An Interview with James Schamus
Towleroad posts a long and very frank interview with James Schamus, the producer of Brokeback Mountain.
This week, President Bush said that he hadn’t seen Brokeback. Do you plan to offer him a screening?
(laughs) Actually, the studio has been asked and the studio has answered. We were asked for a print of the movie which we supplied to the White House. So maybe somebody there has seen the movie. I’m hopeful that somebody who knows what it’s like to be gay in Wyoming might have seen it at least. (laughs) You supply the print but no one’s going to tell you who saw it or anything. We’re happy to send a free screener but I have to say, just like everybody else, we’re gonna watermark it so it doesn’t get pirated.
Have you spoken with Larry Miller regarding his decision to drop Brokeback from his Utah megaplex?
No. In our book he’s just a bona fide creep. If for no other reason than we had a legal and binding agreement to screen the movie and he reneged on it. He has refused to speak with anybody publicly — certainly none of us — about his decision. But I find it hilarious that if you went to his movie theater to go see Brokeback Mountain you would have found a ticket available for the movie that he did screen which was Hostel. If that is some kind of moral response to our movie you can keep your morals! By the way, Hostel is a very entertaining film. Nothing wrong about that.
According to the interview, the cast of Brokeback Mountain is going to be on Oprah at some point in the next ten days.
| Go to Home - Most Recent PostsI’ve heard there is going to be a Brokeback Oprah show? When is it airing and which cast members are participating?
Heath and Jake and the entire gang. We don’t know the air date yet but it should be sometime in the next ten days. They’re juggling the schedule.
Were there any surprises on that show?
I have to say that the mere fact that we were on that show was a surprise to us. I’m still a bit stunned. I don’t think there were any revelations, but there was an absolute embrace on the part of Oprah and the audience of the movie of the boys which was just amazing. When you see them come out on stage and you see the audience respond to them together, you’ll just be blown away.
January 27th, 2006 at 9:36 am
[...] The cast of Brokeback Mountain will be her guests. The show was previously taped as was reported in the interview with James Schumas, one of the producers of the film. [...]