Writer/director Diane English is quite proud of her newest film, “The Women,” and quite happy to tell you about how it took fourteen years to make it to the big-screen. So now that she’s got that monkey off her back, what quick, easy movie does she want to do next?
“Being a glutton for punishment the next movie is going to be ‘Fear of Flying’, an adaptation of Erica Jong’s novel from 1973,” English revealed, laughing. “And I think it’s going to be harder to raise the money for that than for this. So mark your calendars for 2022!”
It’s actually quite amazing that a version of “Fear of Flying,” Erica Jong’s seminal feminist tract, hasn’t yet been made, given both its seductive and very sexual premise and overall cultural importance.
“It’s kind of the original ‘Sex and the City,’” English said. “It’s a really bawdy, funny, hard R – it’s a hard R rating.” Read more...