Sonnenfeld, it turns out, had grown up watching The Wild Wild West.
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Though many of the millions of people who have watched the film have no idea, Wild Wild West was based on the mid-1960s American TV show The Wild Wild West, a Western whose original pitch had been “James Bond in the West.” While Barry Sonnenfeld was directing Men in Black, Smith’s business partner James Lassiter told the director about a prospective film adaptation written by Shane Black, which had stalled after director Richard Donner had pursued Maverick, another comedy Western film based on a TV show. The best thing about it was, famously, the star’s tie-in title track, from a time when tie-in title tracks were a thing. Now used as a punchline by Smith, the film is an example of how big-budget comedies can spin out of control. And though it made back its investment at the box office, it was loathed by critics and has gone down in history as a bizarre flop, a blip in the otherwise outstanding careers of Will Smith and Kevin Kline. This, however, is the tale of one film for which things didn’t go so smoothly.Īt the time, with a constantly replenished budget that ended up totaling $170 million, Wild Wild West was one of the most expensive movies ever made. For many, their story is one of pieces slotting together in the right place at the right time.
These were the eclectic 12 months that produced The Matrix, Fight Club, The Blair Witch Project, American Beauty and The Sixth Sense. The year 1999 was a curiously historic one for movies, spawning an array of films that are still lovingly remembered.
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