![]() ![]() So he wrote that scene.įOLEY: I don’t remember talking to any actor about Alec’s part except Alec. And he said he needed something to incentivize the salesmen, to ratchet up the pressure because they’re not people who are inclined to commit a crime. Why do you feel the need ?” I was curious. I loved the script compared to what I saw on Broadway.ĪLEC BALDWIN (“Blake”): I said, “You won the Pulitzer Prize for the play. ROSS IM FINE MOVIEI I wasn’t blown away when I saw it, like, “I have to make the movie.” Al said that David added a thing that deepened it and expanded everything and made it much more of a reason to make a movie of it. He sits at my kitchen table with four scripts under his arm. He’s a schlub who wears big baggy old clothes. No, what I really said was, “Well, blow me down.” I said, “When does he want to meet?” And my agent said, “Well, he’s outside your house.” And in came not Michael Corleone, not Serpico, but a person with no connection to any of those characters. JAMES FOLEY (Director): He says that he also represents Al Pacino and Al would like to talk to me about some ideas he has. While he thought it was good, it didn’t impress him as much as seeing Lauren Bacall in the musical Applause. ![]() ![]() James Foley, director of At Close Range and After Dark, My Sweet, saw Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross on Broadway. The material-itself gold for an actor-attracted a peerless ensemble of character actors, including Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Ed Harris, and Alan Arkin as the salesmen, Kevin Spacey as the seedy real estate office’s manager, Jonathan Pryce as a prospective client, and Alec Baldwin, credited as Blake “from downtown,” who has come “on a mission of mercy” to motivate the sales office. Mamet was paid $1 million, which included a fee to adapt his play for the screen, The Washington Post reported at the time of the film’s release. New customer leads-“they’re gold”-might make the difference between whether they “close…or hit the bricks.” This week marks the 30th anniversary of Glengarry Glen Ross, James Foley’s Oscar-nominated adaptation of David Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize–winning play about desperate, ethically challenged real estate salesmen whose jobs depend on how they fare in that month’s sales contest. So you’re talking about-what? You’re talking about, bitchin’ about that flick that tanked, some son of a bitch don’t want to make that fourth Star Trek sequel, and so forth. ![]()
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