Kirk Douglas Wonders About That 'Dead Guy'
Actor recalls time spent at a New York police station in preparation for his Ace in the Hole role.
In an interview published this week, Nightcrawler writer-director Dan Gilroy tells George Mason University associate professor of film (and Popmatters.com contributor) Thomas Britt that the high bar of low-journalism films has already been set:
I mention Ace in the Hole and Network as films that seem to provide an historical backdrop to Gilroy’s present-day treatment of similar issues. He acknowledges both of them, saying, “Any time you do a journalism film now or at any point you’re always going to be referencing to some degree those two films.
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