Author: Fair (---.wp.shawcable.net)
Date: 09-09-02 15:29
Pulled this brief bit of information about Secondhand Lions from the Austin Chronicle. It offers some insight as to the type of film it will be like... 
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BY MARC SAVLOV
July 5, 2002:
The Iron Lions Dept.: "He's the patron actor-saint of Texas!" says an enthusiastic Tim McCanlies of Robert Duvall, who, alongside yet another Oscar winner, Michael Caine, and Oscar nominee Haley Joel Osment, has been cast in the Austin native's Secondhand Lions, which will begin shooting in and around town this September. The script, written years ago by McCanlies (pre-Dancer, TX, and The Iron Giant), follows the hard-luck Osment and eccentric uncles Duvall and Caine, who "tell this kid these Arabian Nights-type stories of their youth," relates McCanlies. "It's a very Princess Bride-type of storytelling, very Errol Flynn kind of stuff." Also on board for the production is -- the Oscars never stop on this one -- Digital Domain, the effects house behind James Cameron's Titanic, among others. McCanlies says Austin production offices are slated to open "next week, hopefully."
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