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  1. Rospo Pallenberg is a screenwriter and film director. He was involved in the writing of the John Boorman films Exorcist II: The Heretic, Excalibur, and The Emerald Forest. He directed the 1989 film Cutting Class. Pallenberg is the son of the Roman journalist Corrado Pallenberg (1912–1989), author of the book Vatican Finances (1971 ...

  2. Rospo Pallenberg was born in 1939 in Croydon, Surrey, England, UK. Rospo is a writer and director, known for Excalibur (1981), Deliverance (1972) and The Emerald Forest (1985).

    • Writer, Additional Crew, Director
    • Rospo Pallenberg
    • The Arthur P. Jacobs Attempt
    • The Alejandro Jodorowsky Attempt
    • The Ridley Scott Attempt
    • The David Lynch Attempt

    31 March 1972 Joe Ford and Bob Greenhut complete a 38 page story treatment for Dune. August 1972 APJAC Productions, Inc. secures the rights to Dune. David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia (1962)) was tipped to be the director, and Robert Bolt as the screenwriter, who had worked previously with David Lean on both Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago (1965)...

    December 1974 A French consortium, lead by Jean-Paul Gibon, who was the executive producer of Caméra One, purchased the movie rights for Dune from Arthur P. Jacobs estate. Chilean born Alejandro Jodorowsky, director of cult classics such as El Topo (1970) and The Holy Mountain(1973) is to direct the movie. The budget is reported as being either $9....

    October 1976 Frank Herbert visits Europe, the Alejandro Jodorowsky movie is in trouble. $2 million has already been spent, and Jodorowsky's script would result in a 14 hour movie. (In L'Ecran Fantastique #49 Jodorowsky says he'd signed a contract where he committed himself to providing a script for a three hour film and a series of six episodes for...

    1981 Having seen Elephant Man (1980), Dino and his daughter Raffaella decide David Lynchis the man to direct Dune. David Lynch goes to see Dino De Laurentiis. May 1981 David Lynch moves into Universal for preproduction on Dune. June 1981 David Lynch starts work on the script with Eric Bergren and Christopher De Vore. who had worked with him on the ...

  3. Writer: Excalibur. Rospo Pallenberg was born in 1939 in Croydon, Surrey, England, UK. Rospo is a writer and director, known for Excalibur (1981), Deliverance (1972) and The Emerald Forest (1985).

  4. Sep 24, 2021 · However, despite the attention the planned adaptation of The Lord of the Rings would attract throughout 1970 (from fans and the trade press) and the fact Boorman co-wrote a final draft script with screenwriter Rospo Pallenberg, it remained unmade.

    • James Fenwick
    • 2021
  5. Cutting Class is a 1989 American black comedy slasher film directed by Rospo Pallenberg in his directorial debut, written by Steve Slavkin, and starring Donovan Leitch, Jill Schoelen, Brad Pitt, Roddy McDowall, and Martin Mull. It was Pitt's second major role, after The Dark Side of the Sun.

  6. Rospo Pallenberg was born Robert Pallenberg in 1939 in England. He is the son of Corrado Pallenberg, an Italian physician and author. Before becoming a feature screenwriter, he worked as an architect.