In a fascinating revelation, the acclaimed director Paul Schrader has shed light on his abandoned project Xtreme City, which was marked Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh KhanIt has debuted in the West. The film, which also stars Leonardo DiCaprio, was eventually shelved due to Shahrukh’s loss of interest, according to Schrader. Schrader is a prominent American screenwriter and film director, known for his work on iconic films such as Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ and American Gigolo. With a career spanning more than five decades, Schrader has established himself as a major figure in Hollywood.
During a recent podcast appearance, Schrader reflected on the film that was never made, revealing that the trio initially showed great enthusiasm for the project. They also met in Berlin to discuss the film, with Martin Scorsese on board as producer. However, Schrader claimed that Shah Rukh’s commitment to the project began to waver, eventually leading to its demise. The director has also revealed that Mushtaq Shaikh will co-write this film.
Schrader said that if SRK had made the film, he would have had to play “second banana” with DiCaprio, which he never did. ‘Shah Rukh is the owner. He hires directors. Sometimes he hires multiple directors: he’ll hire someone for a musical number; He will hire someone else for the task; He will hire someone else for personal relationship scenes. He can do that. He had never really worked under the harness of a writer, and that, I could see, was beginning to grate on him. And he’d never done a film in the West before, and he’d never been second banana to someone like Leo before,” Schrader explained on the Pod Castey for Me podcast.
Schrader also shared the plot of the film, which will see Shah Rukh playing a gangster who is confronted by an American police officer played by DiCaprio after saving his life in India. Despite his efforts to keep the project going, Shah Rukh eventually lost interest, which eventually lost DiCaprio’s interest.
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He shared, ‘Bit-bit, I wrote the script. I went to Mumbai many times to meet him and be with him – I felt the ground slowly fall away from under him. So ultimately his commitment was temporary, and then once his commitment went from ‘firm’ to ‘temporary’, Leo went from ‘firm’ to ‘temporary’. Now you have two ‘temporary’ commitments, which means you have no commitments at all.
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