HAROLD AND MAUDE screenwriter Colin Higgins wanted to do a prequel called GROVER AND MAUDE where Maude learns about stealing cars from Richard Pryor's Grover from SILVER STREAK, also written by Higgins.
Bud Cort was so fucking hot in Harold and Maude.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | April 11, 2021 2:59 PM |
Was Vivian Pickles going to steal the spotlight again?
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | April 11, 2021 3:00 PM |
Ruth Gordon paired with Richard Pryor in a prequel to Harold and Maude? About car theft? Would it be a dark comedy? Pure slapstick? Slapstick with racial puns? The choice of Pryor seems odd now but at the time he was very famous, considered “outrageous,” and Silver Streak was huge.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | April 11, 2021 3:07 PM |
If only.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | April 11, 2021 3:14 PM |
"Bud Cort was so fucking hot in Harold and Maude. "
Ok, Helen Keller.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | April 11, 2021 3:26 PM |
I’m glad this didn’t happen. It would have tainted the magic of Harold and Maude, in my opinion.
That old newspaper article is interesting to read. I love his casting choices for his next project after Foul Play, four popular leading men at the time... ALL opposite Goldie Hawn.
Plus, his comments on Chevy Chase seem veiled. Sounds like another case of someone vowing never to work with Chase again but trying to remain cool and professional about it. LOL!
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | April 11, 2021 4:21 PM |
R6 It’s interesting to think about the film if they’d cast a heartthrob hunk of the time, opposite Gordon. It might have ruined it.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | April 11, 2021 4:23 PM |
Ehh... coulda been interesting. For some reason the idea of this makes me immediately think of Bette Davis and Earnest Borgnine in BUNNY O’HARE (1971).
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | April 12, 2021 11:33 AM |