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Some weeks roll by when one morning, I crack open Variety to read: “Mike Myers Attached to ‘Court Jester’ Remake at MGM.” Yes, that Mike Myers, coming off the huge success of Wayne’s World, Wayne’s World 2, and the recently released Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. So off we go to write the script, which we do in short order, having already broken the story when we were ostensibly under hire by Paramount. Fine by us because that was our intent as well.Īs we depart the premises, I fully expect we’ll have to go in to pitch MGM, so imagine my surprise when out of the blue, I get a call from CAA: “We’re a go at MGM!” Evidently whatever magic John had in relation to The Court Jester extends not only to the Danny Kaye family, but also to a Hollywood studio.

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John kept making a point: “We must respect the original.” In other words, we could come up with new material and update the humor, but not stray much from the tone and spirit of the original. So we chit and we chat, we swap ideas and share some laughs. In essence, we are here to do a pseudo-pitch, not the story per se, but our take on how we would adapt The Court Jester.

Furthermore he had secured those rights, then struck a deal with MGM to make the movie. As we sit with John in a sprawling house in the Hollywood hills, he explains to us how he discovered the rights to The Court Jester were owned by the estate of Danny Kaye, who had starred in the original.