Texas at the San Jacinto Battlefield. Filming spots include an apartment at Heights Blvd. Scenes from Denton are also featured. Thorpe, a television reporter who investigates the goings on at the Chicken Ranch. The character is based on real-life Houstonian Marvin Zindler, whose news report helped close down the real-life Chicken Ranch. There's plenty of Houston scenery in 's " Robocop 2. The first part of the film is set at the Huntsville State Penitentiary.
Wes Anderson's sophomore film "Rushmore" once again put the city of Houston on the map in Hollywood, while also inspiring countless local filmmakers and actors.
Now, years later it's become one of the Houston-bred director's most-beloved films and it ushered in Bill Murray as the hipster icon we all know him as today. It made the rounds at fall film festivals and it had a limited run in December in New York City and Los Angeles and garnered the attention of Oscar voters. Starring Jason Schwartzman as the precocious, oddly-mature high schooler Max Fischer and Murray as his would-be romantic nemesis, the film set the tone for the next two decades of Anderson films.
Anderson's film "Bottle Rocket" with James Caan, Luke Wilson and Owen Wilson made him the darling of indie-film fans who were excited to see what else he had in him. Wes Anderson sent location scouts across the United States and Canada to find the perfect high school to shoot the movie.
He was having a tough time trying to find the school, until his mother sent him a picture of his old high school in Houston, Texas: St. John's School. Anderson thought it was the perfect location to make the movie.
Once Bill Murray read the screenplay, he wanted to be in the movie so badly that he considered appearing in it for free. Murray ended up working on Rushmore at scale with the Screen Actors Guild day rate minimum for smaller indie film projects. Kael retired from The New Yorker in , so Anderson arranged for her to have a private screening of Rushmore before the film came out in He wrote about the screening in the introduction to the published version of the screenplay, and shared what Kael told him about the film: "I genuinely don't know what to make of this movie.
Casting directors searched throughout the United States, Canada, and England to find a young actor to play the lead role of Max Fischer. Australian actor Noah Taylor was the frontrunner for the part when, on the last day of casting in Los Angeles, Jason Schwartzman auditioned. Max Fischer : I saved Latin.
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