Film Cemetery
Case Study #8
Case Study #8
Where we explore the more
obscure films that bombed
Summer 1997, a phone
call late one night....
call late one night....
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Film Agent Bob Lipstein: Morgan, baby! Got two scripts in front of me. One is an Oscar-grabber about a black guy battling racism in....
Morgan Freeman: Wait! What's the other one?
Lipstein: Oh, some crappy heist thing. Pays a lot more, but...
Freeman: I'll take it. I want that new Lexus SC400, plus my bathroom is crying out for Italian marble.
Lipstein: Look, Morgan...I'm not so sure about this. In five years you'll be playing God with that fruitcake Jim Carrey. You can pass on the cheesy heist crap, you know.
Freeman: Just make sure the check cashes, Bob.
Lipstein: Look, Morgan...I'm not so sure about this. In five years you'll be playing God with that fruitcake Jim Carrey. You can pass on the cheesy heist crap, you know.
Freeman: Just make sure the check cashes, Bob.
