[Alec] Baldwin says Feds have seized his debut film - LOL Alert!

Ananova ^ | November 13, 2003 | Ananova

[Damocles]

Baldwin says Feds have seized his debut film

Alec Baldwin says The Devil and Daniel Webster, his first film as a director, will never be seen because it has been seized by federal authorities.

The film, which stars Anthony Hopkins, was made last year but is being held as evidence in a fraud case, Baldwin told journalists in Los Angeles.

"Some of the film's investors are being investigated for bank fraud," he explained.

"They claimed they had the money to make the movie but it turned out they didn't, so while we were making the movie they were bouncing cheques all over New York.

"The movie is never going to be released. It taught me a lesson."

Baldwin's version of The Devil And Daniel Webster, a remake of a 1941 film, also featured Jennifer Love Hewitt as the Devil.

[Damocles]

I thought Alec was living in France...

This made me chuckle this morning...

[God luvs America]

I cincur your thoughts...didn't this hypocrite say he'd leave the country if GWB became President? Funny, he's hosting Saturday night live this weekend, it must be live from Montreal!

[6ppc]

I thought his first film would be Man Without a Country!

[DManA]

So many ironies. A movie about two great lawyers - Webster and the Devil, being fought over by lawyers.

[tmp02]

I invested about $20,000 in MVEE - First Miracle Entertainment( it has changed its name now), the movie company that was creating this film. The company went bankrupt...I lost my money.

[HarleyD]

"The movie is never going to be released. It taught me a lesson."

Maybe I'm missing something but I would think that WHOEVER paid for this movie would want at least SOME of their money back. The only way to do that is to release it-unless it's a real dog that wouldn't make any money if it was release. It may be that Alex "lesson" is never to direct another movie.

[ClearCase_guy]

Jennifer Love Hewitt as the Devil.

If Baldwin can get the financing together, I hope he makes a film of Milton's "Paradise Lost". Perhaps he can get Britney Spears to portray Lucifer. "Like, Oh My God! Is this a sacred act? I'm sure!"

[AnAmericanMother]

Ah, just go see the original. Baldwin messes with the plot to the point that it's unrecognizable (instead of a New Hampshire skinflint farmer, the Jabez Stone character is an up-and-coming modern New York writer. Who the heck needs another story like that?)

Won an Academy Award for best score - some pretty good actors in it too. I saw it years ago. Or, better yet, go read the original.

The Devil and Dan'l Webster

Vincent Benet was sometimes a little over-the-top, but a fine writer and well worth reading. His John Brown's Body is beautiful, and that's an unreconstructed Confederate talking about a Yankee, and a New England Yankee at that.

"Pickett came
And the South came
And the end comes,
And the grass comes
And the wind blows
On the bronze book
On the bronze men
On the grown grass,
And the wind says
'Long ago
Long
Ago'"

[joesnuffy]

Guess Baldwin should made his movie in France...they would be happy to protect him from Uncle Sam..
Ha Ha Ha ...Schmuck!

[Wombat101]

Must have been the director's version with all the kiddie porn and beastiality scenes in it. And to think someone picked that thing to be Jack Ryan once? Where's my pistol???

[Eric in the Ozarks]

More absurd was Alec playing Jimmy Doolittle.

[ampat]

So much for creativity from the man who should be living in france.

[Wombat101]

I missed that one, and now that you've told me, I'm glad I did. But like cockroaches, for every Baldwin you step on it's seems there's another 60,000 you missed.

[Sloth]

If we were living in another country, we would go down to Hollywood and stone Alec Baldwin to death. Then we would go to his house and we'd kill his family, kill his children.

[Sloth]

I invested about $20,000 in MVEE - First Miracle Entertainment( it has changed its name now), the movie company that was creating this film.

Ouch. Bad idea.

[MinuteGal]

It's been said that the only remake of a film that turned out better than the original was "The Maltese Falcon". It was first produced around 1931 and starred Bebe Daniels with Ricardo Cortes as Sam Spade. I watched it last night on TMC and it really stunk.

The "Falcon" was tried again later in the thirties, I believe, but it wasn't till the early forties that a re-make hit the jackpot. It starred Humphrey Bogart as Spade, plus Mary Astor and a terrific cast of supporting character actors.

I could never understand the drawing power of the "Falcon" story-wise. Created by the notorious commie-symp, Dashiel Hammett, the story line is muddled, confusing and basically uninteresting. It certainly must have been the enormous drawing-power of Bogart and the skill and talents of the remarkable supporting cast which carried the day in the third film.

The statistical odds dictate that the remake of "The Devil and Daniel Webster" would probably be doomed, especially with that brilliant genius, Baldwin, directing it.

Leni

[tmp02]

Martin Landau was also connected to MVEE.

[Damocles]

If we were living in another country, we would go down to Hollywood and stone Alec Baldwin to death. Then we would go to his house and we'd kill his family, kill his children.

Thanks for chiming in Mr. Hyde...

[GunRunner]

Baldwin is an idiot, but one of my favorite scenes of all time is where he gives his speech to the loser salesman in Glengarry Glen Ross. A classic scene if you haven't seen it.

[DustyMoment]

I feel sooooooooo bad for Alec . . . . . . NOT!!!