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UPFRONTS 2013: The Overachievers 
EXCLUSIVE: When the cast and crew of the indie drama Jane Got A Gun showed up for the first day of production Monday in Sante Fe, they learned that director Lynne Ramsay was a no-show and had abruptly dropped out of the film. Among those who learned of her exit yesterday were Natalie Portman, who stars in the film and is producing with Scott Steindorff, Joel Edgerton, Jude Law and Rodrigo Santoro. Steindorff, who is financing the picture through his Scott Pictures label, confirmed the crisis and said they are determined to hold the picture together until they set a new director. He said that would happen imminently.
A lot of filmmakers step off projects and we chalk it up to creative differences, but I can’t remember a situation when a filmmaker who developed a film didn’t show up for work on the day it starts production. Clearly there was drama the weekend before, but this is pretty shocking. Not surprisingly, Steindorff indicated that there is a high level of acrimony here. He said that Ramsay has a pay or play deal, and that he has also retained litigator Marty Singer to keep his options open. The crew is still showing up to work and the project is still being cash flowed, with actors rehearsing scenes.
“I have millions of dollars invested, we’re ready to shoot, we have a great script, crew and cast,” Steindorff told Deadline. “I’m shocked and so disappointed someone would do this to 150 crew members who devoted so much time, energy, commitment and loyalty to a project, and then have the director not show up. It is insane somebody would do this to other people. I feel more for the crew and their families, but we are keeping the show going on, directors are flying in, and a replacement is imminent.”
As for the prospect of legal ramifications, Steindorff said: “She was pay or play, and Marty Singer has been retained. My focus is on making this movie, but I will protect all my rights. This comes down to an irresponsible act by one person.”
Ramsey, best known for directing We Need To Talk About Kevin, wasn’t immediately available for comment, but I will update this as I learn more.
In the Brian Duffield-scripted drama, Portman plays the title character, a woman whose outlaw husband returns home riddled with bullets. Convinced his gang will return to finish him off and destroy her farm, the woman turns to an ex-lover she hasn’t seen in a decade to help her defend the farm.
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I worked with Lynne on set of We Need to Talk about Kevin and she is an absolute nightmare. Ego without a cause that one. They are better off! Blessing in my opinion.
That’s interesting…While I did see We Need to Talk About Kevin, and did like it a lot, I wasn’t on-set to witness/experience the director’s personal demeanor. Nor – now that I think of it – was I on-set for Movern Caller, nor for Ratcatcher. Loved those films immensely–though did I lose out by not having first-hand temporary personal experience with the filmmaker? Now that I think of it, I’ve missed out somehow, in not witnessing first-hand the “ego” of Scorcese, or Coppola, or Bergman, or Tarkovsky; and then having the privilege to grouse/humblebrag about it online!
O cinema!
The article and the point isn’t about how good her films are, it’s about her behaviour towards cast and crew. Shame you couldn’t see that through your Snark-O-Vision in a rush to post a comment that just makes you look a fool.
I totally agree. I have been in the biz a long time and have been on shoots where I wish
the director had quit.
Yes, and I am pretty sure – te he he – that the directors YOU mentioned – te he he – never bailed on a crew and cast on the first day of production. Oh wait, that doesn’t actually sound that funny at all, does it?
So, you have nothing to add to the conversation, unlike the person you are responding to. Thanks for stopping by.
Who ever dealt with Scott Steinsdorff before knows there will be more to this story. However, that does not excuse her action, which must be pure desperation. You show up and work out differences in ways that do not hurt others. Seems like a career ender.
Natalie Portman is a great actress. Maybe she is not such a great producer.
whoever is blaming Natalie for producing needs to get his thumb out of his or her butt. You can blame her after the project is like delayed 9 months and over budget. not there yet. and she’s co producing..
You vacant asshole
Hey Lynne – so uh – a little late to work recently… sup?
