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Hill, speaking to Esquire magazine in 2014, agreed that “it came together very quickly, Larry had a special relationship with Paramount and we promised to make the movie very cheaply, which we did. “I have a window at Paramount, if you’re still interested in doing The Warriors, but we’d have to go right away”, said Gordon, recollecting the greenlighting process in the 2005 documentary The Warriors: Battleground. Paramount too was looking to do its own gang film, and to make matters worse, Warner Brothers had commissioned a further one as well: Micheal Pressman’s Boulevard Nights, that it also scheduled for summer 1979. Separately, producer Larry Gordon – who had been working with Hill on The Last Gun – had an opportunity at Paramount Pictures. “Finally I got the deal”, Kaufman said, “and suddenly everybody announced a gang movie!” The studio liked it, gave it the greenlight, and would plan to release the finished movie in July 1979. 1978 was going to turn things around.īy this time, Kaufman had come to New York and pitched a project called The Wanderers to Warner Brothers. The other was a western titled The Last Gun, which failed to materialise when financial backers pulled out, eight weeks from shooting.įor both Kaufman and Hill, the early/mid 70s was a time of success, but also of stumbling ideas.
He was looking at various scripts to rewrite and produce, one of which went on to be Alien (1979). That same year, Walter Hill, who had enjoyed previous success with his feature Hard Times (1975) starring Charles Bronson, was busy founding his own production company: Brandywine Productions. With his tail between his legs, Kaufman went into development on the remake of the classic Invasion Of The Body Snatchers instead, released in 1978. But after conversations with Paramount, his Trek project was shelved, as the studio concluded at the time he was asking that there was no market for science fiction movies (this was a few years before the release of Star Wars in 1977).
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Who would have predicted that the producer of the Alien franchise and a writer of Raiders Of The Lost Ark would find themselves embroiled in a race to produce the first gang film of the year in 1979? Not just that, but also find themselves battling several rivals, a number of which came from one single studio?īut that’s what happened. The Raiders scribe was Philip Kaufman, who in the mid-1970s had been helping develop the full length feature take on the science fiction franchise, Star Trek.
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