It's probably fair to call "The Nice Guys," Shane Black's 2016 neo-noir comedy about two bickering private investigators, a cult classic. While it underperformed at the box office at the time, it was a critical success and has kept a steady fanbase over the years. We here at /Film are strictly pro-"The Nice Guys," but not pro-Nice Guys. (There is a big difference between those two.)
What might not be known about the film, however, is its lengthy development history. Before the film's release, /Film's Jack Giroux interviewed Black and discussed how it took 15 years for "The Nice Guys" as we know it today to get made. The writer and director said that the idea for the story first materialized in 2001 when he co-wrote a script with Anthony Bagarozzi with the characters of Holland March (Ryan Gosling) and Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe) essentially being different characters. Although he...
What might not be known about the film, however, is its lengthy development history. Before the film's release, /Film's Jack Giroux interviewed Black and discussed how it took 15 years for "The Nice Guys" as we know it today to get made. The writer and director said that the idea for the story first materialized in 2001 when he co-wrote a script with Anthony Bagarozzi with the characters of Holland March (Ryan Gosling) and Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe) essentially being different characters. Although he...
- 8/18/2022
- by Erin Brady
- Slash Film
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