Larry King Live (CNN) - 1996-03-02 (John Frankenheimer)
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[0:00] Hendersonville and he is John
[0:02] Frankenheimer. How did this project come
[0:05] about?
[0:06] >> Well, Larry, it came about I think
[0:07] through Ted Turner. Ted is a great Civil
[0:10] War expert and buff expert. Uh he wanted
[0:15] to do Andersonville. He commissioned it.
[0:17] David Rintel's wrote it and then the
[0:21] Turner Network came to me to do it.
[0:23] >> And did you jump at it right away?
[0:24] Because this is not your cup of tea. War
[0:26] movies, is it? Well, I did the train,
[0:29] you know, which was kind of a warm idea.
[0:31] >> Um, no, I didn't jump at it right away
[0:33] because I knew how tough it was. I mean,
[0:36] it was a it's a huge undertaking because
[0:39] you just have this tremendous set,
[0:41] thousands of people to deal with. And I
[0:44] thought, wow, I mean, do I really want
[0:45] to do this?
[0:47] And uh the producer was a woman named EA
[0:50] Wet with whom I had worked on Playhouse
[0:52] 90 and uh
[0:53] >> years ago
[0:54] >> years ago and uh with John Houseman on
[0:57] All Fall Down and she said uh we really
[1:00] want you to do this and I want to work
[1:02] with you and it you you know it's been a
[1:04] long time it's been this been that and
[1:07] for a lot of reasons you should do this
[1:09] and I said well I'm not available
[1:10] because I have to do this movie the
[1:12] Burning Season for HBO and she said well
[1:14] we'll hold it for you until you can do
[1:17] it. And with all that kind of stuff, I
[1:19] finally I finally said, "All right, I
[1:21] will."
[1:21] >> So, they waited and let you do the
[1:23] burning season, which was Ral Julia,
[1:24] right?
[1:24] >> Yes.
[1:25] >> What a man he was.
[1:26] >> Yeah, he was.
[1:27] >> He was a magnificent guy.
[1:29] >> Have you done a lot of television film?