Weird… I worked on We Need to Talk About Kevin also. I never heard Lynne (or anyone else for that matter) raise their voice, nor did I sense any significant tension or animosity. She, Ezra, and Tilda seemed to work together wonderfully. As I was only Ezra Miller’s stand-in, I guess I wasn’t truly in the thick of things, but she knew my name and seemed very sweet, decisive, and professional. Honestly, that set felt very cohesive. Everybody was very passionate and driven by the material, and bold, visceral choices were made on all accounts. I perceive Lynne as a person who only works on projects she feels very passionate about, regardless of the paycheck. I’m going to make the educated guess that (barring some personal misfortune) she backed out of the project because she simply didn’t want her name attached to something in which she had no personal investment. As for the rest of the cast and crew, none of their jobs are in danger. With names and money like that, the production will obviously move forward with a different director (there are plenty out there). It sucks that they won’t get Lynne’s take on the material, but I’m considering her departure as an important facet of what could be a great film, or the first sign of what could be a very troubled shoot… or somewhere in between
So true – lynne is an exceptional talent.
ANGRY WORDS!!!
Everything comes with a price. Lynne’s ego will come at a heavy price, professionally and monetarily. Being the prima donna will be costly.
I’m sorry you feel that way because a lot of my friends and colleagues who worked on ‘We Need To Talk About Kevin’ had nothing but nice things to say about Lynne and the few times I met her she was so nice, humble and incredibly talented.
I suspect she was being forced to make one compromise too much and probably made a knee jerk reaction to get out of it – artists are emotional people after all.
I wish her the best of luck and the movie she left behind looks like it’ll be a generic meh-fest of a movie.
This is good news. “We Need to Talk About Kevin” showed how clumsy she can be even with great material.
Unless she’s checking into a hospital for some serious issue, this is not good.
yes, there’s an unwritten rule that you do not “disappear” on a shoot unless you are dead or crack your head on a camera. it doesn’t matter, if you have arguments, fights, or disagreements – you show up. she will never work again.
One would hope.
No hack should be in a position to harm 100+ jobs, most below the line, out of sheer unprofessionalism.
Insanity. Feel awful for Scott Steindorff and Natalie Portman.
They are only telling half the story. I was there.
Then spill the beans!
Yeah? How about telling the “real” story, then, instead of just insinuating that one exists?
I assumed that this was the case. I’ll be glad when the day comes that we all – and I include myself – learn how to wait for facts and context before jumping on these things.
Definitely not the first time a director walked off a project.
I worked in legal at the DGA for some time and there always two sides to a story.
HOWEVER, almost every case I worked on, the director gave some type of warning/notice/ultimatum before not showing up.
Either Steindorff knew she wasn’t going to show and brought in everyone anyway or Ramsay is in deep doh
Why are women fired so easily and men are not? I asked tough questions about script changes and the next thing I knew my producers had a man in my job. He asked all the same questions and made all the changes I asked for. He could get them to move off stuff I couldn’t.
The reporting of the Steubenville rape case shows us that misogyny is prevalent in ways we don’t even want to acknowledge.
Did you read the article??? She WAS NOT FIRED… she DID NOT SHOW UP TO WORK! Try another fact to push your sexist agenda, please!
There’s no “agenda.” She got the events wrong in this instance, but that doesn’t invalidate her very real point. The sexist dynamic the comment above described is very accurate. So stop making overly emotional hay of her error here to feed and justify your misogyny.
Randy properly scolded the clueless polemist for not even reading the article. Not one word in his brief post reeks of mysoginism. So, please enlighten us as to why the hell you are accusing him.
Did YOU read the article, Randy?
The SPIN from the PRODUCER is that she did not show up.
No one has independently substantiated a single thing he said. We don’t know what actually happened because we have only one party’s self serving pronouncement to go on.
The production has lost 3 big names so far, including the director. Something ain’t right here. If Ramsay was the problem, why did Law follow her out the door?
