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The Old Man and the Studio

Eric Champnella · USA · Satire / Comedy · 13 min · 13K views

Directed by Eric Champnella · Starring Heather Ankeny, Sally Brooks, Trey Callaway, Chip Chinery · 2004

Ernest Hemingway tries to sell The Old Man and the Sea to modern Hollywood and is put through the studio development process.

A sharp, festival-winning skewering of how Hollywood notes would mangle a literary classic.

What if Ernest Hemingway sold his classic novel, The Old Man and The Sea, in today's Hollywood and had to go through the studio development process?

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