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From Deadline|London editor Tim Adler: In this youth-obsessed age, it’s nice to see BBC Films taking a risk on a 72-year-old first-time director. Dustin Hoffman is in talks to replace Richard Loncraine as director of Quartet starring Maggie Smith, Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay. The pic about retired opera singers is based on a 1999 stage comedy by Ronald Harwood, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Pianist. Finola Dwyer, one of the producers of An Education, is currently in Los Angeles working on the project.
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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.
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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.
Actually, Hoffman directed some of STRAIGHT TIME before turning it over to Ulu Grosbard.
Technically, he’s not a first-time director. He did about half of Straight Time before they brought in Ulu Grosbard.
Just one word of advice, Dustin, as you embark on this new career:
“Plastics.”
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.
In The Loop set the bar high for BBC comedy films. I’ll see about this one.
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