I never knew how little work a fella had to do to get producer's credit, until now: 
<a href="http://us.imdb.com/StudioBrief/#3" target="_blank">http://us.imdb.com/StudioBrief/#3</a>
This is a quote from the London Telegraph (found at <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk" target="_blank">www.telegraph.co.uk</a> but ya gotta register):
"Minority Report was originally brought to Spielberg by Cruise, who discovered an early adaptation of the story while filming Eyes Wide Shut. Although the project had been around for at least a decade, and at one time was to have been produced and directed by Jan de Bont (director of Speed) Spielberg made it his own and brought in his own screenwriter to develop it.
To Spielberg's irritation, the credits still list de Bont as one of the producers. "Jan never saw the movie," he says, "never visited the set and never did any work on it at all. He simply had it in his deal that he was the producer. This is the whole thing about Hollywood deal-making - if somebody has a deal to be a producer, he doesn't have to show up, he just gets his name on the screen."
That's showbiz, I guess...
<a href="http://us.imdb.com/StudioBrief/#3" target="_blank">http://us.imdb.com/StudioBrief/#3</a>
This is a quote from the London Telegraph (found at <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk" target="_blank">www.telegraph.co.uk</a> but ya gotta register):
"Minority Report was originally brought to Spielberg by Cruise, who discovered an early adaptation of the story while filming Eyes Wide Shut. Although the project had been around for at least a decade, and at one time was to have been produced and directed by Jan de Bont (director of Speed) Spielberg made it his own and brought in his own screenwriter to develop it.
To Spielberg's irritation, the credits still list de Bont as one of the producers. "Jan never saw the movie," he says, "never visited the set and never did any work on it at all. He simply had it in his deal that he was the producer. This is the whole thing about Hollywood deal-making - if somebody has a deal to be a producer, he doesn't have to show up, he just gets his name on the screen."
That's showbiz, I guess...
