In my case that was 'Body Heat.' I was ready to do it and prepared to hold out indefinitely if that was necessary." 1 KASDAN, From K1 it is to force your way into doing it.' After paying your dues and demonstrating that you can write, which is the most direct route to filmmaking, there's comes a point when you're obliged to dig in your heels about one special script. George had said to me, 'The only way you can doSee KASDAN, K12, Col. "Everybody wanted me to write stuff after 'Empire' and 'Raiders,' but I said I wanted to direct and kept insisting on it. "I worked out a strategy," recalled Kasdan, a husky, bearded, pensive young man who presents a compact, square-cut physical appearance, short of height but broad of brow, face and torso.
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Where did that assurance come from? It's a question that the star of "Body Heat," William Hurt, kept reiterating when he and Kasdan spent a day being interviewed by the movie press in New York prior to the film's national release.Īccording to Kasdan's modest recollection, it represented the culmination of "15 years of being preoccupied with making movies and going to movies every day before I ever sold my first script," plus whatever pointers could be picked up from random observations on the sets of "Empire" and "Raiders." The hard part was getting the opportunity rather than taking advantage of it. This weekend Kasdan himself emerged from the shadow of "Empire" and "Raiders" to establish a distinctive filmmaking identity as the writer and director of "Body Heat," a remarkably assured first feature. He also wrote the screenplay for "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
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He wrote the screenplay for "The Empire Strikes Back," the runaway box-office champion of summer 1980.
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AS AN INCONSPICUOUS screenwriter in the employ of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, his celebrated friends and patrons, Lawrence Kasdan has already been associated with back-to-back A blockbusters.