Sunday
26Apr2009
Ron Howard's Favorite Directors and Dream Bio-Pics
Sunday, April 26, 2009 at 5:37AM
Ron Howard is interviewed in The Sunday Times, and he's asked to list his top five
movie presidents (excluding Frank Langella from his Frost/Nixon), the directors who have influenced him the
most, and the other bio-pics he'd like to make.
"He was a Russian cosmonaut whose guidance system failed while orbiting earth. He made a stunning re-entry, piloting the capsule on his own, and it was a triumph...until his chutes failed to open properly and he crashed to earth and died. Not the most commercial idea, I realize..."I'd like to see that, although it might play like a cruel joke. How much would that suck, by the way? You go through all that re-entry stuff and then you're just Wile E. Coyote holding a stupid sign and whistling to your doom while the Roadrunner makes a clean getaway. Oh, by the way, the directors who influenced Howard make a lot of sense: Billy Wilder, Mike Nichols, Ang Lee, Spielberg, and Robert Altman.
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Howard has had a steady but unspectacular career. My favorite film of his is one a lot of people have unfortunately forgotten about, The Paper. I find myself recommending that one a lot and it seems to have slipped through the cracks a bit.