In Hollywood, everyone flirts. Studio execs give directors the eye.
Directors play coy.
Producers hit on everyone. But it's the A-list actors who are the biggest teases. Last fall, the thriller, which is based on Simon Moore's 1989 British TV miniseries, was one of the hottest projects in town, attracting interest from the likes of Michael Douglas, Harrison Ford, Kevin Costner, Richard Gere, Al Pacino, and Tommy Lee Jones. Making the film would also require a studio to gamble on some incendiary material. Traffic producer Laura Bickford, who owned the rights to Moore's miniseries, joined up with Twentieth Century Fox-based producer Ed Zwick to make it into a film.