ReelReveal #56

The novel it comes from was optioned in 2003, before it had even been published; Dick Wolf was going to produce, and that fell apart. Then Adrian Lyne came aboard wanting a three-and-a-half-hour, Scorsese-scaled version at $90 million, and left over it. The man who finally directed it had exactly one feature behind him, and rewrote the script with a friend from high school.