After the success of CNN’s continuing miniseries chronicling the Decades, beginning with the 60’s in 2014, all the way up to the 2000’s last year, it seemed natural to do a follo…
, Paul Thomas Anderson, Rob Reiner, Julia Roberts, Robert De Niro, Ridley Scott, Julianne Moore, Billy Crystal, Sharon Stone, Hanks of course, and on and on. Numerous critics and historians appear, including myself, as I filmed several sessions for the ambitious series last summer. There is no narrator, and when I hopped on the phone to speak with Goetzman and Herzog about the show they explained how they came upon this structure.
Goetzman says they got just about every actor and filmmaker they wanted, even managing to snag Redford and Scorsese shortly before the deadline to lock the show. Among those also included is the late John Singleton who came in to talk about the 90’s, the decade he burst on to the scene with“We kept all his bites in there, and felt very proud that he was part of it.
“Yeah. It cost a fortune, and some is fair use, depending on how you guys talk about it, and some isn’t, but within it, it’s an insane undertaking because the licensing is a very tricky business in this type of thing, and you know, you set out thinking, hey, this is going to be great, right? And then you realize you have approvals, you know, beyond belief with estates in a lot of the situations, too.
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