Greg MacGillivray, one half of the famous MacGillivray-Freeman IMAX movie team is reportedly working on a documentary film that will explore 50 years of surfing in Hollywood film with a special focus on all the trouble John Milius had making Big Wednesday, according to a story in Variety.
It’s really about how Hollywood’s superficial view of surfing culture has influenced popular culture and the story of what happened when real surfers tried to change that,” MacGillivray said. . . . The yet-to-be-titled documentary includes Thomas Edison’s 1906 Hawaiian surfing footage and excerpts from numerous other surfing films, plus interviews with Kathy Kohner (the real-life Gidget), surfers such as Greg Noll and Mickey Munoz along with Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola and Quentin Tarantino.
Sounds like something Ben Marcus was talking about five years ago. . .
[Link: Variety]
i hope you include my friend richard jaekel in your movie. i
believe richard was the first if not one of the first to introduce
surfing to southern california back in the early fifties.
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