Confess, Fletch director GregMottola discusses recasting Fletch, how JonHamm and Chevy Chase differ, and the joy of messing with terrible people.
Novelist Gregory Mcdonald’s crime-solving journalist Irwin M. Fletcher, better known as “Fletch,” has never been a very conventional hero. After Chevy Chase put his own bumbling, pratfall-filled spin on the character in 1985’s Fletch and its sequel, the film franchise fell into limbo for three decades as various filmmakers sought — unsuccessfully — to bring Fletch back to the big screen.
Greg Mottola: Jon came to me about two years ago and said he was approached by Miramax. They said, “We have the rights to all the books but the first one. Would you ever be interested in playing Fletch?” And unbeknownst to them, when Jon saw the original Fletch as a young man, he went and found the books and read them. He was a broke teenager, so he stole them from Waldenbooks, according to him. He loved them, and he knew there was another way to do the films.
One of the things I absolutely love in Chevy’s version of Fletch is the sort of Marx Brothers-level chaos that he would bring to any situation. He would just baffle people so much they wouldn’t know how to respond. Those were things that weren’t necessarily in the book. Those were all his. The Confess, Fletch novel was published almost 50 years ago. When you were adapting it for this film, what went into bringing the story forward into a modern setting?
The fact that there’s no acknowledgment from people like that, that what they’re doing is trading in this world of wealth disparity, is something I feel like Fletch would actively dislike. So my strategy in that scene was to have Fletch come in and act even more awful than she is to confuse her. He acts even more shallow and despicable than she is, so she’s kind of lost and it throws her off.
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