So he decided to make one himself.
Together, they embarked on a voyage to get it to the screen with director Joachim Rnning in tow.
That was all nine years ago.
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“I couldn’t believe it,” Bruckheimer tellsEntertainment Weeklyabout that early praise from test screenings.
“You feel it in the audience.
You feel that they’re with it.
Martin Lawrence and Will Smith in ‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’.Frank Masi/Sony
I felt we had something.”
Frost didn’t give his girlfriend,Liv Tyler’s Grace Stamper, an engagement ring.
“The audience didn’t care about that.
We cut the whole thing,” Bruckheimer says.
“Andy Garciawas her boyfriend, and they didn’t like that story.
They wanted the story about the classroom and the kids.”
But even then, they needed to tweak things to get that rating.
“It started out at 71 and ended up with a 96 or 97,” he says.
“We think we’re smart.
We show it to an audience, and they tell us you didn’t get it at all.
The process was much simpler forYoung Woman and the Sea.
She set the path for so many female athletes of today.
She broke the barriers.
She showed women are tough and as strong as men.
She broke the record for swimming the channel and beat the men’s record by two hours.
She slammed 35 miles in that freezing water.
It’s unbelievable what she did.”
