Dustin Hoffman To Direct BBC Comedy

COMMENTS (8)

• It won’t be his first attempt at directing, that was Straight Time (1978) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078326/

  The story goes that he directed the first few days of shooting, was unhappy with his work, and handed the reins over to Ulu Grosbard who finished the film.

  - From the Ministry of Internet Nit-Picking

  Comment by Furious D — Friday March 12, 2010 @ 5:12pm PST  Reply to this post

• Technically, you can’t call Hoffman a first time director. He took over the directing reigns from Ulu Grosbard during the middle of production on “Straight Time” back in the late 70′s.

  Comment by greg6363 — Friday March 12, 2010 @ 5:54pm PST  Reply to this post

• Actually, Hoffman directed some of STRAIGHT TIME before turning it over to Ulu Grosbard.

  Comment by Terry McCarty — Saturday March 13, 2010 @ 11:28am PST  Reply to this post

• Technically, he’s not a first-time director. He did about half of Straight Time before they brought in Ulu Grosbard.

  Comment by Paul — Saturday March 13, 2010 @ 4:09pm PST  Reply to this post

• Just one word of advice, Dustin, as you embark on this new career:

  “Plastics.”

  Comment by A.L. Hern — Saturday March 13, 2010 @ 6:53pm PST  Reply to this post

• Huge fan of everyone attached to this project (especially Dame Smith and Mr. Finney, who will always be my favorite Scrooge). Tom Courtenay was good in Nicholas Nickelby and terrific in Little Dorrit (I know, hack Anglophile squawking, sorry). Go get ‘em Dustin … break a leg! – Jg.

  Comment by JGregg — Saturday March 13, 2010 @ 10:19pm PST  Reply to this post

• In The Loop set the bar high for BBC comedy films. I’ll see about this one.

  Comment by MajorIndulgence — Sunday March 14, 2010 @ 4:08pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Word on the street is that he jumped on to direct Straight Time. And by “the street”, I mean the FOUR commentors who said it on this page

  Comment by iamnoahjames.com — Tuesday March 16, 2010 @ 12:00pm PDT  Reply to this post