Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmMost who worked with director Joel Schumacher walked away feeling like they’d made a friend.
He was generous in spirit, open and honest about his own success and flaws and disappointments. He had a strong eye for budding talent, an audacious visual sense, a past history he’d tell anyone about, one that almost killed him before he moved from being a window dresser to a successful filmmaker.
Even journalists who interviewed him came away with a ton of great quotes and a feeling they were better for the experience.
Carl Kurlander, who went from being Schumacher’s assistant to writing the zeitgeist hit St. Elmo’s Fire with him that launched his own career, paints a picture of what made Schumacher special..
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