The Rocketeer

[EagleWolf]

Décidément, tous les projets de Dillard sont soufflés par le vent :

[EagleWolf]

[EagleWolf]

“We have forward momentum. I know you guys hear this stuff all the time, but we are in the script development stage and if you’re going to reinvigorate that beloved franchise, you better come with the goods. And so Eugene Ashe is currently writing away and we were talking about it only this week. We’re all very committed to that. But it’s going to have to be great and we will not rest until it is.”

“Well, I loved the original film. I remember seeing it, and again, not unlike the cowboy genre, there was something about it, the aspirational, inspirational, heroic quality of it. I also liked that it was sort of a bit more DIY and do-it-yourself in terms of the pack. It wasn’t superpowers. It was a guy. It just felt more grounded somehow.”

[EagleWolf]

"I’m definitely still trying to get it done, especially when you see what’s happening to the legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen as it pertains to what’s going on in the country politically at the moment. To get that film made is definitely something I’m very, very focused on. One of the hardest things with any project you’re developing is when there’s regime change, which has definitely been the case at Disney. So, the question is whether the folks who are now in leadership at Disney feel the same way about The Rocketeer as those who were there before them."

"Indications currently suggest that it is not a priority, in the way that it was before. But I’m banging, kicking, scraping, and screaming on every door that will have me, to try to get that made. That seems to be my lot in life, when it comes to getting things made. Bass Reeves was 9-10 years. Selma was seven years. [Government Cheese] took six years. But tenacity is the key and these stories I really believe in, I tend not to give up on. The Return of the Rocketeer, as our project is called, is something that I’m still very focused on."