Eastwood, one of the most successful pop stars in the world was in negotiations to play the main female role, and quite funny, it has a notable link with the inevitable star holder who was born, Lady Gaga.
A Clint Eastwood star was almost born with Beyoncé
It’s not Texas, it’s not the outfit, so put your cards! Yes, one of our biggest American filmmakers sought to direct our recent Grammy winner for the album of the year, Beyoncé, in her planned remake of “A Star is Born”. As for the male direction of the film, some of the A-Luits which have been envisaged to represent The co-protagonist who at the time was described as having a story inspired by the main singer of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, Russell Crowe, Gerard Butler, Will Smith, Leonardo DiCaprio, Christian Bale and Tom Cruise. Finally, Eastwood sought to collaborate with his star “American Sniper” Bradley Cooper, creating a Beyoncé and Cooper couple.
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However, “A Star Is Born” with Beyoncé was not supposed to be. The production on what would have been Clint Eastwood’s film was delayed due to the pregnancy of Knowles-Carter in 2011. Eastwood finally went from the project to carry out a film adaptation of the Broadway musical “Jersey Boys”, followed by “American Sniper”. Finally, Bradley Cooper would connect to resume director’s tasks, and despite the initial hesitation to play himself in the film, he agreed to do so. Beyoncé was always the best choice to play in the film, but left the project, with her collaborator of “phone” Lady Gaga Signer for what was going to become her great breakthrough of her pop musical career in the celebrity of cinema.
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The legacy of a star was born shine
“A Star Is Born” has become a critical and commercial success, collecting $ 432.6 million at the world box office and receiving eight Oscar Prize nominations, the best film, the best actor (Bradley Cooper), the best actress (Lady Gaga) and the best support actor (Sam Elliott). The film won a statue at Oscar Night, the best original song for “Shallow”, which was also the source of the undeniable highest point of this specific ceremony, In which Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga interpreted the song on television live together for the first time. Their “shallow” video performance remains the most visible internet clip of the Oscars, with more than 822 million views on YouTube.
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Instead of an initial salary for his work on “A Star is Born”, Bradley Cooper accepted a back-end agreement with Warner Bros. Pictures to secure this project as its beginnings as a director. Cooper has won nearly $ 40 million in its mastodon in pop culture, which was a unique moment in the cinema during the 2010s, when a film not based on a successful franchise of four quadrants stormed the Zeitgeist. Cooper’s film was a charming and intimate look at the relationship between the two tracks, and although history was seen before, it was done with pure raw human emotion. Less scenes from the 2010s are as cathartic as the “shallow” sequence, and this certainly helps that the soundtrack of Lady Gaga was as good as it was. To be a third remake of “A Star is Born”, he really followed in the spirit of the following quotation of the character of Sam Elliott, Bobby Maine, who proclaimed: “Music is essentially 12 notes between any Octave. 12 notes and octave repetitions. It’s the same story told.”
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“A Star is Born” is available to have 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray, DVD and Digital HD.
