Michael Mann has made so many films about obsessives, it’s still rather stunning that he passed on the opportunity to direct “The Aviator.” After all, Howard Hughes was the ultimate obsessive, a man hellbent on the attainment of perfection in everything he did.
Mann is known to share many of these traits.
He pushed so hard for an authentic portrayal of drug trafficking in “Miami Vice” that cast and crew often felt imperiled (conditions during the Dominican Republic portion of the shoot sent co-star Jamie Foxx scrambling back to the United States).But Mann insists his reticence had nothing to do with identifying too closely…The post Why Michael Mann Gave The Aviator Away To Martin Scorsese appeared first on /Film.
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