
'Lone Star' and 'The Beaver:' Kyle Killen's Wild Ride
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Kyle Killen created the Fox drama, Lone Star, which was recently canceled after just two airings. While that television dream didn't exactly work out as planned, his film career is hanging in limbo. He wrote the much lauded screenplay for the movie The Beaver, directed by Jodie Foster and starring Foster alongside Mel Gibson, who plays a troubled man communicating with the world through a hand puppet. At one point it was due out this year but according to Summit Entertainment, the studio behind the film, there's still no release date for the The Beaver. Killen talks about how this screenplay turned his life around, and how Gibson's casting may have affected the possibility of the film's release.
Today's Banter Topics:
Disney's movie strategy and their hopes for Secretariat
Oprah's Network angst
Star Wars movies get 3D conversion
Guests:
- Kyle Killen: creator, 'Lone Star'
Links:
- Please Don't Kill My TV Show! (TheDailyBeast.com 9/26/10)
- Fox cancels ‘Lone Star’ (LiveFeed.HollywoodReporter.com, 9/28/10)
- You're Invited To Our Stunning Upset (9/23/10)
- Mel Gibson and 'The Beaver' problem (LATimesblogs.LATimes.com, 7/1/10)
- Beaver, Red sell out for Summit International (ScreenDaily.com 11/9/09)
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