The making of iconic Hollywood movie Chinatown is getting the movie treatment from Ben Affleck and Parmaount. Affleck will write the script and is set to direct The Big Goodbye, an adaptation of The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood by author Sam Wasson.
Affleck will also produce with Lorne Michaels, who initially nabbed the rights to the book. Goodbye chronicles the making of what is considered one of the great American films of all tim, made in a period where auteurs were bringing a unique authorship to the movie business.
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