Could there be an Eiffel curse?
We can think of it when reading the book
Eiffel et moi
(Amphora), by Caroline Bongrand.
The novelist tells how it took her 24 years to see her screenplay come to fruition.
While a film student at the University of South Carolina in Los Angeles, the Frenchie pitches a film about Eiffel to an American producer.
The project fell through but crossed the Atlantic.
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Eiffel, between the lady of the heart and the iron lady
Luc Besson is up for it with Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Adjani, then goes elsewhere.
The producer Christian Fechner (
Les Amants du Pont-Neuf
,
La Tour Montparnasse infernale
) recovers the baby but illness forces him to give up.
Christophe Barratier is interested before preferring to shoot
Les Choristes
, cheaper and more profitable.
Same disillusion with Olivier Dahan and Ridley Scott.
The happy end is written thanks to Pathé and Vanessa Van Zuylen.
To believe that only the producer of
A man at the height
, reducing Jean Dujardin to the size of a dwarf, could attack
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