Redford says he’s still committed despite industry cold feet
BY JOHN HANCOCK
LOS ANGELES – All is not going smoothly with Robert Redford’s slated blockbuster ‘The Copenhagen Protocol’ according to Hollywood sources. The Academy award winning director is in talks with a slew of ‘green’ A-listers as he puts together a star studded cast to bring to the silver screen the true-life story of how the climate and the planet were saved.
A top Los Angeles agent who represents several of the stars under consideration has raised concerns about the effect on his clients’ public profile. “Well it’s easy to be, you know, ‘green’,” he confided. “You drive around in one of those half-assed electric contraptions and get your face in the paper on Earth Day planting some skinny-looking sapling. But putting yourself forward for a project like this opens you up to scrutiny.”
“It only takes one scummy paparazzo to go through the garbage and find out you don’t recycle and you’re dead in this town – never mind printing the fact you trashed an ecologically important site during your last location shoot or you sent your private jet to Chicago for pizza. They’re very nervous about this, I tell ya.”
Doubts were also cast on the viability of the project when it became obvious that the cast would have to be ninety nine per cent men. “Box office poison,” revealed an insider. “Ok, you’ve got Cameron (Diaz) and Julia (Roberts) vying for the part of Angela Merkel but you can’t stack the rest of the movie with grey men in suits, even if they are played by the likes of Brad Pitt and Leonardo (DiCaprio).”
“Then you’ve also got to realize you’re asking actors to play the part of living people – some of them not very attractive.”
A close friend of Redford admitted the former actor was also concerned about audience demographics. “Bob’s worried about who the audience will be. It’s not a chick-flick or a rom-com, which just leaves political action thriller,” he admitted.
“It was a dramatic few months towards the end of 2009 but there’s no tension because everybody knows it ended well, thank God,” he said. “And you can’t spice it up with car chases and helicopter gun ships because it is about the climate for chrissakes!”
Talks are scheduled to take place between Redford and the producers next week to try and rescue the project. A spokesman for the director/actor/environmentalist insisted that things were still on track.
“Mr. Redford is keen to commit this ground-breaking period in the Earth’s history to celluloid,” she said. “Thanks to the leadership and commitment of a handful of far-sighted and courageous politicians, millions of lives will be saved. That should be celebrated by the creative community.”
“This bunch of precious narcissists need to get over themselves, stop throwing hissy-fits and get on board.”
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