by adamcarr » Wed Jan 06, 2010 2:58 pm
I'll second that Nicole, I've searched the internet for info on this for years. Last I heard was in that great interview with Michelle Phillips that was posted on this forum:-
Digger: Can you please tell us about your current projects and what you have planned for the future?
Michelle: Well, we are in the last gasps of making a film deal but I can't tell you the studio. It's the story of The Mamas and The Papas.
Digger: Wow.
Michelle: I actually had a call from my attorney this morning which I missed which might be the "Okay it's done" call. You know what, it's never done until that first screening starts.
Digger: These things can have lots of false starts and go on for decades. Do you have any input into it?
Michelle: I'm a producer.
Digger: So you have a lot of control and will you be able to choose who plays who?
Michelle: I'm not sure that I will have that kind of control and this is a very big studio that we're dealing with. They don't usually give away that kind of control even to the 'producers'. It's going to be so much fun and so funny, because the story of The Mamas and The Papas is really a comedy. It's really a musical comedy.
Digger: I can't wait. Hopefully the lawyers and accountants will get their fingers out.
Michelle: Well, it has taken 25 years and so you may have been kidding but it does take that long sometimes to get a project off the ground and sometimes it takes two months. But as I heard someone says once when they were getting their academy award, he said "It's really true that films are not made, they're willed into existence. " So when it's signed and they make the announcement in the press, whooh! it will be so exciting.
If anyone has any contact with Michelle maybe we could get an update?? Maybe Owen or Richard may have heard something?
Has anyone optioned Eddi Fiegels's book for Film??
We keep hoping and "Searchin"
Cheers,
Adam.