'Lone Star' and 'The Beaver:' Kyle Killen's Wild Ride
The Business
KCRW
4.5 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2010
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Kyle Killen created the Fox drama, Lone Star, which was recently canceled after just two airings. While that television dream didn't exactly work out as planned, his film career is hanging in limbo. He wrote the much lauded screenplay for the movie The Beaver, which was due out this year. Killen talks about how this screenplay turned his life around and how the casting of Gibson may have affected the possibility of it's release.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. |
| 0:06.9 | You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want next time. |
| 0:12.5 | Everybody takes your business, business, really, really, all white life. |
| 0:18.4 | What's with him? |
| 0:23.1 | Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood. This week on the business, writer Kyle Killen's Wild Ride. |
| 0:28.7 | He got a TV show on the fall schedule, and his script got made into a movie. |
| 0:33.3 | Now his show's been canceled in the movie, while it stars Bill Gibson, and it's in limbo. |
| 0:37.8 | But first, it's the Hollywood news banter. |
| 0:40.0 | Stick around, it's the business from KCRW. |
| 0:42.7 | I'm going to Hollywood. |
| 0:44.5 | You can imagine Hollywood everything is really driven by making money. |
| 0:49.9 | What's with him? |
| 0:50.7 | Where? |
| 0:51.4 | Oh, I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood. |
| 0:55.3 | Hollywood. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm joined by my banter buddy, John Horn of the Los Angeles Times. |
| 1:00.6 | Hello, John. |
| 1:01.5 | Hello, Kim. |
| 1:09.5 | So today we are approaching the anniversary of Rich Ross, the head of the Disney film studio, one year on the job. |
| 1:10.9 | And what do we have to show for it? |
| 1:16.4 | Well, we have a lot of movies that he inherited from Dick Cook and Orn Aviv, who were the predecessor. |
| 1:16.8 | No, no, John. He inherited the failures, and he was responsible for shaping and marketing |
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