If you asked me to name the 10 most endangered for the script of my life, ie. The scripts that were considered so brilliantly made that it seemed that they could not miss the blockbusters and/or Oscar candidates, David Sell's "thirteen days" would be close to the top of my list. Immediate page-Tarner for the Cuban missile crisis since 1962, where President Johnon F. Kennedy and his advisers have won an almost apocalyptic game of Brinmanism with the USSR regarding the deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba, immediately attracted the attention of A-Spinking directors and film stars. Steven Spielberg considered it. So does Lawrence Casdan.

With Kevin Costner attached to production And Play the lead role of Kenneth O'Donnell (FC's special assistant), soon it became clear that the director with whom Costner was known is likely to win the gig. He was looking for some time that Phil Alden Robinson, who made the movie history with Costner through Classic of Dad-Film "Field of Dreams", He may reunite with his friend with the maize-basabol, but the creative differences cycle this. Roger Donaldson, the Australian Cormer who helped turn Costner into a sexual symbol with white-livel to Tightened political thriller "no exit", It was also an eye, as did Martin Campbell (who, despite never directing the Starworm, was much demand after resuscitating the Jamesim Bond franchise with Goldenje).

There was nothing wrong with Donaldson or Campbell, but "thirteen days" was such a hot scenario. Surely, film producers could get A-writing to directing one of the world's biggest stars in a film that could very well be an Oscar candidate. So, the communications of Costner and Beacon reached to Francis Ford Coppola. Why didn't this happen? And how did the "thirteen days" set up Coppola after the (very long) track for making the biggest flop in his career?

Coppola took mostly salaries for salaries in the late 1990s, which led to make probably his worst movie ("Jackec") and a terrible legal thriller ("The Rainmaker"). "Thirteen days" was by far the best material offered to him for centuries, but it was more than a drama for a walk and conversation. He would serve the material instead of making his own. He will also work with an actor who won an Oscar, who was known for his diva's behavior (which did not go well with Clint Eastwood on the "Perfect World" set).

Coppola eventually shrinked, but not because she was worried about what Costner threw his weight. I mean, this may have been a concern, but the turn point was, according to a 1999 report Isn't it cool news (What I can personally confirm), early display of his "war on the Starwells: Episode I" by Palorge Lucas. After seeing what Lucas was able to accomplish in terms of computer -building computer building, he switched a project called "Megalopolis" to the front burner. The time to make his brazen epic for civilization on the edge, now it was (or so thought).

Costner and Bacon finally went with Donaldson, who delivered the B+ version of what could have been a movie in the right hands. Despite good reviews, the film was completely ignored by the Academy Awards and, worse, earned $ 67 million against a $ 80m budget. Coppola would not turn this into a "godfather", but he would absolutely have fun with casting. That could make the whole difference. Since he would not make another characteristic to "youth without youth" in 2007, this feels like a missed opportunity.