{"id":3984,"date":"2011-11-06T10:32:45","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T14:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=3984"},"modified":"2011-11-06T10:39:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T14:39:56","slug":"james-mangold-sly-cop-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/06\/james-mangold-sly-cop-land\/","title":{"rendered":"James Mangold, Sly &#038; Cop Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2011\/nov\/110211copland.png?resize=475%2C238\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"238\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On <strong>November 2, 2011<\/strong>, <strong>IndieWire<\/strong> posted a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.indiewire.com\/theplaylist\/archives\/2011\/11\/02\/james_mangold_says_miramax_worried_about_reception_of_overweight_sylvester_\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>interview with director, James Mangold<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, with the focus being working with <strong>Sylvester Stallone<\/strong> on <em><strong>Copland<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Here are a few tidbits&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Mangold<\/strong> didn&#8217;t want <strong>Sly<\/strong>:\u00a0 \u201cI didn\u2019t want him,\u201d Mangold explained. \u201cWhen he was first brought up to  me, I was like, \u2018Please God no!\u2019 My whole perception of Sly at that  point was, and he\u2019s a friend and he would understand, but it was like  he\u2019d made this series of slightly-less than his best tentpole movies  that weren\u2019t very taxing for him, and he was just kind of an  indestructible force in one picture after another. And I was looking to  cast a vulnerable guy who was soft, who can\u2019t quite pull the trigger \u2013  and I\u2019m getting Judge Dredd?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>How <strong>Sly<\/strong> won over <strong>Mangold<\/strong>:\u00a0 \u201cAll I laid out on the table was that I didn\u2019t want to make this movie  with him if he was going to take control of it, and I didn\u2019t want to  make this movie with him if he was going to change it, and I didn\u2019t want  to make this movie with him if he wouldn\u2019t get fat,\u201d Mangold explained.  \u201cAnd Sly in each case was like, look, it\u2019s your movie, it\u2019s your  script, so we\u2019ll do exactly what you wrote, and also, I\u2019ll gain weight \u2013  I\u2019d love to. And he was an angel about it in a way that a lot of other  actors I\u2019d approached before him were not angels about it. They were not  happy about playing the unsexy or hesitant hero at the center of the  movie, and here was this guy who was really into it. And I decided to  take the leap with him, and for many reasons I\u2019m glad I did.\u201d<strong> <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Miramax<\/strong> imposed a variety of changes upon the film because of  test screening reactions and expectations that its high-profile cast  would turn it into a box office champ. Describing how his cut differs,  he said, \u201cI think the biggest difference is that there\u2019s a little less  effort at the end to try and tie everything into a happy meal. I think  there were several codas on the theatrically released version that were  made to make audiences feel that their fanny was patted, their hair was  combed and they were sent home with a warm and fuzzy feeling about  everybody. I definitely never made the movie trying to make the  feel-good movie of the year.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.indiewire.com\/theplaylist\/archives\/2011\/11\/02\/james_mangold_says_miramax_worried_about_reception_of_overweight_sylvester_\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>the interview<\/strong><\/span><\/a> for the full story!<\/p>\n<p>And there&#8217;s more at&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Big Hollywood: <a href=\"http:\/\/bighollywood.breitbart.com\/cftoto\/2011\/11\/02\/cop-land-director-james-mangold-hauling-stallones-baggage-onto-the-movie-set\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">When Stallone Swapped&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>MTV Movies Blog: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/moviesblog.mtv.com\/2011\/11\/03\/wolverine-james-mangold-cop-land\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Director James Mangold&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 2, 2011, IndieWire posted a nice interview with director, James Mangold, with the focus being working with Sylvester Stallone on Copland.\u00a0 Here are a few tidbits&#8230; Mangold didn&#8217;t want Sly:\u00a0 \u201cI didn\u2019t want him,\u201d Mangold explained. \u201cWhen he was first brought up to me, I was like, \u2018Please God no!\u2019 My whole perception [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-93","category-cop-land"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-12g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3984"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3987,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions\/3987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}