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Australian filmmaker Bruce Beresford, in the States for the opening of his stirring "Paradise Road," will be making "Goodbye Saigon" for Twentieth Century Fox next. He hopes. He expects ... well, actually, he's not sure what to expect.
"Richard Zanuck and I have a deal with Fox to make the movie. We have a script. We're all set to go. But it's hard to get a straight answer from the studio about what's going on. Their attitude is somewhat ambivalent and mysterious." More than that, he says, "It's baffling."
Beresford, who helmed the Oscar-winning "Driving Miss Daisy," reports that Zanuck actually gave him the script for the "Goodbye" story (about the relationship of an American woman and a Vietnamese woman in Los Angeles), "before I made Paradise Road.' We had Frances McDormand set to star just a few months ago. But then Fox decided it didn't want her. They made Dick phone and tell her so. Now she's won the Oscar (for "Fargo"), but I wouldn't go back to her if I could, it would be too offensive."
Beresford says that he and Zanuck are having "a big meeting" today to "try to find...