jack from ny recently emailed me about Final Cut: Dreams and Disaster in the Making of Heaven’s Gate by steven bach. bach was the head of production at United Artists from 1978-1981 and was the executive in charge of the movie.

jack said the book mentions there was an attempt in the late 1970s to make ‘the hawkline monster’ into a movie starring clint eastwood AND jack nicholson. how amazingly cool would that have been!?!