{"id":108,"date":"2007-10-16T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T18:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=108"},"modified":"2018-12-08T15:04:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T20:04:35","slug":"alexander-and-karaszewski-prepare-a-look-at-big-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/16\/alexander-and-karaszewski-prepare-a-look-at-big-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander and Karaszewski Prepare A Look At BIG EYES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Screenwriting duo Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski &#8211; who penned <strong>Ed Wood<\/strong> (1994), <strong>The People Vs. Larry Flynt<\/strong> (1996) and <strong>Man On The Moon<\/strong> (1999) &#8211; are returning to their biopic roots by writing and directing <strong>Big Eyes<\/strong>, the story of painter Margaret Keane and her huckster husband Walter.<\/p>\n<p>Karaszewski described the couple&#8217;s story to <em>Variety<\/em>&#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[Walter] couldn&#8217;t paint a lick. He was a genius businessman who desperately wanted to be an artist, and who married an artist with a self-image problem and took full advantage. He kept her in the basement and signed his name to her work.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While Walter lives the high life, even appearing as a guest on <em>The Tonight Show<\/em>, Margaret slows comes to the realization that she doesn&#8217;t want to continue with the ruse. Their story climaxes with a rather dramatic court case.<\/p>\n<p>This is Alexander and Karaszewski&#8217;s second time behind the camera, having directed the 2000 Norm MacDonald comedy <strong>Screwed<\/strong>. Their most recent screenplay was this year\u2019s Stephen King adaptation <strong>1408<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Screenwriting duo Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski &#8211; who penned Ed Wood (1994), The People Vs. Larry Flynt (1996) and Man On The Moon (1999) &#8211; are returning to their biopic roots by writing and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/16\/alexander-and-karaszewski-prepare-a-look-at-big-eyes\/\" title=\"Alexander and Karaszewski Prepare A Look At BIG EYES\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[22],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-in-development"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}