Did you even read this? She DIDN’T SHOW UP.
Not showing up and getting fired are too different things.
Did you read the article? No one was fired.
I can’t believe they were fired!
Amy, normally I’d be right there with you crying foul, but it doesn’t sound like Ramsay was fired at all. Sounds like she quit. And after taking a big paycheck home no less. SHE screwed up, and she makes all of us look bad in the process.
You don’t know the whole story..
Then tell us
She got part of a big paycheck. You don’t get paid for the whole thing in advance. You get it in a series of payments (same for the major actors and the writers). She quit so the pay-or-play clause no longer applies. You have to be let go due to no fault of your own to get a full pay or play payout. She was neither let go and clearly by simply failing to show without any notice, she is at least partially at fault. She’s going to have to return some money, most likely, but not all.
She doesn’t make ‘the rest of us look bad’ any more than a bad decision by a man makes all men look bad. Why so keen to burden her with that level of guilt/responsibility?
+1
Uh, what does this have to do with anything? A women wasn’t fired, she (selfishly, it sounds like) left. Apparently leaving everyone else in a lousy situation. Get off your soapbox.
“…she selfishly left…” (so says the Producer and his daughter, but completely unsubstantiated by any other independent source).
She was also followed by Law. Now why would he leave if Ramsay was the problem? Hmmmm?
She wasn’t fired. She pulled a no-show. This was her decision. Go back and read the article – you obviously missed something. And, uh… if more women were like you in attention to detail, that could give credence to your theory…
And if more men like you needed to stick the misogynist knife at the last second, what theory would that give credence to?
It is not misogynistic to clear things up for clueless commenters.
According to the producer, Ramsay left the project without any word in advance.
Mysoginy? Where? Elaborate.
“if more women were like you in attention to detail (the commentator having no attention to detail), “that could give credence to your theory” (the clueless commentator’s theory being wrong) that Ramsay was fired because she was a woman.
The article clearly says she walked off.
I have never ever commented on any online thing before, ever. But I had to do it for this one. Everyone that is arguing over the fact that “the article states that she walked off” vs. the comment stating that “she was fired” clearly have never experienced and/or forgotten how the politics of hiring and firing really work. More times than not, people are permitted to “walk off” and save a little bit of dignity when they are actually fired, especially for higher level positions. This may not be the case at all here, because it does sound like a lot of emotions were involved, but its important to remember that we will NEVER have all the FACTS (unless those of you that say you were there actually WERE there!- then you people might have the facts) and so arguing over what an ARTICLE says was the terms of Ramsey’s exit is just silly! On another note, I do appreciate all of the posters passion for the industry.
Are you saying that by not telling anybody that she wasn’t showing up, leaving everybody in the lurch, she was acting with some kind of dignity that she would not have had if people had known she wasn’t going to shown up?
Because, honestly, that doesn’t make the slightest bit of sense. Your call about how we “will never know all the facts” is true; however, I’m not sure what that means that you can make up facts that are contradicted by the facts we do know in order to make it seem like this is no big deal.
If you’re going to allow someone to resign instead of quit, then they send a gracious note in advance that they are leaving to spend more time with their family, and everyone’s been really wonderful, and etc etc.
They don’t just not show up, especially on the first day of shooting.
Let’s say the production company let her go, hadn’t filled the chair, and so we get “where is she?” You can bet your ass that her entire staff would be on the phones sending out press releases and arranging appearances to say at the very least it was a misunderstanding – she’d been let go and apparently nobody told the crew, but that’s not her job.
No – she just didn’t show up on the first day of shooting. This is seriously all on her. People do this all the time – not show up for the first day of work. The difference here is that it’s the director a the launching of a multimillion dollar project.
This has nothing to do with her gender; it’s simply that a new director was given a great opportunity and flaked out. Bad move, and pretty much the end of her career before it started.
