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词条 Jon Peters
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Career

     Superman Lives, Superman Returns and Man of Steel  The Sandman  Book  Harassment lawsuit and end of career 

  3. Personal life

  4. Filmography

  5. Further reading

  6. References

  7. External links

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John H. Peters (born June 2, 1945)[1] is an American film producer and former hairdresser.

Early life

Peters was born in Van Nuys, California[1] as the son of Helen (née Pagano), a receptionist and Jack Peters, a cook who owned a Hollywood diner.[2] He is of Cherokee (father) and Italian (mother) descent.[3] His mother's family owned a renowned salon on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. Jack Peters died when Jon was 10 years old and Helen later remarried.[4]

Career

Peters first joined the family hairdressing business at Rodeo Drive where he made many film industry connections. Peters designed a short wig that Barbra Streisand wore for the comedy For Pete's Sake (1974) to which the couple began a relationship. He later produced Streisand's studio album ButterFly (1974) and also gained a producing credit on Streisand's remake of A Star Is Born (1976), although the extent of his contribution has been disputed.[5] He also worked alongside Peter Guber for the next 10 years with whom he headed Sony Pictures Entertainment from 1989 until 1991 in which the two men were the subject of the book Hit and Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood by Nancy Griffin and Kim Masters.[6]

Superman Lives, Superman Returns and Man of Steel

In the early 1990s, Peters bought the film rights to the Superman franchise from Warner Bros. In his Q&A/comedy DVD An Evening With Kevin Smith, writer/director Kevin Smith talked about working for Peters when he was hired to write a script for a new Superman film which was then called Superman Reborn and later Superman Lives.[7] According to Smith, Peters had expressed disdain for most of Superman's iconic characteristics by demanding that Superman was never to fly[8] nor appear in his trademark costume.[8] He also suggested Sean Penn as being ideal for the role based on his performance as a death row inmate in Dead Man Walking in which he said that Penn had the eyes of a "caged animal, a fucking killer." Peters then demanded that the third act of the film include a fight between Superman and a giant spider,[9] to be unveiled in an homage to King Kong. Peters later produced the 1999 steampunk western comedy Wild Wild West, the finale of which featured a giant mechanical spider.[9]

Smith met Peters after completing a script and Peters instructed him to include a robot sidekick for Brainiac, a fight scene between Brainiac and two polar bears and a marketable "space dog" pet similar to Star Wars character Chewbacca. Smith inserted them into his script but the project was then abandoned and the script discarded.

In The Amazing Story of Superman, Peters admitted that the Superman franchise was problematic for him: "The elements that I was focusing on were away from the heart, it was more leaning towards 'Star Wars' in a sense, you know. I didn't realize the human part of it, I didn't have that."

He subsequently served as a producer for Superman Returns, the 2006 Superman film directed by Bryan Singer and as an executive producer for Man of Steel, the 2013 Superman film directed by Zack Snyder.[10] Peters was banned from the Man of Steel set by producer Christopher Nolan.[11]

The Sandman

Peters was a producer for a planned adaptation of the Sandman comics for Warner Bros., which met with controversy. One draft script commissioned by Peters was reviewed on the Internet at Ain't It Cool News,[12] and was met with scorn. Sandman creator Neil Gaiman called the last screenplay that Warner Bros. would send him "...not only the worst Sandman script I've ever seen, but quite easily the worst script I've ever read."[13] By 2001, the project had become stranded in development hell.

In a 2005 interview, Gaiman commented: "But Sandman movies, they just got increasingly appalling. It was really strange. They started out hiring some really good people and you got Elliott and Rossio and Roger Avary came in and did a draft. They were all solid scripts. And then Jon Peters fired all of them and got in some people who take orders, and who wanted fistfights and all this stuff. It had no sensibility and it was just...they were horrible."[14]

Book

Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood blog reported on a book proposal for the autobiography of Peters, written by himself and Los Angeles writer William Stadiem.[15] Peters reportedly intended to write about his life with Streisand and a string of other celebrity lovers. In 2009, he subsequently withdrew from the HarperCollins book deal after adverse publicity triggered by the leaking of the proposal and potential lawsuits.[16]

Harassment lawsuit and end of career

{{See also|Weinstein effect}}

In August 2011, a Los Angeles jury ordered Peters to pay a former assistant $3.3 million after finding she was subjected to sexual harassment and a hostile work environment during production of Superman Returns, effectively ending his career.[17][18] As of 2019, Peters has only three credits: two for producing (Superman Returns in 2006 and the 2018 remake of A Star Is Born) and one for executive producing (Man of Steel in 2013).

Personal life

Peters has a son with actress Lesley Ann Warren named Christopher Peters, who is an actor and also a producer.[19]

He also has two daughters, Caleigh Peters and Skye Peters; Barbra Streisand is their godmother.

