Tuesday marks the 20th anniversary of the beloved romantic comedy The Marriage ceremony Planner, with director Adam Shankman revealing the opposite actors who had been hooked up earlier than Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey.
Shankman, 56, a filmmaker and choreographer who additionally served as a decide on Fox’s So You Assume You Can Dance, opened up in regards to the movie in a brand new interview with Yahoo!
Whereas Lopez earned a uncommon twin win – along with her second album JLo debuting atop the Billboard 200 album charts and The Marriage ceremony Planner opening atop the field workplace in the identical weekend – Shankman revealed the romcom nearly starred Minnie Driver and Brendan Fraser.
Completely different actors: Tuesday marks the 20th anniversary of the beloved romantic comedy The Marriage ceremony Planner, with director Adam Shankman revealing the opposite actors who had been hooked up earlier than Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey
Nearly co-stars: Whereas Lopez earned a uncommon twin win – along with her second album JLo debuting atop the Billboard 200 album charts and The Marriage ceremony Planner opening atop the field workplace in the identical weekend – Shankman revealed the romcom nearly starred Minnie Driver and Brendan Fraser
Director: Shankman, 56, a filmmaker and choreographer who additionally served as a decide on Fox’s So You Assume You Can Dance, opened up in regards to the movie in a brand new interview with Yahoo
Shankman acknowledged that Lopez having the highest film and high album in the identical week propelled her profession into the stratosphere.
‘It was a second that set a sure trajectory of her life in movement. To have the primary album within the nation and the primary film within the nation in a single second positively modified stuff for her. And Jennifer acknowledges and acknowledges that,’ he mentioned.
The unique script by Michael Ellis and Pamela Falk was first picked up by the now-defunct Nice Line Options, which noticed needed Minnie Driver to play Mary Fiore.
Stratosphere: Shankman acknowledged that Lopez having the highest film and high album in the identical week propelled her profession into the stratosphere
Best choice: The unique script by Michael Ellis and Pamela Falk was first picked up by the now-defunct Nice Line Options, which noticed needed Minnie Driver to play Mary Fiore
‘Nice Line was attempting to get into extra of a industrial market, and so they actually favored this script. The plot was basically the identical, nevertheless it was going to be a really low-budget indie film,’ Shankman mentioned.
After Nice Line could not get the film going with Driver, the script shifted to Sony Footage, who had been contemplating Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr.
At the moment, Lopez was starting to come back into her personal as an actress, following her breakthrough function in 1997’s Selena together with 1998’s Out of Sight.
Into her personal: At the moment, Lopez was starting to come back into her personal as an actress, following her breakthrough function in 1997’s Selena together with 1998’s Out of Sight
She additionally starred in Sony’s 1997 movie Anaconda, and, upon listening to of The Marriage ceremony Planner, made her curiosity in her first rom-com recognized to Sony, although Shankman admits he was reticent to the thought at first.
‘I used to be actually immune to the thought. I didn’t understand her as a romantic comedy particular person; she appeared too powerful to me, frankly. However my company mentioned, “It’s important to meet along with her: She learn the script and he or she actually needs to do that,”‘ Shankman added.
The director was in the end persuaded to have lunch with Lopez, and shortly thereafter he was ‘fully hypnotized by her.’
Reticent: She additionally starred in Sony’s 1997 movie Anaconda, and, upon listening to of The Marriage ceremony Planner, made her curiosity in her first rom-com recognized to Sony, although Shankman admits he was reticent to the thought at first
‘At the moment, she was very a lot that character: She had simply come out of a wedding and was not eager about males. She was bold, and understood every little thing that was girly and female in regards to the film, however on the identical time acknowledged the engine within it. There have been many elements in regards to the real-life Jennifer that actually spoke to what the character was,’ Shankman mentioned.
With Lopez touchdown the function, Shankman’s best choice to play Steve Edison was Brendan Fraser, who he had labored with as a choreographer.
‘So I talked to him, and he was in. However then he switched companies whereas we had been negotiating, and the brand new company pulled him out of our film and into Bedazzled. That was a very darkish day for me, as a result of we had been a month-and-a-half away from beginning rehearsal and we had bought the film on Jennifer and Brendan,’ Shankman mentioned.
In character: ‘At the moment, she was very a lot that character: She had simply come out of a wedding and was not eager about males. She was bold, and understood every little thing that was girly and female in regards to the film, however on the identical time acknowledged the engine within it. There have been many elements in regards to the real-life Jennifer that actually spoke to what the character was,’ Shankman mentioned
Best choice: With Lopez touchdown the function, Shankman’s best choice to play Steve Edison was Brendan Fraser, who he had labored with as a choreographer
With manufacturing simply weeks away from beginning, Shankman was advised McConaughey was the one actor who was accessible to fulfill the manufacturing begin date.
Shankman mentioned securing McConaughey concerned, ‘plenty of flying and van journeys by means of many states, plus plenty of bizarre telephone calls on a flip telephone’ over a 48-hour interval.
Fortunately, as soon as Lopez and McConaughey met, Shankman knew the film would work.
‘They obtained on like wildfire. I’ve by no means seen two individuals who, on the floor, are extra completely different than Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey, however they had been completely cute collectively. That they had very completely different processes, however they allowed one another the area and freedom to work these processes,’ he mentioned.
Work: Fortunately, as soon as Lopez and McConaughey met, Shankman knew the film would work
Wildfire: ‘They obtained on like wildfire. I’ve by no means seen two individuals who, on the floor, are extra completely different than Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey, however they had been completely cute collectively. That they had very completely different processes, however they allowed one another the area and freedom to work these processes,’ he mentioned