Does your rule of thumb about how a person’s “staff” should be acting in such situations apply when the director’s manager is the producer’s daughter and says her loyalty is to family first?
Ramsey is not a “new” director.
True, but there’s a huge difference between “so-and-so has elected to leave the project over creative differences” and “she didn’t show up for the first day of principal photography.” No doubt there was a lot of drama leading up to it that we don’t know about, but that version is far too damaging (for everyone involved!) to be any sort of attempt to save face. For her it’s a potential career-ender and for him the producers it could finish off the film.
Not to mention the fact that Natalie Portman is the film’s producer, and the one who brought the project to Ramsey. So unless you’re calling Natalie a misogynist, I think it’s safe to say this one’s all on Ramsey. Good to hear they’re still paying the crew though, that’s classy of them.
Natalie Portman is ONE OF the producers. Along with 4 dudes. And I seriously doubt we have the whole story re: the no-show.
TO AMY: What are you taking about?? Steven Soderbergh has been fired from a project. Francis Ford Coppola has been fired from a project. What does this have to do with the Ohio rape case? Those boys are going to jail, end of story. Lynne Ramsay didn’t show up for her job!! Get a freaking clue!!!
Hold on a second… What’s more misogynistic than the movies being made in Hollywood, where women are objectified ad nauseum? You can’t play both sides against the middle and then complain. Her not showing up at the final hour is a bit irresponsible no matter what the issue. Can’t believe she isn’t aware how this will end her career. There had to be another way.
And another point has been missed.
If they had never hired a female director, you would not be calling them ‘misogynists’.
no good deed goes unpunished
Sounds like Jeannie Needs a Shooter.
Paging Dr. Ratner.
Scott Steindorff is one of the most refreshing guys in this bizz. He should have no problem getting this back on it’s feet.
Don’t know any of the people involved personally, and don’t care to speculate on who did what to who. But, really, people. It’s so hard to get a film made – how can you let this happen on day one of PP? Can’t see this film surviving which is a travesty given all the money and talent poured into it. The film industry has enough problems without people putting their egos in the way.
PP? You mean Pre-Production, or wait you mean Post-Production?….oh, oh Principal Photography…ok got it.
“Hey can you get that to me by the first day of PP” – No one ever.
Thank you for stopping my incessant eye-roll with each successive / regressive previous post, and producing a belly laugh. A genuine, out loud, belly laugh. In solemn mode, watching tape of Pope Francis installation, and reading this article about Lynne’s SHAMEFUL actions today. Even if she was totally screwed, lied to, and her dog assassinated…even if Scott called her at 4am and said, “You are a talentless whore who will ruin my movie in a couple of hours!” YOU SHOW UP! It was an overly-emotionally move by a woman who doesn’t know the difference between dignity and dick. Two sides? ABSOLUTELY! But LR pulled a shameful, classless, unprofessional, hysterical, emotional move. Sad.
Anyway, your comment PP, still has me laughing…it struck a chord…I never laugh at comments…so thank you.
It’s not Scott’s movie , he dint write it ,h jut put up cash , Lynne fuck off bak to Europe , where you can make. Film and don’t have to make a movie, movies are what you watch at the drive in ,
This has Ben tour tour for all involved since Christmas , Scott is is a dick ! ,
Really? Overly emotional, hysterical and, oh ya, emotional? That’s funny because Jude Law’s exit was overly logical, clear-headed and extra manly.
Poor Portman. She’s gone to the mat for this woman, and this is what she gets.
I have no doubt there was BS going on behind the scenes, but I’m still struggling to find a way to excuse this. No matter how much crap the suits throw at you, once money/actors/crew are in place, don’t you just go ahead and hopefully make everyone eat your sh** by making a great film?
Ohhhhh Poor Portman! PP…got it.
She’s a People Person, but will need a… Powerfull Psychiatrist to deal with this mess. Palpable Pleasure will be felt when all is corrected.
