{"id":24425,"date":"2020-08-15T12:34:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T16:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=24425"},"modified":"2020-08-15T12:34:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T16:34:18","slug":"james-mangold-on-the-making-of-cop-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=24425","title":{"rendered":"James Mangold on the Making of &#8220;Cop Land&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2020\/z081520mangold_copland_interview.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"373\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/author\/bilge-ebiri\/\">Bilge Ebiri<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/\">Vulture<\/a> recently interviewed James Mangold about his experience directing <em>Cop Land<\/em> for Miramax.\u00a0 Mangold details the behind-the-scenes action to get the script sold and the film made.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s interesting to note that <em>Cop Land<\/em> went from being a script that didn&#8217;t sell to one of the hotest scripts on the market.\u00a0 Companies wanted just the script, actors wanted to star in it and Mangold wasn&#8217;t about to sell it without him at the helm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The amazing cast &#8211; Stallone, DeNiro, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta, Michael Rappaport, Annabella Sciorra, Robert Patrick, and Janeane Garofalo &#8211; also may have actually <em>overscaled<\/em> the film.\u00a0 Also, despite the amazing performance by Stallone, his <em>Rocky\/Rambo<\/em> fans didn&#8217;t get what they were used to and non-Stallone fans thought it would be another typical Sly action film so they avoided it!<\/p>\n<p>Check out what Mangold has to say in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2020\/08\/the-fantasy-of-cop-land-an-interview-with-james-mangold.html\">Behind the Fantasy of the 1997 Movie <em>Cop Land<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bilge Ebiri at Vulture recently interviewed James Mangold about his experience directing Cop Land for Miramax.\u00a0 Mangold details the behind-the-scenes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":[17,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24426,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24425\/revisions\/24426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}