A new adaptation of the adventures of the one-eyed, spinach-eating sailor is in development, with Dwayne Johnson in the lead role. Robert Altman was mortified that it was said that his Popeye, released in 1980, had been one of the great failures of the new Hollywood.
The Kansas filmmaker insisted on the obvious until the last day: that reviled film, hated even by its protagonists and by the handful of senior executives at Paramount and Walt Disney Productions who made it possible, ended up grossing close to 60 million dollars.