Petty Post?
And you, Dil, is ALL that is wrong with comedy in Hollywood. Sorry, no intention to be mean, just honest. Drably, uncomfortably, thoroughly unfunny. Pick up your game, or stop commenting.
… and you’re clearly Oscar Wilde incarnate.
AGAIN! Hahaha! Wow, I am now president of the PP fan club. Thank you.
It’s good that Michael Fassbender dropped out, then. Good for you, buddy.
This idiot just set all of us female filmmakers back ten years. Reason being… now every producer and investor associated with this film will likely associate what happened with the fact that she was a female, and never hire a female director again. I don’t care what the situation was. I don’t care how many creative differences there were. I don’t care the reason. All I see is an unprofessional action being taken by Ramsay. She took her check and skipped out at the last second. Who does that? You do the freaking job you were hired to do. And if you can’t, you bow out with time for the producers to find someone else. She just screwed the producers, Natalie, etc. Natalie is a champion for female filmmakers, and she just left her up crap creek. What a tool.
Sadly, this is exactly right.
Bullshit. Walking off a set has nothing to do with male vs. female. And I don’t know anyone who would see it that way…
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Meanwhile, in the real world . . .
unfortunately, that’s like the first thing i saw …
Moot, inaccurate point. Completely easy to disprove just by having a brain and looking around.
me0w is not saying that this is Good or Just or Fair or Right or inherently Female.
Unless you were born yesterday, you should be aware that we don’t live in Utopia. Things are not fair. The deck is stacked against certain demographics, and stereotypes persist. So when a woman in a boys’ club role F’s up and F’s up big, you better believe that there’s a trickle down effect on the rest of us. Sure I would love to hear the whole story and of course it’s possible that there’s more to it, but that doesn’t change the fact that most people believe what they WANT to believe — and many want to believe that women are empirically not capable. These kinds of stories give them fuel.
“And I don’t know anyone who would see it that way.”
LOL! This says a lot more about you and your lack of common sense and perception than it does about the issue at hand.
What Lynne Ramsay did or did not do today has zero bearing on you or any other filmmaker, male or female, in Hollywood. Including Lynne Ramsay. This puts female filmmakers back about as far as they gained when Bigelow won her Oscar three years ago. Which is to say, exactly where they are now. No further forward and no further back.
Sure, it shouldn’t matter, but Hollywood doesn’t think rationally. Women directors hear stupid comments like, “We hired a woman once and it didn’t work out” all the time to justify why they’ve been skipped over for a job.
“zero bearing”
Prove it.
With actual data, not just stating your opinions as facts.
Please remember you’re talking about the industry that is so very willing to trot out “America doesn’t want a strong female action lead” any time a shitty movie tanks and happens to have a woman in the lead. Never mind Alien and Alias and Nikita and…
Producers will associate this behaviour to her being a woman, not just being an ass and leaving everyone high and dry?
Can we get a statement from her agents?
George p.g.a
They can call me, I’ll be glad to get their statement out!
This is bad for female directors not because she was fired, but because she walked off. She was scared or she is crazy but either way it is outrageous to get this far and not show up. Bad for women as it will be laid at their feet: if she could not commit, this should have been handled by her lawyer weeks if not months ago, and not cost everyone so much money. Whomever said Jane needs a Shooter was brill.
Sometimes they’re underrated.
What is Walter Hill doing? The man knows his westerns.
Plus, he gets to ride into town in the nick of time and save the day!
Great suggestion, because his big return to directing, BULLET TO THE HEAD, after 10 years was fabulous.
Why not go after other good directors from the 80′s turned hacks like Joel Schumacher… or even better, Paul Schrader. I’m sure THE CANYONS is going to put him back on the map and do wonders for feminism.
Joel Schumacher’s episodes of HOUSE OF CARDS were terrific.
Okay, Snarky McSnarkington, why not make a suggestion instead of just knocking mine? And please, don’t lump Walter Hill in with Joel Schumacher. That’s just ignorant.
