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Santini house; Michigan football; studio rejections; Nasatir; deleted Costner scene; hostile retrospective
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- The Great Santini house in Beaufort, South Carolina, was reused for this movie.
- A reunion documentary recounts a sound technician recording what the crew treated as a ghost.
- The Michigan footage came from a 27–23 win over Michigan State in 1980.
- The account says studios rejected the screenplay through seventeen pitches despite the writer’s hot career.
- Marcia Nasatir backed the screenplay and is described as an early powerful female studio executive.
- The reported deleted flashback recreated 1968 and showed Alex as a scruffy James Dean, but it did not work.
- A 1998 Entertainment Weekly retrospective blamed the film for soundtrack albums, 30-something, boomer smugness, and Bill Clinton.
- The hosts insist Kasdan’s self-critical view of the characters already anticipates that complaint.