{"id":2195279,"date":"2025-12-11T18:12:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T18:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2195279"},"modified":"2025-12-11T18:12:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T18:12:17","slug":"gus-van-sant-on-making-dead-mans-wire-wanting-to-cast-tom-waits-in-drugstore-cowboy-and-robin-williams-ad-libbing-on-good-will-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/gus-van-sant-on-making-dead-mans-wire-wanting-to-cast-tom-waits-in-drugstore-cowboy-and-robin-williams-ad-libbing-on-good-will-hunting\/","title":{"rendered":"Gus Van Sant on Making \u2018Dead Man\u2019s Wire,\u2019 Wanting to Cast Tom Waits in \u2018Drugstore Cowboy\u2019 and Robin Williams Ad-Libbing on \u2018Good Will Hunting\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After a six-year hiatus, Gus Van Sant<\/a> returns to feature filmmaking with \u201cDead Man\u2019s Wire<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

In between, he worked on a TV show \u201c(Feud: Capote vs. the Swans<\/a>\u201d) and made a few videos for Gucci<\/a>. Van Sant credits producer Cassian Elwes<\/a> with stopping him at Soho House in Hollywood to discuss a screenplay.<\/p>\n

\u201cDead Man\u2019s Wire<\/a>\u201d was based on the story of Tony Kiritsis, the man who broke into the office of Richard Hall<\/a>, the president of a mortgage company, and took him hostage. What followed was a 63-hour standoff with the police, during which he wired the muzzle of a 12-gauge sawed-off shotgun to the back of the broker\u2019s head. The event became a media sensation as viewers tuned in to watch whether Kiritsis would pull the trigger and how police would handle the situation.<\/p>\n

Van Sant wasn\u2019t just drawn to Austin Kolodney<\/a>\u2019s screenplay; he was attracted to the character.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a six-year hiatus, Gus Van Sant returns to feature filmmaking with \u201cDead Man\u2019s Wire.\u201d In between, he worked on a TV show \u201c(Feud: Capote vs. the Swans\u201d) and made a few videos for Gucci. Van Sant credits producer Cassian Elwes with stopping him at Soho House in Hollywood to discuss a screenplay. \u201cDead Man\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2195280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2195279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Gus-Van-Sant-on-Making-\u2018Dead-Mans-Wire-Wanting-to.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2195279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2195281,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195279\/revisions\/2195281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2195280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2195279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2195279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2195279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}