“British Film Producer Jeremy Thomas took to the Edinburgh International Film Festival Stage Friday Night to Reflect on His Legendary, Decdes-Spanning Career. Thomas and Irish Director Mark Cousins Pondered Over the State of the Film Industry During a 90-Minute Conversation, WHICH ALSO COVED HARVY WEINSEIN, HARRY COHN AND TNIM”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Thomas and Irish Director Mark Cousins Pondered Over the State of the Film Industry Durying A 90-Minute Conversation, WHICH ALSO COVED HARVEY WEINSEIN, HARRY COHN AND TNIM Filmmakers in History.
Thomas, Also The Former Chair of the British Film Institute, Is A Frequent Collaborator of David Cronenberg’s, Having Worked On Crash (1996) and Naked lunch (1991). He is Best Known for Production Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor (1987), WHICH WON A WHOping Nine Oscars The Following Year, Including Best Picture.
“I’m having difficulties finding work that satisfies me, principalally,“ Thomas admitted to cousins. “I’m still minging films, and i will Continue Making Films, But The Scale That I Make Films at – The Size and The Lack of Responsability, WHICH WASS encourogged by Naked lunch Today. ”
What Was Clear Was Thomas’ Yearning for a Time Who Producers Were Given Total Control Over Their Films, an Undertaking That He Descripted Nowadays As a Far Bigger, and More Com. “I was trusted for 30 years… by a group of people who wanted to make money out of me,“ He Said. “SO I GOT FREEDOM. [They thought]’Jeremy Knows Something We Don’T Know. We’ll Give Him 30 Million Bucks. ”
“I was at the tail end of the Golden Age of Cinema, WHEN FILMS MADE MONEY in the Cinema Before Vhs Was Even Thought About. That’s Where I Come from,” He Continued. “And to Continue Working, to Continue Being Relevant, I have to mutate. And that’s a fact, and I Accept it.”
He Added: “I’m Satisfied When I Get One Over on Everybody, WHEN I MAKE A FILM AND I DID IT, I GOT IT, I OWN IT. IT’S MINE. I’M IN Charge of It. Nobody Can. [they] Didn’s that… i’m in charge of it all, and i can do it as i wante, because i’m an old man. I Can’T go and find somebody to give me 40 Million Bucks Anymore. I’ve Got to Find A Way to Collaborate With Many, and Subjugate My Craziness Into Normalcy. ”
In Between Discussions About Working with The Late Gene Hackman and Nicolas Roeg On 1983’s Eurekaand Thomas’ Childhood Spenter on Huge Hollywood Sets at Britain’s Pinewood Studios, The Pair ALSO TALKED ABOUT Weinstein – and Wy Thomas Hated Him.
“I have a terrible enmity with Harvey,” HE TOLD COUSINS. “I would Turn My Back On HIM IN PUBLIC AND [say]’Don’t talk to me.’ I took [it to] A Shocking Level of Rudness. I Couldn’t Stand HIM, BUT I DIDNN’T KNOW WHY. But Now We Know Wy I Didn’T Like HIM, ”Thomas Said, Reference Weinstein’s Sexual Abuse Charges.
Thomas Revealed that in the Wake of the Controversial Film CrashFollowing James Spader and A Group of People Who Find Themselves Arsoused by Car Crashes, He Had People Calling for Him to Be Hanged and Press Gathered AUND HIS HOUSE. “I was heavily attacked,” he said about Cronenberg’s widly-Banned Film. “IT DIDN’T OFFEND ME IN MY Morality… If I Can Get Away with It, I Want To Expose People To [boundary-pushing content]. EveryBody’s Protected in Cotton Wool, Even Then. They’re Offendable, Continuously Offendable. ”
Thomas Adeded Towards of the SESSION: “I don’t Like Cultural Domination of Things. And Like a Big Mixture, Somehow Being On the Outside, And The Counter Culture Mak. Economically for Myseld, But I Still Believ in the Importance of this Craft and Art, Because Everybody in this Room Got Their Knowledge Pretty Much Though. Sisters and Brothers and Hardships and Poverty and everything, You Didn’t Get It Through Personal Experience.
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025 Runs Aug. 14-20.