cinematical.com - 9/9/2008
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After years of turning down any and all parties who inquired after the film rights for his novel Blindness , Nobel Prize-winning novelist Jose Saramago finally relented to the director-writer team of Fernando Meirelles and Don McKellar after years of cajoling and convincing. McKellar also has ...
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This Year's Children Of Men Gets A Much-Needed Extreme Makeover [Blindness]
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... McKellar also explains that when Saramago finally agreed to let him and Meirelles make a film of Blindness, after several rebuffs, he set some conditions. One was that the movie had to be in English, and another was that it had to take place in an unidentified city, which necessitated creating a blend of countries. [Cinematical] ...
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