La gran rueda del poder

La gran rueda del poder (1999)

The Big Brass Ring

Faltan un par de días para la elección del nuevo gobernador de Missouri. La carrera por el puesto está muy reñida entre dos candidatos independientes. El poderoso William Blake Pallarin se alza como el líder más probable, e incluso como un posible candidato para presidente del país. Pero cuando un periodista desvela un nombre que oscurece su pasado, las preguntas empiezan a asediar al candidato...

Fecha de estreno
1999-04-20
TMDB
4.6 / 10 (14)
Duración
1 h 44 min
Géneros
Drama, Suspense
Director
George Hickenlooper

Reparto

Curiosidades

The Big Brass Ring is a 1999 drama film, starring William Hurt, Nigel Hawthorne, Irene Jacob, Jefferson Mays and Miranda Richardson. The film's script was heavily rewritten by George Hickenlooper and F. X. Feeney from a previous screenplay written by Orson Welles and Oja Kodar in the early 1980s; Hickenlooper also directed the film.

Production

Welles had hoped to direct the film himself in the early 1980s, and to play the role of Minnaker (not least as he has been a "New Deal" Democrat close to Franklin Roosevelt), but he was unable to attract enough funding. He had been given a list of six "bankable" stars who could play Pellarin, including Clint Eastwood, Jack Nicholson, Robert Redford and Burt Reynolds, and was told by investors that if he could sign up one of them, then the film co…

However, Hickenlooper made substantial changes from the Welles script (published in 1987 by the Santa Teresa Press, Santa Barbara, California). Welles's script concerned Senator Pellarin, a Democratic presidential candidate in 1984 (closely modeled on Senator Gary Hart), and his troubled relationship with his disgraced homosexual mentor Kim Minnaker, a one-time Roosevelt New Deal Democrat who was now living in exile as advisor to the corrupt gove…

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