Jerry Lewis’ unfinished and unreleased function shall be taken again to sq. one by a brand new producer who’s presently in search of a filmmaker.
Deadline has reported that an outdated jettisoned mission by Jerry Lewis could also be getting a second probability because of a brand new producer and financier. The iconic comic reworked a script to The Day the Clown Cried as he directed and starred within the function in 1972. However, the movie wouldn’t be launched since it will not be accomplished. According to Deadline, Lewis had disavowed the movie and he did his finest to verify it by no means noticed the sunshine of day. Rights points over the story turned difficult. Controversy additionally surrounded the movie because of an outcry over the audacity of Lewis setting a movie within the focus camps involving the deaths of Jewish youngsters by the hands of the Nazis in World War II. Additionally, he was accused of shamelessly utilizing the film for Oscar bait.
Now, Kia Jam of Okay. Jam Media has taken to funding the unique script to be able to begin a brand new manufacturing on the movie. Jam has produced and financed various tasks that embrace The Killing Game, In the Heart of the Sea, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For and quite a few others. Jam is alleged to have closed a purchase order settlement on the unique screenplay from the scribes Joan O’Brien and Charles Denton earlier than Lewis took it and reworked it. Jam says he has secured the funds for the manufacturing and he’s now looking out for a daring sufficient filmmaker who’s prepared to tackle the mission.
Per Deadline, the unreleased movie’s plot concerned Lewis starring as “Helmut Doork, a failing German circus clown long past the days when he was a famous performer touring North America and Europe as part of the Ringling Brothers circus. Things get worse when he is overheard drunkenly mocking Hitler in a bar. He’s turned over to the Gestapo and imprisoned in a Nazi camp for political prisoners. There, he finds an outlet for his talents: entertaining the suffering Jewish children who are segregated in a part of the camp. After suffering numerous beatings for engaging the children, the clown is used by the camp commandant as a Pied Piper to help load the children on boxcars to Auschwitz. He winds up a passenger on that train, and, in a selfless act unusual for the previously self-absorbed clown, he escorts of the children to their deaths and is himself killed.”
Jam advised Deadline the story of how the he feels in regards to the mission, “It will be a really powerful film. It’s ultimately a redemption story. And I think with everything that’s going on in the world today, now more than ever is the time to make a movie like this. It’s going to be difficult.”
