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RE: Into the Wild

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ftran999

In Reply to: RE: Into the Wild posted by jamesgarvin on July 26, 2009 at 19:59:34

A few weeks ago I caught part of a broadcast on one of the PBS affiliates. From the gist of it it seemed to be about another film maker that was doing a piece on the same subject but kept running into obstacles from Penn and the Production company who as the program implied weren't to happy that someone else was doing a film on the same subject.

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More to that story. - free.ranger 21:54:22 07/28/09 (0)
Penn wanted to do his movie much earlier, but at the urging of Krakauer, who knew them well by then, he promised that he would only do it with the McCandless familys' approval. For a long time they resisted, not wanting their son to be further turned into a freak show started by the book.

Years later, they relented to Penn when they got wind that somebody else was going to do a movie -- somebody they didn't know and who never talked to them. They got scared, so told Penn to get busy.

If Penn was interfering with the other production, it was probably to protect his long-term interest and investment with the family, and also partly to protect the family from "unauthorized" intrusion.

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