Filmography

YearFilmNotes
1976A Star Is Born
1978Eyes of Laura Mars
1979The Main EventAs executive producer
1980Die Laughing
CaddyshackAs executive producer
1981An American Werewolf in LondonAs executive producer
1982MissingAs executive producer
Six Weeks
1983Flashdance
D.C. CabAs executive producer
1985Vision Quest
The Legend of Billie JeanAs executive producer
ClueAs executive producer
The Color PurpleAs executive producer
Head OfficeAs executive producer
1986The Clan of the Cave BearAs executive producer
YoungbloodAs executive producer
Brotherhood of JusticeAs executive producer; made-for-television film
1987The Witches of Eastwick
InnerspaceAs executive producer
Who's That GirlAs executive producer
1988Nightmare at BittercreekAs executive producer; made-for-television film
Caddyshack II
Gorillas in the MistAs executive producer
Missing LinkAs executive producer
Rain ManAs executive producer
1989Finish LineAs executive producer; made-for-television film
Tango & Cash
Batman
1990The Bonfire of the VanitiesAs executive producer
1992Batman ReturnsAs executive producer
1993This Boy's LifeAs executive producer
1994With HonorsAs executive producer
1995Money Train
1996My Fellow Americans
1997Rosewood
1999Wild Wild West
2001Ali
2006Superman Returns
2013Man of SteelAs executive producer
2018A Star Is Born

Further reading

  • {{cite book |author1=Griffin, Nancy |author2=Masters, Kim | title=Hit & Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony For a Ride in Hollywood | publisher=Simon & Schuster | year=1996 | isbn=0-684-80931-1}}

References

1. ^According to the State of California. California Birth Index, 1905–1995. Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California. Searchable at http://www.familytreelegends.com/records/39461
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/59/Jon-Peters.html |title=Jon Peters Biography (1945?-) |publisher=Filmreference.com |date= |accessdate=May 2, 2010}}
3. ^{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/22/magazine/the-producers.html?pagewanted=5 | work=The New York Times | title=The Producers | first=Diane K. | last=Shah | date=October 22, 1989 | accessdate=April 9, 2010}}
4. ^[https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800026243/bio "Jon Peters biography"] Yahoo Movies
5. ^Barbra by Donald Zec and Anthony Fowles, chapter 17
6. ^Nancy Griffin; Kim Masters (1997). Hit & Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony For A Ride In Hollywood. Simon & Schuster. {{ISBN|0-684-80931-1}}
7. ^{{YouTube|vgYhLIThTvk|Kevin Smith talks about Superman}}
8. ^{{cite book|last=Rossen|first=Jake|title=Superman Vs. Hollywood: How Fiendish Producers, Devious Directors, and Warring Writers Grounded an American Icon|year=2008|publisher=Chicago Review Press |isbn=1-55652-731-4 |pages=217 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OmYt2xaxktEC&pg=PT230}}
9. ^{{cite book|last=Cronin|first=Brian |title=Was Superman a Spy?: And Other Comic Book Legends Revealed|year=2009|publisher=Penguin Group|isbn=0-452-29532-7|pages=25|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eKLNpPMHF5cC&pg=PA24}}
10. ^{{YouTube|wArmHSPIvlQ|Zack Snyder's "Man of Steel" teaser trailer, with Jon Peters credited}}
11. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/i-am-trump-hollywood-reclusive-outrageous-jon-peters-is-still-rich-rich-963537|title="I Am the Trump of Hollywood": The Reclusive and Outrageous Jon Peters Is Still Rich. Really Rich|accessdate=12 January 2017|publisher=The Hollywood Reporter}}
12. ^Moriarty takes a look at what Jon Peters has done with Neil Gaiman's SANDMAN property!!! – Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news
13. ^Comics2Film: Sandman {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071219182836/http://www.comics2film.com/Sandman.shtml |date=December 19, 2007 }}
14. ^"Interview: Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon", Time, 2005
15. ^"IT SHOULD BE CALLED 'DICKHEAD': Why Jon Peters' Book Proposal Sets New Low", Deadline Hollywood
16. ^"PETERS PULLS PLUG ON TELL-ALL" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090526092210/http://www.nypost.com/seven/05232009/gossip/pagesix/peters_pulls_plug_on_tell_all_170567.htm |date=May 26, 2009 }}, The New York Post, May 23, 2009
17. ^Film producer ordered to pay $3 million in sex case
18. ^Hollywood Docket: 'Superman' Producer Jon Peters Ordered To Pay $3.3 Mil in Sexual Harassment Trial
19. ^{{Cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s88DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA57&lpg=PA57&dq=%22Christopher+Peters%22+wcc&source=bl&ots=WnGMF-djWz&sig=oO4rpZtqG9r1Xcayh5wdGLJ7L2I&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj2itn_yffVAhWDPCYKHfCUALUQ6AEINTAC#v=onepage&q=%22Christopher%20Peters%22%20wcc&f=false|title=Eight men enter, one man leaves|last=Coleman|first=Jim|date=October 1995|work=Black Belt|access-date=2017-08-27|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|pages=54–59}}

External links

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