Walter. Paul. Joel. Wonderful suggestions. Let’s add Badham and Nick Castle and Joe Alves to the list, too.
C’mon people… why the hate for the old timers? Most of them can still direct… I would trust them with 10 million over a recent film school grad any day.
The Professor
I’m not sure a commenter named “Professor Falken” can be objective when it comes to John Badham.
PURE COINCIDENCE……errrrr
The Professor
Jesus! I have no idea what YOU think constitutes artistic status, but Schrader wrote some of Scorsese’s best work and has directed some excellent films himself, whilst Hill is a killer director who – not THAT long ago – produced and directed for a little show called ‘Deadwood’. Both filmmakers are highly influential on contemporary filmmaking, and will continue to be for some time.
This movie is doomed. First Micheal Fassbender dropped out, now director.
This movie has a reasonable cost a great script and a stellar cast.
What’s “doomed” is your understanding of this business.
I dont think this is what they meant but to me it is doomed because Fassbender great actor gone, Lynne Ramsey one of the best directors working today gone. So now it’ll probably go to some crap director I cant think of.
Read this script. It’s such a great project. Would be an awesome opportunity for a strong director – excited to see who steps up.
she hasn’t made any statement yet? getting a gig this big and then backing out must have some pretty good reason
The hype surrounding this film is all super positive. Can’t wait to see how this plays out. Irresponsible on Ramsay’s part, and bravo to the grace and commitment shown by Steindorff. This is no doubt going to be a huge film.
This is insane. Didn’t this director bail on Lovely Bones too? How do you bail from a Natalie Portman film the day of production? There are probably 20 top level directors who would fill her shoes in a second.
ya not without any preproduction though, they will have to get a journeyman.
She didn’t bail on ‘Lovely Bones’. My understanding is that Jackson & Spielberg bought the project out from under her, because they could afford an offer that couldn’t be refused. She was publicly very upset about losing that film.
I am sure she had her reasons… she’s an amazing film maker and wouldn’t just leave a film. Who were the producers? She can’t have trusted them…
Unless she’s dying, there are no good reasons.
She’s an amazing film-maker … who is, simultaneously, thoroughly unprofessional.
This!
why she waited until the first day of filming not to trust the producers?
This is the problem with doing movies with companies like this. They don’t have the financing in place, and when Exclusive’s foreign sales come in low, and the budget starts being whacked, the talent either has to deal with it or bail. In this case, first with Fassbender and then with Ramsey, they bailed. And I say more power to them!
Try to get to know the facts before you make a fool out of yourself!!! The initial budget on this film was 16M, and Lynne managed to push it to 25M. The movie was a GO. There was NO lack of money, you idiot! It was more like an alcoholic “artsy” director freaked out, afraid of the responsibility!!!
I’ve worked with Ramsay and she was amazing, cast and crew loved her. I don;t believe she would just walk off for no reason. She puts her heart and soul into her work. She must have felt that it was unworkable… let’s hear her side rather than this propaganda
I’m sure there is much more to this than this article is saying, but regardless, Ramsay shouldn’t have quit without notifying anyone and certainly shouldn’t have been a no-show on the first day of production. A call to Natalie at minimum should have been in order. While it’s obvious that there were big problems during pre-pro, that doesn’t excuse Ramsey’s unprofessional behavior yesterday.
Of course she didn’t call every single crew member to let them know but do you really think the producer had no idea? They must have had problems for quite some time for her to walk off, he’s just faking shock to make her look bad.
I hope she never works again. If she pulled this on one of my shows, she would need security. How utterly vile.
Also, to the person above who dramatically announced the movie is “doomed” because an actor dropped out and this idiot didnt show up to work- you must have never made a film before, LMAO. You really know nothing about the highs and low low lows of film making my dear. Shit happens.
