I do not-and at the time did not-hate the director. After stripping story, character, and theme from the novel, the director and studio execs failed to replace them with anything, resulting in just a series of images and noises. My attorney’s fine work was most likely entirely responsible for our success, but in the bad-boy corner of my heart, I like to think that my letters to Mr. We could not get it out of the screen credits or prevent it from being referenced in publicity materials nevertheless, I felt we had achieved 80 percent of our objective, which was to separate me from association with their tedious, sleazy movie. Would you please assist me by sending a list of your favorite movies and the names of any starlets with whom you have done the funky monkey.īefore Hideaway was released to theaters, we got my name out of the title and out of major advertising. I have been asked to write an article for a major American magazine to celebrate the legendary-nay, immortal-achievements of the Japanese cinema in general and of yourself in particular, with my collection of letters to you as the central theme of the piece. And I am humbly aware that your Godzilla knocked the crap out of our King Kong-which is surprising, considering the outcome of World War II, which has been over for fifty years.

After all, we have only given the world Orson Welles, Frank Capra, Steven Spielberg-while you have given it Mothra. I am very excited to be having my novel filmed by an American studio owned by such an eminent Japanese entertainment entity as yours.

The hideaway dean koontz