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Spielberg drops out of 'Harvey'
By Adnan Tezer Dec 5, 2009, 1:02 GMT
Steven Spielberg has pulled out of directing the remake of “Harvey” after having spent the past half year developing the film.
It would have been his first film behind the camera for the newly assembled DreamWorks.
“Harvey” is an adaptation of Mary Chase’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a man who befriends a six and a half foot tall invisible rabbit.
One of the biggest problems Spielberg had with the film was finding a star to play Elwood P. Dowd, the character played by James Stewart in the 1950 film.
According to Variety, Spielberg’s first choice was Tom Hanks, but Hanks wanted no part in trying to follow in Stewart’s footsteps.
Spielberg then spent several months trying to convince Robert Downey Jr. to commit but the two could not agree on the Jonathan Tropper-written script.
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