Talk:Serving Sara

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Deleted "Production" section

I have deleted the Production section for the following reasons:

Nearly the whole section, as is, with no references, was added by an IP editor in March 2009.
It cites no sources for the Production information.
It says that the two directors parted ways with the studio, but one of the directors, Hudlin, is listed as the film's eventual director.
It explains who was initially recruited to star in the film, but does not mention Matthew Perry, the eventual lead actor.
It has a section about Frank Oz and Francis Ford Coppola that does not appear to be relevant to the film, unless there are sources that somehow make this story make sense.
The content of the section is not relevant to the film itself, at least not relevant enough to justify including this mangled mess of sentences.
The Matthew Perry rehab bit is interesting but not enough to justify a section by itself.

I won't be offended if someone reverts this edit, but do try to make this section make some sense and cite reliable sources if you do. I tried for a while, and I ended up with nothing. If someone wants to try to reconstruct this section based on reliable sources, here's what it looked like before I deleted it.

Production

In early 1996, Ivan Reitman was planning to produce, but not direct, a script he wrote, called "Road to Texas." In August 1997 director Ron Howard and Reginald Hudlin signed with Universal Pictures to direct the biopic with actor Jim Carrey in the lead. By May 1998 Howard and Hudlin parted ways with the studio citing creative differences. Other actors considered for Joe Tyler at time were John Goodman, Tim Allen and Dennis Quaid. In June 2000, the director sought to direct the biopic based on a script by Frank Oz while at the same time, director Francis Ford Coppola was developing Flipping the Mark which had been in development hell. Filming began in December 2000 from New York to Dallas with an early working title of Servicing Sara on June 23, 2001.

During filming Mathew Perry had to stop and take time to go to rehab.^[1]

Jonesey95 (talk) 04:33, 9 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

diff of the delete
Perry published a book and his drug and alcohol problems were in the news again, so I addded a bit about how production was delayed while he went to rehab, effectively restoring part of what had been deleted. Perhaps someone else can find better sources and also restore some of the details about Ivan Reitman. -- 109.79.78.48 (talk) 12:22, 11 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Scott, Paul (2010-01-21). "Fat, greying and struggling for work - would you be Friends with them now?". Daily Mail. London. Then Perry had to abandon filming the box office flop Serving Sara, in which he co-starred with Elizabeth Hurley, to check into rehab again.

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[1] Scott, Paul (2010-01-21). "Fat, greying and struggling for work - would you be Friends with them now?". Daily Mail. London. Then Perry had to abandon filming the box office flop Serving Sara, in which he co-starred with Elizabeth Hurley, to check into rehab again.

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