I'm not sure if the 'listen again' facility (for missed programmes) is available outside Britain - it might be a idea to check by listening to something else on the bbc website - but people do seem to be able to listen to radio programmes as they're being broadcast, which is 2.30p.m. b.s.t. - it'll be on 'listen again' after the broadcast. The screenplay is also available as a script (which I haven't read, but is meant to be excellent) - the scriptwriter's an old lefty, but I imagine (given Paine's experience) he's not all that enthusiastic about year 2!
The interview is interesting, if you can listen to it through the link: he says they couldn't get funding because of the politics of the piece - though regime change in Washington might help it to happen. I suspect also it may still be because of the 80's British film 'Revolution', about the American war of Independence: it had a big budet and flopped and made Goldcrest - who made Chariots of Fire - bankrupt and really put a spanner in the works of the film industry here: Britain's 'Heaven's Gate'. With CGI it could be done much less expensively, though - there was some talk of filming Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon script recently. Attenborough's too old to do it now, though, but the script is out there!
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Date: 2008-07-25 08:17 pm (UTC)The interview is interesting, if you can listen to it through the link: he says they couldn't get funding because of the politics of the piece - though regime change in Washington might help it to happen. I suspect also it may still be because of the 80's British film 'Revolution', about the American war of Independence: it had a big budet and flopped and made Goldcrest - who made Chariots of Fire - bankrupt and really put a spanner in the works of the film industry here: Britain's 'Heaven's Gate'. With CGI it could be done much less expensively, though - there was some talk of filming Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon script recently. Attenborough's too old to do it now, though, but the script is out there!