Two sides to this one matey…
How about Kevin Reynolds who did such a great job with “Hatfields & McCoys”?
Reynolds is an interesting director. I wouldn’t call myself a fan, but he did a fine job on “Hatfields & McCoys”. I could just yell “Waterworld!!” to argue against your suggestion, but I think he’s been punished enough for that. Filmmakers with far more prestigious reputations have made bombs of their own.
It’s unfortunate. I know Steindorff will pull this through. A class act by keeping it going for the rest of the cast and crew.
I’ve worked with Lynne and she was brilliant, she’s an intelligent, strong willed Auteur, her work is beautiful, original and inspiring. I can only imagine that Steinrdoff (from his resume) doesn’t know how to work with someone of her calibre – I think all the positive posts about her are being removed -and that the above story is propaganda. There are always 2 sides to the story…. and I doubt his is the real one.
def dosent no how 2 werk w/ sum1 of her CALIBRE!!!
What exactly has Lynne done besides a shitty movie that let’s face it Tilda Swinton made at the end of the day not her. If your going to compare at least have something to back it, I mean I cannot compare gold to your shit you know what I mean?
FU: We Need to Talk About Kevin was her third feature film, after pretty beloved independent works like RATCATCHER and MORVERN CALLAR. Please inform yourself better before making a fool of yourself. Or not – it’s more amusing this way.
How ironic that she did rat catcher when she is the rat that no one can seem to catch. Those works that you mention still give her no CALIBRE as you so call it so the only person you are amusing is yourself my friend.
To get back to the original story, have to disagree. Steindorff has worked with the calibre of Mike Newell who has everything from Harry Potter to Four Weddings and a Funeral. Pretty sure he can handle the calibre of Ramsay.
Her fight was against Natalie Portman (who, btw, brought her to this project) and not Steindorff! Maybe Natalie also doesn’t know how to work with directors Lynne’s “caliber” either!!!
So according to you, Natalie is unable to work with directors of Lynne’s caliber? What is that supposed to mean? She was able to work with directors like Malick, Allen or Nichols. All very strong personalities and not very easy to work with. And she has produced other movies without any serious problems.
It doesn’t matter if her and Natalie were fighting, it’s very
unprofessional to leave not only the producers but also the crew. Let’s hope she has a very strong reason that led her to make this poor decision.
There are THREE sides to every story in Hollywood — theirs, theirs and the truth.
The ONLY defense Lynne could have would be medical, but that would have been addressed in this article and the Producers would be supportive.
It’ll be interesting to hear the spin, but in my humble eyes, Lynne’s position is indefensible. You can’t just not show up to work on Day 1. PERIOD.
TOTALLY. UNPROFESSIONAL.
COULD NOT AGREE MORE…..
The ONLY optimum comment was “strong willed.”
Margaret Thatcher was “strong willed” but she was not a bitch.
Lynne – don’t know her, but your defense of her gives me Columbo-like interest in the true story.
Regardless, or as my people say, “irregardless,” she pulled a shameful, classless, unprofessional move.
Errr, Margaret Thatcher was a bitch, FYI. Otherwise, carry on.
Terry: you from Boston, guy?!
then why your comment still here? a lot of great authors are unable to do their best in Hollywood, but most of them do honor their commitment going through humiliating productions before saying bye to the Hollywood crap. Clearly Ramsey, whatever her challenges were, hasn’t got the dignity and integrity to be called a ‘great author’. Why didn’t she step out a week ago?
What’s the excuse misogynist give about a woman President? She’ll get emotional and push the button.
I’m a woman that is saddened by Ramsey’s behavior. No matter what happened behind the scenes or how unfair everyone has been to you, you show up! Be afraid and do it anyways. It’s the definition of courage.
This story and the attention it’s getting affects, every potential female director, across the board. You’re naive if you think otherwise. I’m getting Lynne a bracelet, “What Would Kathryn Bigelow Do?”