Classic Hollywood: Philip Kaufman talks about his epic 'The Right Stuff' before a Veterans Day screening in Hollywood
The newly refurbished theater at the famed Hollywood American Legion Post 43 will be blasting off Veterans Day evening with a 35 mm screening of Philip Kaufman’s acclaimed 1983 film, “The Right Stuff.” Based on Tom Wolfe’s bestseller, the epic chronicled the early years of the U.S. race to space and the test pilots and astronauts who risked their lives to get us there.
I just said, “Chuck, why don’t you turn the engine back on?” He got it that I wasn’t going to panic. Now we see certain leaders or the leader of our country panicking over everything. There’s a coolness that Chuck Yeager had and a sense of humor. I mean, he was playing with me in a nice way, but I did feel there was some kind of immortality about him.Bill Goldman wrote the script that was sent to me. I knew Goldman; he and I were friends. We worked on another film together.
The four of us were having one of those great Hollywood script conferences. As they say, the best scripts aren’t written, they’re rewritten. Bob Chartoff really loved what I was saying. The next thing I know Bill Goldman quit in a huff, but I discovered he had committed to another movie that was supposed to start in 10 days. He was a wonderful screenwriter.
Director Philip Kaufman, left, and Chuck Yeager attend a 20th anniversary screening and DVD release of “The Right Stuff” at the Egyptian Theatre on June 9, 2003, in Hollywood.The great kind of cowboy hipster playwright and the greatest pilot — at first, they were a little standoffish. Physically they were different. They came from different worlds. But very quickly they sort of sensed a bond of some kind between them.
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